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HP pre-production 3D formed notebook models hands-on [Video]

Chris Burns, Oct 3rd 2011 Discuss [1]

When you’ve got a multi-million-dollar business on your hands, you don’t just crank out notebooks whenever you please. You’ve got to do all sorts of pre-illustration, testing, and bashing to bits of your product before it hits the sales floor. HP knows this, and they’ve let us come into their Houston home and take a look around their halls at everything from here to there in what was called the HP Making of Elite Tour – the first of its kind. What we’ve got here is one of the first things we got to see on the tour – a stack of notebook forms.

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ACME Installer video shows dual-boot Android/WebOS install simplicity

Shane McGlaun, Oct 3rd 2011 Discuss [13]

Back in August, we got our first look at a dual boot of the HP TouchPad with Android and WebOS when the video surfaced of Cyanogenmod in action. If you watched that video of the first boot, you may have wondered how hard it would be to install the Cyanogenmod onto your own HP TouchPad. A new video has surfaced showing an early build of the Cyanogenmod installer for the TouchPad called ACME installer. Looking at the video it seems that actually installing Android and dual booting it with WebOS won't be that difficult at all. Read The Full Story

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HP reveals Material & construction innovation Roadmap for future notebooks

Chris Burns, Oct 1st 2011 Discuss [4]

While on tour of the Houston Texas campus of HP, we were presented with a lovely little map of what they planned on adding to the roster for their EliteBook line in the near future. This map was shown on what’s called HP’s Tour of Elite, and we’ve been releasing bits and pieces of it all week long. What you’ll see here is a short set of items already existing in HP’s EliteBook line as well as some radical futuristic techniques and materials as well. Look like the oddness to you?

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HP TouchSmart Elite 7320 All-in-One PC hands-on with HP’s Randall Martin [Video]

Chris Burns, Oct 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

As you may well know, this past week we were invited by HP to their first ever Making of Elite Tour at their Houston Texas campus. What we’ve seen so far are a few bits of completed hardware and some concepts, what the future holds is testing facilities and busting up of computers galore. What we’ve got here is a look at a bit of hardware that’s available for sale right this moment, one that I wont spend just one whole heck of a lot of time explaining as our host does the job fine and well, just know this: if you’re looking to load Windows 8, this might be your ticket to sweetness.

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HP webOS still heading to printer range says insider

Shane McGlaun, Sep 30th 2011 Discuss [6]

After the fail of the HP tablet that ran webOS, many of us assumed that HP would take a hint and the OS was dead. Apparently, that isn’t the case with a spokesperson telling Pocket-lint that the firm would be putting webOS inside its printer line still. I just don’t see any OS inside a printer taking off and this idea seems as destined to fail as the tablet was. The statement was made to Pocket-lint in Dublin at the HP Impact event. Read The Full Story

Amazon close to Palm buy claims HP insider

Chris Davies, Sep 30th 2011 Discuss [6]

Amazon has been tipped as the latest potential suitor for what remains of Palm, with insider sources at HP claiming the mega-retailer is close to finalizing a deal. HP is reportedly looking to rid itself of Palm as soon as it can, VentureBeat‘s tipster tells them, and while there are apparently “a handful of contenders” interested, it’s Amazon that’s closest to handing over the cash. However, it’s unclear from the leaks whether Amazon would be buying Palm’s hardware business, the webOS platform, or both.

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EliteBook Notebook PC Concepts hands-on with HP’s Eric Chen

Chris Burns, Sep 29th 2011 Discuss [5]

It’s a rare occasion when you get to see the inner workings of the industrial design crew at a PC creation laboratory, but that’s just what we got to do this week at HP’s inaugural Making of Elite Tour for the world’s press core. It’s here that we got to speak with Eric Chen of HP Notebook Design and were allowed to gain some great insight into a bit of the grab-n-plug nature of iterations of devices. What we get to see here is a set of three EliteBooks, different versions on the way to the testing floor at one point or another, saved here for future projects should the need ever arise.

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HP TouchSmart 9300 Elite Business PC Hands-on [Video]

Chris Burns, Sep 29th 2011 Discuss [0]

In an effort to give the press (and via the press, consumers) a better look at the inner workings of their PC business, specifically their Elite line of PCs, HP has invited us to what’s called the “HP Making of Elite Tour” which we’ve been enjoying throughout the first half of this week. What we did not expect but certainly welcome is a look at some totally complete PCs, here an HP TouchSmart 9300 Elite Business PC, an all-in-one computer that we first saw mention of back in February. WIth its deep-tilting full touch display, it seems custom made for Windows 8, an OS we know to be made to reflect the touch-based future of PCs. Will the 9300 add up?

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HP Making of Elite Tour kicks off with PC Spin-Off reassurance [Video]

Chris Burns, Sep 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

This week we’ve been invited by HP to participate in their very first Making of Elite Tour. This tour is one where we get to see many moments in the process between HP creating a device in their Elite line and getting it ready for store shelves. That said, it was pretty obvious right off the bat what the first question on everybody’s mind would be given the recent news HP had for the world regarding the very sector of HP that we were about to dive into. Public Relations head Mike Hockey knew the situation and gave us a once-over before the questions were even asked.

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Live from HP’s Making of Elite Tour in Houston, Texas

Chris Burns, Sep 26th 2011 Discuss [5]

Your humble narrator is here down on the South side of the United States for the next couple of days as a guest of HP for their Making of Elite Tour 2011. I’ll be documenting my experience here in several ways, most of them being hands-on and eyes-on looks at how HP goes about bringing you their “most reliable, toughest and highest quality computers ever built”, straight from the HP Houston Campus. Stick with us here on SlashGear for the full experience – for now though, look at this fabulous presentation of information we’ve got right off the bat!

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Verizon expects Windows Phone to overtake BlackBerry

Rue Liu, Sep 23rd 2011 Discuss [7]

Despite the poor sales of Microsoft's Windows Phone devices, Verizon seems to have more confidence in the platform than RIM's BlackBerry. During the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam expressed his opinion on which platform would emerge as the third major mobile operating system and he believed that Windows Phone would overtake BlackBerry. Read The Full Story

HP officially names Meg Whitman as new President and CEO

Rue Liu, Sep 22nd 2011 Discuss [2]

It's official. All the rumblings yesterday afternoon and this morning about the ousting of HP CEO Leo Apotheker are now confirmed. HP has just issued a press release announcing the appointment of former EBay CEO Meg Whitman as its new president and CEO. Apotheker, after only less than 11 short months leading HP, will now have to resign from his position and as a director of the company. Read The Full Story