Comments on: HP EliteBook 6930p Notebook

By: Fra

Fra — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:57:31 +0000

People can’t blame laptops (hardware) for poor system stability (software).. they just have to learn how to update drivers or o.s. or ask the IT guy to do that for them (and if he can’t, fire him). That said, this laptop is very good. The only annoying things are those useless flashing leds on the stupid, ugly, snazzy touch-bar under the screen. Also the little light above the screen pointing to the keyboard is a bit pathetic, I would have much prefered a backlit keyboard instead. But the rest of this notebook is close to perfection.

By: Jez

Jez — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:46:42 +0000

I’ve been using an 6930p Elitebook for the past 3 months with Windows 7 / Gentoo Linux and have not experienced any of those problems.

In fact, it’s been a brilliant laptop, right up there with the Lenovo thinkpads (which IMHO are one of the best laptops on the market)

By: Dirk Stevensen

Dirk Stevensen — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:13:09 +0000

I have been using that laptop for about a year now, and it is the worst piece of **** on the market.
Firstly, the lit doesn’t close well, alright, they replaced the whole laptop for that problem.
The keyboard is not very comfortable, and despite the fact that I almost exclusively use an external keyboard, a key came off and could never been put back; a replacement key was provided.
The system crashes often (Graphics card driver crashes often and the system goes down w/ it in 50% of the cases).
The notebook speakers are weaker than I have ever experienced on any laptop.
It took HP almost a year to get the fingerprint driver to work properly.
I have two batteries in it. The external one has been fried and HP has given me a new one – some production problem, so expect a recall for the whole series soon.
On the batteries, I have new batteries (2 in the system), that should last for 12 hours (that was how it was advertised to me. If I turn everything down (low CPU speed, turn off harddisks and put the screen as dark as possible), give me about 5.5 hours of work time. 24 ARE YOU KIDDING???

There are so many problems with this laptop, and these are general. In my organization over 1000 were deployed and most seem to get all of the problems above.
It’s a crime for HP to deliver these laptops as top-of-the-line $2000 laptops.