Eager HP fans have been doing some digging around and have uncovered details on the company's Fall updates. Heading the pack will be the 18.4-inch dv8, set to feature a quad-core Core i7 720QM CPU, 640GB of storage and 4GB of memory. The processor formerly known as
Clarksfield has 6MB of onboard cache and can be Turbo Boosted to 2.8GHz, which should do justice to the gargantuan screen size and included Blu-ray drive. If, on the other hand, you want to be able to
move your laptop, there's the
CULV-powered 11.6-inch dm1 or 13.3-inch dm3 (pictured). Both will come with 1366 x 768 glossy displays, while the dm3 will also offer a cheaper AMD Neo flavor. Another three models, a TM2 tablet and Mini 210 and 311 netbooks, are also known by name
if not spec. While the usual pinch of salt is advisable, a Dutch website already has the new laptops listed in its price comparison engine, corroborating the specs and the expected arrival alongside
Windows 7's October 22 release.
Update: We've also come across the specs for the Mini 311. Apparently, it'll be an 11.6-inch NVIDIA ION machine, with the
Microsoft-mandated Atom N270, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD spec and a six cell battery. See it in the flesh after the break.
[Via
Liliputing and
Notebook Spot]
Read - HP Softpaq update reveals new models
Read - Pavilion dv8 listing - €1,426.81 / $2,040
Read - Pavilion dm3 listing - €677.11 / $968
Read - Pavilion dm1 listing - €481.89 / $689
Read - Mini 311 specs
posted Sep 7th 2009 10:16AM
What's with the 1:1 conversions!?
Is an AMD neo any better vs. intel culv? In terms of power usage to performance?
the dualcore neo has the radeon hd 3410 (the x1200 in some is slower) which is loads faster than the intel 4500MHD
you sacrifice some battery life though I think
I don't understand why HP can't add multifinger scrolling to it's touchpads, that sidescroll thingy always bugs the hell out of me.
Anyways might be interested in a new tablet if it has some decent specs.
BTW The Mini 311 is going to have ION
side scrolling is barely a hassle, but i would like gesture implementation, such as a two finger swipe to the left will take your broswer back and pinch zooming
you can multifinger scroll with your 2 fingers by pressing ctrl-+
wow nice stuff
Um, did you read the specs? The real portables here both have stupid GLOSSY SCREENS.
WTF, will they never learn?
And I just finished reading them and noticed that the small ones have CELERONS. WTF, they still make this POS?
Forget it.
mm i think i want one...
wtf 768 vertical res screen !? party like its 2002.
Someone has a case of the Mondays
PC Load letter?
looks alright
huh?
this is a game laptop :)
Not until we find out what GPU it has. Right now its promising, that is all.
There are eager HP fans? I suppose if there are, then they haven't owned a modern HP laptop for 1 month longer than the warranty when they seem to universally brick.
Hmm..neither my two, or the numerous people I know have ever had that problem. That usually leads the cause to have been user error. Brand doesn't really matter, it's what's in it that counts.
"That usually leads the cause to have been user error."
Yes, your vast study proves that any failure that anyone else experienced must have been their fault.
@Jordan:
Yeah. Um. NO:
http://www.hplies.com
Go to any HP-related forum and look into blank screens on TX1000-series laptops. If you call a sup-par southbridge chip overheating and cracking it's own soldering "user error," then you and I have very different definitions of user error.
Or there was that recall two years ago of a bunch of their laptops that had faulty system boards that would flake out and fail to recognize the wifi card. The only thing more annoying than the grand-scale recall itself was how many model numbers weren't recalled despite being faulty, just because there were few enough of those particular models on the market to ignore the problem.
All I can say is that you get what you pay for.
HP offers great service and products, i dont know what the fuzz is about here. Even when my warranty expired i got them to pay 75% repairing costs, from a fault which was my own. You just need to stop being a wuzz and say yes to everything they say.. Buckle up, look for a silly little loophole in your lawsystems (one that tends to look a little vague, the Dutch have plenty of those for example) and start being a man... Arrrr !
I hope the 18" has at least a 12 cell
I hope it has a good GPU, if it does I might swap my desktop for it.
My HP is fine, and has been a real good worker. I would consider another.
All three of the HPs I've owned have been very reliable.
Did anyone get a chance to cache it before it was taken down?
Cache what? The shop already deleted the products when I was looking (as author of the notebookspot.nl article)... This is everything I fount. Only a file and the chat support site did mention these names for the new line ups.
Are you kidding me? The Athlon Neo dm3 is $989? If it is that's waaaaay over-priced.
Well, Engadget uses 1:1, i'd rather use the € symbol to $ switch... Maybe add 50 dollars. So expect ~600 dollars. The 677 euros dm3 is the Intel SU2300 counterpart which comes with 4GB and 500GB storage!
I guess we should not be surprised that Microsoft is mandating a shitty experience for netbook customers, but it is still offensive all the same. F**K YOU and your 1GB limit.
The 1gb ram limit and 160gb hard drive limit is only if you want to put XP on a netbook. I have seen an Acer Aspire netbook, and with XP, you get 1gb ram, 160gb HDD. If you get the Vista Basic version, you get 2gb ram and 250gb HDD, both models are the same price. I would just buy the Vista model and downgrade to XP myself but not all users will/can do that.
Here is the XP version
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115583
Vista version.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115595
Lets see what happens when 7 is for netbooks, it will be faster than Vista and we won't have the limits that Microsoft puts for XP.
The hardware limitation has more to do with OEMs choosing to limit the hardware. If an OEM wants to sell a netbook on the cheap, they can't spend a bunch of money on the software license, so MS offers a cheaper version of the software license to match the weak sauce hardware. If the limitation wasn't in place then every OEM would order up the cheaper license no matter what the hardware. An OEM can up the hardware if they want, they just have to sell it with the more expensive version of windows (but this probably wouldn't be called a "netbook"). That is why Win7 comes with those different versions, so there can be a cheap netbook version to keep the costs of netbooks down.
If you want better hardware don't get a netbook.
Like you don't have a copy of XP somewhere already?
My DV6 is already too big for realistically carrying it around all day. Oh well I suppose the DV8 is not aimed at mobility in which case I guess they will be rather nice.
Bingo. This is why they are called desktop replacement notebooks. They are designed to be taking from A to B and plugged in. I just wish they would settle on a standard like desktop components so we could replace the CPU and GPU down the line. (But of course that would stunt sales.) If something is going to be a desktop replacement and we are going to drop some moderate bank on it, the least they could do is offer a bay on the bottom to replace the CPU and GPU. Dell, by and large, has started allowing easy access to the CPU for easy replacement\upgrades, but very few offer GPU
wtf
I don't get the market for laptops of this size. If you're going to go for an 18-inch laptop, why not just save money and get a cheaper desktop with the same specs? They'll both be moved from their location at the same rate: never.
I disagree on that, I would still occasionally bring an 18" laptop with me on travel, not on the plane of course.
This is not true. I currenty own a 3 year old 17" laptop and I've been looking at getting an 18" to replace it (it also serves as our tv/dvd player as well). I don't live in the bigest place so I mainly use my laptop on my kitchen table. This means that every time we need to eat, I need to move it (about twice a day). When we want to watch a movie, we move it close to the coutch. I also take it to work about twice a month for various reason. A desktop would not work for me.
The only reason I didn't pull the trigger on a HDX 18t is the GPU....I would LIKE a LED screen but its not a deal killer.
Otherwise the system is choice. Here is hoping that HP can drop say a Geforce GTS 250m. I would buy one today.
LOL on pg 7 of their booklet (engadget's page 8) it says, "up to 500MB hard drive space"
were definitely with the times, aren't we, HP?
whoopsies posted THAT in the wrong area, the irony.
Nice!