HP Pavilion dv6 and dv7 – A stylish light weight laptop

HP has come out with two different variety of laptops with stylish finish and variant colors.Gone are the days when laptops where made with thick plastics, now you can see various latops with aluminium coated surface specially the cover and palm rest area and other base part of the laptop with magnesium compound. laptops also comes with variant colors.DV6 comes with black cherry, champagne, and Sonoma red and DV7 comes with Espresso Black or optional Moonlight White . Other than than the mettalic finish HP also provides other features like wider screen perfect for HD1 viewing and also options for built in tv tuning

DV6

DV7

Specifications

Screen Width
dv6 comes with 15.6 screen width and dv7 comes with 17.3 screen width

Processor
Asusual user has the option to choose between AMD and Intel processor
But dv6 can also have quad-core processor, which is intel core i7
dv7 can have Intel Core i3 processor, upgradable to Intel Core i5

Operating System
Both laptops comes with two options
genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

Service & Support,Warranty
One year warranty on hardware
Extensible quick support
Access to on-line support by clicking on the desktop icon
Access to our on-line classes, FAQs, and other resources through HP Total Care
60 days of complimentary live updates to Symantec Norton Internet Security 2010, which has been optimized for your PC

Response and battery time
Real-time chat and e-mail (with a response in about an hour)
Battery life up to 4.75 hours (8 cell)

Connectivity
4 USB ports
HDMI
eSATA
VGA

Security
Built-in HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection, which detects if your notebook is being dropped and locks your hard drive to help protect your data

Memory
Choices
3GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
FREE Upgrade to 4GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm) from 3GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)

Hard drive
Choices:
320GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
500GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
640GB 7200RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (320GB x 2) with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
1TB 7200RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (500GB x 2) with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
448GB 7200RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (SSD 128GB + 320GB 7200RPM)
628GB 7200RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (SSD 128GB + 500GB 7200RPM)

Price of dv6 laptop is around $650 and dv7 laptop is $800

Portable Flexible external hard drives from Seagate

Seagate has announced a new innovative portal flexible external hard drives which consists of replaceble end piece easily portable with another interface.Seagate has many variety of products like GoFlex Ultraportable drive , GoFlex Pro UltraPortable drive and GoFlex External Drive.Ultra portable drive also supports ultra upgradable option where in its easy to upgrade from USB 2.0 connectivity to USB 3.0 or FireWire 800 or eSATA.Another feature is it allows you to access content by connecting to TV and also with other networks.

So how the disk is going to support all these connectivity and Storage?
Seems to be very simple.External hard disk is designed with two parts.One part is dedicated for storage and other part is the cable adapter.First part is the hard disk storage itself which is usual in all the hard drives.Other part contains the circuit board which is designed to support other interface and features

External harddisk also comes with different dimensions.One is with 2.5 inch and other is with 3.5 inch.GoFlex ProUltra hard drive includes a fast 7200 RPM internal drive, which delivers up to 40% faster file transfer speeds than the standard GoFlex drives when paired with a GoFlex upgrade cable.

Price of UltraProtableDrive with 500GB is around $171