I imagine at this point that Bill Hewlett and David Packard are spinning
in their graves. The company they founded on test equipment expertise
has devolved into a marketing driven 3rd world assembly house. But you
know all of that.
My sister, who is legally blind, bought an HP (h8-1414) because the Mac
was driving her crazy (her words not mine). We hooked it up to a 32" TV
and then discovered that her magnification program doesn't work under
Windows 8 and won't for a while. So... we bought an OEM copy of Win7
Home Premium. She had used Win7 at work for years and knows how to get
around in it. (She recently retired on disability at age 55). Then the
fun began.
Secure Boot sucks. I can see no reason for it. Nor can I see a reason
why HP has to have their motherboards backwards or why they have to use
F10 to enter BIOS. Forget the fact that the BIOS seems almost entirely
devoid of options.
Finally I get it to boot to DVD. Win7 loads, then stops, saying it
can't access the DVD drive and needs a driver. Well, it's not on the
Win7 DVD nor does the Win8 work. Nor does HP provide Win7 drivers for
this particular model. This is going to have to be a hack job, piecing
together drivers from the primary manufacturers.
It seems to be poetic justice that a marketing-driven company blindly
follows another marketing-driven company's demands.
Just had to complain.....
Steve
