QUOTE(yu_wang @ Sep 17 2008, 02:11 AM)
Whee, got myself a CQ40-125AX a few days ago. Came with FreeDOS so I formatted it and put XP on it. It's OK overall but I have some problems/questions/complaints:
1. One and a half hour battery life by web surfing only? Must be the ATI HD3450 sucking all the power. Any battery upgrades I can consider?
2. Bad driver support, HP website only has some of the drivers (e.g. no wifi and card reader drivers, graphics driver cannot detect hardware

). Took me literally days of googling to get all the hardware working.
3. My fingerprints on the lid!!! ARGH!!!

Interested in some kind of stick-on protection layer (if such a thing exists)
On an unrelated note, why the heck do HDMI cables cost RM70??? I wanna plug this baby into my parents' HDTV!

1. try compare with other cq40-125AU/AX user, see whether it is isolated case for the fast battery drain, it may be the AMD power consumption as well. try ask brother lee, his cq45 is with a nvidia also. you can choose upgrade to 12-cell, but havent out for this model yet
2. from who you buy? shld have help you with this even with freedos
3. heard of alot invinsible shield
4.it is high tech stuff mah