I made a few calls to HP Support, and I was able to solve the heating and battery life issue on my new Presario B1256TU. It turns out that a resetting of the BIOS to defaults would solve things. Now SpeedStep works even at first power-up (without needing to wake up…

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May 21, 2008

Compaq Presario B1256TU — An Affordable Notebook Computer for Students

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Jul 27, 2007

The Thing With Blogging About Linux (a.k.a. Tweaking ACPI on Ubuntu on my Compaq Presario V2000)

If you want to skip the long story and go straight to the fix, click here.

J. Angelo Racoma N2RAC/DU2XXR in racoma.org

Jul 2, 2007

Cheap Laptop Find: Compaq Presario V3120TU at PhP 29,900

I chanced upon this at a window display in SM Megamall Cyberzone last weekend. It’s the upgrade to my own low-end V2000 (which I bought for about PhP31,000 a year ago). the V3120TU runs on a Celeron-M 420 (1.6 GHz), 256MB DDR-2 533…

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Jul 18, 2006

The PaqBook — The Compaq Presario V2617TS

No, it’s not Manny Pacquiao’s latest book. It’s what I’m naming* this newest gadget of mine, the Compaq Presario V2617TS. It’s sort of my take on “MacBook.”