This New HP Envy 14 Spectre is Made of Glass

This New HP Envy 14 Spectre is Made of Glass

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HP have got a new ultrabook coming out, which is literally made of glass.

It’s no surprise that HP is unveiling new laptops at CES. What is surprising is their choice of materials. Normally, you’d expect to read that a laptop was clad in plastic, aluminum, magnesium, or perhaps even carbon fibre. That’s not the case with the new Envy 14 Spectre: it’s wrapped in glass.

Apparently, around 50 ultrabooks will be announced at this year’s CES, so get used to this kind of news. HP’s most recent offering in this new(ish) market is the Envy 14 Spectre, a pretty stonking-looking 14 inch laptop that sports innovative design and the popular Beats Audio technology.

One of the most interesting things about this laptop is the fact that it’s got a layer of black, scratch-proof glass on the outside of the lid. On the inside, it resembles a MacBook Pro with its matte silver tones and black, isolated keys. The bezel has been kept as thin as possible, so that the rest of the body remains similarly slight in weight and size.

The keyboard is backlit and comes with a neat little twist: there are individual LEDs for every key, and there is a sensor that lets each key light up when you come near them. It will have the latest Intel Core processors and SSD hard drive storage, as well as the renowned Beats Audio technology with powerful speakers and an analog volume control. Users will apparently be able to use their Envy 14 Spectre as a streaming device for all kinds of audio, wirelessly hooking it up to external speakers. The HP Envy Spectre weighs 1.8kg and 20mm thin, according to HP.

According to HP, that makes the Spectre more durable than other laptops in its class, not less. The Spectre’s display, top cover, and palmrest (include the trackpad are all clad with Corning’s abuse-resistant Gorilla Glass, which should help keep it looking shiny and new for a long time to come. It also doesn’t add much additional bulk, with the 14-inch Spectre weighing in at roughly 3.8 pounds — that’s just under a pound more than a MacBook Air and almost two pounds lighter than a 15-inch MacBook Pro. It’s also just two centimetres thick.

Like some other recently-released laptops, HP has slimmed down the bezels around that 14″ screen, fitting it into a body that would normally house a 13.3″. They also resurrected the much-loved 1600×900 pixel Radiance display, which some thought would never make their way back to the Envy line-up. In addition to the crisp, clear visuals, the Spectre also packs an NFC sensor inside the palmrest so that you can transfer URLs (and likely media an payment information some day soon) with a tap of your smartphone.

The Spectre won’t come cheap. The base configuration will hit store shelves at a price of $1,399 when it launches in February, but you’re getting plenty more than a stylish looking laptop for your hard-earned cash. On top of the previous goodies, the Spectre brings an Intel Core i5 2467M processor, 4GB of RAM, 128GB SSD, a USB 3.0 port, Beats Audio (with a jog dial control), and Intel Wi-Di support built-in. The Spectre’s battery is rated for about nine hours of unplugged use, the backlit keyboard aids those late-night gaming and chat sessions, and HP throws in two years of Norton Internet Security protection and Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements.

Quad-Core Smartphones: What to Suppose in 2012

Quad-Core Smartphones: What to Suppose in 2012

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Revolutionary a year ago, dual-core mobile processors are now standard; next, chipmakers say, quad-core processors will support mobile multitasking comparable to the performance of a desktop computer.

iPhone 5 to be Released in 2012 with Quad core Processor Quad Core Smartphones: What to Suppose in 2012 One of the big mobile buzzwords of 2011 was “dual-core.” Dual-core processors became the standard for high-end smartphones, starting with the LG Optimus 2X in January. In 2012, however, it will be all about quad-core. But other than having double the cores of this year’s smartphones, what exactly is a “quad-core” processor, and what do quad-cores mean for the smartphones of 2012?

We’ve all heard the marketing: More cores equal more power and a faster smartphone. That’s great news for everybody, but I wanted to find out how this would change performance for phones and how it applies to real-world scenarios. And since this term is already infiltrating the tech world (though only one actual quad-core product is on the market), I also wanted to get an idea of when we’ll actually see quad-core phones. I spoke with a few of the major system-on-a-chip manufacturers and got some insight into next year’s powerful smartphones.

The State of Multicore Processors

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Nvidia was the first to bring dual-core processing to mobile with the LG Optimus 2X, which debuted at the beginning of this year with the Tegra 2 chip. Nvidia is blazing the multicore trail again with the release of theAsus Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF201 tablet. The Transformer Prime is the first device to ship with Nvidia’s 1.3-GHz Tegra 3 quad-core processor. For now, it’s the only quad-core device on the market. The Transformer earned high praise from us for its stunning graphics and zippy performance.

Manufacturers are keeping mum about when we’ll see quad-core phones, however. Nvidia has said it is working with a number of device makers on Tegra 3-powered phones, but can’t reveal who they are due to nondisclosure agreements. Quad-core phones are “on track,” however, for 2012′s first quarter.

Of course, that doesn’t stop the blogosphere from speculating. The rumored HTC Edge will supposedly be the world’s first quad-core smartphone, running the Tegra 3 chip. Mobile news sitePocketNow claims to have exclusive images as well as a spec sheet. We take such rumors with a grain of salt, however. The mobile world is prone to shake-ups and surprises, and news of phones from so-called “reliable sources” don’t always come to fruition.

Qualcomm stated last month that its quad-core Snapdragon chip, the APQ064, will join its S4 line of products. Based on ARM architecture, the S4 chips will run at clock speeds between 1.5GHz and 2.5GHz. Qualcomm’s Vice President of Product Management Raj Talluri, confirmed that the first phones with quad-core Snapdragon chips will ship around the holiday season next year.

DSC04604 300x225 Quad Core Smartphones: What to Suppose in 2012 Unlike Nvidia and Qualcomm, chipset manufacturer TI isn’t putting a number on its OMAP processor. Rather than calling them dual-core or quad-core, TI refers to them as “multicore.” My colleague, Melissa Perenson, visited TI last week at its headquarters in Dallas, Texas, where the company showed off its latest system-on-a-chip, the OMAP 5. The company didn’t give any exact benchmarks, but maintains that the OMAP 5 produces speeds competitive with Nvidia’s quad-core processor.

Samsung’s phones and tablets have used both Snapdragon and Tegra chipsets, but the manufacturer’s semiconductor division is hard at work on the next generation of its own Exynos line of systems-on-a-chip. The next one, the Exynos 5250, isn’t quad-core, however; it is a dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 processor. Like TI, Samsung seems to be confident that the Exynos 5250 can produce benchmarks and performance competitive with a quad-core processor.

The More Cores, the Better?

According to Nvidia, quad-core processors improve performance during multitasking as well as the performance of multithreaded applications. Nvidia says a quad-core processor will bring to your phone a level of performance comparable to that of a desktop computer.

“People are going to consider their phones as their primary computer,” says Nick Stam, director of technical marketing at Nvidia. “Phones with a quad-core processor are really full computers that can replace many functions of your laptop or [desktop] computer. It is a level of performance that truly does rival a desktop processor.”

Qualcomm’s Talluri expects users will see the power of quad-core in the multitasking speed. The speed in which you switch between open applications will be much faster than that of a dual-core phone.

When I spoke with Nvidia and Qualcomm, I asked for a few examples of applications that could fully take advantage of quad-core processors. Gaming, of course, is the popular example. Quad-core processors support multithreaded applications, meaning an app that runs multiple processes at once, like a game. Therefore, Gameplay on a phone that can support these simultaneous processes is much more fluid and snappier with higher-quality graphics.

Games aren’t the only applications that can really benefit from a quad-core processor, however. Imaging software, such as a panoramic app, can stitch together multiple photos much faster than a single- or dual-core phone. Photo and video apps, like Adobe’s Photoshop Touch for tablets, also benefit from the extra horsepower.

One of the arguments against quad-core mobile devices — and really, even dual-core devices — is that not enough content is optimized to fully take advantage of the CPU’s power. Both Nvidia and Qualcomm assured me that they are actively working with developers to optimize content for their chips. But in reality, we won’t see a boom of these fully optimized applications until actual quad-core products ship.

Battery Life: What’s at Stake?

Shortened battery life is the thorn in the side of smartphone innovation. Smartphone batteries can’t seem to hold up as processors get more powerful and networks become faster.

But Nvidia says that quad-core processors are actually easier on battery life than single- or dual-core chips. With the Tegra 3, the processes are distributed across the multiple cores, and therefore a quad-core phone consumes less power than a dual-core phone. The Tegra 3 chips actually have a fifth “companion core” that is built using a special lower-power-silicon process. This companion core handles tasks at a lower frequency for active standby mode, music playback, and video playback.

Qualcomm’s Talluri explains that Qualcomm’s quad-core chips will be able to run simultaneously at different clock frequencies and at different voltages. For example, say you open an e-mail (which requires little power) and then click on a link that opens a Flash-based website with video (which requires significantly more power). The system will smartly adapt its cores to handle the different power levels.

I predict that we’ll see more quad-core tablets at CES in January, and that the first quad-core phones (likely from Nvidia) will appear the following month at Mobile World Congress. But right now, it is still too early to predict the impact of quad-core phones on the mobile world.

How laptops have evolved in shape, size and functionality

How laptops have evolved in shape, size and functionality

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The first mass market consumer laptop was released by Toshiba in 1985. The Toshiba T1100 model, however, was not the first ever laptop. That, according to industry sources, was the 22.2kg Xerox NoteTaker which was developed in 1976.

Asus Zenbook UX31E How laptops have evolved in shape, size and functionality
It had what was then considered to be advanced technology – a built-in monochrome display monitor and a floppy disk drive. The Xerox NoteTaker was emulated by other laptop models that followed soon after.

Although intended to enable people to work on the go, many of the early models were cumbersome. Bulky, heavy in weight and costly, these computers marketed as laptops or notebooks, were largely used by the business community. Chandra Devi Renganayar takes a look at how laptops have evolved in shape, size and functionality.

1976 – the Xerox NoteTaker weighing 22.2kg was developed. However, it did not enter production. Only 10 prototypes of the computer were built.

1985 – The Toshiba T1100 model weighing 4.1 kgs had 256KB of RAM. Supported by Intel Processor and a floppy drive, it became the first mass market consumer laptop. Two years later, the company introduced smaller and lighter models, the T1000 and T1200 which were easily carried in a backpack.

1986 – The IBM PC Division released its first commercial laptop computer, the PC Convertible. The model weighing about 5.5kg had a CGA-compatible LCD display and two floppy drives. The PC Convertible’s clamshell design was followed by other portable computer manufacturers.

1988 – The Compaq SLT/286 was the first battery-powered laptop to have a built-in hard disk drive and a VGA compatible LCD screen. By the end of the 1980s, the laptop computers were popular among businessmen.

1989 – Apple Computer designed its first on the go model, the Macintosh Portable. The battery-powered model, however, was considered more of a “luggable” than a laptop. In 1991, the company released the Powerbook series which introduced features that became a norm on laptops. These included the palm rest and trackball.

mp900423031 300x300 How laptops have evolved in shape, size and functionality 1994 – IBM introduced the IBM ThinkPad 775CD, the first notebook with an integrated CD-ROM.

1995 – With the introduction of Microsoft Windows 95, notebook computing become more advanced. During this period the usefulness and popularity of laptops also increased. Portable computers had built-in CD-ROMs and ran on Intel Pentium processors. One of the popular model was the Gateway Solo.

1997 – Laptops begin to show improved connectivity features with internal modems and standard serial, parallel and PS/2 ports, making it easier to work on the go. Later, laptops with network adapters, USB and Wi-Fi support came into the market. The HP Jornada 820 Palmtop PC introduced in 1998 was among those models that had advanced communication features such as the ability to send and receive fax, a voice-recorder feature and e-mail. It offered 10 hours of battery life, wide screen, touch-typeable keyboard, touch pad and graphical web browsing.

2002 – Laptops with Intel’s Pentium 4 chip came into the market. The laptops supported more power, speed and memory. Big screens, stereo sound systems and DVD-RW drives were common. For security, notebooks with biometric capability were introduced. Beginning 2004, slimmer ultraportable laptops and more advanced multimedia notebooks emerged. These included the Dell Inspiron, Sony Vaio, HP Pavillion, Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad and Toshiba Qosmio range of laptops.

2007 – The netbook trend began with the introduction of Asus’ Eee PC 701. Low cost, small sized, lightweight and versatile, the netbooks became a hit with consumers. Other brands such Acer, Dell, Sony and HP followed suit with netbooks built on the low-powered Intel Atom processor architecture.

2010 -In 2000, Microsoft introduced the term Microsoft Tablet PCs for tablet PCs built based on its specifications. However, the tablet PC did not take off as intended due to technical hiccups. Only in 2010 with Apple’s iPad did the tablet PC segment become popular.

2011- Manufacturers are now pushing ultrabooks into the market. These are very thin, lightweight and ultraportable laptops defined by a specification from Intel. It has the new CULV Intel processors with integrated graphics and flash-based solid state disks. Among the ultrabooks available currently include Lenovo IdeaPad U300e and Asus ZenBook.

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