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skirov
Titusville, NJ

Loaded with features, don't like the SATA drive

4 star rating

married, very demanding of my computers, tech geek, willing to pay for quality, linux fen
Pros

    lots of goodies with it, very good price, huge monitor, good sound

Cons
    Windows VISTA, SATA drive

NOV
18
2007
This is a good laptop for the money (paid 700 bucks after all rebates).Has 2 bays for hard drives, so you can expand. Screen is huge and nice, comes with a card for cable input. Put LINUX OS (UBUNTU) on it which went smoothly. Be careful though- Windows VISTA does not tolerate other OS being installed- I am running LINUX from USB disk. Two downsides- no paralel port (still using parallel port printer, though you can buy a converter to USB) and just 1GB RAM (who said VISTA runs OK on 1GB?). Overall it was a very good buy for the money. For 1100 bucks though I would have chosen other configuration. Also SATA drives (this one comes with a SATA, not IDE) suck in general. My first one died (after a warning, so I was able to back up the data) after 2 months. HP service was great- they replaced it in 3 days.



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