Perhaps it all happenned somewhat fast, but I am still very very glad - I now have a brand new and shiny notebook - HP Compaq NX6110. Intel Pentium M 1.7 GHz, 1 GByte of RAM, 60 GBytes of hard disk space, 15″ monitor (not widescreen!), DVD-RW, and all the regular bits and pieces - USB, WiFi, soundcard with line-in, etc.
I’ve got all these for a special price of 600 CYP, thanks to my brother.
According to a couple of reviews from Linux on Laptops, most of the hardware should work out of the box, and the rest of it shouldn’t be a problem with a little push. We’ll see how it goes.
11 responses so far ↓
1 Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov » Everything worked out just fine // Mar 22, 2006 at 7:43 am
[...] This is a quick update on my notebook post. [...]
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Lev Shuvalov
// Mar 22, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Congratulations! Looks as a good deal.
Under debian it works nice.
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Leonid Mamchenkov
// Mar 22, 2006 at 2:03 pm
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Lev Shuvalov
// Mar 23, 2006 at 10:00 am
I had expected so
5 Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov » Connected, but wireless // Mar 24, 2006 at 4:45 am
[...] Once again I have to thank my brother, who supplies me with hardware, fast and cheap. This time he got me D-Link DWL-G520 wireless card (PCI). I plugged it into my home server (appologies for a few short downtimes), downloaded and installed madwifi drivers from ATrpms, and go immediately connected with my notebook. Everything works extremely well. [...]
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Alexey
// Mar 27, 2006 at 11:52 pm
Hmm… 600 CYP looks like a regular price, and even higher:
http://www.ebuyer.com/cus...WV....._uid=94786
704.95 GBP = 589.669 CYP (xe.com)
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Leonid Mamchenkov
// Mar 28, 2006 at 12:11 am
Yes, the model you are linking to is exactly the one I have, except that it lists 512 MBytes of RAM, while I have 1 GByte. And, of course, the delivery costs aren’t included.
The special price that I mentioned means that I got it cheaper via brother than I could have got on my own. Local shops are good in adding to price tags, you know.
8 Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov » Hybernate. Don’t suspend. // Apr 6, 2006 at 11:58 pm
[...] Since I purchased my notebook and mentioned that I installed Fedora Linux 5 on it, I’ve been getting a lot of quesitons from people everywhere. One of the most frequent questions is “Does hybernate work?”. [...]
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Alexander Mamchenkov
// Apr 23, 2006 at 11:42 pm
Now, when I also have an HP nx6110 (same price of course
) I was looking for the suspend problem and I managed to find the patched kernel RPM (I think I saw it on atrpms.net) which was utilizing the suspend2 package. Worked fine for me (both hybernation and suspending).
I switched back to the original kernel though and I have only hybernation which works just fine.
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Leonid Mamchenkov
// Apr 23, 2006 at 11:48 pm
11 Laptop size dilemma - Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov // Apr 8, 2008 at 10:51 am
[...] do I need in a laptop? Well, my current HP nx6110 has been working pretty good for the last two years. I am satisfied with its power and [...]
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