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Lifer
- Jun 23, 2001
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Check the little door by the hinge on the right hand side.
Stealthy.
Check the little door by the hinge on the right hand side.
http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/sh...MD/dm1z_series
Just saw this on HP's website. Any reviews out for this laptop yet? I wasn't expecting to see actual products before Feb.
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One thing that I did find annoying: the laptop, in addition to the normal deluge of crapware you see from all pre-built machines, has all four primary partitions occupied. There's the Windows C drive, a partition labelled "RECOVERY" which presumably contains some sort of backup of the original software loadout, and two others, one labelled "HP TOOLS" and the other labelled "SYSTEM", neither of which I can discern a use for, but which I won't delete yet because they may be needed for something. It means there are no primary partitions left on which to install a separate OS, again, only a problem for linux users I suppose, or people who want to build a Hackintosh.
overall, it is what i expected, but battery life hasn't been great, can't seem to get more than 4 hours on a charge.
also, has anyone else noticed that this device runs pretty hot. i can't seem to get this thing to stay less than 55c for any length of time and has peaked at about 71c.
Ok, i've been playing with this laptop for a couple of days now.
overall, it is what i expected, but battery life hasn't been great, can't seem to get more than 4 hours on a charge.
also, has anyone else noticed that this device runs pretty hot. i can't seem to get this thing to stay less than 55c for any length of time and has peaked at about 71c.
also, initially the .net precompiler, ngen.exe was causing all kinds of problems, i had it run all queued processes and it seems to be less of a problem, but the cpu is definitely not the fastest on the market.
overall, it is what i expected, but battery life hasn't been great, can't seem to get more than 4 hours on a charge.
also, has anyone else noticed that this device runs pretty hot.
Yeah, seriously, 55C? Yikes. I am a little annoyed by the audible fan noise coming from mine, but then I've always been a silent PC enthusiast, so any fans annoy me, but I'm not having any problem with the temperatures; the whole computer is cool the the touch almost all the time, even when doing relatively streesful (for a netbook, anyway) tasks.
BTW, what program are you using to monitor the CPU temps?
i'm using coretemp.
it was getting as high as 71c, but there was a .net precompiler program that kept running and pegging the cpu. anyway, i let that go for about 4 hours and now, it doesn't seem to be running. i think installing office 2010 is where that started. but precompiler should only run once. so, i'll monitor it for another week or so, if it stays normal, i'll keep it, if it reoccurs, i'll try reloading windows 7 with none of HP's stuff except drivers and see if that fixes it, if not, it'll go back.
Did you say that it ran on battery for 4 hours with a program pegging the CPU before it died? That's impressive.
Looks like ASUS does have an E-350 coming: the 1215B. I just wish they made one a little smaller. Even if it's only down to 11". A 12"+ case defeats the purpose of 'netbook', and I wouldn't call it a netbook.Think Acer and/or ASUS will have a 11.6" E350 netbook soon?
Acer does have a 10" C-50 Ontario coming, model AO522:
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=28143
But only a 6 hour battery life.
And ASUS has a 10" C-50 coming, model 1015B:
http://www.netbooknews.com/18717/asus-eee-pc-1015b-comes-with-ontario-apu-not-zacate/
At only 1Ghz, how would the C-50 compare to the N550 with Intel GMA for non-gaming stuff?
OMFG right now take another $75 off with code cacc13581 so ends up being $375+tax. If I didn't already have like 5 notebooks I'd be all over this.
Question for those of you installing a fresh Win7: if I have an OEM copy of Win7 Home already, can I use the HP license, or do I have to buy another cd (license) of Win7?
Question for those of you installing a fresh Win7: if I have an OEM copy of Win7 Home already, can I use the HP license, or do I have to buy another cd (license) of Win7?
Even easier: backup your activation and restore it on the new install. I did it when reinstalling the OS onto an SSD; it works like a dream.
