Hands On with HP's Spring Refresh: New Pavilions, EliteBooks, Ultrabooks and More Discussion

[Luscious]

11.6" + IVB = new class of netbook

Intel was too late to the party with Cedar Trail, and it barely improves on the N570. Moving up from 10" to 11.6" isn't a big deal as far as size/weight is concerned, but the massive improvement in CPU/GPU performance that IVB brings is huge. I only hope that HP nails the pricing on the 2170 - putting it anywhere above $800 is a deal-breaker IMO.

[Gearsguy]

Wow, that M6 is sexy! I hope it doesnt turn out like the Envy 15 with the gimped GPU.

[Karamazovmm]

Three ultrabooks? Four separate 15" consumer laptops? (G6, dv6, M6, Envy 15)? Crazy business.

Lets see the hp line up

Consumer

hp mini: 1104, dm1z

pavillion: 2000z, g6t, g6z, dv4t, dv6z, dv6t, dv7t, there will be more here for the budget line.

Envy: 4t, 6t, 15, 17, 14 spectre, 17 3d



Corporate

hp mini: 210

Essential: Folio 13, 3115m, 635, 630

probook: 4430s, 4530s, 4535s, 4730s, 5330m, 6360b, 6460b, 6465b, 6560b, 6565b

elitebook workstation: 8460w, 8560w, 8760w

elitebook: 2560p, 8460p, 8560p, 2760p tablet

I call it crazy. The notebooks are listed according to the HP site and are the ones currently available, not the upcoming models.

16 notebooks consumer

21 notebooks corporate

7 15'' for consumer

1 ultrabook, the spectre 14 aint an ultrabook by intel definition, however if you want, be my guest, nor the envy 4t and 6t, the scpectre xt aint launched.

Lenovo is worse.

[LordBass]

I'm an HP fan, been waiting for the Ivy Bridge models, and already confused by the quantity of what's pictured in the (good) article.

Which are the models with the posh looking one piece touchpad? They look different than the M6 & DV models pictures later.

These two:

[Karamazovmm]

those would be the envy 4t and 6t, already available with the SB ulv cpu and a 7670m as a gpu. they are quite cheap might I add, configed one this afternoon, and got:

I5 2XXX somethin something
GPU: 7670m
Backlit kb
total 800ish

[LordBass]

That 4t is nice looking, and quite cheap. Shame that no upgraded screen is available.

[Jayayess1190]

The 4340s has the i7-3612QM as an option. Need to see more 12.5"/13.3"ers with that.

[Delgormo]

Any hope the build quality of these new machines will be better then in the past? They seem to be making a lot of improvements and investing a lot.

[Fat Dragon]

I've already discussed my opinion on some of these notebooks here, but I'm absolutely mystified by this M6 - I see in the review that it "kicks everything up a couple of notches," and "offer[s] a premium experience over [HP']s standard offerings," but this article doesn't tell me anything that differentiates the M6 from, say, the DV6, while even noting that the DV6's new chassis updates are similar to what you find in the M6. Besides, the D series Pavilions are branded "high-performance" while the Envy series is "premium" while offering similar performance to the D series. So now the M6 comes in as "a little nicer than regular high-performance, but not quite premium", or something like that.

I'm glad that Meg Whitman was able to keep HP's PC division running, but this mind-bogglingly crowded lineup is beyond my comprehension. It's almost as if HP is trying to sandbag its PC division into going bankrupt all by itself now - there's no way the extra R&D, CS, parts, and labor costs are made up by whatever extra sales might occur as a result of the new models being introduced.

And let's not forget the absolute feces-storm of low-end 1366x768 Brightview screens permeating their offerings, most of which don't even have an option for anything better. They've hit some serious home runs with great displays in the past, can anybody say DreamColor or Radiance? So how do they introduce four new higher-end models (3 Envy, one Elitebook) on one day without offering a single HD+ or FHD screen, particularly when the industry is all moving towards better, higher-res screens rather than settling for the lower-quality offerings that have permeated the marketplace for the past few years?