On Saturday 31 July 2004 10:29, Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote:
David, good point. I recommended the IBM's in an earlier post. But the truth is I just do not have experience with HP notebooks (though my earlier Compaq experience was not good). My brother told me he just decided to go with an HP notebook for his son going off to college - "just" so he would have some HP experience and shut me up :) I'll take your work for it that they work fine. My issue has always been the support two years down the road.
I, too, run an HP --ze5570-- and have had pretty darn good luck w/getting things set up. The internal modem had problems on 9.1 so I reverted to 9 Pro, the wireless works, the wired NIC works, I didn't mess w/the IR so don't know. All in all, my HP experience has been a positive one, though I noted that each & every time I applied any updates to the installation things started breaking. This happened three or four times in a row, so I just stay w/what comes off the CD-Rs --though I do have roughly 60 RPMs installed from various other sources, as well, so that is not a limitation. FWIW... -- ...CH "The more they over-think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." Scotty