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Tribulations and trials.(Letter to the editor)
Byline: KElvyn Taylor
Tribulations and trials
After several years of struggling along with my old steam-powered HP Omnibook, I decided to rush out and buy a shiny new HP Pavilion DV8396EA laptop. So far I am pleased as punch. It flies through tasks that would leave my old Omnibook struggling and the build quality seems good. Its two 120GB hard drives, 2GB of memory, dual-core CPU and that huge shiny screen made me forget about my cunning plan to wait for Vista to arrive before buying a new system.
However I do have one complaint, regarding something that all manufacturers are probably guilty of. Why must they always insist on pre-installing ...
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