Isaiah's Tech

HP just cut the prices of two of their laptops. First is the HP dv2z, which is the 12.1-inch AMD Neo laptop and it is now priced at $599 USD. The other laptop that got a price cut is the dv3t - which utilizes the Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 CPU - and it is now available for $649 USD.

Now lets talk about the laptop that you see above. HP's dv6 now has two new options, the dv6z Artist Edition 2 (above) is now available for $949 USD and the dv6t - priced at $649 USD - is the exact same thing, just without the artsy design. I'm not liking the design, but I'm sure there's someone out there that would love to dish out an extra $300 just to be unique.

[Engadget]

The HP Pavilion dv2 notebook that we heard about back in April looks like it will be available on June 10th. The dv2 will have: a 12.1-inch display, and will run on AMD's new Neo CPU. We'll just have to see how it stacks up against Atom because Intel is already in a large, large lead. On a side note, the price still hasn't been mentioned, but in April we heard a $750 price tag. Let's hope it gets cut down a bit...

[Crunch Gear]

A large picture above and a couple of them below. This is HPs new external Blu-ray drive that will be shipping with the HP Pavilion Dv2 notebook. All you have to do is look at it to tell that it is slim, sleek, and just plain awesome. One of the sexiest external Blu-ray drives I've ever seen.

[Crunch Gear]

We got our first look at this baby at CES and it's now available - and for just $749 USD. The HP Pavilion Dv2 notebook will have: a 12.1-inch screen with a 1,280 x 800 resolution, AMD's new Neo 1.6GHz processor, ATI's Mobility Radeon HD3410 graphics card, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB HDD, and a DVD drive. If the earlier specs from CES are true, it will weigh just 3.8 pounds while managing to be just an inch thick. It will also come with other options, such as: Bluetooth, an HDMI port, an integrated webcam, up to 500GB of HDD storage, 802.11n, WiFi and WWAN support, and a Blu-ray drive. This notebook looks like a good piece of plastic from HP, don't forget that it's now available for a base price of just $749 USD. Oh yes, since this is a notebook and not a netbook it will be running on Windows Vista 64-bit.

[Crunch Gear]

Today (Tuesday), HP has confirmed the new HP Firebird. For the price tag of $1,799 USD, you get "an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU, twin NVIDIA GeForce 9800S graphics cards in an SLI configuration, ... 320GB hard drives (two of 'em) and an advanced thermal management system to keep things cool, calm, collected and quiet." The Firebird will be released on January 9 from Voodoo. If you want to wait a little bit, it will be released to retailers on February 1st. Let's back-track a little bit. I mentioned that the graphics cards will have an SLI configuration. So what exactly does that mean? Well, SLI stands for Scalable Link Interface and this is, basically, when you link 2 graphics cards together to make one single output. In the end, this will free the graphics load off of your CPU. Moving along.

This week's CES we will see this new notebook from HP, the Pavilion dv2. It will be on "AMD's new Neo platform." This 12.1 inch notebook will weigh in at around 3.8 pounds and will have "a 1.6GHz Athlon Neo MV-40 processor." This laptop is loaded. For $699 USD, you get: "Bluetooth, HDMI-out, an integrated webcam and 3.5 to 4-hours of battery." This laptop is upgradeable for: up to 4GB of memory and 500GB of space, optional 802.11n Wi-Fi and WWAN support, which is short for Wireless Wide Area Network. For $899 USD you can configure it with "ATI Radeon HD3410 discrete graphics and an external Blu-ray player." Quite a bunch of stuff in this notebook. Did i mention that it is less than an inch thick? Wow. Looks like a beauty and it even has some designs to the left of the touchpad.

This HP Pavilion dv3 is actually out today, so if i talk about it and you want it so bad, go and get it. So anyways, the HP Pavilion dv3 is AMD-powered and has a wide range of specifications. The dv3 will have "WiFi / Bluetooth, a dual-layer DVD burner, gigabit Ethernet, an ExpressCard slot and a satisfactory array of ports including three USB 2.0 sockets, VGA, HDMI, eSATA combo and audio in / out." You can choose from a "2GHz (Athlon X2 QL-62) to 2.4 GHz (Turion X2 Ultra ZM-86) ... up to 8GB of DDR2 RAM, 160/250/320/400GB hard drive choices." I'll end it off by saying that this laptop has an ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics card and starts at a price of $799 USD.

HP Quad-Core Firebird (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/hp-officially-launches-firebird-with-voodoo-dna/
HP Pavilion dv2 (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/hps-12-1-inch-pavilion-dv2-dont-call-it-a-netbook/
HP Pavilion dv3 (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/hp-greets-us-with-13-3-inch-pavilion-dv3-entertainment-laptop/