HP TX2500 jetzt in Deutschland lieferbar – als TX2550eg

Das bereits im Juni auf einer Pressekonferenz vorgestellte TX 2500-Tablet mit Dual-Touchscreen ist endlich in Deutschland erhältlich, allerdings nur in einer einzigen Variante mit dem Prozessor Turion X2 Ultra ZM-82 (2 x 2,20GHz). Die Modellbezeichnung lautet TX 2550eg. Der “Straßenpreis” der Online-Händler, die es als verfügbar markiert haben, liegt bei erfreulichen 940 bis 1000 Euro. Im HP-Shop liegt der Preis bei  999,- Euro. Damit bietet sich Käufern, die nicht mehr als 1000 Euro für einen Tablet PC ausgeben wollen, endlich eine Alternative zum Clevo-Tablet TN120R und dem HP-Vorgängermodell. Das Vista-SP1-Performance-Rating bei Vorführmodell im Juni (mit dem nicht bei AMD erhältlichen ZM-83 mit 2×2,3 GHz) lag bei 4.0 Punkten.

Etwas verwirrend für alle, die etwas genauer hinschauen: Es gibt eine riesige Anzahl von Modellvarianten (siehe hier), zudem hat HP in der Produktübersicht der Pavillon-Notebooks zwei Modelle gelistet, das TX2500 und das TX2600. Und in den Shops findet man derzeit aber nur ein TX2550 (siehe die Geihhals-Suche)

Weitere Informationen und Downloads

Produkthomepage Deutsch

Download Treiber (Modell TX2550eg) Deutsch

HP 2730p coming early September – First Montevina Tablet – HP 2370p stabiles 12-Zoll-Tablet für 1400 Euro ab Oktober auch in Deutschland (U)

(Updated with German launch date and price)

[English]

Just a day ago HP has announced (press release) the launch of the first Montevina based Tablet PC, named 2730p, a 12 inch display Convertible (1.280 x 800 Pixel),  “coming early September”. HP Germany will deliver in October. The first? Well, Fujitsu Siemens has already announced its new 13 inch Montevina convertibles Lifebook T1010 (in white, to compete with HP TX2500 as it will cost around the same, touchscreen) and Lifebook T5010 (active digitizer, integrated 3G, US PDF spec sheet here), weighing around 2 kilo, 300 gramm more than the 2730p – but they are not yet available. Not sure for how long the 44 WHr 6-zell-battery lasts.

Attractive Pricing (U)

The price should be around 1670 US-$, depending on your configuration. NICE: Other than e.g. Toshiba normally does with its European customers, the EURO price will not be significantly higher compare to US-Dollar. We will see very, very affordable 1.399 Euro in Germany (incl. tax), as HP tells today in the new German press release. I’ll write a seperate article on Tablet pricing soon (yes, really soon).

Specs

As you knew from my news report back in June, HP had to wait for availability of the Montevina (ultra) light version processors. Indeed, in the US you have three (Ultra) Low Voltage CPU choices: the ULV SU9300 (1.2 GHz ULV CPU, TDP 10 Watt) and the more powerful and more power consuming SL9300 and SL9400 running at 1.60 resp. 1.83 GHz, TDP 17 Watt). Display is an "Illumi-Lite LED" anti-glare 12-inch. , n-WLAN (optional) and Bluetooth on board. An integrated 2 Megapixel web cam is optional. Downside: only two USB 2.0 ports. Specs here (PDF).

At least the SL9400 support support VT-x features which significantly improves speed of virtual machines.

Notebooks.com has already posted a video which shows the 2730p in action.

“Toughbook light”

You will see a lot of reports saying that the 2730p would be kind of "ruggedized" and fullfill the military standard MIL-STD 810F. Well, HP puts their Elitebook series (the 2730p belongs to that family) into a "full magnesium alloy chassis". Also, the chassis and keyboard should resist water splashes and dust. Unfortunatly there is no official certification for that standard, only guidelines. So, until we see a review testing the dust, humidity and shock resistence, we simply have to believe HP, which, of course, we do :-). Or, to put it into HP’s words: The 2730p "has been tested and meets the military standard MIL-STD 810F for tests including dust, altitude and high temperature. Testing was not intended to demonstrate fitness for DOD contracts requirements or for military use" (from the spec sheet). All in all it seems like a Toughbook light or midi.

Benefits

- Accessories from previous model 2710p are compatible (no need to buy a new docking station if you want to upgrade);

- up to 8 Gig of RAM officially supported by the Montevina chipset, though HP does not officially support 64-Bit Windows, according to the spec sheed.;

- free to downgrade from Vista Business to XP Tablet 2005 if you need it for compatibility reasons. Not sure if the XP Tablet CD is delivered together (FSC does that with P1620 so that you can freely choose and later change your mind and switch to the other OS);

- SSD as a choice, or faster hard drive with 5.400 instead of 4200 rpm with a capacity of 120 or 80 GB (SATA).

Downloads

Specsheet (PDF) US and German

Drivers for Vista 32bit, Vista x64 bit, XP 32bit (to be added when available)

More on HP TX 2500 based on AMD Puma platform – Vista SP1 performance rating of 4.0 – Photos inside

Technorati Tags: AMD,HP,Puma,TX2500,Tablet PC,convertible

The first day at the HP press event “Connecting Your World” in Berlin I was misinformed that there is nothing to see regarding the TX2500 Puma Tablet PC, you know, one of the very few AMD platform based Tablet PCs. The second day I indeed had a short hands on. The Wacom digitizer is still that cheap-look-and-feel-pen, but writing with it is smooth. The finger touch alternative seems accurate, loading of apps feels snappy (no surprise if you look at the hardware), the screen still is a BrightView one – OK for most consumer, but not really nice for me. The performance rating was 4.0 with a 4 GB RAM 32-bit Vista SP1 and the following specs:

* CPU is an “AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile ZM-84” with 2.3 GHz speed (note that this CPU is NOT in the list the HP online shop already shows, link at the bottom)

* LCD 12.1 inch from AUO with WXGA resolution (1280×768) 1280×800 (see first comment from Corwin)

* ATI Radeon 3200 adapter

* WLAN Broadcom 4321AG with up to n speed

* Realtek 8168/8111 Gigabit Ethernet

* Toshiba MK2546 GSX ATA hard disk of 250 GB with 5.400 speed

* SATA DVD drive DL HLDS GSA – T30N

* Realtek HD Audio

* Authentec AES 1610 fingerprint device

* HP Webcam

* Weight 1.96 Kilo

 

Windows Vista, a look into the device manager of HP TX2500

Vista performance rating: 4.0

HP TX2500 keyboard

Downloads

Drivers for TX2500 (choose between various models)

Product Homepage (in US shop), on German website it is not yet listed

Next HP business Tablet 2730p based on Montevina ULV – nächster HP Tablet PC wartet auf Montevina ULV

Technorati Tags: Tablet PC,HP,Convertible,Montevina,Toughbook

At Berlin’s press event “Connecting Your World” HP launched a new HP TouchSmart iMac style destkop PC with a touchscreen, but no new HP Tablet PC. We can see the current consumer Tablet TX2000, but not yet the successor, the TX2500, which should be available as soon as AMD launches the Puma platform later this month. TabletPC Review has seen TX2500 at Computex, a small report with some fotos and some more specs.

 

HP TX2500, coming with Puma launch

Also, there is only very little info about the next HP Tablet we found out at the event: It will be called 2730p which stands for HP’s “ultralight” notebook line. It will be based on Intel’s Montevina CPU. That will launch in July, but as HP will use a ULV CPU which is not part of the first Montevina wave, we will have to wait until Q3 until we see that CPU and the HP 2730p. The device will follow the new design of Business notebooks (“HP EliteBook”) which will have a silver finish and magnesium alloy support structure (kind of Toughbook light).

Sorry to make this a short notice, more info when I have it.

GERMAN

Auf seiner weltweiten Presseveranstaltung “Connecting Your World” hat HP die nächste Generation seines bisher und auch in der neuen Variante (vorerst) nicht in Deutschland verfügbaren HP TouchSmart PCs vorgestellt, den HP TouchSmart IQ500 PC. Es handelt sich praktisch um einen iMac mit Vista, Touchscreen und einer speziellen Steuersoftware von HP, HP Touch genannt.

Einen neuen Tablet PC konnten wir aber noch nicht sehen, und das liegt daran, dass HP auf die für den Herbst geplanten Montevina-ULV-Prozessoren wartet. Zwar werden nächsten Monat die ersten Montevina-Prozessoren vorgestellt, aber noch nicht die ULV-Varianten, deren Verfügbarkeit für das dritte Quartal erwartet wird.

Viele weitere Features waren nicht in Erfahrung zu bringen. Klar ist lediglich, dass er 2730p heissen soll und dass das Gehäuse dem neuen Business-Design (HP “Elitebook”) entsprichen wird, das heißt: Gebürstetes Metall, erhöhte Stoß- und Kratzfestigkeit, sozusagen Toughbook light.

Auch vom Consumer-Tablet TX2500 war nur zu hören, dass er auf Puma basieren wird, immerhin hat TabletPC Review auf der Computex etwas mehr sehen können (kurzer Bericht mit Fotos)