hmm so does it mean most of the N53 out there are Seagate HDD? What about N53SV? There's are suppose to be higher quality laptops than the A series so "live with it" is not a good solution.

Hibernation is always good to save time for starting up & resuming what you left.

Also doesn't make sense why Seagate would have problem hibernating, unless it's slow.

Can you say more about keyboard flex, 1st time i hear about this, what happens, i see people complaining?

Does the A series flex also?

And for the N53, is there possible any cables running past the heat vent? I saw someone posted A series AC plug is just next to the vent so need to becareful how to run the cable or else risk heating the cables.

Really need to think twice now seems they look good but heat issue is there.

Anyway hope you guys don't mind, how does the Dell 15R compare to A53 & N53? Spec is similiar with lesser graphic cards, not sure how the heat/keyboard design for dell though.

Which service that was disabled solved the problem? Nobody did a clean format? How do you guys partition it properly without formatting?

You need to remember even though HP & COMPAQ is 1 company, HP = high end, Compaq = low end. Which is sad as Compaq was my 1st computer i had. But it was crap anyway.

Well, all laptops at that time sucked compared to it's desktop counterparts. Compaq or not. Can you imagine it had like 5gb harddrive. The Laptops just not up to the challenges of the software back then. I had to buy a PCI LAN card for the LAN, an external CDRW, and few external HDD. Nowadays at least laptops can't see much challenges from everyday software.

For those that still getting a N53 even after they plan to stop production & running low stock not considering other alternatives even after hearing some of the minor/major issues here?

From what i hear some of you guys already prepared to change the HDD once it caput, but can the original softwares like Windows7 work on new HDD? As I know some default windows only work on default HDD.