HP Recall on 900,000 Notebooks

phycoman writes "900,000 HP and Compaq laptops have potential memory issues and are being recalled. The RAM chips from four manufacturers can possibly lead to system corruption and lockups. The affected notebooks are Compaq Evo Notebook N610c, Compaq Evo Notebook N610v, Compaq Evo Notebook N620c, Compaq Evo Notebook N800c, Compaq Evo Notebook N800v, Compaq Evo Notebook N800w, Compaq Evo Notebook N1000c, Compaq Evo Notebook N1000v, Compaq Presario 1500, Compaq Presario 2800, Compaq Presario x1000, Compaq Presario x1200, HP Compaq Business Notebook nx7000 and HP Pavilion zt3000. As a result, HP has created a website whick allows users to download a program to test for faulty RAM chips."

Comments

What to buy then ?

[wtarreau]

My previous crappy sony vaio finally died and I have to find another notebook to replace it. I'm looking for a techie notebook. I need an internal floppy disk, an integrated RS232 serial port, an integrated NIC, and *no* nvidia chipset nor graphics, because I use it to develop on linux and don't want to change my job to accomodate their drivers. I was looking for a decent display between 1280x1024 and 1600x1200. The ASUS L3 and L5 lines of products match those criteria, but we have 3 of them at my company and their display is so poorly contrasted that we have to put our hands around the area we want to read in sunny days.

I finally found a few HP's matching all these criteria. I don't like their fisher-price-like notebooks, but I was resigned to buy one anyway. Now what should I buy ? I'm lost !

Thanks in advance for any advices,
Willy

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