New HP Tablet Brings Touch To SMBs

Hewlett-Packard on Monday alien its aboriginal multi-touch book PC for business users while aswell afterlight some bartering notebooks with Intel's latest Westmere-class Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 multi-core, adaptable processors.

HP, headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., has priced its EliteBook 2740p convertible book at $1,599 and will accomplish it accessible in April. Featuring accepted voltage Intel chips for added processing ability than consumer-oriented convertible tablets from HP, the EliteBook 2740p weighs 3.8 pounds and has a 12.1-inch askew LED display.

The touchscreen on EliteBook 2740p is capacitive, acceptation users can tap and bash the awning with their fingers, utilizing the abounding arrangement of multi-touch gestures to cross through applications. A stylus is aswell provided with the assemblage as an alternating ascribe tool.

The EliteBook 2740p serves as a absolutely anatomic anthology with full-sized keyboard or, afterwards swiveling the affectation into its book position, as a slate. HP offers an advantage for an outdoor-view affectation and array flavors cover the accepted start-up that provides up to 5 hours of array life, with the advantage of abacus on the new HP 2700 Ultra-Slim Array for a abounding 11 hours of array activity if accumulated with the accepted battery.

HP said it will be targeting SMBs with the EliteBook 2740p. To that end, HP has aswell congenital a advancing base for the new tablet, the HP 2740 Ultra-Slim Expansion Base. The dock, priced at $299 and accessible starting April 12, provides an alien adviser affiliation and connects the 2740p to alien accumulator and optical drives.

HP on Monday aswell alien some accepted bartering notebooks that about extend accepted artefact curve with the a lot of able and energy-efficient new 32-nanometer adaptable processors from Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel.

These included HP's lightest EliteBook PC to date, as able-bodied as four new notebooks in HP's ProBook s-series. At 3.3 pounds and antic a 12.1-inch display, the HP EliteBook 2540p starts at $1,099 and will be accessible in April. It has options for either a low-voltage adaptable processor or a accepted voltage dent in a high-performance configuration.

The EliteBook 2540p has several array options, all the way up to a nine-cell array that provides up to 12.5 hours of array life, according to HP. As with the added new articles HP apparent Monday, the assemblage has different biometric aegis options, including a fingerprint sensor and face acceptance via the alternative 2-megapixel Web cam congenital appropriate into the affectation frame.

The new HP ProBook s-series will be fabricated accessible in March and comes in four sizes -- the 13.3-inch HP ProBook 4320s, 14-inch 4420s, the 15.6-inch 4520s and the 17.3-inch 4720s. Prices alpha at $719 for the ProBook 4320s, but HP did not accommodate any added amount breakdown for the beyond units.

The new ProBooks are targeted at "prosumers," baby appointment users who depend on their notebooks for both business and customer use, HP told Channelweb.com during a contempo audience of its new articles in San Francisco. Buyers accept the advantage of abacus ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350 detached cartoon from Advanced Micro Devices to the standard-issue chip cartoon from Intel to these notebooks.