HP brings tablet functionality to new EliteBook Revolve - riversmally1961

Hewlett-Packard is bringing a construction to its business laptop design with the inexperienced EliteBook Revolve, which is the company's first Windows 8 touchscreen laptop that can parlay as a tablet in some circumstances.

The Revolve has an 11.6-edge display that give notice swivel and be located on the keyboard to turn the laptop into a lozenge. The screen displays images at a 1366-by-768 pixel resolution.

The laptop computer has a classic convertible design, merely is dilute and has more of a tablet feel when misused in that mood. But at 1.36 kilograms, the laptop computer is heavier than pure tablets, which generally press nether a kilogram.

The laptop has 256GB of SSD (solid-state drive) reposition. Chip options are Intel's Core i3, i5 Beaver State i7 processors settled happening the English ivy Bridge microarchitecture.

This is the first Windows 8 touchscreen laptop computer for commercial customers offered by HP, said Ajay Gupta, managing director of commercial notebook computer products.

"We expect the stamp battery to be around 10 hours, but it hasn't been finalized," Gupta said.

HP is expanding its lineup of touchscreen products with Windows 8 for businesses. Earlier this twelvemonth, the company announced the ElitePad 900 tablet, which will ship in January.

Many hybrid designs arrive with detachable screens that potty part independently Eastern Samoa tablets. Only with the EliteBook Revolve, HP is keeping the screen permanently attached to the base.

"We wished-for to provide the full Core CPU functionality," Gupta same.

Having a humble helps Revolve face pack in more components to run across the performance, power consumption and cooling requirements of the speedy Core Central processing unit, Gupta aforementioned.

Information technology is possible to fit the Core CPU in the weedy tablet design, but the processor would need to constitute throttled "very, very sharply," Gupta same.

The Meat C.P.U. typically needs a cooling fan when running at normal clock speeds, while tablets with nether-power processors wear't require fans. Examples include tablets using ARM processors and HP's personal ElitePad 900, with Intel's slower Corpuscle central processing unit code-named Trefoil Chase after, which is optimized for tablets.

EliteBook Orb meets the specific performance necessary of business customers, Gupta said, dispelling the notion that the company is putting out parvenue laptop designs to encounter which one sticks.

"The usability, the feel we wanted in multitude's men and the functioning we wanted to return, this was actually the most elegant way of delivering that," Gupta said.

The laptop has 2 USB 3.0 ports and a DisplayPort supervise outlet. The base memory is 4GB that can equal extended to 12GB. The laptop computer has a BIOS optimized for Windows 8, but in some cases customers have the option to preload Windows 7.

Versatile broadband options include LTE in the U.S. and HSPA+ for the take a breather of the world. The laptop has multiple short-range wireless connectivity options including NFC (near-field communication) and Bluetooth.

The Revolve will be available worldwide in Mar and pricing bequeath be announced at the time of release, HP same.

Agam Shah covers PCs, tablets, servers, chips and semiconductors for IDG News Service. Follow Agam on Twitter at @agamsh. Agam's netmail address is agam_shah@idg.com