[clue-tech] Any experience w/HP Pavilion good or bad?

[rjohnston at denverinternet.com]

On December 23, 2010 at 2:58 PM David Williams <dkwloki-clue at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>
> Was thinking about getting a small laptop and loading some variant of Linux on
> it for a dual boot.
> We use HP at work and so far I have been pretty impressed w/them so I am
> thinking an HP machine.
> I thought that I heard a few groans in the group when someone mentioned HP in
> the past.
> Generally I have found that newer hardware seems to require some work on the
> installers part since driver support on Linux seems to lag a bit.  CentOS had
> a hard time working with a NIC and Fedora didn't want to hear about a wireless
> NIC on previous installs.  CentOS got resolved with latest release at the
> time, Fedora never got resolved but lost access to the hardware so not great
> loss.
>
> Any thoughts welcome.
 
 
i've been using different Pavilions for ~ 7 yrs now.
i've had the best luck with fedora - although when you find out the network
chip, i've always been able to find a driver.
 
which one are you looking at ?
 
...roy