Update:

On Black Friday I found a Dell Inspirion 660 tower with an i5-3340 and 8GB of RAM.  I ordered it.  I cancelled the HP laptop.  After reading all your feedback, I'm sure I avoided a lot of hassle.

Thank you to everyone who responded!!

 
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Keith Smith


On Saturday, November 30, 2013 3:46 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:
While doing some research on HP and Linux I cam across a post that said the person was having problems and they updated their BIOS and the problem was corrected.

 
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Keith Smith


On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 3:15 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan@gmail.com> wrote:
I would be careful of the HP laptops if you're going to put linux on them.  You might remember from a few months ago the trouble I had with my HP desktop running linux.  It liked to lock up at random, sometimes within 20 minutes of booting up, sometimes it might last a day or two.  Recently my sister asked me to put linux on her HP laptop.  I did and it had the same locking up at random issue.

On 11/27/2013 09:24 AM, Stephen wrote:
I have to say i have liked the internal design of the last two generations. Easy to work on and keep cleaned out.

well on the latitudes specifically, the inspirons were a PITA to work on.


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 8:59 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm seeing some decent pricing on laptops for tomorrow night / Friday morning.

I have several HP's and find them to be decent laptops.  I use Dell for my desktop computers and have really enjoyed their products. 

I'm looking at a Toshiba that is a decent build and has a really good price.  I owned a Toshiba about 12 years ago and was not very impressed.

I hear there is only 4 manufactures of laptop components, so I am wondering if the company that does the assembly and puts their name on the finish product is all that important.

You thoughts on this matter are very important to me.

Thanks!
Keith


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