The HP Envy 14 Spectre is an unusual (and expensive) ultrabook with a 14 inch display, a $1400 starting price, and a tough glass lid and palm rest area. Now it looks like the company will be launching a 15 inch version as well. Update: Laptoping presents some evidence that HP may simply be launching a revamped HP Envy 15…

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The HP Envy 14 Spectre is a striking looking notebook, with Corning’s sturdy, scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass not only covering the display, but also the lid. There’s also a glass touchpad and a glass palm rest area for some reason. But all that glass makes the Envy 14 Spectre a little heavier than most ultrabooks. The 14 inch notebook weighs in…

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HP never planned to release the HP TouchPad tablet to the public with Google Android. Instead, when the 9.7 inch tablet hit the market last summer it was running HP webOS 3.0 software. But a handful of customers purchased tablets that had Android installed instead. These devices appeared to be running builds of the operating system designed for internal testing….

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HP recently introduced a new business netbook with an Atom N2600 Cedar Trail processors. Now it looks like the company is getting ready to upgrade its consumer netbooks with Cedar Trail chips as well.   French retailer Géant’s latest product catalog shows listings for new HP Mini 110 and Mini 210 netbooks with Intel’s latest low-power Atom processors. They both look a…

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HP announced recently that it would release its webOS mobile operating system as open source software. Now the company is providing a roadmap. The goal is to release the first open souce version of webOS by September, 2012. Along the way the company will start using a standard Linux kernel instead of a custom kernel, update the development tools for…

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The HP Slate 500 is a Windows 7 tablet with an 8.9 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a 1.86 GHz Intel Atom Z540 processor. When the tablet hit the streets in 2010, HP sold it for $799 and up. But now you can grab one from B&H for under $500. HP doesn’t actually offer this model anymore. Instead…

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HP has updated its business-friendly netbook line with the HP Mini 1104. It’s a 10 inch netbook aimed at business and education. The new model looks a lot like the last few business netbooks from the company, but the Mini 1104 sports a shiny new 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N2600 dual core processor. The mini-laptop supports up to 2GB of…

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HP never got around to releasing the TouchPad Go before discontinuing its webOS hardware division this summer. But the company did produce a handful of prototypes of the HP TouchPad’s little sibling, and the folks at webOS Nation managed to get their hands on one. They’ve posted a detailed review of the tablet. It paints a portrait of a pretty…

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Update: CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0 is now available — and we have detailed instructions on installing this (buggy) version of Android 4.0 on the HP TouchPad.  The CyanogenMod has released an updated version of Google Android for the HP TouchPad. No, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich isn’t ready for prime time yet, but CyanogenMod 7 Alpha 3.5 brings a few…

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HP gave shoppers one more chance to pick up TouchPad tablets at fire sale prices this weekend when the company offered refurbished tablets through its eBay store. 16GB TouchPads were priced at $99 each, while 32GB models ran $149. But a few seconds after the tablets went on sale at 6:00PM Central Time on Sunday, December 11th, shoppers started to…

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HP is offering a limited number of refurbished HP TouchPad tablet on eBay for $99 and up starting at 6:00 PM Central Time on December 11th, 2011. The tablet has a 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel display, a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor, and webOS 3.0 operating system. The TouchPad was released this summer and then canceled…

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Now that HP has announced that webOS is going open source, CEO Meg Whitman says the company is looking at releasing new webOS hardware. No plans have been finalized yet, but Whitman tells The Verge and TechCrunch that tablets are still on the tablet, but HP is likely pulling out of the webOS smartphone business. If HP does produce a…

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