Got someone who needs a new desktop, printer or notebook for the upcoming school season? HP announced today a new promotion with discounts for students and teachers. Qualified students and teachers can take up to 15% off products by registering at HP's Academic Purchase Program Web site.
HP says it is seeing "strong customer interest" for three new products – the Pavilion dv2000 Entertainment Notebook, the Pavilion Slimline s7500 Series PC, and the HP xb3000 Notebook Expansion Base (docking station). HP says it is also offering custom-cut PC skins that let students and teachers personalize their PCs to blend in with dorms or classrooms.
Other products available include the HP Deskjet F380 All-in-One Printer ($79); the HP Photosmart D7360 photo printer ($199); the Pavilion dv6000 Entertainment Notebook (15.4-inch widescreen display and AMD Turion 64 X2 processor); the Compaq Presario V6000 Notebook PC (AMD dual-core processor, 15.4-inch widescreen display, built-in Wi-Fi); Pavilion dv9000 Entertainment Notebook (pictured, AMD Turion 64 X2 mobile processor, integrated Webcam); Pavilion Slimline s7500 PC ($449, includes optional TV tuner and Windows XP Media Center Edition); Pavilion a1500 Series Desktop PC; Pavilion Media Center TV m7500n and Compaq Presario SR1900 Series Desktop PC.
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DV9000 Turion 64 X2
The DV9000 Turion 64 X2 laptop has a very faulty bios. The current version F.1A, has issues with ACPI, APIC and HPET. To get the laptop to boot linux at all you will need to add the line "acpi=bios apic=bigsmp". Then to get the system all the way up, you will need to keep acpi from triggering by continiously hitting a key on the keyboard until the end of init 5. This will allow the laptop to boot but several devices will not function. Untill HP fixes this issue, the dv9000 has very limited functionality under linux.
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