Re:Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it?
by mquander on Thursday June 10, 2010 @10:34AM
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I was nervous about buying an HP laptop, but bought a HP Envy 15 recently because it was the only thing with the specs I wanted (1920x, good graphics card, SSD+HDD combo, fairly thin and light.) It's turned out well so far; it's good-looking, feels sturdy, runs Linux fine (although you need a recent kernel for some particular BIOS-related patches.)
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Re:Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it?
by proscriptus on Friday June 11, 2010 @08:42AM
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But how badly did you get screwed on the price? Did you pay the two grand list price, or grab one at $1,199? http://dealnews.com/Loaded-HP-ENVY-15-Core-i7-Quad-1.6-GHz-1...
This practice of obscure and arbitrary discounting is at least as annoying as the obscure and arbitrary lineups.
Re:Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it?
by mquander on Monday June 14, 2010 @02:05PM
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Somewhere in between; I ended up paying about $1600 after a $400 discount. I felt it was a pretty good price -- thing has basically the best laptop specs you can buy without having a 10-pound 18-inch behemoth. I agree that it's bizarrely arbitrary. (Something's odd about that one you linked, though -- the graphics card is that of a first-generation one, not the ones they're selling now.)