BIOS update saga - the end

[Sergio de Almeida Lenzi]

That is one of the reasons I stop buying HP products
specially laptops.. and sony vaio as well..

the last one I have is a z6000 that is still working very well with
FreeBSD10.

HP notebooks are "closed"  works only with windows, are expensive
consumes too much power, the bateries did not last...

I live in Brazil and here one HP costs about 750 euros... a sony vaio is
about 800 euros,


I bought recently a Lenovo G475 (14inch LED display) notebook brand new,
for 350 euros with 2Gb of memory,
320Gb of HD, atheros wifi, dvd rw, AMD radeon video, dual core... I
bought more 4Gb of memory
for 30 euros, and the notebook is now with 6Gb...

Last week I bought a 15 inch notebook at the shopping near my home,
with the same amd chip, wifi, large keyboard with separated numeric key,
4Gb memory, 500Gb disk.... for 320 euros (no brand name)...

any of them works very well with FreeBSD, NetBSD or Linux...

A friend of mine bought 10 of those for his company employees.. 
it is cheapper than upgrade de desktops....


That is my experience


Sergio