Wtf?

We got our first batch of HP 8460p's at work today and they pretty much stole the styling directly from the Macbook Pro. How original.



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Of course, I assigned one to myself for long term testing

 

 

Just because it's silver doesn't mean they stole the MBP design.

 

Xp?

 

LoL, the XP got me too.

are those back lit keys? the little light on my 8440 isn't so great IMO.
I also like that they ditched the touch bar across the top.

My only recommendation is to order an extended life battery, it adds a little weight but I couldn't travel with out one.

 

Will be around for a long time.

 

Thanks CO, but not for a new PC setup. I understand some apps are not 7 yet, but put on 7 with XP mode at least...

 

A lot of IT shops are slow to change. My place just started handing out laptops with 7 this year.
Some places will probably stick with XP until they can't get XP drivers for new equipment.
Still rocking IE 6 on my work XP laptop

 

 

This is why my job sucks sometimes.

 

Ermmmm.. look up SONY laptops history..and let me know who stole what from whom...

Notice anything?

 

The HP does look too much like the MBP btw...I like it though.

 

Its square and silver ?

 

Big industries like Utility, Airlines, etc usually stick to tried and true OSes, then being quick to upgrade. You don't want some glitch in a newer OS causing a plane to crash or a nuclear meltdown. Seems far fetched I know, but I work for an energy company and it takes over half a decade to give a new OS a chance. We just upgraded to XP 2-3 yrs ago. We have to make sure our legacy apps will run completely without flaw on a new OS or heck even a new version of IE. We just updated to IE 8 last year and we still use a virtualized version of IE 6 for legacy apps for compatibility.

 

The testers we use to test our chips only run on XP. The tester company's roadmap doesn't predict a transfer until 2014. If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

 

Silver, Black Keys, Form Factor, Black Bezel around Lcd...etc

Yes. All of our images are still XP until the end of the year when most of our apps will be virtualized and running via Microsoft App V. Once this is complete, we will begin running Win7

Keys are not back lit

Wrong year MBP


Yup. We used IE 6 up to about 6 months ago.

 

 

If you can't beat them...... :ib4theApplehatersandfanboys:

 

I like your sig.

 

 

For a sec. (from reading title), I thought Apple was whoring themselves out again

 

App-V is suite!

 

That's not an object of Apple whoring themselves out, that's an object of HP begging to get into the market.

 

Motorola Rockr > *

 

 

nothing quite like getting a new i5 laptop with xp