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Will an HP laptop fingerprint reader work for more than one user?

Nov 28, 2007 by 46220 | Posted in Laptops & Notebooks

I am considering purchasing an HP dv2500t laptop. The laptop will be used by both myself and my girlfriend. One of the options for the laptop is a fingerprint reader.

Will this fingerprint reader be useful if both of us are using it? Can

yes - that's the idea behind it. Instead of clicking your username and entering the password it selects the user by reading the fingerprint - provided that different user profiles exist.
I don't know if you can access a single user profile with

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Fingerprint-proof laptop also has dynamic color changing lid | DVICE

by Raymond Wong

It's hard to be impressed by a laptop's lid . The lid on Toshiba's Dynabook Qosmio T750 is different from that on most laptops — it changes color when viewed from different angles and has fingerprint-proof coating to keep smudges at bay.

Using a process that Toshiba calls "Picasus," the Qosmio T750's lid appears blue when viewed from one angle. At another, the lid is metallic blue/green and at another it is purple. Is anyone else getting a mood ring vibe from this laptop?

Tech blog HotHardWare notes that while the color-changing paint technique isn't new — it's used on cars and other gadgetry — Toshiba's Picasus doesn't use any metal to display its color changing properties.

The fun doesn't stop there. The Qosmio T750 also sports a fingerprint-proof coating that should theoretically stop a person's prints from ruining its finish. Based on experience, we've yet to run into any gadget that is truly fingerprint proof.

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