MICROSOFT AND HEWLETT PACKARD TOGETHER

Mon, Feb 8, 2010

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Amazingly Hewlett Packard and Microsoft have a massive arsenal of high tech weapons on the market and a long list of innovative concepts for future products.  Microsoft has been meeting the demands for products with great releases of up to date devices.  Now together with Hewlett Packard they are continuing research and development of up to date innovated creations to blast onto the market this year.  This is a compiled list of products they have released and products yet to be seen.

EARLY PRODUCTS RELEASED:
HP Touchsmart IQ770 Crossfire – released Jan 2007, first mass market touchscreen desktop PC.  Also known as the “Crossfire”, features a 19 -inch touchscreen, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600. It has a wide array of ports, including Ethernet, two FireWire, six USB 2.0 ports, one with HP printer power Y-cable connector, 5.1 + digital audio out, IR out, mini-VGA, FM coax, TV coax, ATSC, and two S-Video.
HP TouchSmart 2 IQ500 – released June 2008, this series features a 22-inch widescreen touchscreen display, an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 500GB disk, 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 9300 M HS HD graphics, and 802.11n WiFi, along with an Energy Star qualification. The new Touchsmart features a sleeker 2-inch profile in a piano-black finish.
HP TouchSmart 2 IQ800 – released in 2008. Features a larger 25.5-inch touchscreen. Other features include a TV tuner with remote, integrated webcam, Bluetooth, HP Pocket Media drive bay, and an ambient light to illuminate your keyboard.
HP TouchSmart 2 IQ816 – released September 2008, it features a 2.10GHz T8100 Core 2 Duo on a 800MHz bus with a 3MB cache, Blu-ray drive / dual-layer burner, and a GeForce 9600M GS chip. There is a choice between the 640GB or 1TB hard drives.
HP TouchSmart 2 300 – released October 2009. The biggest drawback to an all-in-one PC like the TouchSmart is that you can’t do much to add to its capabilities. Fortunately, HP included just about every feature you could want in this one: There’s an integrated TV tuner, 4GB of DDR3 memory, and both Bluetooth and an 802.11b/g/n adapter for wireless networking. If you manage to fill the 640GB hard drive, you can add external storage via one of the USB ports.
HP Touchsmart 2 600 – released October 2009.  This has Power Energy star, CPU Intel Core 2 Duo T7450 (2.13 GHz), Storage capacity 750 GB, Memory 4GB DDR3, Display 23″, plus a camera.
HP Touchsmart 9100 – released November 2009.  It is a business orientated all-in-one PC that bears a strong resemblance to the HP Touchsmart 600.  It has a 23-inch one-piece PC display which has a resolution of Full HD 1920 x 1080 pixels and is capable of recognizing multiple touches simultaneously.
HP Touchsmart tx2z – released December 2008, the Touchsmart tx2 is the first consumer notebook and tablet PC with on-screen multi-touch control. The Touchsmart tx2 replaces the older HP Pavilion tx2500z.
HP Touchsmart tm2t – released Jan 2010, it has a 12.1-inch swivel touchscreen laptop. It is powered by Intel Core 2 Duo processors and makes use of ATI Mobility Radeon graphics.  The multi-touch screen is usable by both fingers and pens, and it comes with a multi-gesture touchpad that has no buttons other than the pad itself. It is energy efficient and can last for nine hours on a six cell battery. The HP TouchSmart tm2 comes loaded with software, including a product by Netflix, finger friendly Coral Paint, an interactive dolphin screensaver and the BumpTop 3D desktop.
HP EliteBook 2730p – released in 2008.  It is defined by HP as a business product, perfect for traveling.  Being a business computer also suggests that the 2730p can be used for common desktop applications such as Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Web applications. There is nothing out of the ordinary, except that it is very thin.  Also included the Core Duo 1.86Ghz CPU (low-voltage), 3GB RAM, 120GB 5400rpm HDD (Toshiba 1.8″), and WiFi-N, Bluetooth.
HP Compaq TC4200 – released March 2005.  The HP Compaq Tablet PC tc4200 is HP’s first Tablet PC convertible. Dark charcoal gray magnesium.
HP Compaq TC4400 – released May 2006 is everything the tc4200 was, but more advanced.  Uses a 2GHz Core Duo T2500, 667MHz DDR2 RAM and the 945GM chipset.
HP Compaq 2710p – released July 2007.  This is an ultralight Tablet PC, weighs 3.6 pounds and has a 1280 x 800 pixel, 12.1-inch widescreen active digitizer display, an Intel Core 2 Duo ULV processor, 100GB hard drive, up to 4GB of DDR2 SDRAM, Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11 a/b/g/draft-n, optional EV-DO or HSDPA module, and an ExpressCard/54 slot. OS options include Vista, XP, and FreeDOS.
HP Pavilion TX1000 Series Tablet PC’s – released February 2007.  This was a series of notebook computers from Hewlett Packard. These notebooks were designed for Windows Vista, they use the AMD Turion 64 X2 processors, they have 12.1-inch touch screens, a DVD+RW. All models came with a NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 graphics system, which features 128mb integrated graphics and extra shared graphics memory of up to 916mb.
HP Pavilion TX2000 Series – released September 2008. The Pavilion tx2000 is a full-featured convertible notebook, with a 12.1-inch display that rotates and folds flat. The display is touch sensitive, which is useful for controlling media applications while in tablet mode. A battery-less digitizer is included for writing and drawing on the screen. When the digitizer is placed near the display to write, the touch-screen functionaity is automatically disabled. Like the tx1000 series, the tx2000 series is powered by AMD processors. Users will be abe to choose from several AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core processors.  Graphics are provided by an integrated NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 graphics card that shares up to 128MB of RAM.
HP Pavilion tx2500z – released June 2008. This is a Pavilion tx2500z Puma-based tablet PC. This “echo” inlaid-design ultraportable has a 12.1-inch 1280 x 800 swivel touch screen with handwriting capture, AMD Turion Dual-Core processor, ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics chipset, and WiFi. Other features include a fingerprint reader, webcam, 5-in-1 media card reader, and 3 USB ports.
HP Compaq TC1100/TR1105 – released on October 2003. This HP Compaq Tablet PC tc1100 runs on the 1.10 GHz Intel® Pentium® M Processor with 512 or 256 MB of SDRAM upgradeable to 2 GB. The device has a 10.4-Inch TFT XGA color display. Graphic card is NVIDIA GeForce 4 Go 420. The tc1100 has integrated 16-bit Sound Blaster Pro-compatible stereo audio and two stereo speakers and microphone. Users can connect on the Internet with Internal MDC 56K modem or with Wireless LAN. The HP tablet TC1100 supports a range of secure, integrated wireless LAN options featuring support for the latest industry standards. Integrated Bluetooth is also an option and can be combined with any one of the supported wireless LAN options. It has Integrated Bluetooth™ on select models and IR (Infrared) on every model. HP Security Lock Slot is additional feature. This Tablet PC supports 32-bit CardBus and 16-bit PCMCIA Cards. It comes with DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive.

This is a list of products that are in the designing stages or soon to be released:

Hp Slate – release estimated late 2010, it was introduced by Steve Ballmer at the CES show January 7th, 2010, this is a touchscreen device that will run on Windows 7 and will come with a browser and a NYT application.  This is the device that will be in direct competition with the iPad that was recently unveiled by Apple.
Microsoft Courier – Is the codename for the rumoured upcoming Booklet PC from Microsoft. The unit will contain two multi-touch screens that face each other in a book form factor, and will utilize a stylus and finger touch for input. The device is hinged like mea book, with the seven-inch screens facing each other when the “book” is closed. A 3-gapixel digital camera with 4x zoom is integrated into the prototype system
Microsoft Oxygen all-in-one PC design – Ammunition Group was also in a competition to design computers specifically for Windows. Among these computers are the Microsoft Oxygen, an all-in-one similar to the iMac, the Microsoft Zinc countertop PC, the Microsoft Carbon compact PC similar to the Mac Mini, the Microsoft Argon concept entertainment based all-in-one PC, Not a Concept has been shown off in uk.
Microsoft Zinc – concept intended for countertop use.
Microsoft Argon – concept entertainment biased all-in-one PC.
Microsoft Cobalt – convertible notebook/tablet system.

Microsoft and Hewlett Packard in 2010 will be offering Tablet PC’s using Windows 7 and  touch-screen capabilities.  Their technology advances on to intertwine laptops, e-readers and media players into a portable netbook tablet.

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