HP 255 G4 (likely N0Y29EA)
Hardware Overview
- CPU: AMD Quad-Core A6-6310 APU (1.8 GHz; Turbo Core 2.4 GHz, 15 W)
- Memory: 8 GB DDR3L-1600 (max 8 GB; two SODIMM slots)
- Screen: 15.6" HD SVA anti-glare flat LED-backlit (1366 × 768)
- Internal storage: supports all 7 mm / 9.5 mm SATA 2.5" drives
Ethernet: RealTek 810xE PCIe 10/100baseTX (supported by re(4))
Wireless: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (1×1) WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 combo
Card reader: multi-format SD/SDHC/SDXC media (detected by sdhci(4), untested)
- Keyboard: Full-sized textured black island-style (with numpad)
- Touchpad with multi-touch gesture support
- External ports: 1 USB 3.0, 2 USB 2.0, 1 VGA, 1 HDMI, 1 headphone/line-out, 1 microphone/line-in, 1 RJ-45
- Dimensions: 38.43 × 25.46 × 2.43 cm
- Weight: 2.1 kg (4.73 lb)
- Power supply: 45 W or 65 W AC adapter
- Battery: 3-cell (31 W⋅h) or 4-cell (41 W⋅h) Li-ion
Notes
Middle-level oriented, inexpensive laptop with relatively good CPU (APU) and RAM size in stock configuration. Nothing special, except that there is no air intake on its bottom (nice). Matte coating of the wrist-rest and screen lid (as well as the screen itself) is also a plus. It got my interest solely because of AMD APU (unfortunately, Intel rules these days, and almost no vendors except HP and Lenovo produce AMD-based laptops).
Comes with some Windows 8.1 or 10 preinstalled (FreeDOS 2.0 versions should be available according to specification, but probably hard to find in retail). Getting into UEFI BIOS is possible by pressing F9 (as I vaguely recall) early in the boot process. Disabling SecureBoot allowed to boot off USB memstick, flashed with 11.0-CURRENT-r295683; vt(4) is required if you want to see anything on the console. KMS appears to work with radeonkms.ko. X11 was not tested. WiFi adapter was not detected by GENERIC kernel, but Bluetooth was (ubt0 device created).
ACPI issues
Pretty much the same as described in Laptops/HP_Notebook_15-af104ur page, common for HP laptops.
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