Since today really needs a good heap of news to somewhat balance out
yesterday's glut, HP has updated its online store to give it an abundance of new and revised
Windows 7 machines, including the
Envy series (
Beats edition and all), Pavilion
dm3 with AMD Neo or Intel CULV chips,
Core i7-packing dv6t/ dv7t /
dv8t Quad editions, and the not-so-netbook
CQ61. We're still not seeing the
previously-leaked dm1 ultraportable anywhere, but the
Mini 311 and a slightly updated Mini 110 are, with the option to jump from Windows XP to 7 for a cool $50 / $30 respectively. Most everything in the store, desktops and laptops, has been updated to at least include Windows 7 as the standard shipping OS, and while all claim free 2-day shipping, estimated shipping dates begin sometime the week after 7's Oct 22nd launch -- no early chances here, folks. Browse the read links and keep an eye on the shiny red "new" icons (no flashing GIFs, we're afraid) for the entire revised lineup.
Update: As a number of you have pointed, the Envy product page is a bit, well, sloppy. Typos and missing commas notwithstanding, it seems to biggest laugh is the cost of customization, i.e. $800 more to
downgrade from a 500GB HDD to 320GB or 250GB (same price), or $900 more to downgrade from 6GB or 4GB of DDR3 memory. Yeah, it might be best to hold off on that one until HP get the kinks worked out.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]
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posted October 18th 2009 1:59PM
I've been using Windows for over 15 years and I still find the GUI complete garbage compared with how well designed OS X's GUI is.
Oli D: He's a KIRF. For *I*...am Spartacus.
Confirmed via phone assistant and supervisor the price configurator is messed up but good. They even said someone is going to be jobless tomorrow (if not already). The most disappointing part of it all was the sales guy on the other end could not even tell me what the specs on the $1799 system was off the shelf. It was only after I pointed him in the right direction where he found it.
$1799 Config-
- Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-720QM Processor (1.6GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 1333MHz FSB)
- 500GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
- 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon(TM) HD 4830
- 15.6" diagonal Full High Definition LED HP Ultra Brightview Widescreen Display (1920x1080)
- Intel Wireless-N Mini-card with Bluetooth
- 6 Cell Lithium Ion Polymer Battery
- NO EXTERNAL DISK DRIVE
Tee $1999 config ($200 difference) get you this in addition to the $1799 config:
- One 6 Cell Lithium Ion Polymer Battery + One 9 Cell HP Envy Slim Fit Extended-Life Notebook Battery
- External Tray Super Multi 8X DVD+/-R/RW w/Double Layer Support with 2 USB Ports
Which if you add those to the $1799 config you get the same price anyway.
Now the sales guy also said that HP would have to honor any price it has configured on the online purchases. So if anyone sees an advantage to this then knock yourselves out. Actually is seems to be a disadvantage to anyone not knowing what they are doing. If you downgrade the HDD or RAM you get screwed. I did not see anywhere you could upgrade to anything and save some coin.
Why HP insist in omitting the very useful 1600x900 (and previosuly 1440x900) display resolution?
whats the difference between the two versions of envy 15?
2000$ for a hp laptop. dude!!!! f hp.
well I just ordered a new hp mini 311, BUT i ordered it with windows XP sp3 instead of Windows 7 because I have msdn. The ordering page says it comes with NVIDIA ION and it doesnt say NVIDIA ION LE anymore. Does anyone think/know if they are no longer shipping the ION LE version?
im concerned because i ordered the one with xp, that they are gonna send me the LE version! i want dx10!
i note that the "description" page for the 311 says its ION LE, but when you actually customize it, it says ION.... previously when i customized it(a week ago), it did infact say ION LE..... hmmm.......
*** i posted this on the wrong 311 thread, belonged here.
On the topic of these keyboards, they are totally unusable on Vaio's, and only ok on MacBooks.
you liar