HP shocks China with $399 AMD Jaguar TouchSmart 11 Notebook

[fusion238]

HP held a world tour event in Beijing China for the formal introduction of their new PC and mobile line for 2013. They will start selling their AMD Jaguar based Ten-Point TouchSmart 11 Windows 8.1 laptop on June 26 with a starting price of $399.

The current press reporting that the price for a ten point touchscreen laptop is shockingly good and will be a best seller.

 

[thilanliyan]

What is "shocking" about it? Just the price?

 

[Ventanni]

Nice laptop. Should have good performance and battery life.

Might make for a good, low power HTPC too!

 

[SocketF]

It's old, first reports are 1 month old:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/23/4...s-3200-1800-touchsmart-ultrabook-display-2013

There is also already a hands on video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgbsPoL6B1A

 

[mrmt]

HP quality with AMD hardware and Apple prices. Yes, it is shocking.

 

[fusion238]

What is "shocking" about it? Just the price?

It is a ten point touchscreen laptop with cool running sub 5 to sub 10 watt Jaguars APUs built around a aluminum base with a good number of ports and potentially has excellent user upgrade features like its predecessor HP DM1.

 

[ShintaiDK]

HP quality with AMD hardware and Apple prices. Yes, it is shocking.

^^. Thats a really high price for such hardware.

 

[fusion238]

^^. Thats a really high price for such hardware.

Then you will be shocked to find that HP's Envy X2 with Atom Z2760 has a list price of around $800 and is not well reviewed.

Now people can get a choice of AMD Jaguar APUs versus Atoms versus some expensive laptops based on Qualcomm ARMs.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/14/hp-envy-x2-review/

 

[ShintaiDK]

Then you will be shocked to find that HP's Envy X2 with Atom Z2760 has a list price of around $800 and is not well reviewed.

Now people can get a choice of AMD Jaguar APUs versus Atoms versus some expensive laptops based on Qualcomm ARMs.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/14/hp-envy-x2-review/

I think you completely missed it all and went to the Intel vs AMD route.

 

[sxr7171]

Then you will be shocked to find that HP's Envy X2 with Atom Z2760 has a list price of around $800 and is not well reviewed.

Now people can get a choice of AMD Jaguar APUs versus Atoms versus some expensive laptops based on Qualcomm ARMs.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/14/hp-envy-x2-review/

Those Atom books used to be in this price range a few years ago. But $800 now? That's just stupid. I had a Vaio X which was the king of the Atom machines and it was too slow to use.

I'd hope both modern Atoms and AMD based machines have at least as much performance as an iPad. It's been enough time. Catch up to ARM already.

 

[Rvenger]

I think you completely missed it all and went to the Intel vs AMD route.

I think Shintai was being sarcastic.

 

[bgt]

finally a good replacement for my C60 Aspire One.

 

[NTMBK]

Hard to tell if that's quite a large laptop, or a small model.

 

[podspi]

Looks like a nice DM1 upgrade. Will be interesting to see the battery life they can achieve with this.

 

[Pulsar]

If I wanted a tablet, I'd buy a tablet. If I wanted a laptop, I'd buy a laptop.

I understand these companies are trying to create a 'niche' and be unique, but I have yet to find any type of compelling reason to buy a touch-screen enabled undersized laptop with an underpowered processor. It's like the worst of all worlds.

 

[monstercameron]

If I wanted a tablet, I'd buy a tablet. If I wanted a laptop, I'd buy a laptop.

I understand these companies are trying to create a 'niche' and be unique, but I have yet to find any type of compelling reason to buy a touch-screen enabled undersized laptop with an underpowered processor. It's like the worst of all worlds.

everyone has a different personal preference, I for one will never buy a laptop over 11.6"

the touchscreen could help unsavvy computer users to use it better, what is more natural than touch?

An "underpowered processor" could mean that it runs cooler and uses less power, so smaller batteries would be needed. It is a trade-off, unless you would lke to carry around your 3570 or 4770 in a 17.3" chasis, with 30 mins of battery life with a weight of 10 lbs.

 

[Phynaz]

Then you will be shocked to find that HP's Envy X2 with Atom Z2760 has a list price of around $800 and is not well reviewed.

Now people can get a choice of AMD Jaguar APUs versus Atoms versus some expensive laptops based on Qualcomm ARMs.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/14/hp-envy-x2-review/

You're seriously going to compare an Envy to this craptop?

You don't seem to realize that this replaces the DM1, which is HP's bottom of the barrel laptop.

Oh, and you're off by $150 on the price of the envy.

 

[sxr7171]

everyone has a different personal preference, I for one will never buy a laptop over 11.6"

the touchscreen could help unsavvy computer users to use it better, what is more natural than touch?

An "underpowered processor" could mean that it runs cooler and uses less power, so smaller batteries would be needed. It is a trade-off, unless you would lke to carry around your 3570 or 4770 in a 17.3" chasis, with 30 mins of battery life with a weight of 10 lbs.

I was like that too. I started with 12" 4:3 laptops. And the 12.1" was big enough. I went through a few of those until I got stuck with a 12" 16:10 machine. At first the smaller size bugged me but I got used to it.

Then I ended up with an 11.6" 16:9 and it wasn't as huge of a jump down as the one from 12.1" 4:3 to 16:10. So got used to it easily.

But then I discovered a 13.3" machine that weighs 1.9lbs and is 0.58" thick. Lighter than any 11.6" machine. I have to admit the extra screen space reminds me of the 12.1" 4:3 that I started with.

When I open up the 11.6" Macbook Air it just looks tiny and it has that ridiculous bezel that is huge which doesn't help its case either.

 

[VirtualLarry]

finally a good replacement for my C60 Aspire One.

Exactly what I was thinking! (I own one of those too, nice little netbook/ultralight. Good battery life.)

 

[bgt]

Exactly what I was thinking! (I own one of those too, nice little netbook/ultralight. Good battery life.)

Yes, exactly, mine has a SSD and 8Gb ram and a tiny screen.............awsomeruns all day:biggrin:and is as light as a feather....and fast enough...............:whiste:

 

[frozentundra123456]

Hyperbole is strong with this thread young padawan.

 

[podspi]

You're seriously going to compare an Envy to this craptop?

You don't seem to realize that this replaces the DM1, which is HP's bottom of the barrel laptop.

Oh, and you're off by $150 on the price of the envy.

My DM1z was a great little laptop. Certainly not business-class, but those are a lot more expensive.

If you honestly think these are bottom of the barrel, you haven't looked at some other models HP has peddled, or anything from Acer in the last couple of years...

 

[Sheep221]

everyone has a different personal preference, I for one will never buy a laptop over 11.6"

the touchscreen could help unsavvy computer users to use it better, what is more natural than touch?

An "underpowered processor" could mean that it runs cooler and uses less power, so smaller batteries would be needed. It is a trade-off, unless you would lke to carry around your 3570 or 4770 in a 17.3" chasis, with 30 mins of battery life with a weight of 10 lbs.

touch controls are good for phones and special machinery but nothing else, I find controlling laptop or desktop with touchscreen to be slow annoying and inaccurate

 

[Gikaseixas]

My daughter has a DM1 laptop and this seems to be a great replacement for it. I might just play with it in a store first to decide if it's as good as they say it is.

 

[ZGR]

Looks like the netbook just got revived.