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HP intros budget business laptops, Compaq 515 and 610

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On August 4, 2009, 2:45 PM

HP has unveiled two new budget-conscious business-oriented laptops, the Compaq 515 and 610. Priced pretty competitively with netbooks, they offer a bit more muscle. The 515 is available from $429 with an AMD Turion or Athlon X2 CPU, a 14" LED-backlit display, up to 3GB of 667MHz DDR2 RAM (upgradeable to 8GB), an integrated ATI Radeon HD 3200, up to 250GB of hard drive space and a DVD burner. It is 802.11a/b/g/n capable and houses 3 USB 2.0 ports, 1 VGA port, ExpressCard and secure digital slots, an optional 2MP webcam a 6-cell battery and weighs 5lbs.

Starting at $449, the Compaq 610 kicks things up a notch with an Intel Celeron T1500 and Core 2 Duo T5870, a 15.6" display, 800MHz DDR2 RAM and an extra hour of battery life. It switches things up with an Intel GMA X3100, supports a maximum of 4GB RAM, weighs 5.5lbs and apparently drops 802.11n support. Both models are available now and ship with your choice of 32-bit and 64-bit Vista as well as SUSE Enterprise Desktop 10.

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  1. August 4, 2009 3:08 PM
    poundsmack said:

    GMA X3100 needs to die off. Aside from just having extra GMA X3100 based chipsets lying around, there is no good reason for using this any more. I could list many good reasons, but I don't think I even need to explain myself for this opinion.

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  2. August 5, 2009 1:35 PM
    Guest said:

    the price with 450$ is nearly the good as with core 2duo processor and with the 250GB hard disk is really great.. it will cost near about 21000/- in indian currency....as for the big market like india..this step really matters a lot

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  3. August 18, 2009 3:19 PM
    Guest said:

    Hell will freeze over and then actually achieve a temperature lower than the zero point energy before hp will build a linux compatable computer like their website says. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/321957-321957-
    4295-3929949-3955548-3957678.html

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