I am pretty sure it is, but just thought I’d get a little more input… It’s an HP Nx9010 laptop, 2.4 ghz, Mobil Intel Pentium 4, used but in excellent condition, 80gig hard drive, cdrw/dvd rom, 512mb ram, ATI video card, 3 usb ports, 15inch display, built in wireless adapter, battery, power supply, has Windows XP Professional installed, and battery holds a good charge. —->0.00

What do you think?

This is what I know at the moment when buying a laptop:
1) Hard disk drive: 80 Gb or greater
2) RAM: 512 MB (2GB or greater..better)
3) Processor: 2.1GHz
4) Numerous USB ports, well as VGA, DVI,serial, PC card slot, and parallel ports
5) Integrated 802.11g wireless adapter (WiFi) compatibility
6) Warranty: at least 2 year on both software and hardware issues(better)
7) Intels new Core 2 Duo CPU’s or AMD
Battery life: want 12-cell, but a 9-cell is alright
9) I want Windows XP Pro
10) dual 8800gtx sli ( I have no idea what this means, can someone explain this one to me)
11) Built-wireless and CD/DVD burner
12) Rotational speed hard drive 7200 RPM
13) Screen size: 14" to 15.4" (I want light weight but big enough to read what I am typing)
14) I would also like to be able to connect my digital camera to it.

I think I have research everything I think I need to know, but if anyone can add please feel free to do so. I just don’t know which brand is better than the other.

I have my external hard disk or hard drive…I dont know which is which but it requires a power source it was working fine but now non of my computers "sees" it…I tried my desktop several times and USB ports later I gave up and connected it to my HP laptop…again..tried all the ports and nothing happens. Then I realized that the adapter isn’t heating up as it usually does? Do I just need to get a new power adapter or is it hopeless? I just need to recover those files…actually image/graphic templates for my site…very important to me.

I own a 1 TB external HDD formatted in NTFS which I use to backup multiple movies and documents. However, I use a laptop and I don’t want one of my precious USB ports to be always blocked so I was wondering how to create a network drive. Can I buy a simple USB to Ethernet adapter and then just plug it into my Linksys router or would I need to buy something a bit more elaborate.
I looked into the Apple Airport Extreme but it only supports HFS+ and Fat32 hard drive formatting, and I use NTFS (Windows only). Anyone here have any suggestions?

this isn’t about an ipod. this is about me wanting to download stuff from a friend’s external hard-drive. his cord has the firewire plug on both sides. my laptop only has serial and usb ports. what can i buy to hook his hard drive to my computer? everything i found on amazon seemed to be for hooking to an ipod
my pcmcia card is internal so i don’t have a slot for that either. (what i get for buying a cheapo compaq i guess.) what i need is a cord with the firewire connector on one end (to plug into his hard drive) and the USB on the other to plug into my computer. does such a critter exist?

I purchased from Cables to Go the USB2.0 IDE adapter model#30500 and the laptop to IDE hard drive adapter model# 17705. I’m running windows XP home on both my desktop and the laptop hard drive that I’m attemping to connect. The laptops hard drive will spin up but it will not indicate that a devise is attached. My USB ports are fine. I’ve attempted to locate it in the devise manager, and nothing shows. How do I set my jumper to master?

I have an HP Pavilion ze4400 with Windows XP, and a Western Digital 100gb USB portable hard drive (which i use like a mega flash drive). I recently bought a Linksys Wireless-N USB Network Adapter #WUSB300N to use for connecting to public wifi spots for the purpose of downloading large files (i only have dial-up at home) onto my portable hard drive (the laptop has almost no room, 32gb originally) since the built-in wireless adapter is both outdated, and limited in strength. While the Linksys adapter works perfect in browsing the net at 100mb/s connection, the problem is that if i plug my usb hard drive in first, verify it is running and accessible, and then plug in the USB wifi adapter, suddenly the usb HD disappears like i had unplugged it, without having even touched it or its connection to the laptop. I know that the laptop has worked both USB ports simultaneously before, this is my first time seeing a problem like this. Thoughts or suggestions on what to try, or alternatives?