HP Compaq 6510b, 6710b Available

Hewlett-Packard has announced HP Compaq 6510b and 6710b business laptops, both based on the latest Intel “Santa Rosa” notebook platform with the new Core 2 Duo processors featuring clock speeds up to 2.4Ghz and 800MHz front side bus.

HP Compaq 6510b has a 14.1-inch widescreen display with 1280×800 resolution, while HP Compaq 6710b features the 15.4-inch 1280×800 or 1680×1050 widescreen TFT. The 6510b and 6710b have the same specifications, except their screen size and weight of 5.38lbs and 5.7lbs, respectively. Both notebooks are built upon Intel GM965 chipset with an integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 and are offered with up to 2GB of main memory, which is expandable to 4GB. HP Compaq 6510b and 6710b ship with SATA hard drives, providing up to 160GB of storage capacity, and enable a choice of combo drive, DVD-ROM, DVD burner or DVD burner with LightScribe technology.

These laptops for mobile professionals provide a variety of networking and broadband features such as wireless a/b/g/n connectivity, Bluetooth, an optional EV-DO module for Verizon Wireless Service, an optional HSDPA module (requires mobile network operator service), Gigabit Ethernet and a 56k modem.

Regarding ports and slots, in each model there are four USB ports, PC Card slot, Media Card reader, Firewire, a VGA and a S-Video output, a docking connector, and a secondary battery connector.

The Compaq 6510b and 6710b incorporate TPM Embedded Security Chip 1.2 and a fingerprint reader.

The notebooks come with Windows Vista, Windows XP or FreeDOS operating system.

HP Compaq 6510b has a starting price of $999, while the 6710b starts at $1,049.