figured I should continue posting, but just call them "rants" and not anything else. Hope you understand!! There are less intelligent blogs around. Enjoy my posts for what they are and don't take me too seriously.
Just moved into new apartment, the first one I bought for my own money and thus own. Feels great. Everyone should own their own apartment/house. I believe George W. Bush said that too. No wonder there was a housing crisis -- I consider it to be essential to be able to afford your living before buying. Is it the banks or the people that are stupid? Ok, that's a question for the economists.... Speaking of my apartment, the previous owners appear to have taken the wall mounted coat rack with them! I'm going to try and get it back. They had no right to take it.
Anyways going back to the topic -- as I might have mentioned, I own a HP dv9000. The same type that has its dedicated fanpage http://www.notebookhingecrack.com/.
The computer is 3 years old, but I bought it one year ago in a good as new condition, for the equivalent of ca 900 $. I actually think it is a generally decent computer!! As a programmer I find the keyboard peculiar to say the least, but I accept that since I should avoid programming at home.
Speaking of keyboard, it amazes me how many ways there are to produce a bad keyboard layout. At work, I have a Dell keyboard. It is alright except for one thing: the Shift key is insensitive, and requires you to press harder than on a usual keyboard. I've counted to at least 20 times per days I have to go back and correct letters that weren't capitalized, or - supposed to be _. After having complained to the manager, he was kind enough to give me a new keyboard (thank you, I appreciate your effort to satisfy this demanding programmer). It was a no-name keyboard, so I won't mention any names. But after having used the new keyboard for a few hours, I had to give it up (I still left it on my desk for a couple of weeks, not wanting to be one of those whiners).
What was wrong with it? First of all: the keys had a weird height angle, they were sort of leaning upwards in a strange way. Secondly, the distance between Left Shift and F5 was just slightly to large for me to reach both keys without over-extending my fingers. And Shift-F5 is a combination that any Visual Studio programmer would/should recognize. I can't remember exactly what it does now that I am writing out of context, but I know I use it alot. So I'll stick with my Dell keyboard for now... but I have my eye on a logitech desktop which I hope will solve all my woes without costing $$$$.
Back to my HP... I have a vague memory of having complained about my HP keyboard before so I'm not going to do that again. Instead, I will write about the touch pad. If you surf into the afore mentioned page, you will see that the HP hinge cracks because of wrong constructions that with time makes it too hot and cracking. In fairness I should mention that it hasn't happened to my computer yet, which is good because HP only extended their warranty to May 2009! If it cracks now, I'll have to live with it until I buy a new computer (and I will think twice before buying an HP again).
I don't know if it is related to the bad design of the hinge, but my touch pad has always been unpleasantly hot. It's hard to measure but I would estimate it to be at least 40o C, or for those illiterate in Celsius degrees: serious fever.
The 17" monitor is not bad. I can't distinguish some color, such as light grey from white, but I think that't the same with most laptops?
It is a multimedia computer and I would say the sound is not bad, and it has some nice features such as playing a DVD without starting up windows, by pressing a button next to the ON button.
Oh, almost forgot -- the battery doesn't work. When I bought it, it never got loaded. I sent a mail to support, and they soon sent me a new battery free of charge all the way from some central Europe country such as Austria. However, that battery soon died too, and is now completely worthless. If I unplug my computer it dies within a few seconds. I would still like to know why? Did they send me a flawed battery, is my computer unable to load batteries, or did I make something wrong? Anyways, I won't bother with their support again. Support is evil.
My computer has many nice features. The graphics is not bad. I can play computer games and do whatever I want (until it cracks).
I think one shouldn't be too picky about laptops. The components have to be carefully balanced to give as much power as possibly, without being expensive, draining power or overheating. In my last school class, we bough our computer ourselves. Some of my classmates used them while in bed and what not, and were surprised when they stopped working. Well, you tell these kids "don't block the air intake, the computer will overheat", but they don't care, do it, and suddenly their computer breaks and it's everybody's fault but their own.
The 17" monitor is not bad. I can't distinguish some color, such as light grey from white, but I think that't the same with most laptops?
It is a multimedia computer and I would say the sound is not bad, and it has some nice features such as playing a DVD without starting up windows, by pressing a button next to the ON button.
Oh, almost forgot -- the battery doesn't work. When I bought it, it never got loaded. I sent a mail to support, and they soon sent me a new battery free of charge all the way from some central Europe country such as Austria. However, that battery soon died too, and is now completely worthless. If I unplug my computer it dies within a few seconds. I would still like to know why? Did they send me a flawed battery, is my computer unable to load batteries, or did I make something wrong? Anyways, I won't bother with their support again. Support is evil.
My computer has many nice features. The graphics is not bad. I can play computer games and do whatever I want (until it cracks).
I think one shouldn't be too picky about laptops. The components have to be carefully balanced to give as much power as possibly, without being expensive, draining power or overheating. In my last school class, we bough our computer ourselves. Some of my classmates used them while in bed and what not, and were surprised when they stopped working. Well, you tell these kids "don't block the air intake, the computer will overheat", but they don't care, do it, and suddenly their computer breaks and it's everybody's fault but their own.
Ok, that was all about my computer for now. I have my eyes set on the LOGITECH EX 100 cordless desktop. I've had good experience with Logitech previously. Bye-bye.
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