HP’s message to Dell is clear: “It’s on like Donkey Kong.” That’s what happens when, just a week after you agree to acquire a company for $1.13 billion, your rival steps in with an offer of $1.5 billion for the same company.
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HP has always maintained that it bought Palm for its intellectual property and not because it wanted to be in the smartphone business. Talking of IP, WebOS is arguably Palm’s most valuable asset. The PC maker sees WebOS being used extensively across… [...] In a surprising move, HP announced last month they were acquiring handset maker Palm for $1.2 billion. But before that took place rumors circulated that HTC and Lenovo were two prominent interested parties, while Palm had endured limited success with their webOS devices and looked for a financial exit. Hewlett-Packard plans to buy struggling phone maker Palm for $1.2 billion. The purchase of Palm would give HP assets that include the Palm webOS mobile operating system, both… [...]
Touchscreen PCs haven’t really taken off the way, say, touch-capable smartphones, media players, and other handheld gadgets have, and a big reason for that is a lack of power. So it makes sense (and gets us a little excited) that HP would cram a Core i7 chip into its TouchSmart line as part of its new 600 Quad series. You do have to pay to play, however, with pricing starting off at $1,700. That gets you a 23-inch touchscreen display with an Intel Core i7 720QM quad-core chip racing along at 1.6GHz and 6MB of L2 cache. That also includes 4GB of DDR3-1600 memory, a 750GB 7200RPM hard drive (or 1TB if you’re willing to roll with a 5400RPM spindle speed), Nvidia’s GeForce GT230M graphics with a 1GB frame buffer, slot-load DVD burner, Wi-Fi, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, and other odds and ends. Some of the more noteworthy upgrade options include an Intel Core i7 820QM quad-core CPU (1.73GHz, 8MB L2 cache), twice the amount of RAM, a 1.5TB 7200RPM for just $50 more, and a Blu-ray player. The HP TouchSmart 600 Quad series is available now.
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