HP unveils new collection of laptop PC

HP has benefited from a press conference that was held last night to present the Autumn-Winter collection of notebooks. If all the products listed below have already been mentioned in our columns after leaks and announcements in the United States, this news is the opportunity to confirm which ones will be marketed in France and Europe, and especially at what price .


Among the "mini PC" as HP calls them, the Compaq Mini 311c will be actually marketed in France. This promising netbook built as planned around a WXGA 11.6-inch, an Intel Atom, but also and especially a NVIDIA Ion, which allows him to recall to decode and display video high definition. It will soon be marketed under Windows XP at very attractive price of 350 euros, until a mysterious updated October 22.

The HP Pavilion dm1, sporting the same form factor (11.6 inches) than the mini-notebook quoted above, and the Pavilion dm3 (13.3 inches), both mentioned in early September, will also be marketed in France. Both ultra-portable home solution Intel Culver and promise a range of about 8 hours. The manufacturer does not specify the sale price of these computers but is expected to tariffs ranging from 480 to 680 euros.

The HP Envy Envy 15 and 13, almost carried copies of Apple's MacBook Pro, also cross the Atlantic. Their price is French for the moment unknown.

This conference will finally be a new news October 13, when the embargo will be lifted on other news.

MSI releases its software overclocking, Afterburner

To strengthen the interest of his maps high-end graphics, MSI now offers to download an advanced overclocking utility for Windows, called Afterburner. Based on the famous RivaTuner, it allows fans to set up at leisure the operating frequencies of their graphics card, AMD and NVIDIA, both in terms of GPU shaders that or memory. It can also vary the voltage of the processor, so more significant increase in frequency, but also adjust the operating speed of the fan card. Note also the possibility to create profiles.


Afterburner is also intended as a monitoring tool, with a series of curves showing real-time evolution of voltages and operating temperatures. We can download the installation executable, a weight of 1.1 MB from MSI website.

Motorola Sholes renamed Droid for Verizon

We have information that the mobile phone Motorola Sholes (Motorola Tao) will be called the Motorola Droid, which will spread mobile operator Verizon Wireless.

Recall that the device is a slider with QWERTY-keyboard and touch screen. The device is based on OS Android.


Some characteristics of informal Motorola Droid:

• OS: Android 2.0 Eclair
• Processor: ARM 500 MHz
• Display: 3.7-inch, with a resolution 854h480 points
• Camera: 5 MP, the function of face recognition and integration with Google search
• Memory: Slot for microSD memory cards
• Not supported interfaces MOTOBLUR and Verizon
• Communications: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth,
• Navigation: GPS
• Battery: 1390 mAh

It is expected that the announcement of Motorola Droid will be held in the next two weeks. It will be available in two colors: black and titanium. There is also a possibility that Motorola Droid will be released in bezklaviaturnom version in 2010.