Actually, this kinda matched up with that assessment - the machine was onlly months old when the motherboard died. It has been replaced and has a 3-year warranty. Hopefully that means getting at least three years out of it.
Randy Stapilus www.ridenbaugh.com Northwest politics and public affairs WA, OR, ID Weekly Briefings 503-852-0010 On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Joseph Hume <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Working in a repair shop, I could not recommend an HP laptop to anyone. > The problems we saw with the dv2000, dv6000, and dv9000 series were the > motherboards dying two to three months after the warranty expires. I > can't imagine the newer laptops being any better. > > Joseph Hume > F1 for HELP > > On 10/07/2012 11:43 AM, Randy Stapilus wrote: > > I'm looking at getting a new (nearly new in this case) laptop on which I > > would dual boot Windows (probably not often) and Linux, probably either > > Ubuntu or Mint. > > > > A friend has a machine up for sale which looks like a good deal and I > think > > might work for me. It's an HP Pavillion dv7 (descriptive > > page< > http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-Pavilion/B2P31UA?HP-Pavilion-dv7-7012nr-Entertainment-Notebook-PC > >). > > > > > > The specs suggest to me this seems like a reasonable machine for what I > > want. Question - anyone know of a problem area here, a reason > dual-booting > > wouldn't work smoothly enough with this particular laptop? > > > > Randy Stapilus > > www.ridenbaugh.com > > Northwest politics and public affairs > > WA, OR, ID Weekly Briefings > > 503-852-0010 > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
