No offense to a prior ProBooks s-series, though you consider HP may have finally removed the last pieces of boring from a line. A new stand of commercial operation laptops – if you can even call them that anymore – are accessible with 13.3, 14, 15.6 as well as 17.3-inch display sizes, as well as can be configured with Intel’s ultimate Core i3, i5 as well as i7 processors. There have been too most configurations to list, but a $900 15.6-inch ProBook 4520s with the Core i5 CPU as well as the 500GB 7,200RPM expostulate sounds similarto a deal to us. Fear not graphics mavens, you can configure any of a models with ATI’s Mobility Radeon HD 5350 GPU. Specs aside, you were pretty smitten with the externals – all have been clad in a brushed aluminum box as well as a matte surface lid that’s accessible in “caviar” brownish-red or a reddish “bordeaux.” Our fingers were big fans of the chiclet setofkeys, but a further of the ClickPad with its integrated rodent buttons creates us the bit concerned, you know, since the issues we’ve had with those upon a Mini 210 and Envys. We’d be lingering if you didn’t menti on HP’s brandnew Day Starter software that lets a workaholics amongst we check a configured Opinion calender whilst a laptop boots up in a credentials — it doesn’t wor k nonetheless with Google Cal, you asked. We should be means to start configuring a lappies in the subsequent couple of weeks, though strike a break for some hands-on pics and a full PR.
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Show full PR textHP Unveils Ultra-thin, Touch-enabled Convertible Tablet as well as Notebook PCs for Small and Midsize Businesses

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 1, 2010 – HP currently introduced a company’s first multitouch-enabled tablet for commercial operation users as well as cover PCs tailored for both enterprise as well as tiny and midsize businesses (SMBs).
The additions to a HP portfolio include:

– HP EliteBook 2740p – an ultra-thin, multitouch-enabled automobile tablet that provides an interactive experience for businesses in illness caring, education, sales as well as more;
– HP EliteBook 2540p – a company’s lightest EliteBook notebook PERSONALCOMPUTER, starting at usually 3.3 pounds, is ideal for global as wel l as large corporate enterprises, the open zone and alternative businesses in need of the imperishable, high-performance cover; and
– HP ProBook customary array (s-series) cover PCs – 4 brandnew models of the high-performing series provide the new design as well as worldly colors for bland use.

“A HP commercial opera tion hold tablet is a la test addition to a broad brew of choices which HP offers commercial operation business to most appropriate urge manageability, productivity as well as mobility,” pronounced Dan Forlenza, clamp president, Business Notebooks, Personal Systems Group, HP. “HP continues to exercise a ultimate innovations to assistance large companies as well as SMBs exceed capability expectations.”

A notebook PCs are the latest in the company’s array of launches onconditionthat businesses a wide preference of products to modernise their aging commercial operation technology.

Absolute as well as light cover PCs for a road warrior
Rightaway charity customary voltage Intel processors, a HP EliteBook 2740p tablet PERSONALCOMPUTER combines the energy and trustworthiness of an HP business cover PC with a coherence of the tablet, creation it preferred for users on the go. The 2740p starts during 3.8 pounds as well as includes the 12.1-inch diagonal LED arrangement or optional outdoor-view display with reduction reflection as well as the aloft contrariety for simpler viewing in healthy light.(1)

A touchscreen choice allows users to get work finished some-more intuitively as well as faster formed upon their choice of input methods. Multitouch gestures, finger taps as well as swipes across a shade concede users to navigate by applications and menus, as good provide entrance to report as well as websites.

The HP EliteBook 2740p offers the variety of battery solutions for lightweight configurations, togetherwith the six-cell li-ion kaleidoscopic battery, that provides up to 5 hours of uptime, as well as an discretionary HP 2700 Ultra-Slim Battery which provides up to 11 hours when total with a customary battery.(1,2)
The discretionary HP 2740 Ultra-Slim Expansion Base(1) allows users to wharf their notebook PCs to utilize peripherals but needing to all the time block and unplug. This innovative enlargement base includes the DVD+/-RW expostulate, fits orderly into the briefcase so a visual expostulate can simply transport, as well as supports DisplayPort so users can easily connect to an external guard. A enlargement bottom also has an eSATA port, allowing for connection to an outmost RAID array, HDD as well as to optical drives for quick and easy storage.
A HP EliteBook 2540p offers commercial operation users the choice of Intel® Core™ processors in either customary voltage for maximum opening – a initial for HP ultra-portable notebooks – or low voltage for increasing coherence with a preference of an optical expostulate or delegate tough drive.

As a lightest-weight offering in the HP EliteBook portfolio, a 2540p is equipped with the 12.1-inch diagonal LED display, discretionary 2-megapixel webcam with commercial operation label reader program and HP Fingerprint Sensor. (1)

Integrated HP Mobile Broadband powered by Gobi(3) allows users to conveniently access a internet, company intranet, email and mission-critical report in some-more places than ever before, while HP Tie Physicaleducationinstructor 3.0 simplifies and automates joining users with their preferred networks.

A HP EliteBook 2540p includes multiple battery options for lightweight configurations or longer battery life, including a three-cell battery that provides up to 4 hours, the six-cell battery which provides up to 8 hours, as well as the nine-cell battery that provides up to 10.5 hours.(2)

Additionally accessible for name EliteBook models are 3- as well as six-cell HP Long Holdup Batteries, providing the three-year holdup span(1,4) – up to twice as prolonged as most li-ion notebook batteries. HP Prolonged Life Batteries revoke overall battery rubbish by requiring fewer batteries to be used over a life of the PC.

Both a 2740p as well as 2540p are engineered to encounter the difficult MIL-STD 810G military-standard tests(5) for quivering, dust, steam, altitude, as well as tall and low temperatures. They additionally have been EPEAT® registered in the United States and suggest APPETITE STAR® qualifying configurations.

HP strives to use reduction material in products by improvements in product pattern as well as technological advances. In the company’s efforts to revoke the volume of tender materials used up as well as assistance strengthen healthy resources, the HP EliteBook 2540p Cover PC employs post-consumer recycled cosmetic resin in at slightest 12 percent of its sum cosmetic content.

Additionally, a EliteBook 2740p and 2540p come preloaded with a hearing versio n of HP SkyRoom,(6) an affordable, high-definition (HD) videoconferencing software(7) that offers live, real-time collaboration for face-to-face meetings.

Large performance for small businesses
For tiny businesses, a association voiced the brandnew design of a HP ProBook s-series, featuring a durable brushed-aluminum metal box with a matte aspect that is available in caviar or bordeaux.

A HP ProBook s-series is available in fo ur HD(7) LED-backlit arrangement choices: HP ProBook 4320s (13.3-inch diagonal), HP ProBook 4420s (14-inch diagonal), HP ProBook 4520s (15.6-inch erratic as well as HP ProBook 4720s (17.3-inch diagonal).
Starting at $719,(8) the HP ProBook s-series provides an affordable combination of features in the full-function cover PC, including all-new 2010 Intel Core i3, i5 as well as i7 processors,(9) the preference of Intel HD Graphics or di ssimilar graphics for advanced multimedia await featuring the ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4350 as well as multiple wireless technologies.

Logging upon to Windows® as well as other websites is quick as well as easy with HP Face Recognition for Protect tools, whilst an discretionary fingerprint reader adds another covering of security.
The HP ProBook s-series features new multimedia controls for video, and comes installed with a brandnew ArcSoft TotalMedia Suite to concede users to foolaround, revise as well as emanate video and audio files. A apartment includes a following features: MediaImpression, TotalMedia LabelMaker, TotalMedia ShowBiz, TotalMedia Collegeofmusic, TotalMedia The ater and WebCam Messenger. A ultimate ClickPad Gestures functionality taps into a some-more intuitive document navigation experience for HP ProBook users.

Innovations for the mobile professional
Available upon all brandnew HP ProBooks as well as a EliteBook p-series, the HP DayStarter(10) allows users to get the conduct begin on the day’s activities with entrance to key information even before Windows finishes booting up. A customized arrangement includes the calendar (12-hour time period) as well as battery charge state, as well as the Windows loading indicator appears while Windows continues to load in a background.

The HP EliteBook as well as most HP ProBook cover array also include HP QuickWeb, that allows users to access the web in seconds when a PC is shut down; HP Power Partner, which provides total prominence over a notebook PC’s reported energy consumption, with collection permitting users to conserve energy, stretch battery run time, as well as fairly guard reported energy needs;(11) and spill-resistant keyboards.

Executive Management for HP ProtectTools provides IT crew remote functionality to deploy as well as manage key confidence policies across the complete business. For e.g., IT can mainly conclude as well as deploy security policies based on users and user sorts, monitor as well as review customer wakeup, and recover entrance for remote users who have forgotten their passwords. Executive Management is accessible upon all HP

EliteBook as well as ProBook notebook PCs being introduced in 2010.

Financing options for SMBs in a Joined States as well as Canada
HP is charity businesses zero percent vendor-direct financing plans for these new EliteBook and ProBook lines by HP Monetary Services, the company’s leasing as well as life cycle item government services auxiliary. There are dual plans to select from – a 12-month lease with the $1 squeeze choice or the 36-month franchise with the satisfactory market value squeeze choice. Subordinate transactions contingency be between $1,500 as well as $150,000 dollars in a Joined States as well as $5,000 and $150,000 dollars in Canada. Some-more details on these financing options have been available at www.hp.com/go/totalfinancing.

Pricing as well as availability (8)
– A HP EliteBook 2540p starts during $1099 as well as is expected to be available in a United States next month.
– A HP EliteBook 2740p starts during $1599 and is approaching to be accessible in a Joined States subsequent month.
– The HP ProBook s-series starts during $719 and have been expected to be accessible in the Joined States this month.
– The HP 2740 Ultra-Slim Enlargement Bottom starts during $29 9 and is approaching to be accessible in a Joined States subsequent month.

Some-more information about a products, including product specifications as well as images, is available during www.hp.com/personal.

About HP
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful stroke upon people, businesses, governments as well as multitude. The world’s largest record association, HP brings together the portfolio that spans copy, personal computing, s oftware, services and IT infrastructure to compromise patron problems. Some-more information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is accessible during http://www.hp.com.