Dec 17

Engadget’s Holiday Gift Guide: Desktops

Posted in: Apple, hewlett-packard, HewlettPackard, HP, imac, lenovo, Today's Chili

Welcome to the Engadget Holiday Gift Guide! The team here is well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties of the seasonal shopping experience, and we want to help you sort through the trash and come up with the treasures this year. Below is today’s bevy of hand curated picks, and you can head back to the Gift Guide hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the holiday season.

Let’s face it, not everyone needs (or wants) to carry their computer around on the daily routine. Sacrificing portability can have its advantages — and while nettops and all-in-one PCs have become a much more dominant force this year, the traditional, highly upgradeable desktop tower is still the reigning bang-for-the-buck champ. Just make sure your certain special someone has enough desk real estate for whatever potentially-enormous chassis you decide to take home and wrap.

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Dec 10

HP Envy 15 review

Posted in: CoreI7, Features, hewlett-packard, HewlettPackard, laptop, Laptops, review, Today's Chili

There are laptops and then there are laptops. The Envy 15 has fallen into that second category ever since we got our hands-on: it’s the first PC we’ve seen that really equals the MacBook Pro’s unibody design and it packs a scorching-fast Intel Core i7 processor, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 graphics and Beats speakers. On paper, this is easily the hottest laptop we’ve seen in some time, but has HP really managed to deliver on that promise? We spent a few days with this $1,800 monster, so read on to see if it lives up to the hype.

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HP Envy 15 review originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 13

HP dm3t review

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We’re really into the new influx of inexpensive CULV-based laptops that’s arrived with Windows 7, and just like the ASUS UL80Vt, we knew we had to check out the starts-at-$599 HP dm3t the second we saw the first leak. In many ways, it’s the perfect throw-it-in-a-bag-and-go portable on paper, with a sleek and rigid case design, a 1.3GHz Intel SU7300 Core 2 Duo processor, and a 13.3-inch screen, but there’s a big difference between loving a machine’s spec sheets and reviews and loving it in real life, so we spent a couple days playing with a spec’d-up $819 model — read on for our impressions.

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Nov 09

HP Create Amazing ad tilt-shifts our hearts

Posted in: ad, commercial, hewlett-packard, HewlettPackard, HP, Today's Chili, video

Okay, so we’re total suckers for tilt-shift perspective manipulation, and since we’ve run a fair number of snippy attack ads lately, we thought we’d try and clear the air with this impressive new spot from HP. Part of the relatively-new “Create Amazing” campaign, it’s a miniaturized international tour through Shanghai, New York, Santorini, London, Istanbul, and some custom office sets built in L.A., and, well, we’re in love. Watch the video below, maybe have a second glance at Michael Gartenberg’s Entelligence column on gadget-fan unity from yesterday, and let’s all agree to agree for once in this crazy world.

Update: Sadly, the filmmaker got in touch with us and requested that we pull the video until he can clear it with HP — we’ll let you know.

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Oct 30

Monster Co-Brands Cables with HP

Posted in: hewlett-packard, Today's Chili

Monster cables.JPGOn Tuesday, Monster Cable held a mini-conference to discuss the future of connectivity, including its bread and butter, HDMI cables.

Monster representatives told me Friday that the company has also announced the next step in its collaboration with Hewlett-Packard, although the details have yet to hit the Monster Cable Web site.

The original partnership was launched at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show; now, it has come to fruition.

The HP Monster partnership includes a number of cables, as well as a few of its GreenPower power-extension solutions. The full list is after the jump.

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Oct 27

HP Pavilion dv3 with multitouch screen spotted in the wild, we go hands-on

Posted in: europe, Features, hewlett-packard, HP, laptop, multitouch, notebook, Today's Chili, touchscreen, uk, windows 7, Windows7
Our curious British fingers managed to stumble upon a European HP Pavilion dv3 blessed with Windows 7 and multitouch on both the screen and the trackpad. The keyboard was great to type on with negligible flex, but the trackpad suffers from the same glossy issues on other recent HPs — although it responded to our multitouch gestures better than the capacitive screen did. Our major annoyance came from the attempts to rotate pictures on the screen: we learned the hard way that the laptop (or Windows 7 itself) seemed to prefer more exaggerated rotation gestures than the MacBooks — perhaps one would get used to it over time. The hinge is fairly solid, but we still preferred holding the screen while touching it. On a brighter note we totally dig the inclusion of an HDMI port and an eSATA port, plus you’ll get up to seven hours of sweet battery juice from this 2.24kg (4.94 pounds) machine. Read on for our hands-on video and photo gallery.

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Oct 18

HP Envy, dv8 Quad, Mini 311, and numerous other Windows 7 machines now available to order

Posted in: hewlett-packard, HewlettPackard, HP, Mini, Today's Chili, windows 7, Windows7

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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Oct 14

Acer fulfills prophecy, overtakes Dell as number two PC maker worldwide (update)

Posted in: business, desktop, desktops, hewlett-packard, HewlettPackard, HP, laptop, Laptops, lenovo, PC, sales, Today's Chili, Toshiba

As if on cue, here’s some new data research firm Gartner lending credence to Lanci’s boasting. Looks like Acer has leapfrogged over Dell for the number two spot in global market share for the third quarter of 2009, from 12.5 to 15.4 percent of the Big Pie Chart[TM]. Meanwhile Dell is just below at 12.8 percent, and HP is sitting happily atop with a 19.9 percent ownership.

Update: Let us adjust our glasses a bit. According to the charts, Acer is number two in worldwide PC sales, not in US as this previously reported. Stateside, the company is sitting at number three at 13.9 percent, behind HP (25.7 percent) and Dell (26.2 percent). Apologies for the confusion, the person responsible for eyesight has been subsequently sacked, the person responsible for the sacking has been sacked, etc.

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Sep 30

HP dv8 specs page goes live, confirms Core i7 processor

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We’ve already seen plenty of leaked info about HP’s upcoming Core i7-based dv8, but nothing beats an official specs page on a company’s own server for proof, does it? Looks like this 18.4-inch monster will pack a 1.6GHz Core i7 processor (we’re guessing that’s the baseline speed, as Intel’s Turbo tech will boost the max speed of a single core far higher), 4GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT230 graphics, and a LightScribe Blu-ray burner. Oh, and it’ll weigh nearly nine pounds — but that’s a small price to pay, right?

[Thanks, Alexi]

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Sep 29

HP Envy 15 FCC filing reveals magnesium casing, Linux options

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Okay, so here’s a big way the HP’s new Envy 15 isn’t like the MacBook Pro: its case is made of magnesium, not aluminum. Take that, haters. Of course, there’s still the note-perfect reproduction of the MBP’s unibody looks, that buttonless glass multitouch trackpad, and the overall sense that HP’s designers did their homework in an Apple store to deal with, but hey, at least you’re getting a Core i7 processor when this thing launches on October 18th, right? Oh, and in case you’re not into Windows 7, you’re in luck — there are quite a few references to Linux scattered about, so we’d expect a penguin-friendly configuration to be announced at some point. [Warning: PDF read link]

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