On Mon March 12 2007, alan wrote: > I have a 1920x1200 display on my HP. Its main purpose is to make people > drool. I actually like having the resolution that tiny. I just wish that > they would have put more video ram in ti. As for the buttons, there is a > mapping utility in X that I used to map them to applications in Gnome. > Worked pretty well. (Still don't use them, but I could map them.) > > > Though my Dell laptop experience has been good, I'm going to be getting > > a business grade HP or Lenovo laptop next time. I'm leaning heavily > > towards HP at the moment. > > The thing that convinced me to buy an HP was their 3 year warrenty. They > will fix any damage to the laptop during that period. I have had to use > it only twice, but it was well worth it. (Once for a dead power brick. > Once when I got the PCMCIA ejector button caught on my laptop bag and > ripped it out.) I would recommend buying an extra hard drive as well. HP > will reformat and reinstall Windows on your machine every time it goes in > for warrenty. (And not even an updated and patched copy, but the > original disk image!) > > As for device support... I have gotten pretty much everything working on > my HP. The Winmodem is an unknown, since I do not use it. (As well as > having a very good PCMCIA modem back when they made such things.) There > is also a memory adapter that I just need firmware for. Of course, I > bought it two and a half years ago, so it has had time for the drivers to > catch up with it... Alan: Would you mind telling me what model you have? I own a ZX5000, which apparently wasn't a big production run. It's a 15.4" widescreen with the 1920X1200 brightview option - I didn't buy it to make my friends drool, but because I'm a video producer and I like to see as much of a timeline as possible when editing ;-) I've been very impressed with this machine. It's still going strong - mine came with a P4 3.0 GHz, an 80 GB hd, 512 MB ram and an ATI card - It's now up to 1.5 GB ram and a 160 GB hd, and it's running XP and Linux (Mepis at the moment, but I'm going to put FC7t2 on it tomorrow). One thing I never got to work was the modem - did you have any luck in that regard? -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
