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HP Linux Laptop Is A Winner

Posted by michael on from the laptop-special-olympics dept.

minus_273 writes "MSNBC is currently running a story on the front page reviewing the new HP Linux laptops. In a story titled 'H-P's first Linux laptop a winner', the article provides a brief look at the accomplishments and some of the shortcomings of the nx5000; a new inexpensive HP business laptop that comes with SUSE installed. The author seems extremely happy about how everything just works out of the box and mentions the significance of the product. Could HP+SUSE go the way of Apple+BSD and become an option for those that want friendly non-windows laptop? Releasing an easy to use Linux system is a good first step." We mentioned this laptop a few weeks ago.

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  1. HP and Linux by brilinux · · Score: 5, Informative

    I put Gentoo on my HP ze5600, and I have been quite impressed. The winmodem works, the ATI Radeon works, the WiFi works with NDIS Wrapper, and even ACPI hibernate mode seems to work fine. I hope that companies like HP continue to support more variety in their OS options.

  2. Try reading a few paragraphs of the article first by nacs · · Score: 5, Informative
    It'd probably be too much to ask some people to read the product page for the laptop but the least you can do is read the first sentence of the 2nd paragraph:

    Hewlett-Packard is now taking orders for their nx5000 business notebook computers with Novell's SuSE Linux 9.1 installed.


    HP is intentionally targetting the enterprise market with this laptop and have stated this multiple times in the past.

    Cnet even has a video where an HP representative tells us that HP is targetting enterprises and that they're doing this more as a trial run to work out kinks and see what improvements users request before they put more resources into this segment.
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  3. HP compax NX5000 and wireless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    For the record, Linux doesn't support Intel's wireless chip. H-P's WiFi modules work just fine.

    Let's just hope nobody tells my wlan nic, otherwise I'll have to resort to fast ethernet.

    I am currently at the kde conference in Ludwigsburg, Germany and working on one of these NX5000 notebooks. Hewlett-Packard was nice enough to sell them for about 580 EUR, which is about 700 USD, to kde developers.
    However, our laptop models included the intel wireless 2200BG card, otherwise known as the dreaded centrino card. But what surprise, the driver from SourceForge works. Sometimes a bit flakey though, but it works...

    Otherwise I am quite happy with the NX5000. The thing looks quite stable, has mostly supported hardware and sports a pair of superb speakers.

    All in all, quite a nifty device for a very reasonable price.