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    Just Ordered an HP Pavilion 10z

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      I just ordered a new HP Pavilion 10z for @Dominica to use when hanging out in the living room with the kids. Her current laptop is a bit bulky and heavy for just hanging out with the family. The new one is a tiny netbook with a 10.1" touchscreen. Only real limitation is that it is 2GB only. But it is for very light use. Windows 8.1. It's our first Windows touchscreen device at the house. Not due to ship for two weeks. It is a brand new model, no reviews yet.

      It's only $250! We actually had a discount and managed to get it, after tax, for just $168. We were thinking about getting the HP Chromebook for the younger daughter but decided that since we already have one Chromebook for the kids that this was a more useful addition to the household computing collection. And what a deal!! It was even cheaper than the Chromebook.

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      • JaredBuschJ
        JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller said:

        HP Pavilion 10z

        If it had an SSD I'd jump on that for $300. I guess for a price equal to the 500GB 5400RPM drive that you could only get a tiny SSD though.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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          @JaredBusch said:

          @scottalanmiller said:

          HP Pavilion 10z

          If it had an SSD I'd jump on that for $300. I guess for a price equal to the 500GB 5400RPM drive that you could only get a tiny SSD though.

          Only $268 after tax full price. Much less than $300. An SSD would have been great, though. I agree, that would make it really amazing. Why they opted for a 500GB 5400RPM SATA drive I have no idea.

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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender
            last edited by Dashrender

            Do you think you can crack it open and replace the drive? I know it's not out yet,

            Any chance you can share the discount code? at that price I'd love another device around the house.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              Not a code per se. Was a gift card from HP from another laptop purchase two years ago that we finally used.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
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                If I can open it an SSD and more memory would be great. My guess is that you cannot, however. There are no upgrade options on the unit.

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                • thanksajdotcomT
                  thanksajdotcom
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                  Yeah, those type of units are completely sealed!

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                  • ?
                    A Former User @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller I bet there is a way in just like the the macbook unibody have a way in. Just not easy. But These days there using thinner notebook harddrives compared to what you can pay an SSD in, so the SSDs won't fit. I've done it before anyway by taking the circuit board out of the metal enclose and just putting in in a non conductive sleeve. It worked well.

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                    • DashrenderD
                      Dashrender @A Former User
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                      @thecreativeone91 said:

                      @scottalanmiller I bet there is a way in just like the the macbook unibody have a way in. Just not easy. But These days there using thinner notebook harddrives compared to what you can pay an SSD in, so the SSDs won't fit. I've done it before anyway by taking the circuit board out of the metal enclose and just putting in in a non conductive sleeve. It worked well.

                      I bet a mSATA SSD would fit.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
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                        Likely will fit. Can I open the case is the biggest question.

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                        • DashrenderD
                          Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          Likely will fit. Can I open the case is the biggest question.

                          This is true. I know Apple does everything in their power to keep people out of their machines.. other than slates/tablets I guess I hadn't noticed this on the more traditional laptops (or even Chromebooks - are they too glued together more often than not?).

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
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                            Most all net books are solid chassis design.

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                            • ?
                              A Former User @Dashrender
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                              @Dashrender It's not that hard to get into any apple device. All of them are just torx screws including the newest macbook pro's.

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                              • DashrenderD
                                Dashrender
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                                I recently worked on one of those all in one 27" display macs.. the front glass is held in place by magnets, use a suction cup to pull it off, then just start removing screws.. that was pretty cool - for a mac. 😜

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                  @Dashrender said:

                                  I recently worked on one of those all in one 27" display macs.. the front glass is held in place by magnets, use a suction cup to pull it off, then just start removing screws.. that was pretty cool - for a mac. 😜

                                  Oh nice. That's impressive.

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                                  • DashrenderD
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                                    It was surprisingly easy to take apart.. though I didn't read enough (and the page that told me how to 'get to' the HDD didn't tell me how to remove it.

                                    The HDD is installed on a sled.. you push the black plastic on the sled, then the whole drive just leans out....

                                    Instead I made my own tool to unscrew the drive while it was installed.. oh well - I now know better for next time.

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                                    • Reid CooperR
                                      Reid Cooper
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                                      Looks like not a bad netbook for simple browsing and email. Pretty weak for much else.

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                                      • RoguePacketR
                                        RoguePacket
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                                        Certainly inexpensive.

                                        Thought iFixIt might have had a take-apart guide for it. Alas, not yet—

                                        • https://www.ifixit.com/Device/HP_Netbook
                                        • Other HP models may have insight to the process
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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller
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                                          I don't believe it has been out more than a few days. The ship date was far enough out that we think that we might be in the first week of shipments, perhaps.

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