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Reviews (5)
11 Jul, 2018
Getting the firmware version right is a bear
This is a qlogic card under the HP branding and their drivers are a little convoluted to say the least. Intel X520 is a better bet under Linux.
25 May, 2024
Superb - many thanks!
Superb - many thanks!
18 Feb, 2011
A brilliant little sub-notebook
2 of 2 found this helpful I was in the fortunate position to have been given one of these little notebooks a while back and, given the size of it, I figured I'd probably hate it.
A year later and I'm afraid I can't do without it! It's not the most powerful of notebooks, but what it lacks in outright grunt it really makes up for in convenience. I shall elaborate a little:
- Linux compatibility. Everything - even the fingerprint reader and cellular modem - works perfectly. I have never had a 100% functional laptop under Linux before and the versatility this provides is excellent.
- Battery life. Quite frankly, astonishing. I have the mid-sized battery that protrudes a little from the rear of the machine and it provides a very comfortable five hours or so of miscellaneous typing and browsing, or easily making it through a two-hour 720P h.264 movie with power to spare. Dipping in and out of it with the screen going to power save and the hard drive spinning down it lasts 7 hours plus.
- Dual pointing devices. It's very nice to have the choice between trackpad and one of those little navi-nipple things in the middle of the keyboard. There's also a button on the trim panel that allows you to disable the trackpad in hardware should you accidentally keep nudging it when typing. As it is recessed into the palmrest however, this is unlikely but it's nice to have the option!
- Built-in SD card reader, built-in microphone, built-in 4-pin firewire, 2 USB-2 ports, VGA out, Type II PCMCIA slot - all very useful for random device and storage additions :-)
- Screen. The later versions of this laptop have an LED backlit screen which is both crisp and bright. It struggles everso slightly in very bright sunlight, but it is still readable. 1280x800 resolution also means it's native resolution for 720P video playback
- Built-in DVD-RW. For a laptop this size, again I'm amazed this is squeezed in. The nearest thing from Dell (D420, a previous favourite of mine) requires a separate docking slice to add an optical drive, but this little HP has one built right in. Superb!
- Integrated gigabit networking. Very useful when parked on the desk and really makes up for the not-too-quick internal HDD.
- 3 integrated radios. One for 802.11 a/b/g/n, one for bluetooth and one for 3G cellular. It's just always on-line one way or another :-)
- Size and build quality. It's tiny, very light and screwed together extremely well. The display lid is cast aluminium and hence stronger than it looks, the keyboard is full size and very comfy to type on and the antennae for the various radios are located behind a plastic panel on the top edge of the lid for maximum range. Very well thought out and nicely engineered!
The one bad point I have with this otherwise superb laptop is the hard drive. It's a 1.8" 4200RPM unit and while being reasonably capacious at 120GB isn't as fast as it could be. When I first had this laptop it was running Vista Business and it was as slow as hell when first booting up. This lasted all of a day before I got annoyed with it and stuffed Gentoo Linux on to it. It's pretty much small enough to run from memory after first boot, so everything is nice and snappy.
As long as you don't expect desktop-class HDD performance, this has to be the best all-round laptop I've ever owned, and HP now have me as a customer for life!