HP have announced the ProBook S-Series, a range of value business notebooks with displays ranging from 14-inches to 17.3-inches. Each has an HD-capable display and uses either Intel or AMD processors; there’s also optional Qualcomm Gobi WWAN with the HP un2400 mobile broadband card.
The HP Pavilion dv3t has gone on sale, the company’s lightest-weight Intel-based Pavilion notebook, boasting a 13.3-inch LED-backlit display, Core 2 Duo processors from the 2.0GHz T6400 upward, and up to 7hrs runtime from the optional 9-cell battery. The Pavilion dv3t weighs 4.93lb and has optional 512MB NVIDIA GeForce G 105 graphics.
Netbooks may have been seen as the recession-proof answer to dwindling consumer electronics budgets, but failed sales goals suggest otherwise. Acer, ASUS and MSI are all said to have missed their sales targets for the first three months of 2009, according to channel vendors, pushing two of the three companies to invest more heavily in CULV ultraportables.
It’s Sunday again. Another week is about to start, but before we get to look forward to all the news coming out of the industry next week, we reflect on what we learned last week. Ok, I’m done reflecting, how about you? No? Can’t remember all the news from last week? Well here’s the rundown.
SlashGear was lucky enough to get sent a brand new HP dv2 and accompanying Blu-ray drive. The ultra-portable features a 12.1 inch screen, up to a 500GB hard drive, up to 4GB of RAM, and up to a 512MB ATI graphics card to work that Blu-ray magic. The dv2 is running on AMD’s new Yukon platform, a new design from AMD competing with Intel’s ULV single core processors (Celeron and the like). The dv2 comes out at .93 inches thin, and will be very affordable for the offered features.
The HP MediaSmart servers (EX485/EX487 models) received a software update today from HP. The news software allows media to be streamed to wireless devices such as iPhone, iPod Touch and PlayStation Portables. The new software also adds the ability for the servers to convert videos (including unprotected DVD’s) into two separate formats: one high-resolution for playing on home devices, and a lower resolution for portable media players.
HP’s Pavilion dv2 12.1-inch ultraportable notebook has finally launched, almost three months after its CES launch. Dropping the internal optical drive in favor of arguably more useful components, the Pavilion dv2 packs a 320GB 5,400rpm hard-drive, 4GB of DDR2 RAM and WiFi a/b/g/n, along with its 1.6GHz AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 processor.
Hot on the heels of the 720p HD screen option for the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 comes HP’s version, a 1366 x 768 HD display for the HP Mini 2140. The new screen option was promised back at the end of March, and leaves the netbook capable of displaying full 720p content on its 10.1-inch 16:9 aspect display.
ASUS aren’t the only netbook manufacturer looking at the Google Android platform for their budget ultraportables. According to the Wall Street Journal, HP and Dell – together two of the biggest names in notebooks – are testing Android on netbooks, as a possible low-cost replacement for Microsoft Windows.
Okay, so we heard about the HP 2140 awhile ago. It’s got a beautiful HD display sporting a 1,366 x 768 resolution and is sure to impress. However, it’s been a month now and the HP model still hasn’t made an appearance. So, what’s the deal?
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