14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that HP has finally gotten around to sending out a pair of high-end mobile computers of whose existence the consumer base has known for a while but which only now have been listed as available on their maker's own web store.
Seeing as how the slow season is starting to pass and that CeBIT 2011 is practically all set and ready, it makes sense that IT players would start to flood the market with announcements again.
In this case, however, HP did not precisely show off its CeBIT launches, instead having done something different, something involving two particular laptops.
The mobile computers in question go by the names of Pavilion dv6 and dv7 and are, by all accounts, of the high-end notebook variety.
For those that want a reminder as to what the machines can do, they are both based on an Intel Core i7 central processing unit.
The strongest of the chip options in question is the quad-core i7-2820QM, which can go as high as 3.4 GHz via Turbo Boost. The other two chips are the Core i7-2630QM and i7-2720QM, with max speeds of 2.9 GHz and 3.3 GHz, respectively.
That said, they obviously needed matching video capabilities, so their maker put in the AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6570 discrete card, which has 1 GB of memory.
Meanwhile, users can choose up to 8 GB of RAM, a storage capacity of up to 2 TB and displays with sizes of 15.6 inches (dv6) and 17.3 inches (dv7).
Another thing to mention is the resolutions of the screens themselves. The dv6 has a panel with 1,366 x 768 pixels while the dv7 uses an LCD with 1,600 x 900 pixels.
The HP Pavilion dv6 and Pavilion dv7 are available now, for the base prices of $1,000 and $1,100, being also subject to a $150 instant rebate and free HDD (750GB) and memory (6GB) upgrades.