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[aYo Binitie]

I swear by my Inspiron 1720

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> wrote:

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> Steve Meiers wrote:
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> > Meanwhile, back on topic, I like my HPs, I have two because I liked the
> > first one so much that when my wife wanted it, I bought another for
> > myself. And one reason was the audio. Actually, the speakers in the HP
> > just sounded better than any other notebook and I use mine for audio.
> > The really great thing about my HP's has been that they just work, never
> > have to rebuild the O/S (even Windows) and they're pretty Ubuntu
> > friendly. My Dell Inspiron has not been so good though and that's why I
> > bought my first HP.
>
> I have a serious hate on for HP/Compaq laptops.  My last laptop was a
> Compaq, the built in WiFi needed the ndiswrapper to run (this is a bad
> idea, period).  Worse when I bought a different WiFi adaptor that is
> supported by Linux the BIOS apparently had a white list that limited
> what cards I could put into it.  The bios needed about a year before the
> updates stabilized the machine enough to be useful.  I have never had
> such a bad experience with a computer as I have with the last two
> HP/Compaqs.
> >
> > For work, I'm provided with a Lenovo T60. It runs Ubuntu great from a
> > thumbdrive, so I don't dink with my production drive at all. I really
>
> I know a lot of Linux users who swear by their Thinkpads.
>
> > like the reliability and the natural ergonomics and generous layout of
> > the Lenovo too. I might have bought one for personal use instead of the
> > HP, but I wanted a touchscreen and got a much better price on the HP
> > tx2510 than a T61 was costing. The tx is not running perfect yet in
> > Ubuntu, but it's very new technology and getting pretty close to how I
> > want it. The older HP zd7100 loves Ubuntu. It needs NDIS wrapper for
> > wifi, that was the only minor glitch I had with it.
> >
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