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HP Mini 1104 insists the netbook isn’t dead

Chris Davies, Jan 23rd 2012 Discuss [4]

The netbook isn't dead, HP reckons, but it is getting marginalized into business and education environments, with the new HP Mini 1104 targeting schools and suits rather than home users. A 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 machine running Intel's 1.6GHz dual-core Atom N2600 processor with GMA 3600 graphics and up to 2GB of RAM, the Mini 1104 promises durability and performance for those who may be frustrated by text-entry on a tablet. Read The Full Story

Reviews

HP Folio 13 Review

Michael Crider, Jan 18th 2012 Discuss [20]

Everyone has an laptop based on Intel’s Ultrabook spec these days, and if they don’t already, they showed it off at CES last week. Just being thin and light isn’t enough to stand out in the crowd now, and HP knows that. To that end, they’ve produced the Folio 13, an Ultrabook that they’re aiming at the business market. The 13-inch laptop still manages to come in at under a grand, so it’s worth considering even if you don’t spend most of your working hours between one terminal and another. How does the Folio 13 stack up to the rest of the Ultrabook competition? I spent the last week finding out.

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HP VantagePoint is 132-inches of multitouch for your wall

Chris Davies, Jan 16th 2012 Discuss [1]

If you've ever looked at Apple's iPad and thought "I measure my multitouch in feet, not inches" then the HP VantagePoint is for you, a wall-sized display intended for collaborative digital fondling. The VantagePoint system couples together six of HP's LD4730G 47-inch Ultra-Micro Bezel displays with two PCs doing the heavy lifting, for an 11 foot by 7 foot screen. Read The Full Story

HP TouchPad Ice Cream Sandwich CM9 port gets video tease

Chris Davies, Jan 13th 2012 Discuss [6]

HP TouchPad owner but webOS 3.0.5 not doing it for you? A delicious, dripping Ice Cream Sandwich may be on its way to you sooner rather than later, with news - and a video demo after the cut - that the CyanogenMod team has managed to get custom Android 4.0-based ROM CM9 running on the short-lived slate. Read The Full Story

HP TouchPad gets updated to webOS 3.0.5

Rue Liu, Jan 12th 2012 Discuss [33]

The HP TouchPad is getting a few improvements today with an update to webOS 3.0.5. It's not a major update, but it's nice to see that HP is still supporting the discontinued tablet and the webOS ecosystem, which had been teetering on the brink of extinction. Luckily for webOS fans, HP declared open-sourcing the platform last month. Read The Full Story

Mac shipments rise 21% as PCs decline in the US

Rue Liu, Jan 11th 2012 Discuss [18]

Gartner has released its preliminary data on PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2011. Worldwide PC shipments declined 1.4 percent from the year before while US PC shipments declined by 5.9 percent with most vendors experiencing a downward slide except for Apple. Mac shipments, including both desktop machines and notebooks, rose 20.7 percent from the previous year. Read The Full Story

CES Live

Exclusive Insider Talk: Anya Ayoung Chee of Project Runway and HP

Chris Burns, Jan 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week we got the opportunity to sit down with HP and Project Runway Season 9's winning designer Anya Ayoung Chee to speak about her win of the Intel & HP design challenge. We were at Showstoppers CES 2012 and spoke about no less than how technology made the task of being a modern day designer a wholly enjoyable one - textiles to integrated media, all of it sits at the heart of her interests. For the HP design challenge she spoke on how the technology the contestants needed to use was very user friendly and made her taking part in the challenge a positive one - an organic feel to the whole situation made for, again, a positive experience from start to finish. Social media, Chee noted, is a part of her every day life, Twitter especially, she connecting with her fan base in a way that designers of the past never had the opportunity to. Read The Full Story

HP Spectre ultrabook tease continues: Beats Audio included

Chris Davies, Jan 8th 2012 Discuss [1]

HP has returned to its Spectre teasing, following up on last week's brief ultrabook glimpse with, well, another brief ultrabook glimpse. Set to be unveiled at CES 2012 this coming week, details on the new laptop are still in very short supply, though we do now know that it uses Beats Audio and has an increasingly appealing looking design. Read The Full Story

Featured

HP Pavilion HPE h9 Phoenix gaming PC hands-on

Chris Burns, Jan 5th 2012 Discuss [4]

Earlier today we showed off the other piece of this double announcement in the HP Omni 27 all-in-one PC, and now it’s time for the monster – the HP Pavilion HPE h9 Phoenix performance PC. This strangely endearing looking tower has your choice of Intel X79 or AMD 8-core processors and contains some rather lovely red lights under its black and silver exterior. Its innards are revealed to you through the side and gaming prowess throughout. This look like something you’re willing to plop down the side of your desk for $1,149.99, a cool price coming on January 8th?

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HP Folio 13 hands on

Michael Crider, Jan 5th 2012 Discuss [4]

With everybody an their brother hoping on the latest trend in ultraportable computing, HP is due for a svelte laptop of its own to give a hyperbolic adjective. Enter the new Folio series, inappropriate with the Folio 13, a rather standard laptop wrapped in a thin and gorgeous frame. HP sent us one to try out during CES next week, so expect a road-tested review afterwards. In the meantime, here are our initial impressions.

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HP Omni 27 all-in-one PC hands-on

Chris Burns, Jan 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

We had a look at the brand new HP Omni 27 all-in-one PC at the tail end of 2011, ladies and gentlemen, and it’s time to take a quick look at it now that the team at HP has dropped cover on it and its release partner, the Pavilion HPE h9 Phoenix. What we’re looking at here is a 27-inch 1080p LED-backlit computer with a 2.5GHz Sandy Bridge Core i5-2400S processor and, of course, Beats Audio integration. Have a peek at a few close-up photos of this $1,199.99 beast in the gallery below.