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HP ProBook 4730s
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Specifications
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| Name | HP ProBook 4730s |
| Processor | Intel Core i7-2670QM (2.20 GHz, 6 MB L3 cache) Intel Core i7-2630QM (2.00 GHz, 6 MB L3 cache) Intel Core i7-2620M (2.70 GHz, 4 MB L3 cache) Intel Core i5-2540M (2.60 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache) Intel Core i5-2520M (2.50 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache) Intel Core i5-2450M (2.50 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache) Intel Core i5-2430M (2.40 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache) Intel Core i5-2410M (2.30 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache) Intel Core i3-2370M (2.40 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache) Intel Core i3-2350M (2.30 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache) Intel Core i3-2330M (2.20 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache) Intel Core i3-2310M (2.10 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache) Intel Pentium B960 (2.20 GHz, 2 MB L3 cache) Intel Pentium B950 (2.10 GHz, 2 MB L3 cache) Intel Pentium B940 (2.00 GHz, 2 MB L3 cache) Intel Celeron B840 (1.90 GHz, 2 MB L3 cache) Intel Celeron B810 (1.60 GHz, 2 MB L3 cache) |
| Screen | 17.3” 1600×900 Widescreen |
| RAM | Up to 8GB |
| HDD | Up to 750GB |
| Optical Drive | DVD+-RW Blu-ray Blu-ray-RW |
| Graphics | Intel HD Graphics 3000 Intel HD Graphics for Celeron AMD Radeon HD 6490M AMD Radeon HD 7470M |
| Network | 10/100/1000 Ethernet Intel Centrino Advanced-N 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi (2 x 2) and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR Combo Ralink 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi (2 x 2) and Bluetooth 3.0 + HS Combo Atheros 802.11b/g/n WiFi (1 x 1) and Bluetooth 3.0 + HS Combo |
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Discussion
Got this nice machine with the I5 CPU, works great on linux also with wifi enabled. Got one drawback on the original OS (windows 7 pro) it runs for about 5 till 6 hours on the battery pack, with Debian squeezy installed just 3 hours.
I have the I7 2.2 Ghz processor and find the machine works well for scientific calculation (computation/Floating point intensive) I am happy with the Linux Mint 13 installation except that I have never (in ten months) been able to make the wifi work. It appears to be related to the pathalogical design of the HP hardware wifi switch. I have even tried the susie system which claims to have hp specific wifi drivers but could not get that to work either. The as supplied Windows 7 system works with the wifi. Fortunately for me I can use the ethernet link for linux work