Laptops Arena

Hewlett Packard is considered the world’s largest personal computer manufacturer for the year 2007, reaching 18.8% of the global personal computer unit shipments.

These results were made public by IDC industry analyst firm that revealed a total of 30.1% global unit shipment growth for HP in 2007, with 19% market share at the end of the year.

“In calendar 2007, HP completed a makeover of its extensive PC portfolio serving large enterprise, small business and individual consumers. IDC’s report shows that customers the world over enthusiastically embraced HP’s products for their high design and leading-edge technology,” declared Todd Bradley, executive vice president, Personal Systems Group, HP. “We will continue to work to earn customer loyalty by delivering an excellent experience and innovation that really matters.”
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HP has been growing at a rate of 23.3% every year for the Q4, an important increasing compared with the overall global PC market growth rate of 15.5%.
Customers were satisfied by the stylish designs and friendly features brought for example by the Artist Edition HP Pavilion notebook and the HP Pavilion tx2000 touch-sensitive tablet, the later being presented recently at Customer Electronics Show 2008 in Las Vegas.

As a summary, the HP Pavilion dv2800t Artist Edition notebook is the winner of HPs Take Action/Make Art contest where more than 8,500 young artists sent their ideas.
The finalist captures the high-tech lifestyle of youth and integrates Bluetooth technology, webcam, graphics card with Discrete Graphics technology support, HP’s QuickPLAY AND Internet TV features, a 14.1-inch display, 5-in-1 card reader, ExpressCard slot, HDMI port, the special HP Artist Edition winning design imprint finish and is powered by the Intel Centrino Duo CPU technology.



On the other side, the HP Pavilion tx2000 is a modern 12.1-inch convertible tablet PC priced at $1,500, with active digitizer handwriting recognition technology, HD touch screen display with BrightView technology, an AMD Turion 64 X2 dual core processor, integrated NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 graphics card, up to 320GB HDD, up to 4GB of RAM, a super multi double layer DVD burner, and support for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and the other standard connectivity options.

Pavilion tx2000 tablet has announced by HP and will be available at approximately $1,500.
Featuring the active digitizer handwriting recognition technology is integrates into the latest tablet trends, and it features a 12.1-inch convertible WXGA High-Definition touch-sensitive display with BrightView technology and 1280 x 800 pixels resolution.


HP offers several options for the processor model to power the tablet, and all are AMD Turion 64 X2 dual core CPUs. An integrated NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 card is handling the graphics with its 128MB of RAM.
The HDD storage options are ranging from 120GB to 320GB.
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Pavilion tx2000 comes also with a Super Multi Double Layer 8X DVD burner or a LightScribe Super Multi Double Layer 8X DVD burner, and up to 4GB DDR2 memory.
The connectivity options are: 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN, 802.11b/g WLAN or 802.11b/g with BluetoothTM or 802.11a/b/g WLAN with Bluetooth TM or 802.11a/b/g/n (draft 802.11n) WLAN with BluetoothTM, ExpressCard slot, USB, VGA, AND TV-OUT.

Other features include Altec Lansing audio system, several security software, and optional webcam or fingerprint reader.
Pavilion tx2000 tablet PC uses a 4-cell battery or the 6-cell Li-Ion version, and comes with Microsoft Windows Vista operating system pre-installed.

Porkythepig is not a trustful nickname but the Polish researcher who uses it has discovered several bugs in HP’s updating service that could be used to execute remote malicious code in order to get control over some HP and HP Compaq laptop models.

He demonstrated how the ActiveX control from the update service can be used to leave all affected laptops unbootable.
All this fuss comes from an update provided by HP to fix the flaws discovered in a patch-management program bundled with its PCs and peripherals.
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The hacking attacks can easily block the systems and only those PCs that have restoring media have some chances to recover.

Secunia has rated this vulnerability as highly critical, and after intensive efforts, HP has published new instructions for the HP laptops’ users about how to run the Software Update in order to disable the ActiveX control.

HP Compaq 2710p is the latest convertible notebook coming from the company, dedicated to the business sector, and available in a few pre-configured models.



Combining the functionality of an ultra-light notebook with the easy-of-use of a slim tablet, the Compaq 2710p weights only 1.65kg and is just 28.2mm thin.
You have three operating systems options to choose from (Windows Vista Business, Windows XP Tablet PC or FreeDOS), an outdoor display panel for perfect viewability in sunlight, and a 2MP built-in webcam for your web conferences and VoIP.

The base features it comes with, include the 12.2-inch WXGA widescreen Illumi-Lite display, UWVA anti-glare with Digitizer; dual-microphone array, a DVD+/-RW optical drive integrated into the HP 2700 Ultra-Slim Expansion Base, the and an Ultra-Slim Battery.



HP believes that a business stylish notebook needs best software and best technologies to increase the productivity, and so it added Drive Encryption for HP ProtectTools, HP Night Light, HP DuraKeys for enhancing the reliability, and HP Broadband Wireless for the best connectivity.
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The hardware part was also conceived to meet the requirements of any business person, and we can start with mentioning the two processor options: an Intel Core 2 Duo ULV Processor U7600 running at 1.2 GHz and the Intel Core 2 Duo ULV Processor U7500 at 1.06 GHz, with Mobile Intel GM965 chipset.

The models have from 1GB to 2GB of DDR2 SDRAM memory but you can add up to 4GB using the two available memory slots.
The internal storage can be a 60GB 4200 rpm SMART PATA but you can reach 100 GB or choose the 64GB SSD variant.
For the graphics, HP provides the Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 with 384 MB shared system memory and DirectX 9 support.



Connectivity features in this case are the Integrated Intel Gigabit Network Connection (10/100/1000 NIC), a 56K V.92 modem, Intel 802.11a/b/g draft n (Intel 802.11a/b/g or Broadcom 802.11a/b/g) and Bluetooth 2.0.
The Li-Ion battery is a 6-cel type of high capacity.

Pre-configured models available have prices ranging between $1,500 and $2,300, and you can see them here.

HP wants to expose a new range of notebooks with touch screens during the IT Month show in Taiwan this December.

According to Dennis Chen, personal systems group general manager at HP Taiwan, explained that HP took this direction because touch screen devices such as PDAs, handsets and laptops are to become the main market focus in 2008.
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He also highlighted the fact that soon the desktop computers will also adopt this technology and HP needs to be prepared for that.
More than that, the company plans to face the low-cost market trends with new products, but it promises to remain focused on what counts most: the quality that people ask for, and not lower performance and fewer functions.

Also, in the first half of 2008, HP will launch a few UMPC devices.