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Hi all,

I'm thinking about buying a HP computer (Pavilion P6310de). It comes with Windows 7 and I want to add SuSE to it. Can anyone tell me good or bad things about HP computers? Do they play nice with Linux?

Hi, It might be a good idea to go to the place where you plan on buying the HP computer and taking a look at what wlan card is in it from the windows hardware list. Usually you can get on the internet on the demonstration computer and you can go to www.google.com/linux and type in "'the name of the wlan card' on linux" and see what results you get to see whether the wireless is supported.

I find opensuse always works great on the computer, but getting the wireless working might be one of the more difficult tasks you could face. Might save a lot of grief to find out before you buy the laptop whether it will work or not. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thursday 27 May 2010 20:39:58 Felix Miata wrote:

I refurb old machines. HP, Compaq & eMachines I avoid.

Old HP, where old is more then 5 years, and modest price at that time, is kind of a problem. I can't boot it from USB, the rest works. Higher priced worked fine until ATI and kernel (or xorg) went different ways. Now it is used mostly as a XP station.

Usually those that reach me I cannibalize rather than refurbing. OTOH, I commonly put forth extra effort toward Dell and generics.

The one of recent Dell's desktops works fine (out of the box), but that is my first contact with Dell. It is the Core 2 Quad, Intel graphics, 8 GB RAM, 600 GB HD. I guess that coarse specs tell how little I know about internals. I didn't have to learn anything :) All that I ever tried worked without tweaking. -- Regards Rajko, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Hi Jim, Disclaimer: I work for HP on the linux.helpcustomers Programme. We try to help customers regarding Linux on HP products. Whilst we don't certify or test Linux on any of the consumer Pavilion range, the Pavilion P6310de looks like a safe bet in terms of hardware specification. As already noted the things to typically look out for are the NIC and Graphics Chipset. You can view a list of products on which we do certify Linux here: www.hp.com/go/linuxdesktop Typically we offer Novell SLED on our business notebooks and desktops. In some ways this gives a good indication of hardware which plays nicely. Kind Regards, Lester On 1 Jun 2010, at 16:00, Mike wrote:

On Thursday 27 May 2010 17:48:20 Jim Hatridge wrote:

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Hi all,

I'm thinking about buying a HP computer (Pavilion P6310de). It comes with Windows 7 and I want to add SuSE to it. Can anyone tell me good or bad things about HP computers? Do they play nice with Linux?

disclaimer: I used to work for HP

I have a elite m9250f The network card was not recognized until a recent kernel upgrade needed the (r8169 module did not work needed to use r8168 module)

The TV card still does not work it is a haupage 1800

Otherwise , the Vista that was on it only lasted long enough to make the restore DVD.

I have 7 HP computers in sight at the moment and only 3 IBM's

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