There are nine Baytrail products about to launch and I’ve detailed them all in this post. If money wasn’t an issue and if all of these mobile Windows 8 options were available tomorrow, which one would you choose?
The first of these new tablets and 2-in-1 devices will be available next week. Pre-order has already started!
An Atom-based tablet with 1920×1200 resolution? At 650 grams? For 399 Euro? It’s great progress and the HP Omni 10 could be just the ticket for a lot of people.
Using the best Baytrail-T Processor available, the Z3770 with 1.46Ghz base frequency and 2.93Ghz Boost, this 1920×1200 tablet with Windows 8.1 and Office could be a tempting alternative to some of the Android tablets around when you consider that you could really get some work done if needed.
We haven’t seen digitizer options, 64GB options or 3G options but as this product as just gone into the HP German website it’s likely that more will follow.
Of course the only potential issues with the specifications is that it only has 32GB of storage. 25GB of free box.net storage is included but that may not be enough to ease the pain when updates and installs have taken all the main storage.
An HP Bluetooth keyboard costs around 53 Euros and there’s a stand/charging port available.
Availability for the HP Omni 10 is November 2013.
Full specifications, gallery and a video have been added to our database.
Source: HP Germany
Today HP unveiled a new range of business oriented laptops in their ProBook and EliteBook lines and 2 models from the latter range, the 840 & 850, could be a candidate for your next Ultrabook with Haswell, backlit keyboards and more.
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We’ve seen the Dell Venue 8, the Toshiba Venue, heard about the Acer iconia A1 and had hands-on with the ASUS T100 but now it’s HP’s turn to launch a Windows 8.1 Tablet on Baytrail. The HP Omni 10 is a no-frills tablet, probably aimed at a professional market rather than a consumer one.
Availability: November
This should be a Connected Standby tablet meaning 300ms availability and always-on WiFi / Windows 8.1 apps.
Engadget mention Celeron or Pentium processor which would indicate Baytrail-M rather than Baytrail-T. The major difference being that the SSD could be a lot faster. We’ll try and get confirmation for you but for now we’re treating this as a Baytrail-T tablet.
Image Via TabletPC Review. Hat-Tip: Engadget.
Transformer Book competition? HP has just outed the Split X2, a Core powered 13.3″ touchscreen Windows 8 hybrid with WiDi, HDMI, and a keyboard dock with an extra battery and a 500GB HDD. Is this a viable alternative to the Transformer Book?
Leap Motion is an inexpensive Kinect-like 3D sensor that made waves when it was announced months ago thanks to its high fidelity low-latency tracking. The company recently announced a partnership with HP to bring Leap technology to HP products. If you’ve been following the Ultrabook realm closely as we have, you’ll know that Intel has been pushing their ‘Perceptual Computing‘ initiative in an attempt to take Ultrabooks and PCs to the next level of human-computer interaction with natural inputs like touch, gesture, voice, etc. It seems like HP may be attempting to leap-frog Intel in that regard.
Of the laptop-like dockable Clovertrail tablets there are two that stand out. The ASUS VivoTab TF800 has a great keyboard, a stylish build and that all-important battery in the keyboard unit. The HP Envy is also up there and last week at CeBIT I had some quiet time alone with it thanks to the Intel booth. I really like it. I like it even more today as I’ve just found a price of $599 for the 64GB unit with keyboard.
I’ve had a chance to look at the HP Elitepad Smart Jackets and they’re not bad. They’re rugged, provide some good features and help to set the Elitepad apart from the rest of the Clovertrail Tablets.
First of all we’ve got the expansion jacket which offers 2x USB, HDMI and an SD card slot. You can also add an additional battery in the jacket.
There’s the productivity jacket which includes the keyboard, stand with adjustable angle, 2XUSB and full SD card slot. It makes a nice case for the Elitepad too.
Finally there’s the desk dock with power, Ethernet, VGA and HDMI out, 4XUSB, Kensington lock and line-out.
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