HP buys Platinum sponsorship in Linux Foundation

[Frank616]

It looks like HP is looking to Linux for the future. They just invested 1/2 million in a Linux Foundation sponsorship.

Among other things, this may well translate into HP products that don't lock out Linux through UEFI, though that remains to be seen.

So, would you consider HP hardware for your next purchase because of this?

Frank.

[Snowhog]

Already own an HP laptop. Quite happy with it. I'd purchase another HP when the time comes.

[Frank616]

Snowhog:

My second to last purchase was a Dell M6600 that I bought from a Linux reseller in Georgia. It was a custom kernel install, and left me tied to the reseller for updates. I'll never do that again.

Since 12.04, however, my Alps touchpad (that got slipstreamed into the M6600 specs) now works as it should. I dumped the custom-kernel install immediately.

I paid a LOT of money for this Dell, and it will serve me for many years. However, it is 'overbuilt' in many ways. It will go obsolete long before it wears out. This thing is industrial strength.

While am happy with my Dell, I will most certainly look at HP next time.

Frank.

[SteveRiley]

I don't think I'd consider another Pavilion until HP changes the heatsink design. As far as I know, they're still using the same crappy design that required me to throw away my wife's dv9000 after 16 months -- it cooked itself to death.

[Frank616]

Steve:

I don't think I'd consider another Pavilion until HP changes the heatsink design.

Good to know.

However, if this is an issue, cannot one install an after market cooler? I would think that this would be easier than trying to find esoteric drivers for weird hardware that only a Windows user could love.

Frank.

[SteveRiley]

There's no space inside a laptop to add larger coolers.

Here's the operation I had to perform on my wife's laptop:

And my own results:
* http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...626#post269984
* http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...626#post270045

Which ultimately failed again, one month later:
* http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...626#post274435

[Frank616]

Steve:

There's no space inside a laptop to add larger coolers.

And, of course, I was thinking of a desktop unit.

Frank.