HP Touch Smart TX2 - a 12 inch multi touch jewelry from HP
A certain group of users need the touch screens for their laptops, and for them were created the PC tablets. When you no longer need the keyboard, but still want to have access to the information on the screen and you don't have too much space available, you can fold the screen, face up. HP Touch Smart TX2 is such a PC tablet with a 12 inch diagonal, but it is noticed from similar models through multi touch support offered by the touch screen display.
According to the manufacturer, Touch Smart TX2 is the first PC tablet with multi touch focused toward the regular users. Dell has launched at the end of the previous year, the Latitude XT model, equipped with multi touch support, but it could not be used at full potential until the summer of this year when was launched a firmware update for the screen. In plus, the basic price of the Touch Smart TX2 is almost two times smaller than the one of Latitude XT.
An explication for the lowered price comes from the configuration. The PC tablet from HP is not equipped with Intel processors, but with Turion X2 processors from AMD. The screen which can recognize the position of two fingers has a standard 1280 x 800 pixels resolution, and the graphics card is an ATI Radeon HD 3200 with 64 MB RAM. The RAM memory of the system can reach up to 8 GB, but in this case you will have to call for a 64 bits version of the Windows Vista operating system. The 5400 RPM hard drive can have a maximum storage capacity of 500 GB.
As a bonus, although it is an ultra portable,
HP Touch Smart TX2 is equipped with an optical DVD RW unit. Its dimensions are 30.5 x 22.5 x 3.9 cm, and its weight can reach 2.1 kg. The basic price is $1,150, but a better configuration may cost up to $1,500. Currently, the virtual HP store receives pre-commands for the
Touch Smart TX2, the deliveries being scheduled for the end of the current month.
HP Envy 13 and 15 - thin, metallic and performing
As Dell has bought Alienware in order to have an ultra performing PC division, the same did HP with Voodoo PC, a company which has launched two impressive products:
Envy 133 and Omen. The new portables
Envy 13 and 15 should look like the 133 model, but HP has decided that the success recipe is the new MacBook Pro, of which case they full copied. The keyboard buttons are separate, but are different from the Apple's through the fact that they are a little more rounded. The screen with glare filter has black edges, and the touchpad is from glass and it is pressed for click. If the new MacBooks have the famous unibody case, the HP laptops have the chassis from magnesium plated with aluminum, so being lighter.
Specifications
HP Envy 13- 13.1 inch screen
- Intel Core 2 Duo processor
- integrated Intel and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 graphics cards
- 1.7 kg
- up to 18 hours with an additional battery
Specifications
HP Envy 15- 15.6 inch screen with LED backlight
- Intel Core i7 processor
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830 graphics card
- up to 16 GB of DDR3 memory
- 2.34 kg
The autonomy mentioned in
HP Envy 13 is given by an additional battery which is attached to the whole bottom of the portable and which increases the thickness.
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