jkOnTheRun and Warner Crocker have raised some very interesting questions about the battery life of the just-announced HP Compaq tc4400 Tablet PC, a Tablet PC version of the ultraportable notebook – nc4400. As I mentioned yesterday, HP Compaq is offering a 12-cell ultra-capacity battery that … Read more
ZDNet/CNET put together a video review of the Lenovo ThinkPad X60s, the latest Intel Core Duo-powered ultraportable notebook from Lenovo. It’ll give you a good idea of just how thin and light this thing really is (it weighs in at around three and a half pounds, yet is capable of 6+ hours of battery life while retaining a 12.1-inch non-widescreen display).
Along with yesterday’s announcements concerning new notebooks, HP announced a 12-cell ultra-capacity battery that can add up to 10 more hours of battery life as well as being used with your main/primary battery (basically stacking batteries together), which could lead to up to 16 total hours of battery power. They also announced “HP Skins from Skinit” that allow you to provide a unique covering for your PC or notebook.
Last but not least, HP Compaq announced the HP Compaq tc4400 Tablet PC, a Tablet PC version of the nc4400. It’s a “convertible” or hybrid Tablet PC – it has both the digitizer/display that a normal slate Tablet PC would have, as well as having a physical keyboard. It shares the same internals (Intel Core Duo CPU, etc.) as the nc4400, but is slightly thicker (about a quarter of an inch) and almost a pound heavier, due to the fact that it has the convertible/swivel display.
Next up from HP, is the HP Compaq nc4400 which is replacing the nc2400, and features an Intel Core Duo processor (Dual-Core), from 1.83GHz – 2.16GHz, as well as almost twice as heavy. They are definitely differentiating their ultraportable offerings from one another. The display is a 12.1-inch non-widescreen display (understandable since it shares the same somewhat of the same form factor as the tc4400).