And at this point I can't even recommend their laptops because they have basically locked the bios menus. In the past f10-a would give you more than the 8-10 op

And at this point I can't even recommend their laptops because they have basically locked the bios menus. In the past f10-a would give you more than the 8-10 options they put in there. The latest machines have problems in linux that could be fixed with bios settings changes but they refuse to publish the information, and depending on whether you get a good support person you will hear differing stories about it (mostly "we don't support linux on that machine"). The one common thing though is that they want to charge people $ in order to have a tech modify the bios settings. AKA, put a password the menu, charge $60 not to give people the password, but to have a HP person change the setting for you.