Compaq Presario V3010AU

compaq-presario-v3000-notebook-pc_190×170.jpgRecently my company bought a few laptops from Compaq.  Two of them are Compaq Presario V3010AU.  The laptop comes with AMD Turion Dual Core CPU which was very new to me.  To this day I still have to deal with only Intel processors and specifically IBM Thinkpads.  So, it was quite interesting and a challenge to have Compaq laptops.  Besides having brand new AMD processor it has DVD burner, a very cool Altec Lansing built-in speakers, SD-MS-MMC-XD Card reader(hell knows what kind of cards are they), 3 USB ports, wireless (of course!) and some other cool stuff.

The first thing that attracts is the shiny glossy design with a wide screen.  The other noticeable thing is the buttons, it’s kinda new approach to design the buttons that way.  However I find it uncomfortable.  For instance, you can’t feel the volume of pressure when pressing the buttons.

The first thing I did was to install FreeBSD.  I failed miserably.  After a quick google I found out it can be installed with some patches.  So, why not.  I gave it another try.  Here’s how chfl4gs installed FreeBSD on this laptop.  Since it isn’t for my use I skipped installing FreeBSD and installed Ubuntu on it instead.  Ubuntu, as I had expected, runs just right out of the box - thanks to Debian Linux and Ubuntu Linux teams!

After 2-3 weeks of using it I did not find it more powerful then my thinkpad but again this is a rough review since I did not test it in detail.

March 21, 2007 | Filed Under Hardware, Laptops 

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