And negatively: politics ... Yes, me shudder before Win8 and 8.1, respectively. Because if you want to install anything else but Win8 there is simply no support from HP, officially! In my case it falls (still) under HAVE FUN, but I'm not sure whether average users can find it also so me.
After all, although there are already in various forums accumulations of corr driver links, not all worked in my case. I have installed Windows 7 Pro 64bit. And some drivers who simply can not be installed using "click". The saddest thing is, most of it is up to "before" installer part of the driver.
Tip for possible annoyed users: HP drivers mostly come in for example. "Sp59202.exe" to download before - after running comes the greeting of InstallShield, and in the next step, "End User License Agreement", and then the files are by default to: copy and execute "C sp59202 \ SWSETUP \" directory. And if it does not work, it is just before the actual setup.exe "Click" - because sometimes there is a 32 and a 64-bit version ...
Then you can manually select the correct setup file and run as Admin, or a tip - you can sit right with about 7zip open the .exe file and original targeted unpack!
For me, it has, according to Board instructions div worked right away with NOT installing graphics driver -. Here simply install the latest AMD Catalyst version of the official site, a lot of drivers like. Burning, webcam, DVD player software can even be from the offic. HP as Windows 8 driver side also install under Win7. Otherwise it is true - and try googling.
As antivirus same Windows Security Essentials download and then everything is software-palletized.
And now for the last minus MMN - the keyboard ... I can not imagine that a keyboard contributes so much to the price of the whole product, but it saves unnecessary here ... While the Enter, Return, and the right shift key have turned out good size me but the top row of keys F1 .. has shrunk to half the size (and ESC has moved upwards, which I find OK) what you can still cope, but the cursor keys ... the up / down keys to a key been merged and have been cut in half ... Total impractical ... who thinks something from ??? For casual torture ...
Remaining small things do not matter to me how; Piano lacquer surfaces which is a magnet for any dirt or fingerprints, is not anti-glare display, etc.
And last: after I installed everything, I still could via FN keys the brightness or volume does not regulate - Clue; you have in the BIOS (press Esc key at boot time) this "FN Feature" set only!
Ejoyable NB for little money, but Microsoft, Windows 8 and the politics that goes along (imagine that MS exert much pressure on the manufacturers) make users want to use what your own product legally (only stop an older / better version ) Unfortunately, much more complicated ...
