gauchito10 said: Congrats! It's a good sign when people are at least getting them.
I'm definitely going to ask for my $69 refund if by the second or third day past the 15 day mark it doesn't ship out.
How do you like your laptop? was it worth the wait?
I meant to say it's in the states in > ANCHORAGE, AK , but it's suppose to be ground shipping from there on, I believe!
i'm in n.y.c.
Saber255
Member
posted: Mar. 20, 2007 @ 8:13p
Mine is still being "processed" as well. The "usually ships out in 15 BUSINESS days" shipping thing only counts Monday - Friday as business days. Technically, the 23rd this Friday will the 15th business day for those of us who ordered on Sunday, March 4th.
oldjunk, what upgrades did you get on your laptop? I chose a lot of the upgrades, so that might be why mine is a little slower.
v6000T 15.4 WXGA widescreen 512 ddr2 home basic duo core T2250 1.73 GHZ. <$100.00
60 gig harddrive DVD/cd-rw graphic 950 w/ ports 802.11b/g wlan high capacity 6 cell lithum battery <$40.00 system recovery dvd w/ windows vista home <$19.95
Yessss, the laptop has been shipped, from Shanghai. Might be another...week or so until we receive it.
Devedander
Member
posted: Mar. 21, 2007 @ 2:11p
Anyone who tracked on the HP website did it ever say anything besides "Admin" for status?
kikek
Senior Member - 2K
posted: Mar. 21, 2007 @ 10:24p
Saber255 said: Mine is still being "processed" as well. The "usually ships out in 15 BUSINESS days" shipping thing only counts Monday - Friday as business days. Technically, the 23rd this Friday will the 15th business day for those of us who ordered on Sunday, March 4th.
oldjunk, what upgrades did you get on your laptop? I chose a lot of the upgrades, so that might be why mine is a little slower.
Mine just shipped today.. supposed to arrive on 3/28.
Well, if Office Depot is open 7 days a week, then I'd argue that the 15 days have passed... but that's just me being pissed.
one freakin' month!
GuyFromNJ
Senior Member
posted: Mar. 21, 2007 @ 10:35p
kikek said: Saber255 said: Mine is still being "processed" as well. The "usually ships out in 15 BUSINESS days" shipping thing only counts Monday - Friday as business days. Technically, the 23rd this Friday will the 15th business day for those of us who ordered on Sunday, March 4th.
oldjunk, what upgrades did you get on your laptop? I chose a lot of the upgrades, so that might be why mine is a little slower.
Mine just shipped today.. supposed to arrive on 3/28.
Well, if Office Depot is open 7 days a week, then I'd argue that the 15 days have passed... but that's just me being pissed.
one freakin' month!
The worst part is to receive this freakin thing DOA. IS it just me worrying too much... maybe.
i received mine 2 days ago, finally. overall I like it alot, nice finish on cover, pushing back cover of lcd does not warp screen. the volume, mute, and play buttons are touch sensitive, lights are blue. only small issue is the cover does not lock in place when closed, not too big of a deal. install xp pro and you should be good to go. oh yea turn off native support for sata under bios if you install xp pro.
Just got mine today!!!! ohhhh yeah... this is nice. the build quality is nice and strong. The IMPRINT finish is great and slick looking. After taking off all the HP junk and preinstalled crap it is a fast system on Vista (I got the T2250 dual core w/ 1gb). Nice and quiet and it has an excellent screen even without the Brightscreen option.
Very happy with the purchase.
I was too tired after work to fight over the shipping. Perhaps I should still argue for a discount? I dunno if I can convince them since I already picked it up.
anyways it's great!
tranco
Member
posted: Mar. 23, 2007 @ 11:17p
oldjunk said: fongch said: What is the average Windows experience rating for anyone w/ Vista home premium?
You should be able to since you paid for both anyhow (XP and now vista). Assuming Dells come with an XP install CD and not just with a recovery CD. As long as you don't install the same Windows on two computers at the same time, you should be able to use it - you paid for it, it's your right.
Make sure you download ethernet and/or wireless drivers for your new machine before starting install, Dell drivers won't probably work. Install XP on your new PC, you'll need to call MS for your key and download drivers for your laptop from Compaq/HP. Time consuming but straightforward. You can always go back to vista using the recovery partition (you better make a recovery DVD if you can, too), don't delete it.
I haven't done this myself so YMMV, I'm speaking from a theoretical point of view.
gauchito10
Senior Member
posted: Mar. 27, 2007 @ 12:34a
Just reporting my success with MacOSX 10.4.8 on this machine!
It takes some patching with kernel extensions, but afterwards it works great!
Not bad for <$600 macbook! and it's 15.4 inch instead of 13 !
Dual booting Vista and MacOSX and will add Ubuntu on top of the "backup" partition setup up by Compaq.
Thanks OP for the deal.. very happy with this machine!!
drof
Member
posted: Mar. 27, 2007 @ 1:21a
OSX work? did everything work including USB etc? which version did you use?
installs fine. BUT.. you need to install the following:
Speedstep patch by KIKO, (w/ CPU Throttler - otherwise your CPU will run full all the time) Conexant HD Audio pkg patch (for complete audio) and do a small edit to some files to activate the default Broadcom 4311 wireless card (will not work for those who ordered the intel a/g/n upgrade!!) search insanelymac forum for: [How-To] Get Broadcom Wireless and Do the Switch Trick on 10.4.8
Everything works now: USB, display w/ Quartz and Core, sound, wireless, etc..
The caveats: No wake after sleep, and no battery monitoring.
I installed Insomnia.kext to prevent sleeping when I close the lid.
I haven't tried the new PowerManagement bundle which is supposed to let you get battery and power usage control.
I also installed Bresnik's widget for CPU temp monitoring (the only one that works).
another thing I installed is SteerMouse, but that's only because MacOSX has wierd mouse settings
hope that helps.. let me know if you need more advice.
warning though, you gotta be tech savy to carry this out. Not to mention the partitioning part. Also, don't bother using Vista's boot loader.. just use Darwin's boot loader.
I would get a hold of Hiren's Boot CD w/ partition magic and other tools to make your life easier.
luckbird
Happy Member
posted: Mar. 27, 2007 @ 3:47a
Does it run faster than Vista, en, maybe we can set some benchmark, like photoshop rendering, video editing.
installs fine. BUT.. you need to install the following:
Speedstep patch by KIKO, (w/ CPU Throttler - otherwise your CPU will run full all the time) Conexant HD Audio pkg patch (for complete audio) and do a small edit to some files to activate the default Broadcom 4311 wireless card (will not work for those who ordered the intel a/g/n upgrade!!) search insanelymac forum for: [How-To] Get Broadcom Wireless and Do the Switch Trick on 10.4.8
gauchito10
Senior Member
posted: Mar. 27, 2007 @ 11:22a
I have 1gb of memory, so Vista does fine for me. But I'll bet you for those people with only 512mb of memory, MacOSX will be way faster than Vista, since it is less of a memory hog. Macbooks ship with 512mb of memory standard and they run fine.
disclaimer: I have T2250 cpu.. haven't tried this with T2060. OSx86 reports suggest that T2050 works fine, but no word yet on the T2060.
Devedander
Member
posted: Mar. 28, 2007 @ 12:11p
For those who got this there IS a way go get quickplay direct to work with Vista... I did it and now when the laptop is off I can hit the quickplay button and be up and ready to view DVDs in under 10 seconds.
Google quickplay vista, I think the instructions were over on notebook review.
kimnicho
Senior Member
posted: Mar. 29, 2007 @ 8:36a
Devedander said: For those who got this there IS a way go get quickplay direct to work with Vista... I did it and now when the laptop is off I can hit the quickplay button and be up and ready to view DVDs in under 10 seconds.
Google quickplay vista, I think the instructions were over on notebook review.
can you post link please? I did google it last night but I got a lot of misinformation
Bloodz
Member
posted: Mar. 31, 2007 @ 10:32a
Anyone's hard drive getting hot? Mine was idling at 49 C (on a table) when the max is suppose to be 55 C.
kimnicho
Senior Member
posted: Mar. 31, 2007 @ 5:12p
Bloodz said: Anyone's hard drive getting hot? Mine was idling at 49 C (on a table) when the max is suppose to be 55 C.
Not sure if it's the HD or not but it definitely gets too hot to comfortably hold on my lap wearing shorts(rear left side gets very hot)but I'm not too concerned about it YET
tranco
Member
posted: Apr. 2, 2007 @ 7:45p
All new laptops get too hot to touch directly to skin. That's why coolpads are invented. We're fooled into buying more and more powerful machines although what they do didn't change so much except additional eye candy.
My HDD is 53C right now and it gets much hotter in the summer. It is the fact of life that laptops are not made for using on laps anymore.
tranco said: All new laptops get too hot to touch directly to skin. That's why coolpads are invented. We're fooled into buying more and more powerful machines although what they do didn't change so much except additional eye candy.
My HDD is 53C right now and it gets much hotter in the summer. It is the fact of life that laptops are not made for using on laps anymore.
I do think they are getting better and faster but also smaller and packing more heat so yeah, the term "laptop" will die out soon I think....
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