HP has your Google OS needs covered; new Chromebook 11 and 14-inch Android laptop
Starting with the less puzzling
product, the update to HP’s Chromebook is fairly minor, but is at least
keeping pace with the competition. Battery life sees a slight increase
to 6.5 hours. Again there’s no shortage of comparable Chromebook options
out there, but if you just have to make yours HP then this one will be
available in July.
Moving on to the more intriguing of the two products, the HP SlateBook is running Android in a 14-inch touchscreen laptop and will run you $429 when it launches in the US on July 20th. If this sounds familiar, most of the details regarding the SlateBook leaked last month and the release confirms that those details were spot on.
In case you missed it then, the SlateBook is running Android 4.3 and
features a 14-inch full HD touchscreen with an NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor.
At 3.7 pounds and 16mm it isn’t exactly the lightest or thinnest of
laptops, but both are respectable figures.
Considering it is unlikely that a business user would be picking the SlateBook up the black and yellow color scheme seems like a solid choice to catch the attention of a younger audience. The integrated Beats speakers should help target that demographic as well (and in light of their acquisition by Apple it’s at least mildly entertaining to see an Android product carrying the Beats logo).
The SlateBook has a full compliment of ports befitting a laptop. That includes HDMI, 1 USB 3.0, 2 USB 2.0, a mic/heaphone jack and a microSD reader.
It is certainly the best Android laptop that I have seen to date, a far cry from what HP showed us a few years ago at CES, but whether this is the direction that consumers want to go in rather than a convertible tablet option is a big question mark.
Regardless I’m interested in trying to get my hands on one and see what a day on an Android laptop is like.
Moving on to the more intriguing of the two products, the HP SlateBook is running Android in a 14-inch touchscreen laptop and will run you $429 when it launches in the US on July 20th. If this sounds familiar, most of the details regarding the SlateBook leaked last month and the release confirms that those details were spot on.
Considering it is unlikely that a business user would be picking the SlateBook up the black and yellow color scheme seems like a solid choice to catch the attention of a younger audience. The integrated Beats speakers should help target that demographic as well (and in light of their acquisition by Apple it’s at least mildly entertaining to see an Android product carrying the Beats logo).
The SlateBook has a full compliment of ports befitting a laptop. That includes HDMI, 1 USB 3.0, 2 USB 2.0, a mic/heaphone jack and a microSD reader.
It is certainly the best Android laptop that I have seen to date, a far cry from what HP showed us a few years ago at CES, but whether this is the direction that consumers want to go in rather than a convertible tablet option is a big question mark.
Regardless I’m interested in trying to get my hands on one and see what a day on an Android laptop is like.
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