[KLUG Hardware] The HP ze4220

[Bruce Smith]

> Anyone have any experience with the HP ze4220?  It seems a really good
> deal at $1,049.  But I can't find anything on the net about this bad
> boy...  
> 
> All the components/specs seem pretty standard.  All I'll have to do is
> apply the ACPI patches to 2.4.20; at least in theory.

I don't know anything about that HP, but if I was looking for a 
notebook in that price range, I'd give serious consideration to a:
Toshiba 1415-S173   i.e.:

 http://www.bestbuy.com/detail.asp?e=11181444&m=488&cat=494&scat=495
 (I'm not saying that's the best price or the best place to buy them)

We've bought a few of them for salesmen here at work (Windoze), but I
managed to get my hands on one for a day or so and installed Redhat 9 on
it for a test.

Everything seemed to work fine "out of the box".  The display seemed
accelerated running at 1024x768, USB worked with my digital camera,
PCMCIA worked with a modem card, the builtin NIC (Intel Pro100 VE
chipset) worked fine, sound worked, and the CDRW was recognized although
I didn't try burning a CD.

I didn't test anything to do with power management.

> The best part is the keyboard illumination!

I didn't notice that power sucking feature on the Toshiba.
 
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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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