Should you get an apple or hp laptop?

Neither is very good. HP offers a better Operating System (in my opinion), and Apple offers better hardware. It depends on what you want more. I would try Sony, Samsung, DELL, or Toshiba.

My Opinion:

As someone who owned 2 HP computers with Windows XP & Vista installed and who has now owned an Apple iMac for the past 4 1/2 years I can honestly say without hesitation that I will never ever own anything but an Apple computer. 4 1/2 years of trouble free computing all the while not running one piece of security software. I have not had one glitch on my iMac. It just works day in and day out. Apple is by far the better built computer and I like all the software and the Operating System much better than anything Windows has ever produced. Easy to use and easy to learn.