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New laptop: HP Compaq nx6325
Posted by JLP on October 10th, 2007
I got a new laptop a few hours ago, for free again, thanks to LUGOS. It’s a HP Compaq nx6325 and it is a very similar model to my current nx6125. It has some more hard disk space (80 GiB instead of 60 GiB) and instead of single core AMD Turion 64 it has a dual core AMD Turion 64 X2, still 1800 MHz. Being similar to nx6125 laptop also means that it has the crappy Broadcom wireless network adapter which doesn’t even have any open source drivers from Broadcom. So I’ll still have to use NDISwrapper with Windows drivers or the reverse engineered bcm43xx drivers which are open source but don’t work as good. The laptop also has the integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 graphics card, which has some problems with closed source drivers and no good open source drivers when it comes to 3D support. At least ATI/AMD have started to provide specifications for their graphic chips so there is hope. In addition, their latest closed source drivers, starting from version 8.41.7 are much improved. No such hope for Broadcom yet. Another thing I hope is that HP did their job right this time and that nx6325 doesn’t have as broken ACPI as nx6125 has. Anyways, double processor power will sure come in handy for compiling Gentoo Linux and KDE 4. Temporally the new laptop is running the new Mandriva Linux 2008. When I get back home I’ll install Gentoo Linux on it and give the nx6125 to my cousin Matej.
October 11th, 2007 at 10:27:19
Uau!
I am happy for you! I seems that you will spend again lots of time compiling your fresh system ;). Gentoo with KDE again (guess this is stupid question)?
October 13th, 2007 at 13:35:40
Great news for both of us. I’d like to thank LUGOS for allowing Jure to give his current laptop to me and of course Jure for dealing with the bureaucracy
October 13th, 2007 at 21:01:03
@Vito: Yeah definitely Gentoo and KDE. Gentoo is just great for having the latest versions of software as soon as possible, it’s great for programming since everything is just ready for this and it is great to keep you learning more about the system
And when it comes to KDE I just love it since it is so configurable and works the way I like it.
@Matej: There wasn’t much bureaucracy. Just a few e-mail exchange and that was all. You just enjoy the new laptop and keep contributing translations for KDE and news articles for LUGOS.
October 14th, 2007 at 19:28:30
[...] Jure pridno prevajal KDE in posodobil spletno stran LUGOSa so mu (spet) ponudili zastonj prenosnik. Dobil je novega HP Compaq nx6325, ki je približno isti kot stari nx6125, ki sem ga dobil jaz. Jupi! Seveda je [...]
October 15th, 2007 at 22:01:12
Hehe, I can remember (even if pretty bad) how did we try to compile Cinelerra ;).
Anyway… I also work over 95% of time spent on my computer with KDE… Really works great comparing to the “polkna” (I can not remember name in English).
Uau, I read on kiberpipa.org that you will present your trip to Scotland! Great!
September 5th, 2008 at 20:24:19
this hp laptop is even better than the newer ones. All the nx versions are good.
September 15th, 2008 at 12:27:19
o such hope for Broadcom yet. Another thing I hope is that HP did their job right this time and that nx6325 doesn’t have as broken ACPI as nx6125 has. Anyways, double processor power will sure come in handy for compiling
September 17th, 2008 at 13:33:16
Hey it sounds like a nice piece according to everyone, could you add a picture to it so that we might relate it better !