dubious as of 8/5/2004, 2pm EST
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| lxmac6340 Aug 05, 2004 10:07 AM EDT |
couple of things: 1. you can't find this item at shopping.hp.com...only via hp.com, under small business 'light' laptops. So, it doesn't (yet) look like HP has committed Linux oriented towards the populist/home user. 2. I just tried (2004-08-05 : 2:00pm EST) to configure (customize) an nx5000, but although Suse 9.1 _is listed_ as an option on the inital 'specs' page, it seems they don't have it as an _actual_ selection on there site yet - well, at least the site design folks haven't caught up yet and added into the web configurators (just a guess). You can only 'configure' systems which have preselected XP, and then do minor add-ons. No where do I see where you can actually _select_ Suse as an option. You'd think a company like HP could get their timing right on this stuff. They're not the same company I bought my 34C calculator (Red LED's !, still works ! - talk about quality) from years ago...Carly probably sees that as a 'good thing', I don't... so sure, HP _says_ they're shipping Linux on notebooks, but they've 'buried' it so deeply, it doesn't _seem_ like they're promoting Linux at all...it's certainly nowhere to be seen on either home page (shopping.hp.com or hp.com) |
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