Re: BIOS update saga - the end
From lenzi.ser...@gmail.com Tue Nov 13 16:17:49 2012 That is one of the reasons I stop buying HP products specially laptops.. and sony vaio as well.. the last one I have is a z6000 that is still working very well with FreeBSD10. HP notebooks are "closed" works only with windows, are expensive consumes too much power, the bateries did not last... regarding the power and weak batteries - this is my experience too. I live in Brazil and here one HP costs about 750 euros... a sony vaio is about 800 euros, I bought recently a Lenovo G475 (14inch LED display) notebook brand new, for 350 euros with 2Gb of memory, 320Gb of HD, atheros wifi, dvd rw, AMD radeon video, dual core... I bought more 4Gb of memory for 30 euros, and the notebook is now with 6Gb... ok, I might look at this model, thanks for the hint. Last week I bought a 15 inch notebook at the shopping near my home, with the same amd chip, wifi, large keyboard with separated numeric key, 4Gb memory, 500Gb disk for 320 euros (no brand name)... any of them works very well with FreeBSD, NetBSD or Linux... A friend of mine bought 10 of those for his company employees.. it is cheapper than upgrade de desktops That is my experience Sergio Anton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: BIOS update saga - the end
That is one of the reasons I stop buying HP products specially laptops.. and sony vaio as well.. the last one I have is a z6000 that is still working very well with FreeBSD10. HP notebooks are "closed" works only with windows, are expensive consumes too much power, the bateries did not last... I live in Brazil and here one HP costs about 750 euros... a sony vaio is about 800 euros, I bought recently a Lenovo G475 (14inch LED display) notebook brand new, for 350 euros with 2Gb of memory, 320Gb of HD, atheros wifi, dvd rw, AMD radeon video, dual core... I bought more 4Gb of memory for 30 euros, and the notebook is now with 6Gb... Last week I bought a 15 inch notebook at the shopping near my home, with the same amd chip, wifi, large keyboard with separated numeric key, 4Gb memory, 500Gb disk for 320 euros (no brand name)... any of them works very well with FreeBSD, NetBSD or Linux... A friend of mine bought 10 of those for his company employees.. it is cheapper than upgrade de desktops That is my experience Sergio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
BIOS update saga - the end
I can't find my original thread, so starting a new one. So I bought a spare laptop disk, installed freedos on it, made a usb memstick with HP BIOS updating executable, and booted from it, only to stop at: "The BIOS on your notebook PC can not be updated. Refer to HP Customer Advisory C01457784" So I found this customer advisory and there it is: "WinBond customers cannot update the BIOS" [1]. So not only I am stuck with a broken BIOS, but I can't update to a fixed one either (nevermind the wasted hours spent following HP instructions on how to update the BIOS on my laptop!). I quickly found another thread where somebody claims that HP asked for nearly 400 euros to update the motherboard, "to be able to update the BIOS!" [2]. I was angry at HP for this initially, then I started laughing. This is a ridiculous situation. Anyway, now I'm wondering - I wanted to buy an HP laptop because I've used quite a lot of Compaq/HP server gear and it generally is/was of excellent quality. And the manuals still are of very high quality too. So I wonder, am I just unlucky, or did I want a good quality too cheaply? Anton [1] http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=125&prodSeriesId=3368540&prodTypeId=321957&objectID=c01457784 [2] http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-HP-ProBook-EliteBook/6715s-black-screen-problem/td-p/915244/page/5#.UJRCK1JvmnI ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
