Posts by Guerrilla

My HP 8510w has an 8-cell battery that gets about 5 hours of battery life. Then I have an HP travel battery that is also an 8-cell adding another 5 hours. Using just XP's Portable power setting and dimming the screen does actually get...

Thanks for the information. I have noticed HP (or XP?) is smart about the battery wear-and-tear. When plugged into the docking station the laptop charges the travel battery fully and then charges the primary battery to 96% and then...

I recently purchased myself a new HP notebook to replace my office desktop at work. With the notebook I also bought one of HP's travel batteries. With the travel battery I get a whopping combined 8-10 hours of battery life per...

That's just too true. Tech support gets so bogged down with the stupid calls that the people with real problems fall to the wayside.

This sort of thing really surprises me with HP. I make all of my company's IT purchases and a year ago we checked out a few laptops and decided on the HP 6715b business notebook. Since then I've ordered dozens of these notebooks...

Yeah, I cleaned up the screen with no difference. Thankfully it's all on the edges and corners. I noticed it's visible in the right light with the laptop off, so I'm assuming there might be a small break in the glass and some of the...

Unfortunately, I bought a Sentia 2-years ago and had to send it in so many times (a bad motherboard that kept frying components) that they replaced it with the M550 during an extended warranty period (my 1-year + a total of 6-months...

Thanks for the info. I had not thought about the backlight. Maybe I might be able to clean off whatever is causing the stains. My first thought was water condensation from someone spilling water on the lid. Maybe I was right.

Recently I switched from a very dark wallpaper to a white wallpaper and found a nasty surprise. In the upper-right, lower-right and along the left side of the LCD I have dark splotches. The shape and color looks like someone spit...

You know... part of my job is managing the help desk at our corporate headquarters. All day I get phone calls from people with wild stories explaining why I should send them a new laptop, why they aren't sure how programs got on...