My HP laptop is several years old; can anyone confirm this?

How should we know? It's your laptop.

:-)

"My HP laptop is several years old; can anyone confirm this"

I'd need the serial number to confirm the age.. but we'll take your word for it.

You have now confirmed that your laptop is 7 years old.

Well according to the article, all you have to do is:

1. Hack the Bios
2. ???
3. Profit!!!

Capitalism provides a simple solution to this problem.

Track down the person that made such an non-upgradable notebook and kill them in their sleep.

Actually, maybe that's not the capitalistic way of solving it but it's likely more satisfying.

You don't get it my friend. Here,
Apple = GOD
Linux = GOD(der)
MS = M$ = Devil ^23

Don't say anything about Apple; too many fanboys around.

Get with the program

I remember finding out after I bought my viewmaster that my stereoscope cards weren't compatible.

Bastards!

How do we know its his laptop?

# If it's worked, your card should now work. If it hasn't, your laptop is probably dead.

In this world of ambiguous gray areas, number fudging and touchy-feely subjectivism, I find comfort that I can still definitely know that I have royally screwed something up and void my warranty while doing so.

Correction: it should be "Your misuse of apostrophe's is making my eye's bleed"

I mu'st agree. The mi'su'se of apo'strophe's can be 'seriou'sly annoying.

As long as we're going all out, let's do it right.

Not: "Your misuse of apostrophe's is making my eye's bleed"

But rather: "You're misuse of apostrophe's is making my eye's bleed"

My HP laptop is several years old; can anyone confirm this?

Yeah, Timothy. I was there with you when you bought your laptop. It was around the same time that I got my iPod. It was a first generation, so, yeah, your laptop is definitely a few years old.

You're welcome. =)

Your laptop is downloading pr0n and warez from the internet, and is unresponsive when you try to get it to do something useful. I'd put it's age at about 14.

the tone here would be much different. Everyone would be saying what a genius Jobs is for controlling the hardware list to a set of known working parts.

supported white-lists? Isn't that reverse-racisim?

Bitches hate that.

How should we know? It's your laptop.

Yes, but he doesn't consider himself to be a 100% reliable source of information, so he's looking for independent confirmation.

That makes him quite a bit wiser than most Slashdotters, incidentally.

Wow, judging from the fact that you disregarded a funny joke to nitpick a typo, I'd put your relationship status as 'single'.