*HP EliteBook 8760w Owners Lounge*

[Aikimox]

yes, mine arrived this morning and has gone back. it had a norway keyboard, uncalibrated screen, and an ati card instead of the 5010M.

i was a bit shocked to be honest!

Lol, it's not just HP, the entire world is in chaos. One of the Precision M6600 we received recently, had lower res screen, wrong operating system, improperly seated keyboard, swapped HDD's, DVD - READ ONLY! drive and a few more glitches. The global QC level on a scale from Amoebae to Dolphins (as the most intelligent creatures on this planet apparently ) is somewhere between goblins and orcs!

[Star Forge]

Lol, it's not just HP, the entire world is in chaos. One of the Precision M6600 we received recently, had lower res screen, wrong operating system, improperly seated keyboard, swapped HDD's, DVD - READ ONLY! drive and a few more glitches. The global QC level on a scale from Amoebae to Dolphins (as the most intelligent creatures on this planet apparently ) is somewhere between goblins and orcs!

Want one story better? My replacement M6600 had a Dual Core and no Fingerprint when I was entitled to at least a 2720QM and a Fingerprint from my being replaced M6500. So when they offered to send a technician to install the fingerprint scanner, he managed to turn a working M6600 of sorts into a heavy paper weight . Go figure.

Good news is they are going to send me another replacement with the right specifications. Hope it goes well... Looks like HP and Dell are starting to lose their marbles on the terms "premium or corporate-grade."

[Aikimox]

Hehe, yeah. So far, of all the systems we got from HP and Dell in the past 2 months, the QC crown goes to a M18x that came with a French instead of English keyboard, couple dead pixels and a few nicks and dents on the aluminum shell (the orcs probably tried to crack it with their battle axes).

[Star Forge]

Hehe, yeah. So far, of all the systems we got from HP and Dell in the past 2 months, the QC crown goes to a M18x that came with a French instead of English keyboard, couple dead pixels and a few nicks and dents on the aluminum shell (the orcs probably tried to crack it with their battle axes).

The orcs were prolly trying to test it under Panasonic Toughbook standards!

[Siorah]

well i think 3 wrong parts is high up on the list for me, i'm not chuffed.

i will be getting a new machine shortly.

[zaxa]

They delayed mine yet again. Given all the problems I'm trying to cancel it. We'll see how hard they make it.

I worked for HP 10 years ago, things have sure gone to pot since then.

Matt

[rbs]

Well,
My guy has spent about 25 hours setting mine up so far, big pain getting old software to run on Windows 7. Some programs I may have to rebuy, but with well over $20K of software there, minimum, many hours will be spent before doing that.

Not clear yet if the 8760W is accentuating some of this, so far, it appears stable on the SSD.

I am worried that the shipment delays mean that this product is in chaos as a total design. This would not be good. I had a Toshiba in the late '90's that indicated that the Japanese would never figure out anything as irrational as MicroSoft software, so, you could not buy a computer from them. I used that computer as a Frisbee within 18 months, it was absolutely hopeless though the hardware was solid.

[allbald]

Looks like they dropped the price of CTOs by a tad bit.

With a 5010m, dreamcolor, and 2540, you can get the configured price to ~$4600. You can talk to HP to get a further 30% discount.

Overall $200 cheaper than last week.

[MrZoontastic]

[Reply to RBS' comment]: "My guy has spent about 25 hours setting mine up so far, big pain getting old software to run on Windows 7."


Suggestion: Your guy may have already tried this, but if not, have him try running the legacy apps in 'compatibility mode'. This can easily be done by right-clicking on the icon used to start the app, choose 'Properties', select the 'Compatibility' tab, and check the box 'Run this program in compatibility mode for:', then select the compatibility mode that matches the earlier version of Windows on which the app ran correctly.

Hope that helps!

[1timer]

They delayed mine yet again. Given all the problems I'm trying to cancel it. We'll see how hard they make it.

I worked for HP 10 years ago, things have sure gone to pot since then.

Matt

HP direct delayed 3 of my orders. The 8560w i cancelled and the 8760w's have finally shipped. My 6/17 order came in 7/18/11 and my 6/22 order has a fedex number and is in transit. So basically 30+ day lead times.