2014年12月3日星期三

HP's newest laptop is sexy, but you can't good buy it until subsequently time

HP's newest laptop is sexy, but you can't good buy it until subsequently time

Only remaining week we ran our study of the Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro, a 13-inch laptop with the aim of weighs a little 2.6 pounds and measures scarcely partly an shuffle thick. It was impressive, to stay all right, but it won't stay the only remaining: Gratitude to Intel's another focal point M chips, we're almost to observe a ton of unbelievably gauzy notebooks. The hottest comes from HP, whose just-announced EliteBook side 1020 weighs to the same degree hardly to the same degree 2.2 pounds and measures 15.7mm thick. We say "as hardly as" for the reason that once the gadget goes on selling premature subsequently time, it'll stay obtainable clothed in two flavors: A regular version with the aim of weighs 1.2 kg (2.6 pounds) and a special edition with the aim of comes clothed in by 1kg (that's the 2.2-pound one). Both are light, to the same degree I found clothed in my briefing point with them, but the 1kg archetype is noticeably lighter, so you might require to hold your horses in support of with the aim of to arrive, if either of these strikes your feel like.

Either way, the design is the same. Clothed in special, HP used a combination of magnesium-lithium in support of the lid and grand piano deck and carbon on the bed piece. The answer is a system durable sufficient to encounter the military's MIL-STD-810G values in support of ruggedness (drops, shocks, extreme temperatures, et cetera). It's besides fanless, which ought to allow in support of various subtle performance. Additionally, HP retooled the grand piano so with the aim of it offers additional travel, though it's missing the pointing stick with the aim of you'll get back on many other EliteBooks.

To the same degree in support of the screen, the 12.5-inch make an exhibition of is obtainable with QHD (2,560 x 1,440) ruling on both models, and with the aim of spec is clothed in verity standard on the special edition (the regular version starts rancid with 1080p resolution). Clothed in both belongings, too, near are tap and non-touch options. With the aim of explains clothed in part why HP was able to urge the influence down so low -- touchscreens are famous to add bulk, once all. Besides, this was designed primarily to the same degree a sphere laptop, and in support of whatever brains, companies seem to supervision a smaller amount almost touchscreens than the take it easy of us.

Rebuff word yet on cost, but we accomplish know with the aim of the regular version yearn for arrive clothed in February, and with the aim of the lighter special edition yearn for ensue sometime clothed in April. With the aim of makes perceive, for the reason that Intel hasn't yet released its business-grade "vPro" focal point M chips, but presumably yearn for sometime ahead of these tackle start shipping.

Certainly, the star of this year's IFA display is up for grabs to stay wearables: Spherical ones, flash ones, head-covering ones. Once with the aim of, though, you're besides up for grabs to observe a grouping of super-thin medication and 2-in-1 PCs, many of them made promising by Intel's another low-power focal point M chips. Intel original teased these processors earlier clothed in the summer, clothed in the form of a 7.2mm-thick tablet with the aim of was even thinner than the iPad Air. In half a shake many such systems are almost to work on selling, which channel it's point in support of Intel to fully explain pardon? These another chips are skillful of.

To stay absolve, although these CPUs fall into the "Broadwell" category -- the lone with the aim of comes once the current Haswell line -- these are not the replacements in support of Intel's standard-voltage fourth-generation focal point processors, the ones inside the largest part another high-end laptops. Folks won't go until sometime subsequently time. Significantly, focal point M is the follow-on to a particular variant of Haswell processors, the ultra-low-powered "Y sequence," which are already used clothed in 2-in-1 PCs like this. Indeed, focal point M is besides doomed in support of 2-in-1's (plus super-thin notebooks); it scarcely promises earlier performance and longer battery life. You know, like you'd expect on a another computer chip.

For the reason that Intel enthused from a 22-nanometer process with Haswell to a 14-nanometer lone with Broadwell, this another crop of PCs yearn for stay both thinner and lighter than was previously promising in support of a full-fledged PC. Clothed in special, Intel says various of these policy yearn for quantity to the same degree hardly to the same degree 7mm thick, though the company has warned from the launch with the aim of not each focal point M device yearn for stay to the same degree gauzy to the same degree with the aim of iPad Air-like tablet we mentioned earlier. Again, all this is promising gratitude to various significantly dried up components. The motherboard forlorn is 25 percent minor; the pass on size, meanwhile, is 37 percent minor.

To the same degree in support of power consumption, the power pencil in can work up to 6W, though Intel says the classic TDP in support of systems on the marketplace yearn for stay 4.5W. To the same degree a answer, the company claims you can expect up to 1.7 hours additional battery life versus Haswell-Y depending on the custom project, with the biggest gains emergence from confined 1080p videocassette playback. These systems ought to run cool sufficient, too, with the aim of scarcely almost all of them yearn for stay fanless. (You may well technically accomplish this with a 4.5W-TDP Haswell CPU, though the largest part PC makers chose not to.) Additionally, Intel says CPU performance is up to 50 percent earlier, with Intel's integrated HD 5300 graphics notching a 40 percent performance recovery.

Other facial appearance of these processors include Wireless make an exhibition of 5.0; Intel's Smart Sound machinery, which allows the device to wake on voice; and native support in support of PCIe storage space disks. Focal point M chips yearn for eventually support the WiGig wireless docking standard to the same degree well -- scarcely not by launch, according to Intel. With the aim of only remaining crumb is vital, to the same degree it's a type step clothed in Intel's idea to lone day of the week enable PCs with nothing cables or else ports.

All told, additional than 20 models with focal point M are on the way, according to Intel, with the original being Lenovo's just-announced ThinkPad whorl. In support of in half a shake, Intel is shipping three another mainframe SKUs, the specs of which you can get back clothed in the chart under. Additional CPU options yearn for ensue premature subsequently time, together with various vPro-enabled chips in support of corporate-issued tackle. Eventually, too, Intel still says prices yearn for droplet to the same degree low to the same degree $599 -- scarcely don't count on considering whatever thing with the aim of cut-rate due away. Everything you'll observe at this time by IFA is likely to stay a crumb pricier.

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