This category is about standard laptops, with screen sizes ranging from 14 to 17 inches. These mainstream notebooks are designed consumers and small business users and can be used for everyday work tasks, multimedia, and causal gaming. The systems utilize from low- to higher-end processors and graphics. Standard laptops usually cost less than ultraportables and mobile gaming or enterprise-class machines.
Sony has announced the new VAIO S-series 13.3″ and 15.5″ notebooks with the latest Intel 3rd Gen processors and thin cases in aluminum, magnesium, or carbon fiber flavors.
Design of the cases has changed, but not much, judging from the published image. The most notable change is a larger button-less touchpad, replacing the old one with physical buttons. The optical drive is now a slot-loading one, in a DVD and Blu-ray variant.
Besides the EliteBook higher-end business laptops, HP has announced the refreshed ProBook lineup designed for the more budget-conscious biz people.
The new models are the ProBook b-series 6470b/6475b and 6570b, with 14″ and 15.6″ displays, respectively, and the s-series 14″ 4440s, 15.6″ 4540s/4545s, and 17.3″ 4740s. The ProBook s will also come in a 13.3-inch variant, according to HP. The models ending with 0 number before the last letter are with the 2012 Intel processors, while those ending with 5 use AMD’s CPUs.
Hewlett-Packard has announced the Intel Ivy Bridge update across the HP EliteBook p-series business laptop line and added a new ultraportable model. The smallest EliteBook member now is the new HP 2170p with a 11.6-inch display. Moving on up, we have the 2570p, 8470p, and 8570p with 12.5″, 14″, and 15.6″ displays.
The 15.6″ HP Pavilion g6 and 17.3″ g7 budget laptops will hit the US market on July 25th, with prices starting at $450, the PC maker has announced.
The Pavilion g-series for 2012 are made of plastics, and feature beveled edges, bowl-shaped keyboards, textured touchpads, and a chrome strip around the speaker bar. The chassis color choices are black, white, red, blue, and purple. HP hasn’t provided details on the notebook duo, but they are expected to come with various Intel and AMD CPU choices, including higher-end 3rd Generation Intel Core chips, as well as with dedicated GPU options.
Hewlett-Packard has announced the HP Pavilion m6 15.6″ entertainment notebook PC.
The key differentiator between the m6 and other Pavilion notebooks is a sleeker design and use of brushed aluminum on palm rests and lid on the former. The keyboard is chiclet-style and has optional backlight.
The recently leaked HP Envy 4 and Envy 6 Ultrabooks are now official. In addition, the PC maker has announced lower-end configurations of the 4 and 6 series and named them “Sleekbooks” since they don’t meet Intel’s Ultrabook standards.
The 14″ Envy 4t and 15.6″ Envy 6t are configurable models sold via the HP Store. The 4t is available with the low-voltage i3-2367M and i5-2467M Intel Core “Sandy Bridge” CPUs, while the larger 6t comes with the i5 variant only.
Samsung NP700Z7C-S01US with Intel Ivy Bridge CPU
Another laptop with an Intel “Ivy Bridge” processor is now on sale in the US. It’s the Series 7 Samsung NP700Z7C, listed at Amazon.
The 17.3-incher appears to have the same industrial design as the current Series 7 Chronos laptops, but it packs inside the Core i7-3615QM quad-core CPU from Intel’s 3rd Generation Core family, codenamed “Ivy Bridge”. The i7-3615QM is clocked at 2.3GHz by default, but the speed can be increased on-the-fly to maximal 3.3GHz on some of the CPU cores thanks to Intel Turbo Boost technology.
The AMD E1-1200, which is going to replace the AMD E-300 series Accelerated Processing Unit, has been spotted in a new Acer Aspire E1 laptop PC.
We’ve tried to find differences between the E1-1200 and E-300, but there are only a few of them and the updates are minor. Both dual-core processors belong to the 40-nanometer “Zacate” APU family and have 512KB of L2 cache, a power consumption of 18W, and UVD3 for 1080p HD video decoding. The new APU has a slightly higher clock speed of 1.4GHz as opposed to 1.3GHz on the E-300. The E1-1200 has the built-in AMD Radeon HD 7310 integrated graphics, but judging from its specs it’s the old 80-shader HD 6310 with clock speed set to 500MHz instad of 488MHz.
The Dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition, the company’s first Inspiron model with the 3rd Generation Intel Core processor, is now available in Singapore, meaning that we will probably see it soon around the globe as well.
Advertised as a “high-performance multimedia powerhouse”, the Inspiron 15R SE packs the i7-3612QM quad-core CPU and the AMD Radeon HD 7730M 2GB video cards as standard components, while the 1080p HD resolution instead of 1366×768 pixels, a Blu-ray Combo drive instead of DVD, and 8GB of DDR3 1,600MHz RAM instead of 6GB are optional. The laptop is currently offered with 1TB of storage, but it’s nice to see an optional 32GB mSATA SSD available as add-on for better responsiveness and almost instant system resume.
The Asus N56 15.6″ entertainment-oriented notebook, which is now available for pre-order, delivers not only the Intel “Ivy Bridge” processors and Nvidia GeForce 600M graphics, but also 1080p display resolution and aluminum chassis.
The manufacturer part Asus N56VZ-DS71, currently offered via Adorama, sports the “Ivy” 3rd Generation Intel Core i7-3610QM 2.3GHz quad CPU, the Nvidia Geforce GT 650M 2GB video card, 8GB of RAM at 1,600MHz, a 750GB 5,400rpm HDD, DVD burner, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
Hewlett-Packard has put on sale the new HP Pavilion dv6t and dv7t Quad Edition laptops with the 3rd Generation Intel Core Ivy Bridge processors.
The configurable 2012 15.6″ dv6tqe and 17.3″ dv7tqe start at $900 and $950 respectively, and will start shipping to customers on May 9th. If you need to have one of the Ivy Bridge Pavilion laptops tomorrow, you can select pre-configured ready-to-ship models.
The current HP g6.
HP’s Pavilion g6 and g7 series notebooks will be available with the 3rd generation quad-core Intel “Ivy Bridge” processors, according to leaked specifications of these entry-level consumer laptops.
This is the HP dm4 Beats Edition notebook.
Today we spotted an updated HP Pavilion dm4 laptop model with an upcoming Ivy Bridge processor from Intel. The Intel Core i7-3612QM-powered HP Pavilion dm4-3110tx Beats Edition is already on sale in China. The product page has a working “Buy” button, which adds the laptop to the chart, so this is probably the first Ivy Bridge notebook available for purchase.
Asus K55-Series K55VD-DS71
The Asus K55VD-DS71 is the first known K55-series laptop SKU. It’s now listed in product catalogs at multiple online retailers, but its status is out of stock or back order.
The 15.6″ K55VD-DS71 packs the Intel Core i7-3610QM 2.3GHz quad-core “Ivy Bridge” processor, 6GB RAM, and a 750GB hard drive. The notebook sports Bluetooth 4.0, besides Wi-Fi and Gigabit LAN. Windows 7 version is Home Premium.
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 - Back and Front
Lenovo has put on sale the ThinkPad Edge E530 and E430 affordable laptops for small business users.
Both starting at $549, the 15.6″ E530 and 14″ E430 come with the current “Sandy Bridge” (2nd) generation of Intel Core i3 and i5 processors, integrated HD 3000 graphics, up to 8GB of RAM, maximal 500GB of HDD storage, a DVD burner, 1366×768 screen resolution with anti-glare and glossy display options, and a 720p webcam.
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