HP rolls out budget-priced HP 530 laptops
HP may have let loose most of its new laptops in one fell swoop during the Santa Rosa madness last week, but it looks like it still has a few stragglers to push out the door, introducing a pair of budget-priced models in its new HP 530 series today (a follow-up to the 510). True to their budget nature, these two miss out on the Santa Rosa upgrade, although that adherence to yesterday's tech will at least save you quite a bit of cash. On the lowest of the low end, the $549 GH635AT model packs a 1.46GHz Celeron M 410 processor, Intel's 940GML Express chipset, 802.11b/g WiFi, and a DVD/CD-RW combo drive. Dropping $699 for the GH640AT model will upgrade that to a 1.6GHz T2050 Core Duo processor, Intel's 945GM Express chipset, 802.11a/b/g WiFi, a dual-layer DVD burner, and Windows Vista Business (as opposed to Home Basic). Both laptops are otherwise identical, packing the same 15.4-inch WXGA display, 512MB RAM (expandable to 2GB), and 80GB hard drive. If that'll do, you should soon be able to snag either one of these laptops from all the usual HP resellers.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
tad @ May 15th 2007 5:41PM
Windows XP Business! Amazing!
DJBro @ May 15th 2007 6:08PM
beat me to it
Homeboy @ May 15th 2007 6:42PM
Vista Business, why? Because the likely buyers will be schools, companies and institutes looking for staff computers. For them multimedia functions aren't as important as the security features which comes with Vista Business.
Looking at the specs these computers are meant for basic computing like surfing, typing, using excel and sending emails.
tehuberone @ May 15th 2007 7:00PM
Homeboy, sorry to tell you its XP not Vista.
Ari @ May 15th 2007 7:10PM
actually, it is Vista according to the link.
"Operating system Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic 32"
cgarison @ May 15th 2007 8:35PM
With the Intel 945, I would not purchase this with Vista. It would be a total waste of money for the personal user and small businesses are filled with fear through the anti-Vista FUD filling the web.
In short, great PC for XP Professional. So-So with Vista.
junaidsuriya @ Nov 13th 2007 5:30AM
i need hp 530(797) 50 pcs right now any body sale to pls contact imidiately