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HP EliteBook w-series mobile workstation hands-on

, May 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

HP unveiled its newest mobile workstations today: the 17.3-inch EliteBook 8770w, 15.6-inch EliteBook 8570w and 14-inch EliteBook 8470w. The manufacturer was kind enough to let us take a peek before the announcement, which we did with gusto. Who needs a slinky ultrabook when you can use a mobile workstation as bot a mobile CAD machine and a blunt instrument?

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HP Compaq Elite 8300 and Pro 6300 towers aim for business market

, May 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

As part of Hewlett-Packard's massive spring debut, they're showing off a pair of desktops in the dual-orientation tower form factor. Both are being released under the old Compaq label, but you won't find the familiar red branding here: the desktops look morel ike scaled down versions of HP's Z workstations. Both machines come in full-sized or small form factor versions. Read The Full Story

HP reclaims global PC sales lead from Apple

, May 2nd 2012 Discuss [3]

HP has reclaimed its crown as the world's top supplier of PCs after Apple snatched away that title late last year. According to research firm Canalys, HP has managed to surpass Apple's PC sales by about 40,000 units in the first quarter of 2012, putting HP back in the lead. The numbers have been including Apple's iPad shipments as part of its PC count. Read The Full Story

HP Slate 8 shown as first Windows 8 business tablet

, Apr 27th 2012 Discuss [12]

A brand new slide prepared for what appears to be HP internal presentation today has revealed HP's business-minded plans for Windows 8 tablets. This HP Slate 8 (different from the HP Slate 500, mind you) will bring enterprise functionality to the masses with a 10.1-inch display, enterprise level docking, and of course Windows 8 Professional OS, complete with touch controls. The slide this tablet is featured in also shows an EliteBook, making this tablet a likely candidate for the Elite line of HP products, their highest-level consumer line of products. Read The Full Story

HP adds Intel’s Ivy Bridge to six desktops

, Apr 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

The last two days have seen a positive rain of new systems using Intel's third generation of Core processors, including an update to HP's well-received Omni 27. They just announced another five models getting the Ivy Bridge update: the 21-inch Omni 220qd and Touchsmart 520xt all-in-ones, the Pavilion HPE h8t and h8xt desktops and the top-of-the-line HPE H9t Phoenix. The Phoenix will be hitting online and brick-and-mortar retailers on April 29th, but the rest of the models including the new Omni 27qd will have to wait until June 24th for retail. They'll be offered on HP's website the same day as the Phoenix. Read The Full Story

HP Omni 27 coming with Ivy Bridge option

, Apr 23rd 2012 Discuss [1]

If you're a fan of the all-in-one design and aren't up for Lenovo's unconventional A720, then there's good news: HP's mid-range, big-screen Omni 27 will soon get an Ivy Bridge option. The third-generation Intel Core processors will be offered with new Omni 27 units soon. Though HP's website is still showing the older processors, Intel's Ivy Bridge showcase names the model. The update should go live on HP's site in a week or two. Read The Full Story

United Nations North Korean computer shipment under investigation

, Apr 17th 2012 Discuss [7]

The United Nations Security Council and HP are investigating how HP computers and servers managed to get into the country of North Korea, despite extremely high-profile restrictions on electronics exports into the communist dictatorship. The UN has enforced a sanction against shipping any such materials to North Korea, and HP also has a corporate policy that prohibits any of its equipment from going into the country's borders. Read The Full Story

HP Z1 all-in-one workstation now shipping

, Apr 16th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you need a ton of power in an attractive and modular all-in-one, you were previously out of luck. But the HP Z1 Workstation, which wowed onlookers at HP's presentation in February, is now shipping worldwide to fulfill your high-powered needs. The 27-inch all-in-one is the first PC to use workstation-class components in the form factor, and combines with an impressive flip-up design to grant access to its innards. The starting price is $1,899, but you can add Intel Xeon-class processors, NVIDA Quadro graphics, et cetera, to make it go a lot higher. Read The Full Story

HP Converged Cloud launched to crush Amazon

, Apr 10th 2012 Discuss [1]

Today the folks at HP have launched a cloud service known as HP Converged Cloud, an effort by the company to recapture some of its former dominance by entering the all-encompassing cloud. This new service will start with on-demand instances and virtual machines on the 10th of May officially in a direct forward frontal attack on Amazon's similar services. HP plans on taking on the competition with virtual space as well as Infrastructure as a Service, one storage service for moving data across instances, the other a database tool for MySQL. Read The Full Story

“Smoked by Windows Phone” winner to auction prizes for charity

, Mar 27th 2012 Discuss [3]

Yesterday probably wasn't very fun for Microsoft. They were accused of not playing fair when it came to their “smoked by Windows Phone” competition, telling a winner that he lost “just because”. The story quickly gained traction in the media, and hoping to avoid the situation blowing up further, Microsoft representative Ben Rudolph took to Twitter to apologize. He also offered up the $1,000 prize laptop as well as a Windows Phone. Read The Full Story

Analyst Rob Enderle’s HP Apple CEO article deconstructed

, Mar 26th 2012 Discuss [21]

While it’s not our job to fight stupid on the internet, in this case, SlashGear felt the need to step in. Rob Enderle is presently a columnist for TechNewsWorld and owns Enderle Group, a tech consultancy for personal gadgets and trends. This week he wrote an article entitled “Meg Whitman vs. Tim Cook by the Numbers” which we’ll be dissecting here piece by piece.

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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: March 26, 2012

, Mar 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

Happy Monday, everyone. Hopefully you all had a very restful weekend and are eager to catch up on all the tech news that happened today. Even if your weekend was less than restful, we've still got major news. For starters, T-Mobile is hiking up its unlimited, 5 GB, and 10 GB data prices. Yikes. And we all know how important mobile data is these days. That's why the new iPad can apparently last 25 hours as an LTE hotspot Read The Full Story
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