After feeling tired of waiting and waiting as well doing the follow up, I finally received my HP Compaq 6515b Business Notebook on last Wednesday, the same day I went for balik kampung to Temerloh to start celebrating Eidul-Adha with my family.
The Good
- Discounted price as I am eligible for HP Employee Purchase Program ;) Thank you very much HP!!!
- Free HP carrying case, made by Targus. Still, I have to admit that giving away a backpack is much better.
- I consider the specs are good and really worth it.
- Comes with HP Fingerprint Sensor – this is really new to me and I love to play around with it.
The Bad
- Bundled with Windows XP – It is Year 2007 (just several days before Year 2008), I don’t think I’m desperately need MS-Windows anymore. Luckily, it is not a Windows Vista, otherwise I’m going to put this under The Ugly list. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying MS-Windows sucks. I just feel that HP should give a complete freedom to the users whether they want to have a pre-installed MS-Windows or not, just like they did in US.
- ATI Radeon X1250 & Broadcom wireless card don’t seem to work out of box on GNU/Linux distro.
The Ugly
- The package doesn’t come with original Windows XP cd nor drivers/utilities cd – Damn, i hate this! Instead of giving away the cd’s, HP is using backup/restore method, which is pre-included in the hard disk (and of course, consuming the hard disk space).
- The hard disk partitioning scheme sucks big time! With 120GB, there are only 2 partitions; 91% is solely for Windows while the rest is for backup purpose. Alhamdulillah, I managed to resize the NTFS partition (and then create another partitions) by using ntfstools from Ubuntu live cd, thanks to tutorial from Nishant Sharma.
[To-Do List]
- Install Debian GNU/Linux. Hmm, Enlightenment or GNOME?
- Install VMware server on Debian and installing several guest OS’es like RHEL, Solaris etc.
- Discuss with Piju to start melepak at particular strategic places that provide free wireless access and having good panorama (beautiful aweks/chicks/bitches).
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Enlightenment my friend :D
Usinghmm … nice … when can i get a new lappy :( … only lepaking with piju ? so sad ……
Usingwow laptop baru…
Usingwow,
Usingdamn geek.
got ur new laptop hah ?
Danny,
Thanks for the suggestion :)
fenris,
You are almost welcome to join us flirting, but please make sure you’ve got permission from Idora first, hehehe.
piju,
UsingNew lah, takkan old one pulak.
Blackbox, :D
UsingWing Loon,
UsingToo bad, I’m not a Blackbox/Fluxbox fan :)
kan best kalau dapat install HPUX kat dalam 2 kan.. tapi xboleh .. sbb xsupport.. huhuhuhu…
Usingevilwm la,
Usingapa barang enlightenment.
Salam perkenalan… saya dak baru bidang network and security… i do hope can knoe u more… plus learn new things from u… I do hope u can add me as ur new blog friends =)
UsingNadim,
UsingSalam perkenalan kembali :)
salam perkenalan ?
Usinggay ?
oh shit,
now u become worst than before.
ok, late comment, DR17.
Usingyou can get graphical driver at ati website.
and wlan from dell website.
I use the same as you.
UsingSarit,
UsingSawadikap :) I’m currently using fglrx driver from Debian; WLAN driver is based on ndiswrapper + XP’s bcmwl5.
bangsar is a great place to hangout.
Usingdont forget to bring ur laptop’s charger.
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