HP Pavilion dv6z Quad laptop with AMD Llano innards goes on sale starting at $650

AMD's Llano platform might not satisfy everyone's power-lust when housed in a desktop, but stick one of these all-in-one beauties in a laptop and you're good to go. The new HP Pavilion dv6z Quad notebook -- one of 11 new Fusion-powered models from HP -- is a case in point, having just arrived at the company's online store. The base model promises battery life of up to almost six hours, "discrete-class" integrated Radeon graphics with 512MB of video memory, and a 1.4GHz quad-core processor that can be clocked up to 2.3GHz using AMD's Turbo technology. Oh yeah, and there's the real benefit of switching to AMD: that base configuration costs just $650, versus a minimum of $999 for the Intel-equipped dv6t. For the money, you'll also get 6GB of DDR3 memory, a 640GB 5400rpm HDD, a 1366 x 768 display (yes, a glossy one), HDMI output, and a pair of USB 3.0 ports in addition to two of the USB 2.0 variety. We ought to clarify that the sexy steel gray version on the left will cost you $25 extra, but hey, who wants to be "umber gray?"

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HP’s 3-D Laptop: One More D, 300 More Dollars

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First they came for our 2-D televisions. Now they want our laptops.

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If you thought 3-D was a tough sell for the living room, now imagine if you had to lug the technology around with you. That, in fact, is the big sell of the HP Envy 17 3D, and any other 3-D-equipped laptop: It gives you the world of three dimensions on the go. Can you feel the excitement? No? Well, ahem.
Let’s cut to the chase. You are not going to buy a 3-D laptop for the same reason that you have not bought a 3-D television: You simply do not care.
On paper, a 3-D laptop sounds like it makes sense. After all, if the Cineplex is showing the same movie in 2-D and 3-D format at the same time, you pay the extra buck and go to the 3-D version. So if your laptop can do the same, well, you’ll shell out a little extra for it, right?
Wrong. If the HP Envy 17 3D was just an Envy 17 plus 3-D tech, that’d be one thing. But it’s clear HP has had to make many compromises to squeeze 3-D into this form factor — compromises made at the expense of everything else inside.
There’s nothing really wrong with the specs: 17.3-inch, 1920×1080-pixel screen, 640-GB hard drive, 6 GB of RAM, 1.6-GHz Core i7 CPU, and an ATI Radeon HD 5850 graphics card. These aren’t ultra-highend specs — the usual stomping ground of the Envy line — and it shows on the benchmarks. The Envy 3-D performed about in line with older, smaller machines we’ve tested that cost hundreds of dollars less. Not bad, but hardly memorable.
The 3-D experience isn’t much to write home about, either. Relatively still scenes look good through the included active shutter glasses, but once the action starts, the image quickly gets blurry and fuzzy. Compared to a theater, or even a decent 3-D TV, where 3-D suffers partly because of the limitations of the human brain, the experience is pretty pathetic.
And suffice it to say, we just can’t imagine a lot of people sitting at their desk, wearing goofy glasses so they can watch Alice in Wonderland in 3-D on their computer. (No, you can’t turn a standard 2-D source into 3-D on the fly, and 3-D PowerPoint is right out.)
Now factor in a $1,600 price tag — $300 more than the non-3-D Envy 17 — and the picture grows murkier.
The ultimate value proposition, I guess, is this: Not only do I have to lug this giant computer and enormous power brick around with me (plugging in is recommended in 3-D mode, as battery life hits a whopping 39 minutes), but I have to haul around glasses, too? Pffhhhhhhhttttt.
WIRED: Three dimensions, people! Can you dig it? Backlit keyboard. Impressive “Beats” audio system. Dazzling, super-bright display. Includes Adobe Photoshop and Elements combo.
TIRED: 3-D experience is gimmicky, weak and already boring. Loud, grinding fan drowns out those awesome speakers when laptop heats up. There’s just no excuse for a computer this big to have arrow keys this pathetically small.

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HP Veer : Small is the new big

HP recently released a new smartphone product based the  HP web-os platform. HP claims its latest product as the smallest  smartphones ever. With a size no bigger than a credit card and thickness not exceeding the  deck of cards. This device provides a variety of  features, such as the ease of sending messages and access applications, access to social networking and browsing, Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta to support access to web content based nflash. HP Veer presents components sliding keyboard, touch screen features, and quick access to thousands of  applications  webOS  in a device with a more accurate measure, this device powered with Scorpion 800 Mhz processor, 205 Adreno GPU, Qualcomm MSM7230 chipset, and supports 3G HSDPA / HSUPA. 5MP camera for high resolution image capture  function  and memory capacity of up to 8 GB.

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HP G62m Series Budget Notebook

Hewlett-Packard release budget notebook G62m Series. It’s powered by Intel Celeron T3500 processor 2.1 GHz, 4GB of RAM, 320GB/500GB of hard drive and Intel GMA 4500M integrated graphic card.

hp g62m celeron notebook

HP G62m laptop has 15.6-inch LED backlit display with 1366×768 pixel resolution, DVD super-multi optical burner, optional bluetooth, wifi 802.11 b/g/n connectivity, 5-in-1 card reader and 6-cell battery with life up to 5.5-hours. The price of HP G62m series start from $429.99

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