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This week the folks at HP have revealed the HP ProBook 400 Series notebook PC line, this collection up to 36% thinner than HP’s previous generation machines. While the ProBook 400 series brings on display sizes from 13.3 inches all the way up to 17.3 inches, they’ve all got Meteorite Grey paint jobs with accents in real aluminum for what HP explains will be a combination that will “keep the system looking good longer”. HP’s push for the SMB build will be bringing five new notebooks to the small business world, each of them available starting this month.

While each of the units being presented in the HP ProBook 400 notebook PC series is a significant amount thinner than its predecessor, the line also brings up to 18% lighter weight points as well. Like HP is want to do with their notebook lineup across the board, the company is pushing a “115,000 hours of reliability testing” point here with the 400 series. They’ve also suggested that this line has gone through “extensive platform qualification” as well.

The HP ProBook 430 G1 will be released alongside the HP ProBook 440 G0 while the HP ProBook 445 G1 will be offered along side the ProBook 455 G1 and the ProBook 470 G0 as well, all of them starting to hit shelves this month starting at $499 USD. You’ll be able to have a peek at this lineup this month right alongside the HP 200 Series Notebook as well, this lineup made for small businesses from start to finish.

With the HP 200 Series Notebook, HP has created a business machine made for content creation and consumption in a rather stock-ready sense. Both the HP ProBook 400 notebook PC line and the HP 200 Series Notebook line work with HP 3D DriveGuard for hardware protection of your data – that’s for real bumps and sudden movements making with the otherwise deadly crashes on your machine.

NOTE: While it’s mentioned here that the HP 200 Series Notebook will be aiming to take on the rising Chromebook market, it will not be working with Google’s Chrome operating system. Instead users will be working with Microsoft’s Windows OS.

The HP 200 Series Notebook line works with a durable casing that comes in any color just so long as it’s black, and you’ll have the choice of picking this machine up in two iterations. There’s the HP 250 Notebook and the HP 255 Notebook, the line starting at $249 USD, looking ready to take on the inexpensive Chromebook segment head-on.

HP ProBook 400 and 200 Series aim for SMB market on the thin side is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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One of HP’s longer lasting device ranges would be the Scanjet name, and even at the birth of Ubergizmo, we have already talked about a Scanjet – in particular, the Scanjet N6010. That is certainly ancient by all means if you were to compare it to the spanking new HP Scanjet Pro3000 s2 here that targets business users. In fact, the Scanjet Pro3000 s2 is capable of performing 600dpi scans, and if color is your cup of tea, then it can also do 20 color pages per minute at 300dpi.

The Scanjet Pro3000 s2 is said to plug itself into current scanning platforms, where the sheet feed scanner would be equipped with a 50-page automatic feeder for mass document scanning, and is more than capable of handling A4-sized pages at 300dpi in color at up to 20 pages per minute as mentioned earlier. It can also perform automatic two-sided scans, and will hook up via USB using TWAIN, ISIS, WIA, and Mac drivers. This workhorse of a scanner should top out at approximately 1,000 pages per day, and all of your scanned images can be converted into editable text thanks to the accompanying Readiris Pro 14 software, where these converted copies will be sent straight to cloud storage or a SharePoint site. If you are interested, the Scanjet Pro3000 s2 has arrived at the UK for approximately $929 after conversion and should debut in the US not too long after.

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It was just yesterday when we were talking about how the HP Slate 7 is more than ready to make its mark in the market, especially since it is made available to folks living across the pond in the form of a pre-order. Well, it seems that the HP Slate 7 is not the only tablet that HP has in mind for the masses, as they do seem to be working on the launch of a spanking new high-end Android powered device, which will be called the HP SlateBook 10 X2.

Yeah, beats me as to why the HP SlateBook 10 X2 is named that way, considering how there was no predecessor of sorts to it (ala HP SlateBook 10 X, anyone? Or how about just plain and simple HP SlateBook 10?). News of the HP SlateBook 10 X2 was first picked up by German website TabTech courtesy of an AnTuTu benchmark, where it does seem to come with a 10” display of unknown resolution, a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 4 processor that has been clocked at 1.8GHz, and Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean on tow. No word on pricing or availability as at press time, but we so hope to see more rumors on the HP SlateBook 10 X2 break out pretty soon. Would the folks over at Samsung quake and shiver? I think not.

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The promise of OpenMobile’s Application Compatibility Layer is enticing: seamlessly run Android apps on another operating system as if it was meant to be there. Unfortunately for fans of Palm’s last hurrah, the project’s webOS port died with the HP Touchpad. That won’t stop dedicated fans, however — Phoenix International Communications plans to resurrect webOS ACL. Taking the project to Kickstarter, the team is showing an early build on an HP Touchpad, seamlessly running Android apps in cards alongside native webOS applications. Phoenix hopes that a functional ACL will reduce Touchpad owner’s reliance on dual-booting Android, giving them the freedom to enjoy webOS without sacrificing functionality. The team is promising a relatively short development time, thanks to OpenMobile’s early work, and hopes to deliver a consumer ready build in July. But first the Kickstarter campaign will need to meet its $35,000 goal. Interested in pitching in? Check out the Kickstarter link at the source.

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We got a look at HP‘s then-unreleased Slate 7 tablet at Mobile World Congress earlier this year and liked what we saw. HP had said the device would be available for purchase in April, but then a bit of debacle started when its product page was updated to show a revised release date in June. That spurred rumors that the slate was delayed, but then the product page changed again, this time back to April, leaving many to wonder when we’d actually see the device on shelves.

HP didn’t say anything about the date change either way, and April has progressed without any changes – until today, that is. The tablet is now available as HP promised, coming in just a handful of days shy of May and in the timeline that HP both originally and revisionally supplied. Users can order it from HP’s website for $169.99.

The HP Slate 7, as its name suggests, features a 7-inch display with multitouch support and a resolution of 1024 x 600. Inside, users will find an ARM Cortext A9 dual-core 1.6GHz processor and 1GB of RAM, as well as 8GB of internal storage and a microSD slot for bumping that number upwards by another 32GB. Connectivity is standard 802.11b/g/n/ wifi and Bluetooth 2.1.

The onboard cameras leave a bit to be desired, with the front camera offering VGA resolution and the rear camera offering 3-megapixels. The battery has a 3500mAh capacity, and the entire device weighs in at just a touch over 13 ounces. The most notable feature on HP’s soft-backed tablet is the inclusion of Beats Audio, which HP says makes it one of the best sounding tablets around.

[via HP]

HP Slate 7 overcomes delay rumors, is available now is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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