[Info-vax] Hopelessly Pathetic Hardware Parts

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In article <50392c19$0$1211$c3e8da3$50776f34 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>on a different tangeant Mr VAXman.
>
>I am aware of your "love affair" with HP :-)
>
>What motivated you to buy an HP laptop ? Did it really have better
>value, better features for the price etc etc ? Or was it because of your
>existing relationship with HP that you decided to give HP a chance ?

I was in need of a new laptop.  My Toshiba Satellite -- not a bad laptop but
I'm on the third keyboard and it's showing signs of its age in other ways --
was a candidate for replacement and the HP Envy looked pretty nice.  It had
what I wanted... large screen (17.3") and the numeric keypad.  Then, there
was a coupon deal that made the Envy slighly cheaper than the other laptop
that was in contention at the time.  I have no issues with the Envy; albeit,
the trackpad behaves skew-whiff most of the time.  I was, as I'd explained,
only looking to add a drive so that I could make a backup of the current
Linux installation before I updated the current drive -- One of the other
features that swayed me to the Envy was the second drive bay.  However, it
just seems that every time I try to buy a part from Hopelessly Pathetic
for any of their kit, it becomes a complete nightmare on Hanover Street.
Sears it's not!

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