{"id":548156,"date":"2006-03-07T06:28:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T06:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548156-hp-launches-notebook-pcs.html"},"modified":"2006-03-07T06:28:22","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T06:28:22","slug":"hp-launches-notebook-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548156-hp-launches-notebook-pcs.html","title":{"rendered":"HP launches notebook PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Both the HP Compaq 9400 and HP Compaq 6300 series will use Intel&#8217;s Core Duo technology, which aims to allow users to simultaneously run multiple applications. HP notebooks had previously used Intel&#8217;s Napa processor family.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The company plans to sell the machines based on a wide set of business features, ranging from fingerprint-scanning security to a hard drive that protects itself from accidental drops.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;We will compete on our professional innovations,&quot; says Carol Hess-Nickels, director of commercial notebook marketing. &quot;We do not think that everybody offers these features.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">One of the main selling points will be battery life, she says. The notebooks have three levels of battery endurance.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The nx9400 product will run for four hours on its standard, 8-cell lithium ion battery. It will run an additional five hours if users buy HP&#8217;s Extended Life Battery.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">And it will run an additional 10 hours with a $199, 1,7-pound &quot;ultra-capacity battery&quot;. A user clips the wedge-shaped, 12-cell lithium ion battery underneath the notebook to act as an electrical reserve fuel tank.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">HP will aim the 9400 line toward users who need a high-performance machine with a 17-inch wide screen. To make it more mobile, HP designers made it 17% lighter (now 7,4 pounds) than HP&#8217;s current 9600 series desktop-replacement notebooks. The computer will be available in mid-March for $1 499.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In contrast, the 6300 line offers a 15-inch screen and a menu of options, tailored for either mobile corporate users or cost-sensitive, SME, owners. It will be available in early April for $1 049.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The company expects to release more computers using Intel dual-core processors in the coming months. &quot;These are the first two products in a rolling thunder approach,&quot; Hess-Nickels says.<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hewlett-Packard says that it has beefed up its line of business notebooks with two series using dual-core processors from Intel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}