Posts Tagged ‘HP’

Earlier today, HP launched the HP Envy 14 Spectre and I was immediately reminded of the 2009 Dell Adamo, which was Dell’s halo product that year. Both are wrapped in glass, both look stunning in black and both would cause you to drool. But the Adamo was a bit ahead of its time, Intel hadn’t yet figured out how to package performance, we weren’t yet divorced from our optical drives (streaming was in its infancy), and Adamo had some nasty tradeoffs, not the least of which was a very high price.

HP’s new CEO Meg Whitman is in damage control mode and came to the conclusion that getting rid of the PC business does not make much sense.

A report that suggests the days of Leo Apotheker as HP’s CEO may be counted, lifted the company’s stock by about 7%. Meg Whitman, former CEO of Ebay, is apparently the board’s front runner for the position.

Apple has scored once more the highest in the PC category of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Apple leads by a margin of 9 points over its nearest competitor.

The break-up of HP has come as a shock to many of us who cover the company, but it may not have been such a big surprise to the people inside the HP PC unit. It initially came across like HP was either going to sell the unit off or shut it down. That apparently isn’t the case and now that more of the strategy has been fleshed out, it suddenly looks interesting. Apparently, HP has figured out what has taken the industry decades to learn: Trying to both do enterprise backend products and user-focused products well is impossible. The two areas are too specialized and the result is a kludge.

HP announced a “non-computer” about five months ago, a story which was only reported by The Onion. As funny as the publication’s stories are, this one was spot on.

A recently released patent filing from HP discloses that the company may not have created the Touchpad as a reaction to Apple, but has had an idea for such a device, which resembles the look of today’s general tablet for some time: The Touchpad patent dates back to October 22, 2009. And we wonder what implications this patent will have for the general tablet.

For new Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker, the way forward is cloudy.

We know a lot about the Motorola Xoom and, through apparent leaks, we are learning more about the iPad 2 and coming HP/Palm Tablets and Smartphones.  I figured it would be fun to get ahead of the curve and start crafting out how the competition is likely to play out. So let’s get to it.

More than 60 tablets are expected to be announced at CES 2011. This is an overview of the most noteworthy announcements. Latest Update: Dell Streak 7.

Parallelization may not just work for processing, but also for printing data, according to a patent filed by HP last week. The document indicates that the multithreading will be able to accelerate the printing speed accelerate of large documents.

There are two problems you never want to have in a new product. One is that you build far more than the market wants to buy and the other is you build far less. With the Windows 7 tablet, HP has the second problem and rather than going into the fourth quarter with what could have been a surprising success, they are instead explaining why they missed the boat.