I bought this one.
The one I'm interested in:
HP 15.6 inch touch screen
i7 processor, 8gb Ram, 1TB Hard Drive
$449, it had been $800
HP 15.6 inch touch screen
i7 processor, 8gb Ram, 1TB Hard Drive
$449, it had been $800
I put in another like new 1TB drive, that came out of the one I bought last year. I formatted and put linux on it.
It all set up and loaded pretty quickly.
I spent off and on 4 hours trying to get the wifi network to work.
Wifi wouldn't work with any live linux, I put on it. That included the Ubuntu's and I also tried live Fedora.
Finally figured out what realtek wifi adapter driver was missing and it took a while but I finally installed it.
The Realtek RTL8821CE Wifi hardware, it's driver is not currently included in the Linux kernel, so it had to be manually loaded.
Drivers are harder to install in linux, but doable!
This is going to be a fine addition to the laptop stable!
Santa came early!
TBC,
T
**Also bought a deluxe wireless logitech m510 mouse, on sale for $15, regular price was $40.
Haven't broke it out of the package yet.
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