On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:18:17PM -0800, Alan Chen wrote: > > Unfortunately, CostCo has great prices, but pretty much puts their merchandise > in warehouses, with stacked cardboard boxes. They're really good about > selecting high-quality stuff in general though. I'll probably think about it > for a while to see if HP rolls out some info on their website. I'll probably > buy it anyway. :) > No, it's not brand new, and I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for HP to put any info on their website. The model is no longer being manufatured, and as such, HP themselves are not selling it, so they actually took what little info about the machine they did have off their website.
I bought a pavilion N3310 last summer. HP has one, that's right ONE owners manual for all Pavilion notebooks. Inside the front cover it says "You can find technical information on the internet. Visit our support site at www.hp.com/notebook." Read those two lines again. No one will argue that you can find technical information on the internet. No one will argue that HP has a notebook support site at www.hp.com/notebook. But I, and probably other HP users, will tell you that those two sentences have very little to do with eachother. Just look at the kind of info they have for their current models. I hardly consider that technical info. Take for example the n5240. All they say is "Intel Celeron 700 Mhz 128 MB 8X(max) DVD-ROM 10.0 GB 13.3- inch TFT XGA 56k modem built-in Lithium ion battery". And I think they charge big $$ for real person tech support. Also, the modem won't work. Not even in Windows. There's a hardware, or most likely software, [it IS a winmodem], bug that made them stop working on Feb 21. http://www.hp.com/cposupport/mobile_computing/support_doc/lpi04408.html And there's also a BIOS update (already). If you're still interested, here's the URL for the XH215: http://www.hp.com/cposupport/prodhome/hppavillio28312.html Notice there's two l's there, while they spell it 'pavilion'. Makes me wonder how much thought went into the whole thing. I can't say I've had any real problems with my pavilion. Probably a good thing, because using a "unsupported" OS voids the warranty. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
