HP launches a Ultrabook and a MacBook Pro

HP introduced its new range of laptops from the end of the year. It includes a Ultrabook 13 inches, Folio 13 and three MacBook Pro, Envy, 15, 17 and 17 3D.

Folio 13 is a Ultrabook pure blood letter respecting the desires of Intel: 18 mm thick for a screen of 13 inches, 128 GB SSD, Core i5-2467M processor. It weighs 1.4 kg and offers a rich enough connections for a Ultrabook: a port USB 2, a 3, a USB output HDMI, SD card reader and even an Ethernet port! HP presents as the first Ultrabook for professionals. Folio 13 justifies this designation by a backlit keyboard, the possibility of adding a TPM chip and the greater autonomy of the market: 9 hours. Folio 13 should especially seduce by its prices: it is announced to the United States to $899. It will be available from December 7.

The Envy at HP have originally assumed a strong resemblance to the MacBook Pro from Apple. Their latest versions grow mimicry still further. Open hood is difficult not to be confused: same screen with black border protected by a glass slab, same all-metal chassis, same same trackpad, backlit black keys "chiclet" keyboard integrated without apparent button. The similarity disappears once closed screens, Envy being black external hulls. Fortunately, HP with its Envy of other arguments than a little inspired design.

The Envy 15 base offers for $1100 an Intel Core i5 2430M CPU, a GPU AMD Radeon, 6 GB RAM, 500 GB of hard disk (7200 RPM / min), two USB 3.0 ports and 8 battery cells of 76 Wh intended to hold 9 h. Very interestingly, HP offers on this model, optional, a Radiance screen brings not only a resolution of 1920 x 1080 but mostly non-TN and IPS liquid crystals. Farewell angles of narrow visions and unstable colour! The Envy also benefit from the partnership between HP and Beats Audio: they have seven speakers including a serious. The options include a smart WiFi type 3 x 3 (to achieve 450 Mbps rates) and a 128 GB solid state of type mSATA on Envy 17. Availability is also announced for December 7 in the us. We will update this news as soon as HP will have clarified us what it will be for the France.

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A MacBook Air 15 inches in preparation?

A MacBook Air 15 inches be in preparation in the laboratory of Apple? This is what believe whether several knowledgeable American sites.

MacRumors and TUAW appear to be sure of their own, Apple would be preparing a computer for 15-inch ultraportable. Is invariably the MacBook Air which would thus add a new diagonal to its range. Some simply see the disappearance of the MacBook Pro model which would be replaced term by this new computer with SSD memory and without optical drive.

Hard to believe but technically, because it would be difficult to use equivalent to those currently used in the MacBook Pro, swift processors and consumers too much energy (between 45 and 55 W) for this very fine type of laptop.

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Apple updates its MacBook white, happening to 999 euros

A few days apr?s its sp?cifications have made public ?t? by the interm?diaire of a Vietnamese site, the new version of the entr?e range of Apple MacBook is propos?e ? the sale through its online store. This new configuration menu, there by d?faut a Core 2 Duo cadenc? ? 2.4 GHz processor, 2 GB m?moire RAM, a 250 GB HDD and the intgration of the GeForce 320 M of NVIDIA chipset (accompagn? 256 MB m?moire d?di?e ? the graphical part), just replace the GeForce 9400 propos? far.
With th?orique autonomy that rises d?sormais ? 10 hours according to the manufacturer, the white MacBook saw its price rise by 100 euros, reaching 999 euros, likely due to the effects of Exchange d?favorables ? the euro since the United States, the rate remains inchang? ? 999 $.
What about this repositioning? If the am?lioration of performance, including the level of the graphic part is welcome, this new MacBook r?duit the ?cart with the first mod?le of the MacBook Pro 13 inch range, for 150 euro more, offering the aluminum unibody design and m?moire 4 GB RAM, and a location for maps m?moire. By adding that it takes 90 euros for 2 ? 4 GB of m?moire, the ?cart between the two machines is more to 60 euros.

The int?r?t of the white MacBook seems so all matter, apart from is ?tre for allergic ? ? ? s?rie Pro alu finishing. Unless it is that the pr?lude to the future repositioning of the other r?f?rences of the mark?
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