[keith smith]

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 at 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 at 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. 
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>>Hi,
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>>I'm seeing some decent pricing on laptops for tomorrow night / Friday morning.
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>>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.  
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>You thoughts on this matter are very important to me.
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>>Thanks!
>>Keith
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