Hello, I’ve been uhmming and ahhing over which laptop to buy. I was almost decided on the HP Envy 16 but the HP Envy 17 is a much better fit for me personally (full size sd card slot and number pad). It’s also a couple of hundred pounds cheaper and atm is on sale for under £800 whereas the 16 inch model is going to be about £1100. I never felt comfortable spending over 1k on a laptop but couldn’t seem to get what I needed at a lower price point. The HP envy 16 was a bit of a compromise but has the advantage of upgradeable RAM (and 2 ssd slots but the envy 17 ssd can be upgraded).

I’m just not sure whether it’s too much of a risk to buy the potentially unfixable envy 17 (with a decent amount of RAM of course) and get everything else I was looking for spec wise or whether I should spend a few more hundred and buy the fixable envy 16 and compromise on practical use instead. A compromise obviously has to be made - where would you make it?