Whoa. Could it be true? Hewlett-Packard's claim to fame in the tablet PC world has been killed? It's a wild and far-fetched story, but golly if it doesn't make a little bit of sense. HP's "Slate," which Microsoft Steve Ballmer flew all the way to Las Vegas for in order to demonstrate at CES, could be dead and buried internally, according to a source talking to TechCrunch this week.
Reportedly, HP has completely "killed off" the Windows 7 Slate, which was supposed to hit the market this summer--just a few months after the iPad. This news comes just weeks after a Slate promo video made the rounds on the Web, but reportedly, HP isn't satisfied with the way Windows 7 reacted as a Tablet OS, and they also didn't like the power consumption rate of Intel-based CPUs.
So, why would HP kill off a product they have spent so much time and money marketing? Only HP knows (if this rumor proves true), but the recent acquisition of Palm may have a little something to do with it. HP promised to "double down" on WebOS, and if Windows 7 wasn't a great Tablet OS (we tend to agree), WebOS might be. It's a mobile OS, designed for low-power devices, and designed for touch inputs. Sounds like a match made in heaven. Also, now that HP owns Palm, the only way you could buy a WebOS tablet would be to buy an HP tablet. Sort of how Apple has arranged that the only iPhone OS tablet is the iPad.
We're not trying to get you too excited or anything, but a WebOS tablet would really shake-up the tablet landscape. And it might just put Palm's mobile OS on the map in a big, big way.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
HP Slate Is Dead On Arrival, Says TechCrunch
HP is killing its Windows 7 "slate" tablet project, says TechCrunch, citing a source "briefed on the matter."
Business Insider already posted a less sourced report on its demise. Now that there's some insider confirmation, we're inclined to believe it. (We sent a note to HP to confirm for sure, and can update if we hear anything.)
Given HP's acquisition of Palm—and an early report of the first edition being a generally disagreeable machine—this all makes sense. Sure hasn't been a banner day for Microsoft-powered tablets, though. [TechCrunch]
UPDATE: HP replied to me with a standard "We don't comment on rumors or speculation." This seems to me to be further confirmation however, because if the product was still on target for this summer, surely HP's sales and marketing people would beg that PR affirm the thing's continued healthy existence. Letting it die in the public eye wouldn't be good if it actually was still kicking.
Business Insider already posted a less sourced report on its demise. Now that there's some insider confirmation, we're inclined to believe it. (We sent a note to HP to confirm for sure, and can update if we hear anything.)
Given HP's acquisition of Palm—and an early report of the first edition being a generally disagreeable machine—this all makes sense. Sure hasn't been a banner day for Microsoft-powered tablets, though. [TechCrunch]
UPDATE: HP replied to me with a standard "We don't comment on rumors or speculation." This seems to me to be further confirmation however, because if the product was still on target for this summer, surely HP's sales and marketing people would beg that PR affirm the thing's continued healthy existence. Letting it die in the public eye wouldn't be good if it actually was still kicking.
In Depth: HP Slate: everything you need to know
It isn't out for ages, but the HP Slate PC is already being cast as the David in an HP Slate vs iPad battle.
It'll run Flash! It has twin cameras! It will run Windows, unless it doesn't! So what do we actually know about the HP Slate specs, price and release date?
It's time to drive our Truck of Truth through the Roadblock of Rumours. Beep beep!
Even HP says it's HP Slate vs iPad
In a not-deliberately-leaked-oh-no-not-us-no-sirree document that just happened to end up at Engadget, HP very helpfully describes the differences between the HP Slate tablet and the iPad under the headline "HP Slate vs iPad". HP wins on processor speed, expandability, a webcam and expandability, but Apple wins on screen resolution, battery life and - amazingly - price.
The HP Slate specs are pretty impressive
The HP Slate PC is a nifty bit of kit: 1.6HGz Intel Atom Menlow processor, 1GB of RAM, 32 or 64GB of Flash memory that you can expand via the SD card reader, Windows 7 Home Premium and HP's own touch interface.
You get 802.11b/g and Bluetooth, optional 3G, GPS, pen and digitiser support, a VGA webcam, a 3 megapixel camera, a USB port and a dock connector that doubles as an audio interface and HDMI port. The screen's an 8.9-inch WSVGA running at 1024x600 with the obligatory multi-touch panel, light sensor and accelerometer, and graphics come from the 1080p-HD-capable Intel UMA.
The HP Slate price is a bit steep
It's a funny old world when Apple kit is the cheap option, but that's true here: the cheapest iPad is $499, but the cheapest Slate will be $549. That said, the most expensive Slate will be $599 while the priciest iPad will be $829.
European pricing? Like Apple, there's nothing official yet. However, Spanish site Clipset [http://www.clipset.net/hp-slate-primer-contacto/] says it's spoken to HP and the EU price will be €400. At current exchange rates and with VAT on top, that's £410 for the cheapest HP Slate PC.
The HP Slate will run out of puff before the iPad does
The iPad gets 10 hours from its battery; the Slate does five.
The HP Slate will run Flash
Good news for Adobe fans, casual gamers and Chatroulette bits-barers: the Slate supports Flash.
The HP Slate will probably be better for business
Unless HP dumps Windows - more of that in a moment - then the Slate will be the better business machine: it's essentially a Windows PC with the keyboard sawed off.
The iPad's an apple, the Slate is an orange
Where the iPad is an iPod Touch writ large - closed, simple OS, Apple-controlled App Store, little expandability or connectivity - the HP Slate is a PC writ small. That means multitasking, peripherals, getting software from wherever you want and all the other things you expect from a PC, good and bad. It's a completely different philosophy, and it's likely to appeal to a completely different kind of user.
The HP Slate release date might be in 2011
According to Business Insider, HP is being pretty evasive about its Slate release date. That's because…
The HP Slate might run WebOS
HP's acquisition of Palm gives it WebOS, Palm's equivalent of the Apple OS that runs on iPhones, iPods and iPads.
Pretty much everyone on the planet now expects HP to dump Windows and put WebOS on the Slate instead. That could easily push the HP Slate release date back into 2011, by which point a second iPad could be on the cards, and it removes the "it's a PC" selling point. The next few months could be interesting.
The HP Slate has been canned
TechCrunch has reported that a "source" says the Slate has been canned, and that HP may also move away from Intel-based hardware for whatever slate it replaces the, er, Slate with. Both these statements are rumours, though – HP hasn't responded with a comment.
It'll run Flash! It has twin cameras! It will run Windows, unless it doesn't! So what do we actually know about the HP Slate specs, price and release date?
It's time to drive our Truck of Truth through the Roadblock of Rumours. Beep beep!
Even HP says it's HP Slate vs iPad
In a not-deliberately-leaked-oh-no-not-us-no-sirree document that just happened to end up at Engadget, HP very helpfully describes the differences between the HP Slate tablet and the iPad under the headline "HP Slate vs iPad". HP wins on processor speed, expandability, a webcam and expandability, but Apple wins on screen resolution, battery life and - amazingly - price.
The HP Slate specs are pretty impressive
The HP Slate PC is a nifty bit of kit: 1.6HGz Intel Atom Menlow processor, 1GB of RAM, 32 or 64GB of Flash memory that you can expand via the SD card reader, Windows 7 Home Premium and HP's own touch interface.
You get 802.11b/g and Bluetooth, optional 3G, GPS, pen and digitiser support, a VGA webcam, a 3 megapixel camera, a USB port and a dock connector that doubles as an audio interface and HDMI port. The screen's an 8.9-inch WSVGA running at 1024x600 with the obligatory multi-touch panel, light sensor and accelerometer, and graphics come from the 1080p-HD-capable Intel UMA.
The HP Slate price is a bit steep
It's a funny old world when Apple kit is the cheap option, but that's true here: the cheapest iPad is $499, but the cheapest Slate will be $549. That said, the most expensive Slate will be $599 while the priciest iPad will be $829.
European pricing? Like Apple, there's nothing official yet. However, Spanish site Clipset [http://www.clipset.net/hp-slate-primer-contacto/] says it's spoken to HP and the EU price will be €400. At current exchange rates and with VAT on top, that's £410 for the cheapest HP Slate PC.
The HP Slate will run out of puff before the iPad does
The iPad gets 10 hours from its battery; the Slate does five.
The HP Slate will run Flash
Good news for Adobe fans, casual gamers and Chatroulette bits-barers: the Slate supports Flash.
The HP Slate will probably be better for business
Unless HP dumps Windows - more of that in a moment - then the Slate will be the better business machine: it's essentially a Windows PC with the keyboard sawed off.
The iPad's an apple, the Slate is an orange
Where the iPad is an iPod Touch writ large - closed, simple OS, Apple-controlled App Store, little expandability or connectivity - the HP Slate is a PC writ small. That means multitasking, peripherals, getting software from wherever you want and all the other things you expect from a PC, good and bad. It's a completely different philosophy, and it's likely to appeal to a completely different kind of user.
The HP Slate release date might be in 2011
According to Business Insider, HP is being pretty evasive about its Slate release date. That's because…
The HP Slate might run WebOS
HP's acquisition of Palm gives it WebOS, Palm's equivalent of the Apple OS that runs on iPhones, iPods and iPads.
Pretty much everyone on the planet now expects HP to dump Windows and put WebOS on the Slate instead. That could easily push the HP Slate release date back into 2011, by which point a second iPad could be on the cards, and it removes the "it's a PC" selling point. The next few months could be interesting.
The HP Slate has been canned
TechCrunch has reported that a "source" says the Slate has been canned, and that HP may also move away from Intel-based hardware for whatever slate it replaces the, er, Slate with. Both these statements are rumours, though – HP hasn't responded with a comment.
HP brings live migration to HP-UX Unix
While HP didn't say anything about it, the company slipped out is biannual update to its HP-UX Unix variant in March, which was announced this week along with servers using the new "Tukwila" Itanium 9300 servers from Intel.
Of all the features that HP announced for the sixth HP-UX 11i v3 update, the one that is most important and that HP's top brass did not discuss in briefings with El Reg is a big cut in HP-UX prices - but only for the new Tukwila iron.
HP-UX 11i v3, which was announced in 2007, was updated in the March release (which has no funny code name or dot-release designation) to include support for the quad-core Tukwila Itaniums. The Tukwilas sport the QuickPath Interconnect and make use of the "Boxboro" chipset from Intel in the Integrity BL860c i2, BL870c i2, and BL890c i2 blade servers that started shipping this week. (The rx2800 i2 rack server and high-end Superdome 2 bladed server will not ship until the second half of the year.)
Two years ago, when HP changed the packaging and pricing on HP-UX 11i v3, it didn't give out pricing. But I eventually managed to get HP's online configurators to give me most of the data a few months later, so HP relented and spilled the beans on per-core HP-UX pricing. According to the HP-UX 11iv3 site that HP put up in the wake of the Tukwila server announcements, the company is shifting from per core to per socket pricing on the new Tukwila BL blade servers.
HP has not divulged the revised pricing, as before, but in a press release announcing the March 2010 update (formerly known as Update 6 but now using a month-year naming scheme), HP said that list prices for the March 2010 update on the Integrity BL series blades would start at $1,050 per socket, "representing up to a 50 per cent software price reduction per core."
The Base Operating Environment (OE) bundle of HP-UX 11i v3 was pretty cheap on the prior BL860c blades, which have two dual-core Itanium 9100 processors, at a price of $225 per core. The Virtual Server OE, which includes Integrity VMs and vPar partitions, cost a lot more, at $4,420 per core. On the four-socket, double-wide BL870c blade using these older Itanium 9100 chips, HP-UX Base OE cost $995 per socket and Virtual Server OE cost $5,100 per socket.
The High Availability OE, which includes clustering, cost a bit more and the Data Center OE, which has clustering and virtualization wrapped together, cost between $8,120 and $11,130 per core, depending in the Integrity machine.
If HP is going to double up the performance of the Integrity lineup and cut HP-UX license fees in half across the board, that means the extra hardware bang will not cost extra software-stack bucks. Twice the performance will have essentially the same software price. That probably keeps HP in the Unix hunt - provided the reduced per-core pricing applies equally well to the rx2800 i2 and Superdome 2 machines that have yet to ship, and across all of the four OE bundles for the operating system in a more or less equal fashion. El Reg is attempting to get the detailed HP-UX pricing to figure out if this is the case.
Aside from the support of the Tukwila iron and the price cut for software licenses on those new machines, the other big change with the March 2010 update of HP-UX 11i v3 is that Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2, HP's homegrown virtual machine hypervisor for Itanium iron, has live migration, allowing for the teleportation of running virtual machines and their workloads between hardware partitions on a single box or from one physical server to another.
The March 2010 update of HP-UX also integrates with HP's Insight Control power management and Insight Dynamics Infrastructure Orchestration tools, key features of its BladeSystem Matrix cloud-in-a-box stack announced a year ago on ProLiant machines. HP said this week that it will later this year deliver a BladeSystem Matrix setup based on the new Integrity Tukwila blades and HP-UX, so it will be HP from top to bottom. The ProLiant Matrix setup runs Linux or Windows, neither of which HP owns. Yet. ®
Of all the features that HP announced for the sixth HP-UX 11i v3 update, the one that is most important and that HP's top brass did not discuss in briefings with El Reg is a big cut in HP-UX prices - but only for the new Tukwila iron.
HP-UX 11i v3, which was announced in 2007, was updated in the March release (which has no funny code name or dot-release designation) to include support for the quad-core Tukwila Itaniums. The Tukwilas sport the QuickPath Interconnect and make use of the "Boxboro" chipset from Intel in the Integrity BL860c i2, BL870c i2, and BL890c i2 blade servers that started shipping this week. (The rx2800 i2 rack server and high-end Superdome 2 bladed server will not ship until the second half of the year.)
Two years ago, when HP changed the packaging and pricing on HP-UX 11i v3, it didn't give out pricing. But I eventually managed to get HP's online configurators to give me most of the data a few months later, so HP relented and spilled the beans on per-core HP-UX pricing. According to the HP-UX 11iv3 site that HP put up in the wake of the Tukwila server announcements, the company is shifting from per core to per socket pricing on the new Tukwila BL blade servers.
HP has not divulged the revised pricing, as before, but in a press release announcing the March 2010 update (formerly known as Update 6 but now using a month-year naming scheme), HP said that list prices for the March 2010 update on the Integrity BL series blades would start at $1,050 per socket, "representing up to a 50 per cent software price reduction per core."
The Base Operating Environment (OE) bundle of HP-UX 11i v3 was pretty cheap on the prior BL860c blades, which have two dual-core Itanium 9100 processors, at a price of $225 per core. The Virtual Server OE, which includes Integrity VMs and vPar partitions, cost a lot more, at $4,420 per core. On the four-socket, double-wide BL870c blade using these older Itanium 9100 chips, HP-UX Base OE cost $995 per socket and Virtual Server OE cost $5,100 per socket.
The High Availability OE, which includes clustering, cost a bit more and the Data Center OE, which has clustering and virtualization wrapped together, cost between $8,120 and $11,130 per core, depending in the Integrity machine.
If HP is going to double up the performance of the Integrity lineup and cut HP-UX license fees in half across the board, that means the extra hardware bang will not cost extra software-stack bucks. Twice the performance will have essentially the same software price. That probably keeps HP in the Unix hunt - provided the reduced per-core pricing applies equally well to the rx2800 i2 and Superdome 2 machines that have yet to ship, and across all of the four OE bundles for the operating system in a more or less equal fashion. El Reg is attempting to get the detailed HP-UX pricing to figure out if this is the case.
Aside from the support of the Tukwila iron and the price cut for software licenses on those new machines, the other big change with the March 2010 update of HP-UX 11i v3 is that Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2, HP's homegrown virtual machine hypervisor for Itanium iron, has live migration, allowing for the teleportation of running virtual machines and their workloads between hardware partitions on a single box or from one physical server to another.
The March 2010 update of HP-UX also integrates with HP's Insight Control power management and Insight Dynamics Infrastructure Orchestration tools, key features of its BladeSystem Matrix cloud-in-a-box stack announced a year ago on ProLiant machines. HP said this week that it will later this year deliver a BladeSystem Matrix setup based on the new Integrity Tukwila blades and HP-UX, so it will be HP from top to bottom. The ProLiant Matrix setup runs Linux or Windows, neither of which HP owns. Yet. ®
HP Expected to Pursue Tablets with Palm WebOS, sans Microsoft
Hewlett-Packard, following its acquisition of Palm, is expected to use WebOS to gain new leverage in the tablet market, even though it would leave HP without the investment and marketing backing of longtime partner Microsoft.
Palm's WebOS mobile platform was said to be a list-topping asset, when the smartphone maker went shopping for a purchaser. And indeed, following the April 28 announcement that HP will acquire Palm for $1.2 billion, analysts are agreeing that WebOS was a major factor in the decision, particularly as it could potentially help HP compete more effectively in the growing tablet market.
Additionally, while a tablet running WebOS would diversify HP's mobile offerings and arouse new interest, it could potentially strain the PC leader's longtime relationship with Microsoft—with which it has previously developed tablet PCs.
"We believe at the end of the day this deal is about Palm's WebOS operating system. While there are only about 2,000 applications supporting WebOS, it is considered to be an easy platform for developers to create new applications," several IDC analysts wrote in an April 28 report. "Additionally, WebOS' similarities [to] Linux-based PC distributions [make] it a much easier transaction for PC-focused developers to get into mobile apps—something that as the leading PC maker HP should be able to capitalize on and galvanize support for."
Ovum analyst Tony Cripps agreed in an April 29 report, saying, "WebOS could indeed become a major asset for HP and obviously has scope for use on devices such as tablets—Palm's engineers and designers clearly put a lot of time and effort into creating a very slick user experience."
Despite the April 23 resignation of Palm's senior vice president of software and services, Mike Abbott, the continued presence of current Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein, as well as other members of WebOS team, has also been pointed to as a coup for HP.
IDC, too, has said it believes that WebOS is positioned well for a "relatively easy migration" to media tablets—a space that IDC expects to grow to 7.6 million units by year's end, and to approach 50 million units by 2014.
"However, unlike in the PC business, [HP's] investment and marketing will not be shared with Microsoft; it will be HP's alone to bear," IDC said in its report. "This acquisition will stress HP's relationship with Microsoft, but given the company's scale and likely continued support of Windows 7 Mobile, it will not seriously damage it."
On April 29, however, TechCrunch, citing "a source who's been briefed on the matter," reported that HP intends to kill its planned "Slate" tablet with Microsoft and to release the device later in 2010 with an adapted version of WebOS. HP has offered no such information.
While Apple, with its newly released and so far successful iPad, has breathed new life into the tablet form factor, Technology Business Research analyst Ken Hyers said he believes the space is still wide open for competition.
"[The] tablet computing space has not yet been well defined by any single manufacturer or OS, giving HP, with its extensive PC manufacturing expertise, a chance to become a key player in the new market segment," Hyers wrote in an April 29 report.
The Palm acquisition gives HP leverage to compete against Apple, Hyers added, in Apple's effort to use the iPad "to redefine the tablet PC space in the same way that it did for digital music players and smartphones."
That said, HP will still have its line of enterprise-geared tablet PCs with Microsoft, as well as a number of iPaq handsets, not to mention PCs, which together should keep the Microsoft-HP relationship on good terms.
And while the current HP tablet PCs running Microsoft don't have a great user interface, since Microsoft basically tried to translate a PC OS to a tablet, Hyers told eWEEK, "with the release of Windows Mobile 7 at the end of the year, that gives Microsoft and HP a chance to reset the Microsoft tablet initiative. Because with Windows Mobile 7 you will have an OS that's specifically developed for a touch-screen environment."
Hyers added, "You won't hear an end to HP's Microsoft products any time soon. No enterprise IT manager has ever been fired for buying Microsoft products."
Palm's WebOS mobile platform was said to be a list-topping asset, when the smartphone maker went shopping for a purchaser. And indeed, following the April 28 announcement that HP will acquire Palm for $1.2 billion, analysts are agreeing that WebOS was a major factor in the decision, particularly as it could potentially help HP compete more effectively in the growing tablet market.
Additionally, while a tablet running WebOS would diversify HP's mobile offerings and arouse new interest, it could potentially strain the PC leader's longtime relationship with Microsoft—with which it has previously developed tablet PCs.
"We believe at the end of the day this deal is about Palm's WebOS operating system. While there are only about 2,000 applications supporting WebOS, it is considered to be an easy platform for developers to create new applications," several IDC analysts wrote in an April 28 report. "Additionally, WebOS' similarities [to] Linux-based PC distributions [make] it a much easier transaction for PC-focused developers to get into mobile apps—something that as the leading PC maker HP should be able to capitalize on and galvanize support for."
Ovum analyst Tony Cripps agreed in an April 29 report, saying, "WebOS could indeed become a major asset for HP and obviously has scope for use on devices such as tablets—Palm's engineers and designers clearly put a lot of time and effort into creating a very slick user experience."
Despite the April 23 resignation of Palm's senior vice president of software and services, Mike Abbott, the continued presence of current Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein, as well as other members of WebOS team, has also been pointed to as a coup for HP.
IDC, too, has said it believes that WebOS is positioned well for a "relatively easy migration" to media tablets—a space that IDC expects to grow to 7.6 million units by year's end, and to approach 50 million units by 2014.
"However, unlike in the PC business, [HP's] investment and marketing will not be shared with Microsoft; it will be HP's alone to bear," IDC said in its report. "This acquisition will stress HP's relationship with Microsoft, but given the company's scale and likely continued support of Windows 7 Mobile, it will not seriously damage it."
On April 29, however, TechCrunch, citing "a source who's been briefed on the matter," reported that HP intends to kill its planned "Slate" tablet with Microsoft and to release the device later in 2010 with an adapted version of WebOS. HP has offered no such information.
While Apple, with its newly released and so far successful iPad, has breathed new life into the tablet form factor, Technology Business Research analyst Ken Hyers said he believes the space is still wide open for competition.
"[The] tablet computing space has not yet been well defined by any single manufacturer or OS, giving HP, with its extensive PC manufacturing expertise, a chance to become a key player in the new market segment," Hyers wrote in an April 29 report.
The Palm acquisition gives HP leverage to compete against Apple, Hyers added, in Apple's effort to use the iPad "to redefine the tablet PC space in the same way that it did for digital music players and smartphones."
That said, HP will still have its line of enterprise-geared tablet PCs with Microsoft, as well as a number of iPaq handsets, not to mention PCs, which together should keep the Microsoft-HP relationship on good terms.
And while the current HP tablet PCs running Microsoft don't have a great user interface, since Microsoft basically tried to translate a PC OS to a tablet, Hyers told eWEEK, "with the release of Windows Mobile 7 at the end of the year, that gives Microsoft and HP a chance to reset the Microsoft tablet initiative. Because with Windows Mobile 7 you will have an OS that's specifically developed for a touch-screen environment."
Hyers added, "You won't hear an end to HP's Microsoft products any time soon. No enterprise IT manager has ever been fired for buying Microsoft products."
HP: Fatal Crash Involved Pickup Driving Wrong Way
BERESFORD, SD -
Two people are dead after one of the cars went the wrong way on Interstate 29 and crashed into another head-on.
It happened Friday night around 10 p.m., just north of Beresford. South Dakota Highway Patrol says a Ford pickup was driving north in a southbound passing lane on I-29. It hit another pickup going the correct way in the lane.
Officials say both vehicles completely burned. Highway Patrol says only one person was in each pickup, and both were killed when the vehicles crashed.
Authorities don't know if either driver was wearing a seat belt. They also don't know if alcohol was a factor in the crash. South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating.
Two people are dead after one of the cars went the wrong way on Interstate 29 and crashed into another head-on.
It happened Friday night around 10 p.m., just north of Beresford. South Dakota Highway Patrol says a Ford pickup was driving north in a southbound passing lane on I-29. It hit another pickup going the correct way in the lane.
Officials say both vehicles completely burned. Highway Patrol says only one person was in each pickup, and both were killed when the vehicles crashed.
Authorities don't know if either driver was wearing a seat belt. They also don't know if alcohol was a factor in the crash. South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating.
The purchase of Palm opens cracks between HP and Microsoft in the mobile business
he image of Steve Ballmer at CES in Las Vegas in early January with a tablet bearing HP’s Windows software has become in just three months old. The move by HP and Microsoft for the announcement of the IPAD contraprogramar Apple just two weeks after it has become fireworks. On Friday it became known, through Techcrunch, the largest PC maker in the world paralyzed the launch of its slate tablet. A project that HP had promoted over the past few weeks through a variety of videos in which experts were showing some of the technical characteristics of the device.
The company declined to comment, but sources close to the computer maker said that the purchase of Palm changes the whole scenario. In conclusion of the transaction, HP will have access to the Palm operating system WebOS and its more than 1,600 patents. “This gives HP the ability to create an own platform (combining software and hardware) that could be used in tablets, smartphones, netbooks and other mobile devices that can arise in the future. A move also allowed to differ from its competition, “he assures CincoDías industry sources.
This scenario has a clear victim, who is none other than Microsoft. If HP creates the platform, the great harm is Windows, which until now has played a major role in the vast majority of devices in the computer maker. If so, would be a setback for the company of Steve Ballmer’s intention to gain positions in the competitive and booming wireless business, which has lost significant ground in recent years over its rivals. In 2009, according to Gartner, Windows Mobile had a market share globally of 8.7% compared to 11.8% last year.
HP platform’s future would be willing to compete with other platforms with Apple and Google, who have taken an unstoppable force in this market. In fact, in February and only in the U.S., Android recorded a market share of 9% compared to 42.1% of Blackberry, Apple’s 25.4% and 15.1% of Windows Mobile.
While Microsoft took the stage at CES with two tablets equipped with Windows 7, Archos and Pegatron companies, the HP was its strong commitment to stop Apple pull IPAD. This and his own tablet Courier, a prototype that although the software giant never officially presented in the press had shown as the anti-IPAD of Microsoft. But curiously, the Redmond company also has parked this project, throwing in the towel, at least for now, the war on the tablet. Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s official spokesman, told The Wall Street Journal that his company “have no plans to build a device like this at this time.”
Both HP’s maneuver as Microsoft’s decision to put an end to the project Courier, a device with two touch screens and appearance of the book, is a clear winner against Apple. Although the news that HP is not the first PC manufacturer in the world is removed from the market for tablets, it will likely delay the arrival of HP in this business. Something that opens the field open to Apple to boost sales of its IPAD in the absence of rivals.
However, it is to see the success achieved by moving to HP WebOS. This Palm software is one of the most interesting mobile OS market, but competition to facing the software giant is not trivial, as evidenced by recent results of the handset maker. Alternatives Android Google and Apple are hard to crack.
The company declined to comment, but sources close to the computer maker said that the purchase of Palm changes the whole scenario. In conclusion of the transaction, HP will have access to the Palm operating system WebOS and its more than 1,600 patents. “This gives HP the ability to create an own platform (combining software and hardware) that could be used in tablets, smartphones, netbooks and other mobile devices that can arise in the future. A move also allowed to differ from its competition, “he assures CincoDías industry sources.
This scenario has a clear victim, who is none other than Microsoft. If HP creates the platform, the great harm is Windows, which until now has played a major role in the vast majority of devices in the computer maker. If so, would be a setback for the company of Steve Ballmer’s intention to gain positions in the competitive and booming wireless business, which has lost significant ground in recent years over its rivals. In 2009, according to Gartner, Windows Mobile had a market share globally of 8.7% compared to 11.8% last year.
HP platform’s future would be willing to compete with other platforms with Apple and Google, who have taken an unstoppable force in this market. In fact, in February and only in the U.S., Android recorded a market share of 9% compared to 42.1% of Blackberry, Apple’s 25.4% and 15.1% of Windows Mobile.
While Microsoft took the stage at CES with two tablets equipped with Windows 7, Archos and Pegatron companies, the HP was its strong commitment to stop Apple pull IPAD. This and his own tablet Courier, a prototype that although the software giant never officially presented in the press had shown as the anti-IPAD of Microsoft. But curiously, the Redmond company also has parked this project, throwing in the towel, at least for now, the war on the tablet. Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s official spokesman, told The Wall Street Journal that his company “have no plans to build a device like this at this time.”
Both HP’s maneuver as Microsoft’s decision to put an end to the project Courier, a device with two touch screens and appearance of the book, is a clear winner against Apple. Although the news that HP is not the first PC manufacturer in the world is removed from the market for tablets, it will likely delay the arrival of HP in this business. Something that opens the field open to Apple to boost sales of its IPAD in the absence of rivals.
However, it is to see the success achieved by moving to HP WebOS. This Palm software is one of the most interesting mobile OS market, but competition to facing the software giant is not trivial, as evidenced by recent results of the handset maker. Alternatives Android Google and Apple are hard to crack.
HP-Windows 7 Discontinued?
Here’s another bit of disappointing news for this weekend albeit not yet confirmed. Remember the HP Slate tablet that was shown off on video last March? Well, that too might suffer that same fate as the LG GW990.
A source “who’s been briefed on the matter” reveals that the Windows 7-based Intel-powered tablet from HP has been canned citing that “it’s too power hungry” as the reason for foregoing its further development and public release. Speculation is that a similarly designed HP tablet could be announced later this year with either Google Chrome or Android as its OS. HP’s recent acquisition of Palm also suggests that a webOS-powered HP Slate might be unveiled in the near future as well.
HP hasn’t commented on these new rumors yet though we are hoping to get some sort of confirmation in the coming days or weeks. For now, we’re listing the future of the Windows 7 HP Slate as questionable.
A source “who’s been briefed on the matter” reveals that the Windows 7-based Intel-powered tablet from HP has been canned citing that “it’s too power hungry” as the reason for foregoing its further development and public release. Speculation is that a similarly designed HP tablet could be announced later this year with either Google Chrome or Android as its OS. HP’s recent acquisition of Palm also suggests that a webOS-powered HP Slate might be unveiled in the near future as well.
HP hasn’t commented on these new rumors yet though we are hoping to get some sort of confirmation in the coming days or weeks. For now, we’re listing the future of the Windows 7 HP Slate as questionable.
Is HP dumping Windows 7 from its Slate tablet computer?
With this week's news that HP is buying Palm and their webOS mobile operating system, rumors are hot that the Windows 7 HP Slate tablet is being canceled, to be replaced by a webOS powered model.
Windows 7 is a desktop OS, not a mobile OS
When Microsoft's Steve Ballmer demoed a Slate at a trade show earlier this year, both HP and Microsoft's stock fell the next day. The demo obviously didn't go that well, and anyone who's tried to run a Microsoft OS on a underpowered computer can understand why Windows 7 isn't well-suited for a resource-constrained device.
According to technology pundit, Michael Arrington, "HP is not satisfied with Windows 7 as a tablet operating system." Since Windows Phone 7 isn't production-ready and now HP owns their own highly-regarded (if not high-selling) mobile OS, it makes sense for the company to use webOS on a new version of the Slate.
Attracting developers to the webOS Slate
The key to HP's success with the Slate is attracting programming talent to develop apps for the device, especially since they've lost the entire library of Windows programs.
This will be a difficult battle for HP, since they are competing with Apple's iPhone OS and Google's Android, both with robust app markets. Windows Phone 7 also has an established community of .NET developers working on apps for that OS.
Will HP's retail connections save the day?
HP can draw on their massive retail presence at technology stores to help move the Slate. Apple counters with their App Stores, including the one at the Easton Town Center in Columbus, as well as Best Buy stores with Apple sections.
These days, it's the work of developers that add sizzle to any mobile platform, and that will be the ultimate challenge for the HP Slate to become anything beyond a good idea with nice technical specs.
Windows 7 is a desktop OS, not a mobile OS
When Microsoft's Steve Ballmer demoed a Slate at a trade show earlier this year, both HP and Microsoft's stock fell the next day. The demo obviously didn't go that well, and anyone who's tried to run a Microsoft OS on a underpowered computer can understand why Windows 7 isn't well-suited for a resource-constrained device.
According to technology pundit, Michael Arrington, "HP is not satisfied with Windows 7 as a tablet operating system." Since Windows Phone 7 isn't production-ready and now HP owns their own highly-regarded (if not high-selling) mobile OS, it makes sense for the company to use webOS on a new version of the Slate.
Attracting developers to the webOS Slate
The key to HP's success with the Slate is attracting programming talent to develop apps for the device, especially since they've lost the entire library of Windows programs.
This will be a difficult battle for HP, since they are competing with Apple's iPhone OS and Google's Android, both with robust app markets. Windows Phone 7 also has an established community of .NET developers working on apps for that OS.
Will HP's retail connections save the day?
HP can draw on their massive retail presence at technology stores to help move the Slate. Apple counters with their App Stores, including the one at the Easton Town Center in Columbus, as well as Best Buy stores with Apple sections.
These days, it's the work of developers that add sizzle to any mobile platform, and that will be the ultimate challenge for the HP Slate to become anything beyond a good idea with nice technical specs.
HP-Palm Deal About Apple, Microsoft & Google
I've often discussed in this space, the ongoing battle among the technology titans--that constant struggle to find the missing link to control the computing world. This week, HP made its move when it purchased Palm for $1.2 billion. On first blush, it looks like an incredibly stupid step, overpaying for a company nobody wanted and that was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Yet some technology analysts see this as a very shrewd move on HP's part, one that gives it its own mobile operating system and entree into the lucrative and growing mobile market.
Make no mistake though, this is all about getting the best of Microsoft, Google and Apple. And with this purchase, HP gave notice it was grabbing a place at the mobile table. But their ticket was a washed out brand with little or no market share. What's more, the other players are far ahead of HP. It's difficult for me to see how HP dollars can magically transform Palm into a silk purse, but they have paid the money and they believe they can make it work.
It's Going To take a Huge Investment
Some writers like analyst Michael Gartenberg believe that HP can give Palm what it's been lacking, namely money and manufacturing scale, but the billion dollar question is whether HP can throw enough money at this deal to ever make it work? Analyst Adam Leach from Ovum says there are certainly no guarantees that the HP-Palm marriage will be a successful one.
"To compete with Google, Apple and Microsoft; HP will have to invest heavily in both the Palm brand, new products and crucially into WebOS." He adds, "WebOS needs to provide functional parity with its software competitors in order for HP to be successful. Specifically, HP needs to transform Palm into a global consumer brand, build compelling content partnerships and rebuild Palm’s once vibrant third party developer community." That is a might tall order for any organization, especially when Apple, Google, Microsoft (and others) have a huge head start in the market.
It's Going to Take a Ton of Work
Most observers believe that merging the two companies will go smoothly, but even if it does proceed harmoniously, it remains to be seen if HP can build a rich set of products that capture the imagination of consumers and do it quickly. Leach says it's going to be a challenge. "It is not completely out of the question that HP can make a success of this, but it does represent a significant challenge in what is a very crowded market place." Leach says there is one thing in HP's favor here though: the fickleness of the mobile market.
"Fortunes can change quickly in the mobile market. While a lot of HP's competitors are relying on software from other vendors, HP at least has the opportunity to differentiate its products," Leach said. This means they can build a product free of Apple's, Google's or (especially) Microsoft's operating system.
On the face of it, finding a way to free itself of its dependence on its rivals is a great move, but HP had to go with a soft brand to make this happen. It seems unlikely to me that it can leapfrog its competitors with Palm technology. Unfortunately for HP, it made this move a day late and dollar short.
Make no mistake though, this is all about getting the best of Microsoft, Google and Apple. And with this purchase, HP gave notice it was grabbing a place at the mobile table. But their ticket was a washed out brand with little or no market share. What's more, the other players are far ahead of HP. It's difficult for me to see how HP dollars can magically transform Palm into a silk purse, but they have paid the money and they believe they can make it work.
It's Going To take a Huge Investment
Some writers like analyst Michael Gartenberg believe that HP can give Palm what it's been lacking, namely money and manufacturing scale, but the billion dollar question is whether HP can throw enough money at this deal to ever make it work? Analyst Adam Leach from Ovum says there are certainly no guarantees that the HP-Palm marriage will be a successful one.
"To compete with Google, Apple and Microsoft; HP will have to invest heavily in both the Palm brand, new products and crucially into WebOS." He adds, "WebOS needs to provide functional parity with its software competitors in order for HP to be successful. Specifically, HP needs to transform Palm into a global consumer brand, build compelling content partnerships and rebuild Palm’s once vibrant third party developer community." That is a might tall order for any organization, especially when Apple, Google, Microsoft (and others) have a huge head start in the market.
It's Going to Take a Ton of Work
Most observers believe that merging the two companies will go smoothly, but even if it does proceed harmoniously, it remains to be seen if HP can build a rich set of products that capture the imagination of consumers and do it quickly. Leach says it's going to be a challenge. "It is not completely out of the question that HP can make a success of this, but it does represent a significant challenge in what is a very crowded market place." Leach says there is one thing in HP's favor here though: the fickleness of the mobile market.
"Fortunes can change quickly in the mobile market. While a lot of HP's competitors are relying on software from other vendors, HP at least has the opportunity to differentiate its products," Leach said. This means they can build a product free of Apple's, Google's or (especially) Microsoft's operating system.
On the face of it, finding a way to free itself of its dependence on its rivals is a great move, but HP had to go with a soft brand to make this happen. It seems unlikely to me that it can leapfrog its competitors with Palm technology. Unfortunately for HP, it made this move a day late and dollar short.
HP drops Windows 7 from Slate tablet
It was made public to the world by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer himself but an unconfirmed report now says that HP is ditching Windows 7 from its high-profile but unreleased Slate tablet computer.
According to an unnamed inside source quoted by the TechCrunch website, HP has not been happy with the performance of Windows 7 running on the Slate. Not perhaps surprising given its desktop orientation, the OS is too power-hungry and, although not mentioned in the story, each use of the OS incurs licence fees that raise the cost of any final product.
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Slate Wars: 15 Tablets That Could Rival Apple's iPad
The site claims that HP could also be about to abandon Intel hardware. If both the OS and microprocessor go, the obvious conclusion is that HP is looking to use WebOS, a dedicated Smartphone platform it acquired as part of this week's surprise deal to buy Palm.
Is the Palm deal a good idea? If it rejuvenates the Slate and its successors, it could provide a sound economic platform for a segment of the computer market that will otherwise benefit only the established companies such as Apple, Microsoft and perhaps indirectly, Google.
According to an unnamed inside source quoted by the TechCrunch website, HP has not been happy with the performance of Windows 7 running on the Slate. Not perhaps surprising given its desktop orientation, the OS is too power-hungry and, although not mentioned in the story, each use of the OS incurs licence fees that raise the cost of any final product.
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Slate Wars: 15 Tablets That Could Rival Apple's iPad
The site claims that HP could also be about to abandon Intel hardware. If both the OS and microprocessor go, the obvious conclusion is that HP is looking to use WebOS, a dedicated Smartphone platform it acquired as part of this week's surprise deal to buy Palm.
Is the Palm deal a good idea? If it rejuvenates the Slate and its successors, it could provide a sound economic platform for a segment of the computer market that will otherwise benefit only the established companies such as Apple, Microsoft and perhaps indirectly, Google.
HP shelves ‘Slate’ tablet project indefinitely
In what might largely be seen as an upshot of HP’s acquisition move pertaining to Palm and its much-acclaimed webOS, published reports say that HP is cancelling its the Windows 7 powered ‘Slate’ tablet device which had been introduced by the Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the Consumer Electronics Show this year.
Though HP released a promotional video, in early April, underlining the key advantages of the Slate vis-à-vis the Apple iPad, Techcrunch reports say that the PC giant is probably not too happy with the Windows 7’s performance on tablet, and may likely leverage its newly-acquired webOS in a tablet device of its own.
Tech blog Gizmodo, which cited unnamed ‘inside’ sources who claimed that the ‘Slate’ project had been deferred for an indefinite period, said: “Microsoft execs informed the internal team that had been working on the tablet device that the project would no longer be supported.”
In the opinion of most industry observers, HP’s decision to acquire Palm for $1.2 billion - a move that makes HP a direct competitor of Microsoft in the key smartphone arena – has prompted the cancellation of the Windows 7 powered tablet; thereby hampering the HP-Microsoft association.
Meanwhile, with the Slate project being shelved, the Apple iPad will likely have a few months as a sole tablet device on the market; thereby giving it the opportunity to substantiate its leading position.
Though HP released a promotional video, in early April, underlining the key advantages of the Slate vis-à-vis the Apple iPad, Techcrunch reports say that the PC giant is probably not too happy with the Windows 7’s performance on tablet, and may likely leverage its newly-acquired webOS in a tablet device of its own.
Tech blog Gizmodo, which cited unnamed ‘inside’ sources who claimed that the ‘Slate’ project had been deferred for an indefinite period, said: “Microsoft execs informed the internal team that had been working on the tablet device that the project would no longer be supported.”
In the opinion of most industry observers, HP’s decision to acquire Palm for $1.2 billion - a move that makes HP a direct competitor of Microsoft in the key smartphone arena – has prompted the cancellation of the Windows 7 powered tablet; thereby hampering the HP-Microsoft association.
Meanwhile, with the Slate project being shelved, the Apple iPad will likely have a few months as a sole tablet device on the market; thereby giving it the opportunity to substantiate its leading position.
Friday, April 16, 2010
HP Compaq 2230s Review
The HP Compaq 2230s, sporting a newly-designed reflective black-on-black satin finish offers the latest Intel processors in a 12.1" widescreen for affordable business computing.
Features
Featuring genuine Windows for a familiar and intuitive environment
• Built to simplify. HP Wireless Assistant ensures you can easily identify and quickly enable or disable your wireless devices to enhance your notebook's battery life.
• HP SpareKey allows you to answer 3 personal questions that will identify yourself and let you gain access to your system, even if you have forgotten your password.
• Built to protect. HP ProtectTools Security Manager allows you to Manage your security features from a single console. Security software modules give you the flexibility to design a security solution that meets your needs.
• HP 3D Driveguard helps protect your notebook's hard drive against impact, bumps or drops using a 3-axis digital accelerometer that acts as a motion sensor and temporarily parks the hard drive where there are sudden movements.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
HP Slate Release Date 2010 & iPad 3g Release Date Anticipation – Dates Coming Soon?
The HP Slate release date and the iPad 3g release date are exciting for many individuals. The iPad 3g will be released by the end of this month, and there’s no concrete word on when the HP Slate will be released, either.
Apple iPhone 4.0 OS release date
The HP Slate release date is rumored to be sometime in the fall of 2010. The Slate includes USB ports, a webcam, Flash support, and an SD card reader. It operates on the Windows 7 operating system and will support all the same Windows based software that we are used to.
Verizon iPhone Release Date
The iPad 3g doesn’t have many of the same specs that the HP slate has. However, you can still do a multitude of things on the tablet that you could on a laptop and there’s even applicatons that allow you to use spreadsheets and word processors and transfer the files back and forth to the format for MS Office.
The HP Slate release date is anticipated by PC lovers, and the iPad 3g release date is anxiously awaited by those that want an iPad and want to be able to use it everywhere that they go.
Still yet, the HP Slate and the iPad 3g are two very different products. If you really are a gadget lover you can get them both and enjoy them both – there’s nothing wrong with that.
Apple iPhone 4.0 OS release date
The HP Slate release date is rumored to be sometime in the fall of 2010. The Slate includes USB ports, a webcam, Flash support, and an SD card reader. It operates on the Windows 7 operating system and will support all the same Windows based software that we are used to.
Verizon iPhone Release Date
The iPad 3g doesn’t have many of the same specs that the HP slate has. However, you can still do a multitude of things on the tablet that you could on a laptop and there’s even applicatons that allow you to use spreadsheets and word processors and transfer the files back and forth to the format for MS Office.
The HP Slate release date is anticipated by PC lovers, and the iPad 3g release date is anxiously awaited by those that want an iPad and want to be able to use it everywhere that they go.
Still yet, the HP Slate and the iPad 3g are two very different products. If you really are a gadget lover you can get them both and enjoy them both – there’s nothing wrong with that.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Taylor Swift at HP Pavilion
That’s popular music’s most elusive trait, but one that could be found from start to (nearly) finish at Taylor Swift’s winning concert Sunday night at the HP Pavilion.
It was there as the singer opened her San Jose show – which, like every other date on her “Fearless Tour,” sold out in mere minutes – with a high school motif that featured dancers dressed up as cheerleaders and musicians in marching band uniforms. The 20-year-old country/pop vocalist wore a majorette’s outfit, complete with a tall feathered hat, as she belted out a spunky version of 2009’s most-played radio hit, “You Belong With Me.”
As the song drew to a dramatic close, the cheerleaders tore off Swift’s uniform to reveal the glamorous gown underneath. It was just like in one of those popular teen flicks, where the nerdy girl takes off her glasses and suddenly transforms into the prom queen – and the storyline worked perfectly for Swift.
This wasn’t the Black Eyed Peas grooving with robots, Alicia Keys singing from a cage or Jon Bon Jovi acting like he’s auditioning for an Andrew Lloyd Webber production – all of which local crowds have witnessed in recent months – but something that actually made sense for the situation.
Although Swift is only a few years removed from high school, however, her songs are vastly more mature than what one finds with Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers and other stars from her age group. It’s her ability to translate her teenage experiences into solidly written, and amazingly catchy, songs that has made her a hit with fans of all ages.
Moms and daughters, as well as groups of teens and couples out for a date night, sang along with equal gusto as Swift detailed young romance in “Our Song,” an aching heart with “Forever and Always” and a great first date in “Fearless” (the title track to Swift’s second release, which was the best-selling album of last year).
The backdrop changed on a regular basis, conjuring up such settings as a school library for “Teardrops on My Guitar” and a fairytale kingdom during “Love Story,” and every bit of the eye candy strengthened the messages found in the music.
Swift proved remarkably versatile as a vocalist, finding equal success with tender ballads like “Tim McGraw” and old-school country rockers such as “Picture to Burn,” both of which hail from the star’s eponymous 2006 debut.
As good as she was on the microphone, however, she might have been even better when she wasn’t singing. She spent a surprising amount of time, perhaps the most I’ve ever seen at a major concert, interacting with the crowd, touching countless hands, delivering dozens of warm hugs and thanking her fans for their support.
Other big-name celebrities attempt similar endeavors, and the results usually stink of mere gimmickry. Swift, on the other hand, makes those efforts feel like they’re coming from the bottom of her heart. If she’s faking it, the star deserves an acting trophy to go along with all the music awards already on her mantel.
The two-hour show proved, beyond all reasonable doubt, that Swift deserves her spot among today’s most talented performers. What it didn’t answer, though, was whether she has what it takes to stay on top – and, indeed, it might be too early to tell.
Her odes to adolescent love and teenage-boy troubles sound mighty authentic coming from her lips in 2010. Yet, how will they sound when she sings them as a 30-year old? She’s already attempting to explore more mature rock sounds, venturing into the alt-rock world of Evanescence and punching up the folk-pop-piano vibe of Fiona Apple, and the results in San Jose weren’t particularly impressive.
In fact, the low point of the evening came during its final number, when the singer moved completely out of her comfort zone to deliver an over-the-top version of “Should’ve Said No” that seemed better suited for Britney Spears. It was in that moment, and fortunately that moment only, that Swift seemed far from genuine.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Installing Ubuntu on HP Pavillion
With there being so much talk about the Ubuntu operating system, I decided to buy and install the Ubuntu operating system on my HP Pavillion a735w. I currently had the XP operating system on my HP Pavillion, and decided to install Ubuntu as a dual boot so I could retain my Windows XP operating system. An earlier article on AC described how easy the process was, so I decided that surely I could install and use Ubuntu with little or no trouble.
Before I installed the new operating system, I tried the live cd and it seemed to work without problems. I loved the clean look of the desktop, and while I was confused by the menus, I decided to proceed with the Ubuntu install.
During the install, everything went smoothly just as described in the previous article. I was pretty happy when I removed the disk and restarted the computer and booted up with Ubuntu. Ubuntu loaded quickly, much quicker than Windows XP did.
One of the first things I did was sample the games and play music, and that was where I found my first problem. The music tracks played, but I had to turn the speaker volume all the way up and still the music was muffled. It wasn't until I did some research that I found out that Ubuntu doesn't recognize popular file types. It is necessary to install codecs in order for the Ubuntu operating system to process popular files such as Quicktime.
The most important thing for me is internet access. Unfortunately, nobody told me that it was nearly impossible to get a dialup modem working in Ubuntu. It has been over a week now, and despite hours of installing driver packages and following programming instructions given at the Ubuntu Forums, my dialup modem is still not working in Ubuntu. Several posters have told me to switch to DSL or cable internet access, but that is not an option for me due to my location.
Since I do have XP still installed on my computer, I have switched back to it for most things. While there is some great free software available for Ubuntu, without internet access most of it is unavailable. I would gladly start using Ubuntu if there was a way to get my HP Pavillion online.
Before I installed the new operating system, I tried the live cd and it seemed to work without problems. I loved the clean look of the desktop, and while I was confused by the menus, I decided to proceed with the Ubuntu install.
During the install, everything went smoothly just as described in the previous article. I was pretty happy when I removed the disk and restarted the computer and booted up with Ubuntu. Ubuntu loaded quickly, much quicker than Windows XP did.
One of the first things I did was sample the games and play music, and that was where I found my first problem. The music tracks played, but I had to turn the speaker volume all the way up and still the music was muffled. It wasn't until I did some research that I found out that Ubuntu doesn't recognize popular file types. It is necessary to install codecs in order for the Ubuntu operating system to process popular files such as Quicktime.
The most important thing for me is internet access. Unfortunately, nobody told me that it was nearly impossible to get a dialup modem working in Ubuntu. It has been over a week now, and despite hours of installing driver packages and following programming instructions given at the Ubuntu Forums, my dialup modem is still not working in Ubuntu. Several posters have told me to switch to DSL or cable internet access, but that is not an option for me due to my location.
Since I do have XP still installed on my computer, I have switched back to it for most things. While there is some great free software available for Ubuntu, without internet access most of it is unavailable. I would gladly start using Ubuntu if there was a way to get my HP Pavillion online.
HP and Compaq Support
Nowadays, companies have several types of support for their products. Support is intended to make the customer feel good about what they bought, it is intended to let the customer know that the company is there for them. Computer companies have them, even cosmetic companies have them- like Cover Girl. The HP customer support is one that I am very familiar with because I tend to buy HP printers and just recently bought an HP computer.
Why do I buy HP computers? I don't know- because everyone else does?!?!? I haven't done any statistical analysis on which printers can print the most pages in a minute. All I know is that in my mind, a good printer is synonymous with HP.
But. let me tell you a true little story I had with HP and HP support:
It was a fine March day in 2006. I was sitting in my home, eating some candy and drinking a Slurpee, and printing some documents. Then all of a sudden my printer just stopped working. Out of nowhere. I don't have a degree in Technology, but my technological skills are quite advanced, so I looked at the printer, analyzed it and realized that absolutely nothing was wrong with it. Ok, I tried printing again. Nothing. How could this printer, which stood by me so faithfully in grad school, be betraying me now?!?!?! How baby, how (at that point, I had a bound with my HP printer). So I decided to go online and query the type of printer I had. Guess what world? When I queried my HP printer I found HUNDREDS of complaints concerning this printer.
Why do I buy HP computers? I don't know- because everyone else does?!?!? I haven't done any statistical analysis on which printers can print the most pages in a minute. All I know is that in my mind, a good printer is synonymous with HP.
But. let me tell you a true little story I had with HP and HP support:
It was a fine March day in 2006. I was sitting in my home, eating some candy and drinking a Slurpee, and printing some documents. Then all of a sudden my printer just stopped working. Out of nowhere. I don't have a degree in Technology, but my technological skills are quite advanced, so I looked at the printer, analyzed it and realized that absolutely nothing was wrong with it. Ok, I tried printing again. Nothing. How could this printer, which stood by me so faithfully in grad school, be betraying me now?!?!?! How baby, how (at that point, I had a bound with my HP printer). So I decided to go online and query the type of printer I had. Guess what world? When I queried my HP printer I found HUNDREDS of complaints concerning this printer.
HP2 - E27 Certification Examination From HP
HP is one of oldest and most innovative computer companies in the world. The company is very old and has over the years has made a mark for itself in the field of computers after trying their hand in various other fields. The company has over the years has collected a lot of good business practices and has been incorporating these best practices in many fields now.
One of their best practices that have been followed by them for a long time is the process of certifying people in their products and services thereby creating standardization in the market. Hp products are widely used in various fields by many companies and these companies are in need of professionals who are highly qualified and have high knowledge in handling hp products and services.
But before the certification programs, not many companies could identify whether a person has the necessary qualification ad skill to use hp products and services in a fields but with the certification program it has all gone for a change. The company i.e. hp itself certifies people as they having the necessary qualification and ability to use the hp products and services for proper functioning of the organization. The certification coded as HP2-E27 certification examination is highly regarded in many fields which use hp products and the certified professionals are in high demand too.
A number of training partners have developed for providing training and coaching services for HP2-E27 certification examination and other HP certification exams and one could use these training providers to clear the exam. Preparing only through books won't be enough. One needs to practice with a lot of mock tests and previous certification questions to be able to clear the exam with ease. These training partners provide their services at a very low cost and are immensely helpful too.
Author of this article is from SelfTest Engine Exam Preparation Tool developed by ExamsExpert providing Online Certification Exam Training such as HP2-E27 practice exams and HP2-E27 questions and answers.
One of their best practices that have been followed by them for a long time is the process of certifying people in their products and services thereby creating standardization in the market. Hp products are widely used in various fields by many companies and these companies are in need of professionals who are highly qualified and have high knowledge in handling hp products and services.
But before the certification programs, not many companies could identify whether a person has the necessary qualification ad skill to use hp products and services in a fields but with the certification program it has all gone for a change. The company i.e. hp itself certifies people as they having the necessary qualification and ability to use the hp products and services for proper functioning of the organization. The certification coded as HP2-E27 certification examination is highly regarded in many fields which use hp products and the certified professionals are in high demand too.
A number of training partners have developed for providing training and coaching services for HP2-E27 certification examination and other HP certification exams and one could use these training providers to clear the exam. Preparing only through books won't be enough. One needs to practice with a lot of mock tests and previous certification questions to be able to clear the exam with ease. These training partners provide their services at a very low cost and are immensely helpful too.
Author of this article is from SelfTest Engine Exam Preparation Tool developed by ExamsExpert providing Online Certification Exam Training such as HP2-E27 practice exams and HP2-E27 questions and answers.
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