Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Thad Floryan Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware Subject: Re: HP2000 AMD laptop Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 12:43:53 -0800 Organization: ThadLABS Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5276B589.90802@thadlabs.com> References: <20131103143804@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8c9e5db8d01ced79e92159efa406567d"; logging-data="8969"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19gOm3h6+9+A0GBOAtIk0Qb/b/pLLSGSlo=" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:9w9SkY50/wZmt6T+AiulfKE+hVs= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.hardware:2118 On 11/3/2013 12:37 PM, notbob wrote: > On 2013-11-03, Roger Blake wrote: > >> From what I have seen, HP's consumer line is junk, but they have some decent >> products in their business line. > > As I suspected. This laptop is definitely in the lower consumer end > of their line. I opted out. Wise decision. :-) Basically, if something is at Walmart, it's junk constructed from the lowest bottom-of-the-barrel parts to cut costs (and reliability). Thad