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Hp Compaq 6510b/6710b
Hi,
I am planning to buy a new laptop for my development related needs. I already have a 4 year old Dell Inspiron and the new one will replace it for my technical needs. I plan to put a Sizable linux partition (Ubuntu) on the system. Before buying, I am looking for user comments.. People who have already used this.. or any other hp compaq notebooks.. how r they ? worth their money ? good ? bad ? ugly ? wonderful ? heat too much ? too much noise ? how do the parts behave.. general stuff like that... I appreciate all input. regards raghav.. |
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On Jun 28, 4:51 am, Raghav wrote:
Hi, I am planning to buy a new laptop for my development related needs. I already have a 4 year old Dell Inspiron and the new one will replace it for my technical needs. I plan to put a Sizable linux partition (Ubuntu) on the system. Before buying, I am looking for user comments.. People who have already used this.. or any other hp compaq notebooks.. how r they ? worth their money ? good ? bad ? ugly ? wonderful ? heat too much ? too much noise ? how do the parts behave.. general stuff like that... I appreciate all input. regards raghav.. One thing i've seen with the newer hp and compaqs I don't like is the touchpad. The ones that have the touchpad painted silver. What happens is *everyone* wears away the silver coating in short order, just by using it normally. The pad still works fine. But it's darn ugly. Reliability-wise, the ones with the amd processors have a higher failure rate. I can't speak to the newest models just yet. Getting wireless stuff to work in linux can be a headache. Due to the limited availability of drivers. |
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Hp Compaq 6510b/6710b
On Jun 28, 11:11 pm, " wrote:
On Jun 28, 4:51 am, Raghav wrote: Hi, I am planning to buy a new laptop for my development related needs. I already have a 4 year old Dell Inspiron and the new one will replace it for my technical needs. I plan to put a Sizable linux partition (Ubuntu) on the system. Before buying, I am looking for user comments.. People who have already used this.. or any other hp compaq notebooks.. how r they ? worth their money ? good ? bad ? ugly ? wonderful ? heat too much ? too much noise ? how do the parts behave.. general stuff like that... I appreciate all input. regards raghav.. One thing i've seen with the newer hp and compaqs I don't like is the touchpad. The ones that have the touchpad painted silver. What happens is *everyone* wears away the silver coating in short order, just by using it normally. The pad still works fine. But it's darn ugly. Reliability-wise, the ones with the amd processors have a higher failure rate. I can't speak to the newest models just yet. Getting wireless stuff to work in linux can be a headache. Due to the limited availability of drivers.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I post this just so that others know. HP Compaq 6710b does not work with Ubuntu out of the box... especially as in "It just works". There is a mountain of issues to be solved, before you might get it running...I haven't succeeded yet. Probably, its too new...a hardware piece for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn... gud luck.. cheers raghav.. |
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On Jul 8, 4:37 am, Raghav wrote:
On Jun 28, 11:11 pm, " wrote: On Jun 28, 4:51 am, Raghav wrote: Hi, I am planning to buy a new laptop for my development related needs. I already have a 4 year old Dell Inspiron and the new one will replace it for my technical needs. I plan to put a Sizable linux partition (Ubuntu) on the system. Before buying, I am looking for user comments.. People who have already used this.. or any other hp compaq notebooks.. how r they ? worth their money ? good ? bad ? ugly ? wonderful ? heat too much ? too much noise ? how do the parts behave.. general stuff like that... I appreciate all input. regards raghav.. One thing i've seen with the newer hp and compaqs I don't like is the touchpad. The ones that have the touchpad painted silver. What happens is *everyone* wears away the silver coating in short order, just by using it normally. The pad still works fine. But it's darn ugly. Reliability-wise, the ones with the amd processors have a higher failure rate. I can't speak to the newest models just yet. Getting wireless stuff to work in linux can be a headache. Due to the limited availability of drivers.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I post this just so that others know. HP Compaq 6710b does not work with Ubuntu out of the box... especially as in "It just works". There is a mountain of issues to be solved, before you might get it running...I haven't succeeded yet. Probably, its too new...a hardware piece for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn... gud luck.. cheers raghav.. Linux usually needs a year or two to catch up on new hardware. What are your top issues? |
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