HP Pavilion m6 comes in the form of a machine with a large display but super-slim in design. The machine packs 15.6-inch diagonal LED backlit high-definition (HD) BrightView display, while special Beats Audio, dual speakers and subwoofer enhances the audio front.

With eight hours of HP probook 4525s battery life these machines are powered by latest Intel and AMD chips.

To keep good company, HP Pavilion dv series machines comes with the refreshed look of the tapered chassis, new metal finish, coupled with a soft-touch panel at the base of the display cover.

However, no worries since the design overhaul has not touched the Beats Audio experience on these devices. Moreover, HP offers adding optional NVIDIA GeForce GPUs for an enhanced graphic experience.

The machines going school also includes redesigned HP Pavilion g6 and g7 which comes with a bowl-shape keyboard deck, textured touchpad and better audio in trendy shades like ruby red, linen white, sparkling black, winter blue and bright purple.

There is no clue on pricing for HP Pavilion m6 which will be available this summer. Pavilion dv4, dv6 and dv7 will be available in the US on June 20 with prices of $549.99, $549.99 and $799.99, respectively while g6 and g7 will come only on July 25 with starting prices of $449.99 and $499.99, respectively.

iPhone 5: Liquidmetal Concept Design Makes Us Wish It Was Real

After various recent rumors indicating that Apple may completely redesign the next-generation iPhone and integrate new materials, a French designer went a little further and came up with an impressive concept design for the much-anticipated iPhone 5, by adding a splash of Liquidmetal.

French designer Antoine Brieux developed a gorgeous concept design, illustrating how the next-generation iPhone could look like. Based on recent reports suggesting that the new iPhone will be thinner and lighter than its predecessors, Brieux created a concept design featuring the iPhone 5 in a Liquidmetal alloy casing.

iPhone 5 LM

Brieux’ design, called the iPhone 5 LM – where, of course, LM stands for Liquidmetal – features a 4.5-inch display, a virtual home button rather than a physical one, and a set of wishful specifications. With no physical home button, the concept design suggests that Apple could increase the aspect ratio of the display to 16:9, thus allowing for greater screen real estate while also maintaining its form factor. In addition, the virtual home button could be removed from the screen if an application needs to make use of that extra space.

According to several reports, Apple is unlikely to ditch the physical home button anytime soon, but Brieux’ concept points out just how much usable screen area the physical button takes. On the other hand, the physical home button on current iPhones is almost like a trademark, making them easily recognizable.

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Wishful Specifications

The French designer’s iPhone 5 LM concept illustrates other rumors as well, such as a quad-core A6 chip, a 10-megapixel camera, and embedded SIM card, and the exquisite Liquidmetal case. Liquidmetal is a trade name for a new metallic alloy that could make tougher and smoother cases. The material is very tough, resilient, scratch and corrosion resistant, which would make it ideal for a top-notch iPhone. Apple has exclusively owned the license to Liquidmetal since last year, but so far it has only used it for the SIM card eject tool.

However, while rumors indicate the next-generation will feature a Liquidmetal case, Dr. Atakan Peker, the inventor of the technology, recently told Business Insider that Apple still has a long way to go before using the alloy in large scale products. According to Peker, the Liquidmetal technology “has yet to be matured both in manufacturing process and application development.”

Antoine Brieux’ concept design is truly inspiring and impressive, but at the end of the day it is only another concept design of what the next-generation iPhone could look like. Apple is not likely to employ the Liquidmetal technology in an iPhone, at least not yet, and a 4.5-inch display seems even less likely, considering the previous generations of iPhone boast of 3.5-inch display. If Apple were, however, to make the next-generation iPhone with a sleek Liquidmetal casing, it would crush all competition and be the undisputed king of high-end smartphones.

Put images of the ill-fated Hewlett-Packard TouchPad out of your memory. The purported design and specifications of the forthcoming HP Slate 8 powered by Windows 8, expected out this fall, points to a robust mobile computing device that will appeal to consumer and business users alike. Our speculation: The Slate 8 will become a part of the accessory options of business users.

Plans for the HP Slate 8 were leaked over the weekend and quickly went viral. The device is as large as the Apple iPad with a 10.1-inch screen, but thinner and lighter. It sports 8 to 10 hours of battery life, and includes both touch and digital pen interfaces. And, for business users, it includes easier integration with Windows-based networks and applications.

All this should make the new tablet attractive to business users, but equally usable by consumers.  While HP is saying nothing publicly about the tablet or its reported features, expectations are for the tablet to hit the market sometime late in the third quarter in time for the holiday shopping season.

HP hasn’t said much about its tablet strategy in the channel. Perhaps that’s part of the hangover from the disastrous tablet experiment known as the HP TouchPad. For that product, HP promised a concerted channel push, hoping partners would drive the WebOS-powered device into the enterprise and steal share away from the vaunted iPad. HP, a channel-centric company, will likely engage partners through the newly formed Printer and Personal System group under channel chief Mike Parrottino.

Around the same time HP releases Slate 8, it will be among the throng of vendors releasing new Intel-powered ultrabooks – thin, lightweight and powerful PCs that share many of the attributes of touch-screen tablets and conventional notebooks. Apple CEO Tim Cook recently dismissed the ultrabook concept as unworkable. He said combining a tablet and notebook would be like “combining a toaster and refrigerator.”

Cook is wrong on so many levels. At the recent Intel Solutions Summit in New Orleans, the chipmaker had several ultrabook concept and working models on display. The idea behind the ultrabook is sound, as it provides options that are currently unavailable in desktops, notebooks or tablets. At the same time, Intel expects a huge uptick in the adoption of All-in-One PCs, desktops that also share touch-screen interfaces in a consolidate form factor.

Since everyone is speculating about the future of tablets, ultrabooks and mobility, let’s take the Slate 8 value proposition to a new level: a mobile accessory. In fact, many mobile devices will become accessories no different than bracelets, rings and watches.

We’re already seeing evidence of this among business users. Increasingly business travels are leaving their notebooks at home in favor of tablets.  If they need just enough access and power to check email and read documents, why carry a 2-pound, inch-thick laptop? When at home or in the office, business and consumer users want power, so they’re increasingly turning to desktops – most notably the AIO variety promoted by Intel. And, of course, users need power and mobility, which will breathe new life into conventional laptops and ultrabooks.

The future of mobility may not be in the displacement of incumbent devices and brands, but rather complementing them by giving users choice. The average user will likely have multiple tablets, computers and mobile devices that match their varying needs. They will pick their computing device off the shelf like they do cufflinks and earrings to match specific circumstances. And they’ll do this thanks, in large part, to Moore’s Law, which is continually increasing processing power and lowering the price of these devices.

For the channel, this is all good news. It means they won’t have to defeat an incumbent vendor or device platform when selling new mobile devices. Rather, they will have to promote integration, portability and ease of use. And, of course, cloud-based storage, applications and file synchronization services will make multiple mobile devices more appealing and provide solution providers with recurring revenue.

The HP Slate 8 will likely find a market ready for its design and functionality. But it will likely take its place alongside multiple other devices in the users’ growing mobility arsenal.

Toshiba‘s slimmest notebook can cost as little as $1595 for an Intel Core i3 model,an Intel Core i3 model, or as much as $3877.50, for an Intel Core i7 model with a 256GB SSD drive. There are models everywhere in between, with many different combinations of processor, storage and built-in 3G.

What they all have in common, though, is extremely light weight — around 1.1KG — and fairly slim profile — 1.7cm at the thinnest point, 2.6cm at the thickest. They all include a DVD writer, which is handy if you tend to attend events with handout CDs. The 13.3″ matte screen has a good resolution of 1366x768px — the same as many 15″ notebooks, so you won’t find the screen cramped. The case is finished in brushed-black.

The Portege R700 also runs full-speed Intel CPUs — not the ultra-low voltage varieties often used in very slim notebooks due to their lower heat output.

In terms of convenience features, there’s an SD camera memory card slot (Toshiba confusingly calls it a “bridge media slot”), an HDMI port for connecting to home or hotel TVs, a VGA port for connecting to meeting room projectors and a webcam for Skype video chats.

Toshiba says the included Toshiba pa3285u-1bas battery will give you eight hours’ runtime and an optional larger notebook battery will give you 12 — but take these figures with a grain of salt; manufacturer battery life claims are often twice as high as real-life.

Toshiba’s warranty is worth mentioning — it comes with three years’ international warranty, including courier pickup/return if you have a problem that needs technician attention within Australia. Toshiba also offers a good range of extra-cost warranties such as Australia/New Zealand on-site laptop batteries repair for up to four years.

I took the HTC Desire off the charger at 6am and was dismayed to find that by 9:13am Toshiba pa3285u-1bas battery life had dwindled to 60%! Had a feeling it was to do with the background services that were pulling updates down from Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds etc, but left them running to see how long it would last with the unaltered settings.

At 6pm, exactly 12 hours from time of full charge, it died.

And I thought the iPhone was bad!!

Now that the ‘out-of-box-settings’ day was over, I was looking forward to improving HTC Desire battery performance since many of my online friends were experiencing far better battery times.

After some tweaks at dawn this morning, things are looking up battery wise. It’s lunch time and the battery level is at 63%. That’s only after really changing the background data sync options. Rather than stop there, I spent around ten minutes trawling through the settings to create a list of ten simple ways you can get more time out of your HTC Desire battery. For those who haven’t adjusted any of the settings below yet, I’m confident you’ll be pleased with the results.

If you have any additional ones please post a comment below and I’ll update the list.

10 Ways To Increase HTC Desire Battery Time

1. Disable Background Data syncing : Settings > Accounts & sync > Untick Background data
2. Disable Auto-sync : Settings > Accounts & sync > Untick Auto-sync
3. Turn Vibrate Notification off: Settings > Sound & display > Untick Phone Vibrate
4. Turn Off Haptic feedback: Settings > Sound & display > Untick Haptic feedback : Vibrate when pressing soft keys and on certain UI interactions.
5. Reduce Screen Brightness: Settings > Sound & display > Brightness > Untick Automatic brightness > Reduce Brightness by sliding to left
6. Reduce Screen Timeout Interval: Settings > Sound & display > Screen timeout (default 1 min) > Reduce to less than 1 min (15 seconds minimum)
7. Disable WiFi : Settings > Wireless & networks > Untick Wi-Fi
8. Disable Bluetooth: Settings > Wireless & networks > Untick Bluetooth
9. Disable Unnecessary Running services: Settings > Applications > Running Services > Select and Stop any apps that you are not using
10. Customise Data Options of Individual Apps : normally in Setting options of each app. Change intervals / frequency of data pulls or disable background syncing altogether. Pay attention to Twitter clients, RSS apps and mail especially.

How To Check Battery Level On The HTC Desire

Settings > About phone > Battery : gives Battery Status, Battery Use, Battery Level, Up time and Awake time. I love the way it breaks down Dell Inspiron 1526 replacement battery usage too.

Here’s my breakdown of battery usage at the time of writing this:

• Camera 39%
• Android System 20%
• Cell Standby 19%
• Phone idle 15%
• Display 7%

Looks like I need to stop playing “Mobile Photographer”

Hope this helps you stay online longer on your HTC Desire.

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But what the spec sheet won’t tell you is there’s a price to pay for all this power, and it’s the HP pavilion dv6 battery, which didn’t last very long on the review phone Natasha was given to test.

One thing Natasha did like though was the new version of HTC’s Sense software, which changes much of the standard Android Ice Cream Sandwich experience for something sleeker. Although one downside to that is that you won’t get software updates to your phone as fast as you will with, say, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which uses the vanilla version of Android.

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In this guide, we’ll look at ways to reclaim those resources and maximize your laptop’s battery life. Some of the steps may require venturing into the BIOS or UEFI of your notebook, while others are simpler software tweaks.

Know What Kills Your Laptop Battery Power

Before diving in, review why notebook batteries die in the first place. From the CPU to the trackpad, every component in a laptop consumes power. The amount consumed varies from component to component and also fluctuates in response to environmental conditions such as temperature and system workload. The greater the number of components or peripherals attached to your laptop and the more work you do with it, the quicker the battery will drain. Every program, driver, or service that loads, every background task that runs, and every electronic circuit that fires up saps a tiny bit of battery life. Consequently, reducing the number of attached or active peripherals and minimizing the load placed on the notebook will prolong Acer aspire 4710 battery life.

Unfortunately, some of the burdens that the manufacturer or vendor places by default on your laptop’s battery may not be easy to track down and eliminate. As a result, you have to make an effort to minimize resource consumption and maximize battery life.

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aussiebattery has posted simpler articles about how to extend your laptop battery life, and we won’t cover the same items here. Keeping your laptop cool, dimming its display, and enabling system hibernation are all good ways to prolong battery life; but in this guide we’ll be focusing on hard numbers that illustrate the potential benefits of certain modifications.  Tweak Your Hardware and Software.

You can make a number of hardware and software changes to prolong your laptop’s battery life. However, some of these tricks might cause your laptop to function poorly or even to cease functioning entirely, so please be careful. Though we tested all of these tweaks on our own laptop, we can’t guarantee that they’ll work with your unique hardware; recognizing this, PCWorld cannot be held liable for any deleterious changes that might occur as a result of following this guide. When in doubt, make a backup.

On the hardware side, disabling or disconnecting unused components and peripherals will go a long way toward improving HP presario cq70 battery life. On the software side, disabling or uninstalling unnecessary (but resource-hungry) services and applications will help minimize power consumption. In addition, updating drivers–video drivers in particular–sometimes helps by enabling the system to optimize or offload certain processes, such as video encoding/decoding, from the CPU to relatively power-efficient dedicated hardware in the graphics processor.

Use MSCONFIG to disable resources you don’t need.

Since every program or service that loads in Windows consumes system resources, you should disable the ones you don’t need or want. Start by launching the Windows System Configuration utility MSCONFIG: Click the Start button, type MSCONFIG in the Search field, and press Enter. In the resulting window, click the Startup tab to see all of the programs that start with Windows. You’ll probably see a number of programs that you won’t mind disabling. Our project notebook (an Acer Aspire Battery) listed eight items as automatically starting with Windows: antivirus software, Steam, QuickTime, three Adobe Acrobat-related items, Skype, and Trillian.

Having your most frequently used applications start with Windows can be handy; but if they’re not vital, it’s best to disable automatic startup and just start them manually when you need them. On our project system, we disabled everything but the AV software. To disable items in MSCONFIG, simply untick the box next to each program, apply the changes, and restart the system.

Dell plays hard to get
When Ultrabooks were first introduced in July, Dell was somewhat silent on their intentions. Typically Dell is locked arm in arm with Intel many steps of the way. When they didn’t introduce an Ultrabook by the back to school selling season, “industry people” started to ask questions. When Dell didn’t release one by the holiday selling season, people were asking, “what’s wrong with the Ultrabook category”, or “what is Dell cooking up”?

I thought they were waiting for Intel’s Ivy Bridge solution that was scheduled for earlier in the year. Whatever Dell was waiting for doesn’t matter, because they did nothing but impress at CES. During the Intel keynote with Intel’s Paul Otellini, Dell’s vice chairman Jeff Clarke, stormed on-stage with some serious Texas swagger. The video cameras at the CES event didn’t do the Dell XPS 13 justice as it’s hard to “get” the ethos of any device on camera, but with Jeff Clarke and Paul Otellii on stage, you knew it was important to both companies. In my 20+ years as PC OEM and technology provider to OEMs, I believe the only way to really “get” a product is to live with it as your primary device for a few days. And that’s just what I did.

Industrial Design
It’s apparent to me that Dell took their combined commercial and consumer experience and put it to good use. Rather than just follow Apple, HP or Lenovo, they put together what I would call the best of both worlds. The machined aluminum frame adds the brawn and high-brow feel, while the rubberized carbon-fiber composite base serves to keep the user’s lap cool and reduce weight. The rubberized palm rest provides a slip-proof environment that adds serious precision to keystrokes and trackpad gestures. It also provides a slip-proof mechanism for carrying the unit across the house, the office, or into a coffee shop. In a nutshell, Dell solved my complaints about my MacBook Air and made it look, feel and operate premium.

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Instant-On
I give Dell and Intel credit for working together to make Windows 7 PCs almost “instant on”. The XPS 13 turned on and off very quickly thanks to Intel Rapid Start and Dell’s integration. I wasn’t able to use Smart Connect, but when I can use the XPS 13 for a few weeks I want to try this out. This is essentially a feature that intermittently pulls the XPS out of sleep state and pulls in emails and calendar updates. While this is as close a PC will get to “always on, always connected”, it is a decent proxy.

Ingredient Branding and Certifications
Historically, the typical Windows-based PC with all its stickers looks like a cross between a Nascar racing car and the back of a microwave oven. That doesn’t exactly motivate anyone to shell out more than $599 for a Windows notebook. There are no visible stickers on the XPS 13 and the only external proof of Intel and Microsoft is on a laser-etched silver plate on the bottom of the unit. Underneath the plate are all the things users usually ignore like certifications.

Keyboard and Trackpad
I never quite understood how little evaluation time users spend on what ends up being one of the most important aspects of a notebook; the keyboard and trackpad. I already talked about the rubberized palm rest that gives the XPS 13 a stable palm base for the keyboard and trackpad. My palms slip all over the place with my MacBook Air. The XPS 13′s keyboard is auto backlit and the keys have good travel and a firm touch. The trackpad feels like coated glass and supports all of the Windows 7 gestures. Clicking works by either physically clicking the trackpad down or gently tapping it. It’s the user’s choice.

Display
The display is 13.3″ at a very bright 300 nits at 1,366×768 resolution. It’s an edge to edge display (or nearly), which allowed Dell to design a 13.3″ display into around a 12″ chassis. I compared it to a MacBook Air and it is in fact narrower with the same dimension display. That is very impressive. I would have preferred a higher-resolution display but I don’t know if many users will make a huge deal out of this. The display is coated with Gorilla Glass which gives some extra added comfort knowing it will be up to the task of my kids accidentally scratching it up.

Ports
Compared to some of the other Ultrabooks, I applaud Dell for removing some of the ports that I am certain primary research said were “must-haves.” Must haves like a VGA port, 5 USB ports, and an ethernet port. (yawn) Users get a Displayport, one USB-3, one powered USB-2, and a headphone jack. The only port I would have preferred was a mini or micro HDMI port. Displayport guarantees that I will need to buy a cable or an adapter I don’t have. I can live without the SD card reader but it sure would have been nice if they could have fit it inside.

Extended Laptop Battery Life
I am still very skeptical on most battery life figures of any battery-powered product. One exception is the Apple iPhone and iPad, where Apple goes out of their way to provide as much detail as possible for different use cases. With that caveat, I do believe the Dell XPS 13 will have very respectable battery life figures versus other Ultrabooks and the Apple MacBook Air. Dell says the XPS 13 will achieve nearly 9 hours of Dell inspiron 1525 battery life, well above Intel’s target of between 5 and 8 hours.

One of the sexier features harkens back to the days of Dell batteries, which had buttons to gauge how much was power was left. Like the Dell batteries of yesteryear, press a small button on the side (not back) of the XPS 13 and it will light up circles to show how much battery you have left. That shows a dedication to useful innovation, not penny pinching bad decisions made in dark meeting rooms. This is the kind of small thing that demonstrates attention to detail that Apple quite frankly has dominated so far.

Consumer and Commercial Applicability
Whenever I hear that one product serves two different markets I usually cringe and jump to the conclusion that it will be mediocre at both. I also take a very realistic approach on the “consumerization of IT”, in that I believe we are a long way off until 50% of the world’s enterprises give their employees money to choose their own laptop. In the case of the Dell XPS 13, I believe that it will provide a good value proposition to both target sets. Consumers are driven by style, price, aesthetics and perceived performance at an certain price point while businesses are more interested in TCO, services, security, and custom configurability. The Dell XPS 13 provides all that. They may run into challenges with IT department and sealed batteries, lack of VGA and Ethernet ports, but then again a few IT departments would require serial ports if you let them spec out the machine completely.

Pricing and Specs
The Dell XPS 13 starts at $999 and includes an Intel Core i5 processor, Intel HD 3000 graphics, 128GB SSD hard drive, 4GB memory, USB 3.0, and Windows Home Premium. For a similarly configured Apple MacBook Air, buyers would pay $1,299. With the Mac, you get OS X Lion, a bit higher resolution display, Thunderbolt I/O, and an SD card slot. And yes, for the record, I know PCs don’t primarily sell on specs but they are still a factor in the decision. If it weren’t, Apple wouldn’t provide any specs anywhere, right?

Possibly Taking Bites from the Apple
From everything I experienced with the Dell XPS 13 evaluation unit, I can safely say that they have a potential winner. Why do I say “potential”? First, I’m using an evaluation unit, not a factory unit with a factory image. As a user or sales associate, if I start Windows and I start getting warning messages for virus protection, firewall and 3rd party software, the coolness factor will be for naught. The first consumer impression will be bad. I hope this doesn’t happen with the factory software load.

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Laptop Battery marketing, distribution and support. Controlling the message is key at retail. If, and I mean “if” Dell can effectively pull their messages through retail and somewhat control merchandising at retail, this will be a solid step in connecting the value prop with the consumer. This is very hard, especially in the U.S., where elektronichouse rules brick and mortar. What will the Best Buy yellow shirt say when someone asks, “whats the difference between the MacBook Air and the Dell XPS?” If they say “$300″ that is a fail. Retail will be important, more important than direct for Dell, because industrial design doesn’t translate well to the web. Seeing the XPS 13 image doesn’t impress as much as holding it does, so retail cannot be minimized.

I see the XPS 13 doing well in business and enterprise, again, given aligned messaging, channel, sales training and support. IT departments now have a design that is every bit as cool as the MacBook Air and arguably more productive plus the added benefits of TPM and Dell’s customization and support.

Net-net I see potential consumer and business buyers of thin and very light notebooks looking at Apple’s MacBook Air and many choosing the Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook instead. This won’t just be based on price, but all other benefits I’ve outlined above. I also believe Apple’s MacBook Air sales will increase during 2012 but they would have sold more had it not been for Ultrabooks, especially the Dell XPS 13, the best Ultrabook I’ve used so far.