All Entries Tagged With: "hp"
HP Pavilion G7 – Review
The HP Pavilion G7-1353 is a 17-inch notebook measuring 412 x 268 x 37mm and tips the scales at 2.8kg. That’s about normal weight for a 17-inch notebook. HP Pavilion G7 is featuring a quad-core AMD processor clocked at 1.5Ghz and an integrated Radeon graphics chip, and HP have included a second, dedicated, graphics card [...]
HP Folio – Review
HP has entered the ultrabook market with the ultra-thin HP Folio 13, and making a play for the business market with a business-oriented version of the Folio offering business-friendly features. The HP Folio 13 weighs 3.3 pounds and is just 0.6″ thick. HP claims battery life of nine hours which would give it the longest battery [...]
HP Mini 1104 – Preview
Old formats never die, they just get channeled into smaller and smaller niches until they disappear from view. Take for example the home computer console of the 1980s, still going strong in the retro community with emulators appearing on Android, or reborn with modern day specs, as with the 21st century Commodore 64. Now HP [...]
Compaq Mini Netbook – Review
This LTE-enabled netbook is available exclusively from Verizon for $150 wih a two-year contract. The Compaq Mini Netbook comes in a somewhat plain black plasic chassis with a glossy lid – it’s functional and very little else. Compaq Mini measures 10.6 x 7.5 x 0.9-1.3 inches and weighs 3.1 pounds, so of course it’s very [...]
HP TouchPad Gets OS Update
The HP TouchPad has been gifted a whole bunch of tweaks and improvements thanks to an update to webOS 3.0.5. Officially it’s only a minor update but every little helps, and it’s reassuring to see HP continuing to support the discontinued tablet and its WebOS environment, which was threatened with catastrophe before HP made it [...]
HP Elitebook 8560w – Review
For people who need to use professional, demanding programs on a daily basis a notebook must meet certain criteria – input devices, display and internal components have to be up to scratch. The HP Elitebook 8560w hits the mark. For $1899 the Elitebook 8560w brings a powerful dualcore i5-2540M backed up by a pixel-crunching AMD [...]
CES 2012 Rundown – The Story So Far
With Apple absent from CES 2012, other manufacturers can feel a bit more confident about showing their tablet wares. However, sluggish sales of Android tablets have meant the big boys are more cautious. Toshiba has unveiled a super-slim ICS slate, the Excite X10, which at least design-wise is an improvement on the blocky Thrive tablets [...]
HP Makes WebOS Open Source
After much soul-searching HP has decided on the fate of its WebOS mobile platform – it’s going open source. It’s should bring benefits for webOS users as other hardware firms wil be able to ship the OS on their own devices, once a few of its inherent bugs are ironed out. The development community springing [...]
HP TouchPad – Refurb Firesale This Sunday
There’s plenty of life in the HP TouchPad yet. Participants in the WebOS Early Access program can now install a beta version of the latest update to its OS – WebOS 3.0.5. HTML5 video should now run smoothly in all screen orientations. Double spaces will be inserted after a period. Users will now be alerted [...]
Touchpad Is Leading Non-iPad Tablet sales
In the continuing saga of the HP Touchpad, which was drastically reduced in price after early reviews slated bugs in its webOS operating system, HP has managed to secure 17% share of sales of all non-iPad tablets, according to NPD Group. Of the 2 million non-iPad tablets sold, 204,000 were sold by HP. Obviously the [...]
