Hewlett Packard recently replaced my zd8000 with a dv7t, because the 8000 was worthless. Unfortunately, it came installed with Vista, and that is making the dv7t worthless. While I still had the 8000, I purchased an Asus 701 EEE with the Xandros distro running on it. I installed KDE and was generally pleased with its performance. However, that is my only experience with Linux and the EEE is quite simple. This thing that HP has sent me is a beast.
I am concerned that some of these ports will stop working and that the webcam won't function. I am a little computer illiterate, so while this might be a stupid concern, I am also worried about some of these controls on the keyboard. There are several shortcut keys which are touch activated.
The laptop is apparently an "entertainment" laptop, which means it has a lot of useless features, including a remote for some media program. It isn't necessary, but it turns on the computer, which is kinda of entertaining. Would I still be able to use it so long as there was a default media program?
If someone has a similar laptop, I would appreciate any advice. Also, if someone would take a look at this list of devices and tell me what might never function again or what I would have difficulty finding drivers for, I'd appreciate it. My boyfriend has me thinking that I'll never get my nvidia card to work and that my ports will never function again.
Sorry if these are stupid questions.
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I am concerned that some of these ports will stop working and that the webcam won't function. I am a little computer illiterate, so while this might be a stupid concern, I am also worried about some of these controls on the keyboard. There are several shortcut keys which are touch activated.
The laptop is apparently an "entertainment" laptop, which means it has a lot of useless features, including a remote for some media program. It isn't necessary, but it turns on the computer, which is kinda of entertaining. Would I still be able to use it so long as there was a default media program?
If someone has a similar laptop, I would appreciate any advice. Also, if someone would take a look at this list of devices and tell me what might never function again or what I would have difficulty finding drivers for, I'd appreciate it. My boyfriend has me thinking that I'll never get my nvidia card to work and that my ports will never function again.
Sorry if these are stupid questions.
[img width=230 height=400]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v61/Schadenfreude/Untitled.jpg[/img]
[img width=257 height=400]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v61/Schadenfreude/Untitled2.jpg[/img]
[img width=258 height=400]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v61/Schadenfreude/Untitled3.jpg[/img]
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