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HP have announced their latest touchscreen desktop computer, the TouchSmart PC, with a 22-inch widescreen display, DVD burner and optional TV tuner. Specs include Intels Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9300 M GS HD graphics card, ATSC Tuner, Bluetooth 2.0, Firewire, wireless networking and memory card slots, together with a webcam and microphone.

The screen of the Touchsmart isn’t touch sensitive; it’s actually a beam of light in front of the screen that recognizes where your finger is when you break the plane of the light beam. The interface, which is all developed within Vista, can be customized in many ways, allowing you to pick from a variety of content to be displayed on the home screen. There’s also a finger painting app, photo browsing and editing app, music player, movie player, RSS aggregator and calendar.

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A very nice young lady from the middle east got to chatting with an HP rep today and sent her the following:

The rep also said he had not heard about any user configurable options, so I’m not sure what’s up with that. They are however offering XP as an install option.

The notebooks are available with either 1.2GHz or 1.6GHz processors and a choice of 1GB or 2GB of RAM.  120GB or 160GB hard-drives are also options.  All will have WiFi a/b/g, a 1.3-megapixel webcam and the 6-cell battery.

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Win a HP HDX Dragon Entertainment Notebook

The 31 Days of the Dragon is a promotion between 31 participating web sites, with the sponsorship of HP. HP is working with those websites offering 31 prize packages - one a day for 31 days during a period from 09 May through 08 June 2008.

HP Pavilion HDX ‘Dragon’ Entertainment PC Spec:

• Display: 20.1″ diagonal WUXGA High-Definition HP Ultra Brightview Widescreen (1920×1200)
• Operating system: Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit)
• Processor: Intel Core2 Extreme Processor X9000 (2.80GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
• Memory: 4GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
• Graphics Card: 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS
• Personalization: HP Imprint Finish (Dragon) + Fingerprint Reader + Webcam + Microphone
• Networking: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 4965AGN Network Connection and Bluetooth(TM)
• Hard Drive: 500GB 5400RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (250GB x 2)
• Optical: Blu-Ray ROM with SuperMulti DVD+/-R/RW Double Layer
• TV & Entertainment Experience: Integrated HP HDTV Hybrid TV Tuner and 4 Altec Lansing speakers + the HP Triple Bass Reflex subwoofer
• Primary Battery: 9 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
• Productivity Applications: Microsoft Office 2007, Corel PaintShop Pro Photo X2, Corel Painter 4, Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus
• Games: Viva Pinata, Microsoft Flight Simulator X, Microsoft Flight Simulator X Acceleration Expansion Pack, Gear of War
• Blu-Ray movies: The Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy – The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man’s Chest, At World’s End.

How? Login to the following websites between the following dates:

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The HP 2133 Mini-Note is available in five different configurations that range in price from $499 - $849 and include various processor speeds, choices of Microsoft Vista flavors and even a distribution of Linux (SUSE).

Hardware Specifications

Operating system - Windows Vista Home Basic 32
Processor - VIA C7-M ULV processor (1.2 GHz, 128 KB L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB)
Memory - 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Memory slots - 1 DIMM
Hard drive - 120 GB 5400 rpm SATA
Display size - 8.9-inch diagonal WXGA
Graphics - VIA Chrome 9
Integrated camera - VGA camera
Ports and slots - 2 USB 2.0, 1 microphone in, 1 headphone/line-out, 1 external VGA monitor, 1 RJ-45, 1 AC power, 1 Express Card/54, 1 secure digital
Network interface - 10/100/1000 NIC
Wireless - Broadcom 802.11a/b/g
Battery - 3-cell (28 WHr) high capacity Lithium-Ion
Power supply - External 65-watt Smart AC adapter, 6-foot (1.8-meter) power cord included. Total length including external AC adapter is 12 feet (3.66 meter). HP Fast Charge Technology
Weight - 2.8 lb (1.27 kg)
Dimensions (w x d x h) - 10.04 x 6.5 x 1.05 in (255 x 165 x 27 mm)
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Finally, this is going to come true!Another challenge for Asus Eee PC.

According to Engadget, HP’s slick UMPC 2133 was going sport VIA processors, and now got some more info to back that up.

What appears to be a full spec list for the upcoming machine, and it’s VIA C7-Ms all around, with graphics courtesy of a VIA Chrome 9 chipset. According to our source, these will hit on April 7th, and it looks like those pricing whispers were pretty accurate as well:

$600 will buy you a 1.2GHz C7-M, a 120GB drive, 1GB of RAM and Vista Home Basic, while $749 bumps you up to 1.6GHz and Vista Business and adds Bluetooth, another gig of RAM, and a bigger battery. There’s also a mysterious $849 Vista Basic model listed as having “regional” availability (the others are listed as “Smart Buy”) with Bluetooth and bigger battery, but we don’t see why it’s more expensive than the Vista Business version. Regardless, what really caught our eye was the $549 model that shares the same specs as the $600 unit, but looks to be running SuSE Enterprise — another rumor that’s come true. That could be the one that HP expects to sell like hotcakes — after all, the goal is to have people buy these “without a thought,” and that’s certainly not going to happen at $749. We’ll see soon enough, we suppose.

Full spec sheet after the break.

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