Hell Never Ends on x86: The Hyperspace Story, Continued, Sort Of
> Imagine being a product designer at HP, in the very weird year of 2010, and having some fucking VP storm in and go "We have to deliver Features for Executives. We're selling $1500 notebooks to them, but Dell has exactly the same set of ins and outs as us. We need Features."<p>Well, I bought a ZBook from HP in January 2014 because of these Features:<p>1. All the laptops I worked with (my company's or my own) were HP and they were good. They were of the Compaq lineage, not the consumer specs.<p>2. They have on site next business day support as long as I pay a warranty. That was less than 100 Euro for the first three years. I don't have to bring the laptop somewhere or leave it there for days or weeks.<p>3. I can open it and replace basically every single part.<p>4. I knew it would run Linux reasonably well. That means perfectly as long as I don't care that shutdown is a reboot and I have to long press the power button at the BIOS screen to actually shutdown. Maybe I didn't shutdown once since January this year.<p>5. It has three physical buttons on the touchpad. I wish it didn't have the numberpad.<p>6. It could accommodate up to 32 GB, which it has now. Plus 2 SSDs, 3 TB total. It came with a 750 GB HDD.<p>So, these are the kind of features I care about. Software gimmicks in the BIOS not really, nor weird multimedia buttons.