Linux on a T520

[Michael Butash]

Thing that companies like HP don't get - I *am* the enterprise and data 
center market.  If I had these problems on a $300 frys special, I'd just 
rack it up to experience.  This laptop has a retail price of $4200 
dollars as an "enterprise class elitebook" (acquired via ebay at less 
than a quarter of that :)), so I damn well expect the features to work, 
or that customer complaints would sway them to fix it.  But no.

My current employer is an HP shop, which problems like this that "they 
can't even get a damn laptop right" makes me want to start deprecating 
them in favor of whatever.  Cisco UCS is starting to make inroads in our 
shop due to HP having stupid server problems (firmware, much like my 
laptop), and I for one am glad, ready with a hammer and nail for HP's 
coffin if nothing more than spite.

Sadly, I loved WebOS, at least in functionality - I switches to Sprint 
specifically to get a Pre on launch after Verizon refused to let me 
legally provision it on their network (I modified the radio firmware 
already to work).  After a combination of Sprint's crappy service and 
time-after-time frustrating bugs in WebOS, I moved on begrudgingly to 
Android back on Verizon and never looked back.  I was looking forward to 
Palm eventually getting it right and trying Pre/WebOS again, but once HP 
bought them, I knew it was done.  Seems now I was right.

HP simply needs to die already - never again for personal, or where I 
have say in my Enterprise.

-mb


On 09/03/2011 09:09 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> On 08/26/2011 07:11 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
>> HP still takes the approach "no one uses linux so screw it". They're
>> fat and happy collecting microsoft taxes - never again will I buy from
>> them.
>
> Which has led them to getting out of the consumer market. HP will be
> focusing on enterprise and datacenter type customers. Should be no
> surprise.
>