HP Pavilion dv8 gets official, complete with HP Long Life battery
By Donald Melanson 
posted Oct 14th 2009 1:37PM
posted Oct 14th 2009 1:37PM
HP didn't exactly do the best job keeping this one under wraps, but it's now finally gotten official with its new Pavilion dv8 "entertainment laptop," which packs some fairly impressive (if not all that surprising) specs across the board. That, of course, starts with a big 18.4-inch, full 1,920 x 1,080 screen, and continues along the high-end track with a Core i7 processor, 4GB of RAM (expandable to 8GB), dual 320GB hard drives, NVIDIA GeForce GT230 graphics with 1GB of RAM, a built-in TV tuner, and a Blu-ray drive. Of particular note, the laptop also comes standard with HP's Long Life battery, which makes use of Boston Power's Sonata cells and promises a lifespan three to five times better than traditional lithium-ion batteries. Still no official pricing over here, but it looks like this one will be available in the UK starting October 22nd for £1,300 (or just over $2,000).
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A long battery live and it manages to have a removable battery? Unpossible!
Where did the 17 inch 1920x1200 screens go? Thats a gazillion less pixels! And there are countries outside the USA that do watch foreign movies with subtitles. How nice, the titles return to cover Tea Leoni's nipples! I just got used to have them underneath in the black space.
I found it before about 5 days in the Middle East site
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/me/en/ho/WF05a/321957-321957-3329744-64354-64354-4011373.html
Very sweet, what with the big screen, i7, 1gb vram and built-in tuner (hopefully ATSC and QAM compatible).
Now if only HP would stop designing their laptops to look all shiny/chromey/dumb.
I think they call it 'abstract art'
/barf
So, what's the battery life? It's pointless saying it's long life or whatnot without actually showing the actual battery life.
+100
Read down 2 comments at peterz. He explains it pretty well. "Long Life" != Larger storage.
For people who buy a 18.4" desktop replacement, battery life is probably the last thing they worry about. They may as well just have a build in power brick so users only have to carry a standard power cord.
Now if only HP could work on build quality and customer service I might buy from them again.
This post got me all excited at first, but unsurprisingly, its not really news at all.
Let me dissect what they mean by "a lifespan three to five times better than traditional lithium-ion batteries".
They are talking only about the usable life of the battery. Whereas standard lithion-ion batteries degrade significantly after a year of use, this battery degrades only after 3 years of use. However, the battery life measured in # of hours that it can power your laptop is still the same. So it's pretty much useless. I was hoping to get 12 hours of juice out of a battery. Instead, that part isn't going to change. Frankly, is it really that great news that the battery doesn't degrade after a year or two? Sure, it's an improvement, but this made it sound so much better than that.
F'ing tease.
my next laptop has to have usb 3.0.... or lightpeak. otherwise no deal.
so you are getting next laptop at least Q1 2010? (at least...)
guess so... my HDX18 isnt getting outdated anytime soon anyway XD
This thing has already leapfrogged my HDX16 I got back in April sans Blu-Ray drive. Here's to hoping HP makes an 18" Envy within the next year.
1920x1080 - that's the sweet spot I like to hear
Did they really name a computer "dv8"? Something tells me it's Pedobear approved...
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I don't think "deviate" and "deviant" are synonyms in common vernacular anymore.
is the vent still on the bottom? hope you got a hole in your desk.
and lap.
or stilts.
or sumpn.
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No one spotted this spam demon yet!?
Away with you filth!
The designer who thought those stupid circles are a good idea needs a swift kick.
GT230M = fail in a notebook of this size
The design needs to be 15% more steampunk.
Too bad the GPU is pretty damn anemic otherwise this would be a pretty good gaming system. I still find it the height of hypocrisy that HP has the nerve to call this system an Entertainment PC when you really can't even game on the thing. You want to call it a media PC sure. Fine. It ain't an entertainment PC unless it can game moderately well and from what I understand the GT230 really can't.
I know too bad I can play games on this and have fun unlike an overpriced Macbook Pro.
Enjoy your style over substance buddy.
You want it to run OS X? Then talk to Steve Jobs. Until then crack your screen on your CBP, and shove the shards up your rectum. Thanks, bye.
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