[Dyvim]

I have an HP Pavilion zd8000 (2005 model) as my main work computer.

1. Better cooling- more efficient and quieter. This thing gets hot and the noisy fan runs 24/7
2. Better battery - this thing was rated for about 1 hr battery life when new and now gets about 1 minute (seriously!), so is completely useless in airports unless I can find an AC outlet.
3. Better built-in card readers. The built-in SD card reader on this thing only handles up to 1 GB- it chokes on 2 GB cards. I have PDAs 2 years older than this thing that do a better job.
edit:a driver update allows it to read 2 GB cards, but it still can't read a Transcend 4 GB (non-compliant) SD (not SDHC) card that my Windows Mobile 2003 PDAs and USB card readers can read.
4. Remove (or make optional) weird built-in keyboard shortcuts. Many times if I type capital C then the next letter acts as a shortcut if I'm typing fast. e.g. "CE" is similar to C then alt+E (which opens the Edit menu in Visual Studio). This drives me nuts and prevents me from typing efficiently. This seems to be at a very low level in the system and I couldn't figure out any way to disable this "feature". Never experienced it with any other machine.