Comments on: HP Compaq 2510p Ultra-Portable Now Available http://laptoping.com/hp-compaq-2510p.html Notebooks, Tablets, UMPCs, Laptop-Like Devices - News, Reviews, Deals Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:59:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on HP Compaq 2510p Ultra-Portable Now Available by: ThomasU http://laptoping.com/hp-compaq-2510p.html#comment-99137 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:35:31 +0000 http://laptoping.com/hp-compaq-2510p.html#comment-99137 After 2.5 months with the HP 2510p here are my second impressions and some critique. To summarize: good specs but design could have been better: * The battery lasts longer than expected when the backlight is sufficiently dimmed. Using the standard battery I could get close to 7 hours writing text and editing Visio diagrams in Vista. * The brightness auto-adjust is nice when working in some conditions but it lacks damping. That is, when working on a train, every passing electric line pole causes the screen to brighten briefly. Also, hand movements (I have white skin) on the keyboard may cause the screen to adjust brightness. * Screen brightness is great, even outdoors * The touch-sensitive volume adjustment is barely usable * I miss a middle mouse button for Linux. Pressing the big rubber buttons together under the space bar is difficult * The fact that the keyboard is black and the overall design has crevices means that dust accumulates and is very visible. * The microphone works wonderfully. The unique speaker gives great sound. Great for Skype. * ACPI works well in Vista and more or less well in Linux: under Ubuntu+Gnome you'll probably have to change to HIBERNATE_MODE=platform. At the time I write this there is a bug in KDE that will leave you with no backlight after suspend-resume. This means that Kubuntu won't work perfectly on this laptop yet. * Something probably has to be tweaked to get the SD card reader to run in Linux * Assembly defficiencies: the trackpoint blue tip was hard to insert because the protective black sheet under the keyboard is misaligned. The trackpoint tip touches the screen when it is closed and leaves a mark. There is also a bump close to the touch-sensitive area above the keyboard near the screen. This area rubs against the screen frame and leaves a 3cm mark just left of the HP logo. The PCMCIA guide rail is not properly fastened to the motherboard. The fingerprint reader's electronic board is not fastened properly to the upper hand-rest plate and rubs against PCMCIA cards when they are inserted or retrieved (ugly friction sound). I plan to send my laptop back to have it fixed. But hey guys, this is Made in China, right? We shouldn't ask for too much, even from an HP business-level computer that wasn't designed to be an object to fall in love with. After 2.5 months with the HP 2510p here are my second impressions and some critique. To summarize: good specs but design could have been better:

* The battery lasts longer than expected when the backlight is sufficiently dimmed. Using the standard battery I could get close to 7 hours writing text and editing Visio diagrams in Vista.
* The brightness auto-adjust is nice when working in some conditions but it lacks damping. That is, when working on a train, every passing electric line pole causes the screen to brighten briefly. Also, hand movements (I have white skin) on the keyboard may cause the screen to adjust brightness.
* Screen brightness is great, even outdoors
* The touch-sensitive volume adjustment is barely usable
* I miss a middle mouse button for Linux. Pressing the big rubber buttons together under the space bar is difficult
* The fact that the keyboard is black and the overall design has crevices means that dust accumulates and is very visible.
* The microphone works wonderfully. The unique speaker gives great sound. Great for Skype.
* ACPI works well in Vista and more or less well in Linux: under Ubuntu+Gnome you’ll probably have to change to HIBERNATE_MODE=platform. At the time I write this there is a bug in KDE that will leave you with no backlight after suspend-resume. This means that Kubuntu won’t work perfectly on this laptop yet.
* Something probably has to be tweaked to get the SD card reader to run in Linux
* Assembly defficiencies: the trackpoint blue tip was hard to insert because the protective black sheet under the keyboard is misaligned. The trackpoint tip touches the screen when it is closed and leaves a mark. There is also a bump close to the touch-sensitive area above the keyboard near the screen. This area rubs against the screen frame and leaves a 3cm mark just left of the HP logo. The PCMCIA guide rail is not properly fastened to the motherboard. The fingerprint reader’s electronic board is not fastened properly to the upper hand-rest plate and rubs against PCMCIA cards when they are inserted or retrieved (ugly friction sound). I plan to send my laptop back to have it fixed. But hey guys, this is Made in China, right? We shouldn’t ask for too much, even from an HP business-level computer that wasn’t designed to be an object to fall in love with.

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