14 DAY TRIAL // Together with the Slate 2 Tablet PC we covered just a bit earlier, HP has also announced a “new” notebook model designed for business use, the 3115m, which is powered by an AMD E-series Fusion APU.
The HP 3115m is a rebadged version of the Pavilion dm1z released sometime earlier in the consumer space, so it features pretty much the same specs as its end-user sibling.
As far as the design is concerned, this also mimics the refreshed Pavilion dm1z announced at the end of September with its redesigned case that sits the battery flush inside the chassis and the separate left and right touchpad keys.
Inside the less than 1.2-inches thin notebook chassis HP has installed a dual-core 1.65GHz E-450 APU that is accompanied by 2GB of memory (upgradable to 8GB if you so desire) and a 320GB hard drive with a spindle speed of 5,400 RPM.
The E-450 APU is one of the most recent AMD Fusion chips released by AMD, and it pairs together an on-die GPU with two Bobcat processing cores.
In this case, the GPU is called the Radeon HD 6320M, comes clocked at 508MHz (600MHz in Turbo mode), features 80 stream processors as well as AMD's UVD3 video decoding engine that is fully capable of supporting accelerated 1080p video content playback.
The rest of the hardware configuration sports a 11.6-inch LED-backlit 1366x768 BrightView display, an SD card reader as well as 3 USB ports, HDMI and VGA out, and an Ethernet port.
Including the 55WHr battery that is able to deliver up to 11 hours and 30 minutes of running time, the 3115m weights only 3.52 pounds (about 1.59 kilos).
The HP 3115m notebook starts at $429 (roughly 313 EUR) and is expected to be available November 11 in the Americas only.