On 12/29/05, Hans du Plooy
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:21 -0500, John Scott wrote:
Agree. This laptop is very good and my company was able to get them for under $1,000 ea. Geez, that's cheap. Is this the PY416 model (i.e. 1.8ghz with 1400x1050)? I paid the equivalent of around $1600 USD and that's a damn good price here.
Edu pricing, gotta love it. It's the one with ML-30 processor.
They came with a gig of RAM (shared with video) and 80GB hdd. Mine came with 512 but thankfully they were thoughtful enough to use a singe module, leaving one slot open. My 1gb dimm is already on order...
My only real complaint is the display is rather dark and dull if you have ever used one of HP laptops with Brightview screen. I don't think mine has Brightview (at least it's not written anywhere on the notebook or in the included literature), but the screen is quite bright and crisp. Speaking of which, the screen is detected as a "LGPhillips" - any idea what that is?
Not really. I'll have to look at it again. I might have a different driver loaded which might be affecting my perception of it.
Nice to know someone else is kicking this laptop around with Linux. When my projects finish up, I'll try SuSE 10 again and maybe Ubuntu as well. I'm actually planning to switch to Gentoo on this notebook. I use my notebook as a testbed for a lot of things, and I want to be able to keep it up to date without having to re-install every so often. I love SUSE, but when an installation gets too old and you try to keep things up to date, it gets a bit messy. At least at my level of spec file hacking :-)
One other thing that puzzled me is that the WinXP Pro included wasn't 64bit.
Hans
Probably because there isn't a whole lot of stuff that's 64-bit in the Windows world. Very few drivers (most are beta) and even less software. This is an area where Linux has Windows beat period. No questionable whitepapers or comments from people like The Yankee Group. Linux has more 64-bit ready apps and drivers than Windows. How long remains to be seen though. Installed a beta of Winxp 64-bit on my AMD64 at work. It went on, lasted an hour, came off. Most of my hardware wasn't supported. I was surprised that it even installed. Linux on the other hand, no problem. John