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

[John Taylor]

At 10:36 AM 6/25/2009, you 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

Thanks for letting us know.  It does sound like a good notebook.


>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).
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>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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