August 13th, 2008 by
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HP’s touting the DreamColor display in its new Centrino 2 / NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700-powered EliteBook 8730w as being one of the best displays on the market, and if the crew at Maximum PC is to be believed, the $400 option lives up to the hype. Other notable bits included the Durakey keyboard coating, which should protect against wear and tear for three years, and the semi-rugged chassis that can withstand short falls. Sadly, all these features bump the starting price from a reasonable $1,700 to over five large, but you get what you pay for, it seems — check out tons more pics at the read link.
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August 11th, 2008 by
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It’s not all DreamColor laptops for HP at SIGGRAPH today — the company’s line of performance desktop monitors got a little bigger as well. The new 24-inch LP2475w (pictured) puts 102 percent of the NTSC color gamut across 1920 x 1200 pixels, while the 22-inch LP2275w lights up 92 percent across 1680 x 1050 pixels, and both sport 1000:1 contrast ratios, extra-bright panels and adjustable stands. The LP2275w is out now and the LP247w will follow next month — HP says pricing will be between $459 and $649 at retail. There’s also a new calibration kit for owners of the DreamColor LP2480zx, which is available now if you’re a Window user with a critical eye and an extra $349; a Mac version will be out next month.
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August 11th, 2008 by
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Not that these units are a complete surprise or anything, but HP’s taking the time to get really, really official with its minty fresh EliteBooks. Up first is the beastly EliteBook 8730w (that’s the 6830s pictured), which packs a 17-inch DreamColor display, a quad-core Intel CPU, 8GB of RAM and one of NVIDIA’s 1GB Quadro FX graphics cards. Keeping things going are the EliteBook 8530w and 8530p, both of which boast a 15.4-inch display, 8GB of RAM, a Core 2 Duo chip (8530w supports optional quad-core) and HP’s own brushed anodized aluminum DuraCase. As for pricing and release information? Good luck on the guessing.
[Thanks, Christopher]
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June 10th, 2008 by
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Color-critical displays have been around for ages — you’ve just had to look really hard and break out some serious change in order to claim one. Now, however, HP’s aiming to make a professional display that’s actually somewhat affordable for the layman, and that monitor is the DreamColor LP2480xz. Checking in at 30-inches diagonal, this LED-backlit monster provides “a range of more than 1 billion colors” and “achieves more than 64 times the colors available on mainstream LCDs.” It was designed in collaboration with DreamWorks Animation and comes bundled with the HP DreamColor engine software and calibration kit. Oh, and if you’ve been wondering just what the definition of “affordable” was, you can procure this one right now for a modest $3,499. Action shot after the cut.
Continue reading HP gets color-critical with 30-inch DreamColor LP2480xz LCD
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