Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS

From	Bill <llib@vacant.void.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.laptops
Subject	Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS
Date	2011-06-18 05:16 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 6/17/2011 8:24 PM, the wharf rat wrote:
> In article<itgf2e$b79$1@dont-email.me>, BillW50<BillW50@aol.kom>  wrote:
>>
>> Hi Bill! I can't disagree with anything you said about Linux. I use it
>> for small tasks like email, web browsing, and newsgroups. But it doesn't
>> impress me for other tasks.
>
> 	Lol.  I use it for large tasks, like running web farms to power
> fortune 500 size ecommerce sites. It does suck for playing games, though.
>
> 	Makes a good IPS too.
>
> 	Hmmmm, ya know, Bill, I interviewed at AOL in the 90's and I'm certain
> they used Suns for the heavy lifting.  Might have been HP...  Wasn't Windows.
>

Hey, wharfie! You sure it wasn't specially configured solaris? With
some aspects of Red Hat and other publishers having gone heavily
commercial you can buy configured linux if you want to spend the
bux, markedly more than MicroSqueeze charges, but then the results,
for specific tasks, are better too.

Wouldn't you think that with several decades of personal computers
behind us we could have more than one source for a fitzall OS? Linux
is trying but still requires a lot of tweaking. I'll say that they've
made tremendous progress for a heavily volunteer initiative.

Anyone with programming skills and patience can just about make any
OS do whatever they want, so long as there's open source. The more
I age the more I'm becoming like a "user." <ugh!!!!!!!> I'm facing
facts, the older I get the less I'm interested in tweaking computers
and the more I'm interested in other projects. And as part of the
aging process along comes the need to be more physical. Use it
or lose it!

OTOH I wonder how much more use I can squeeze out of this dv6000
laptop. The OS and computer are 5+ years old. With a new hard drive
I'll probably hit a wall again in just a few years. Considering the
purchase price was about $800 (Sam's Club) that's $160 a year not
counting the replacement battery a couple of years back. (And then,
after I've bought the new battery and disposed of the original, HP
does a recall on the batteries.)

Has anybody done an analysis of the real cost of a laptop over
its usual life cycle?

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HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-06-10 22:29 -0500
  Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-06-11 06:27 -0500
    Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-06-11 07:35 -0500
      Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-06-11 08:43 -0500
        Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-06-17 09:38 -0500
          Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-06-17 15:57 -0500
            Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-06-17 18:41 -0500
            Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-06-18 01:24 +0000
              Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-06-18 05:16 -0500
                Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> - 2011-06-20 08:44 -0500
                Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-06-21 08:17 -0500
          Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-06-18 01:20 +0000
        Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-06-23 22:07 -0500
          Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bob Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 16:16 -0700
          Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-06-25 05:06 -0500
            Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bob Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-06-25 04:51 -0700
              Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-06-25 07:10 -0500
              Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-06-25 08:55 -0500
          Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-06-30 10:50 -0500
            Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS AJL <1245nomail@none.com> - 2011-06-30 09:59 -0700
              Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-06-30 12:28 -0500
                Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS AJL <1245nomail@none.com> - 2011-06-30 18:21 -0700
                Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-07-01 23:55 +0000
                Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-07-02 05:32 -0500
            Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-06-30 17:45 -0500
              Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-07-01 23:57 +0000
              Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-07-02 05:18 -0500
            Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bob Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-07-01 03:41 -0700
            Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-07-01 23:54 +0000
              Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-07-01 19:14 -0500
                Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-07-02 01:59 +0000
                Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS AJL <36566678nomail@none.com> - 2011-07-01 21:21 -0700
      Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> - 2011-06-11 12:43 -0500
  Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS markfinn8_at_gmail_dot_com@foo.com (markfinn) - 2011-08-18 19:16 +0000

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