[NTLUG:Discuss] About that Elitebook 2530p....

[David Simmons]

Just to follow-up on an earlier email sent on the list....I've been running
an Acer Aspire One (one of those accursed netbooks) and have been getting 6
hour battery life.  (I believe it was mentioned that they were only getting
1-2).....just wanted to confirm that long-battery life is very possible and
normal on the netbooks.

-dave

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:

> I mentioned to John T. and others that the Elitebook 2530p had a serial
> port... it DOES NOT.  I was mistaken.  It's still a great mini-laptop
> though.  Near netbook size but with full horsepower.  You can get one
> with a L9600  @ 2.13GHz, 160G disk, 4G memory, 2MP webcam, Intel
> wireless, SDHC reader, DVDRW, external VGA, free docking station and
> fairly long (6-7 hr) battery life for about $1700.00 at bertlins.com (I
> got mine for less.. price is going up, HP has it on sale which why it is
> priced lower than the lesser config'd versions).
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> I'm running openSUSE 11.1 on mine... works great.  Might be some issues
> with suspend to memory/disk though.. but that's life with the kernel and
> the Intel drivers (uses a 4500MHD).
>
> I got mine for about $1600 (you can still find that I think if you
> search), and plan on taking it to 8G ram.... since it has a real CPU, it
> has the Intel vt extension, so virtualization should work well even for
> those "bad" OS's out there.
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