HP has named Stephen DeWitt, their previous head for their Americas’ Personal Systems Group and now new leader of HP’s WebOS global business unit. He replaces Jon Rubinstein, who will now take the role of Senior VP of Global Innovation for their PSG team.
It will certainly be interesting to see the direction that he takes the WebOS ecosystem after that rumored 7 inch TouchPad variant comes out next month… hopefully we’ll see a true flagship WebOS device (dual core, 4 inch and above screen) one day.
Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard on sale!
Now, you have to forgive me and my recent slight obsession with keyboards: I’ve been on the hunt for a good keyboard that rivals the experience of my EliteBook’s built-in keyboard for use at home with the HP ZR24w monitor. I somehow love the EliteBook 2530p’s keyboard so much that I’ve been using it with the monitor… but I would prefer to have a standalone keyboard if I could.
I was looking through my inbox this morning and saw that Amazon has put the Logitech K750 Wireless Solar Keyboard on sale at 47 bucks for just today! There are no taxes (which always delights me), shipping is free and well, I’m thinking of picking this one up and see how things go (though I would honestly rejoice if they made a “no numberpad” version of the keyboard… but there are just so few keyboards sans numberpads out there which are full-size). Thought I’d put this up for anyone else looking for a wireless keyboard for their tables, it is after all a one-day only affair and a whole $10 cheaper than the next lowest price! Go check it out now before the offer disappears at the end of today!
HP EliteBook keyboard with HP ZR24w
There’s something about the EliteBook 2530p’s keyboard which makes it an absolutely lovely dream to type on. I’m a fan of ‘keyboard sans number pad’ designs for distraction and clutter-free typing (that’s just me) and somehow the laptop’s built-in keyboard caters to that so well. The keyboard is also nice and firm (unlike other external, dedicated keyboards which rattle as I type at blazing speeds or other laptop keyboards which feel ‘squishy’ and ruins the whole typing experience for me… the EliteBook 8740w’s keyboard is somewhat guilty of doing that).
So along with my recently acquired used HP ZR24w display, I have decided I would fold my EliteBook’s screen back like the good old days with a consumer Dell display I had (which I recently sold) and use this lovely ‘keyboard’ with the big screen like you see in the picture above. That’s how I roll! I definitely wished all laptops had the same build-quality and typing experience as this one, because that’s the one of the reasons I’m holding back from getting a newer ultra-portable notebook (with build quality of the laptop, 16:10 display of the 2530p and lack of dough to finance a new business ultra-portable being the other three reasons)
HP Mini Wireless Keyboard
In the crowd of notebook, desktop, WebOS and various announcements of 2010, HP has quietly sneaked out their Mini Wireless Keyboard. The HP Mini Wireless Keyboard is a compact keyboard without a number pad, geared at home theater PC and desktop owners. The direct competitors to the HP Mini Wireless Keyboard which I could find include the Microsoft Arc Keyboard, Verbatim Mini Wireless Slim Keyboard and the Apple Wireless Keyboard.
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Screenshot of a page from HP's latest EliteBook brochure
Looks like HP is even incorporating their ‘simple but professional’ attire from their notebooks into their brochures too. At least that’s what the design/layout of this new PDF file showing off the features of HP’s EliteBook business laptops tells us. While the brochure doesn’t tell HP-obsessed folks like me any new things we don’t already know, it certainly presents some interesting facts and eye-opening features which might convince some enterprise, casual and student users to get an EliteBook over something else, like a MacBook *smirk*…
And while you can’t compare the PDF’s design to artworks of Leornardo da Vinci (mmm, four more months till Assassin’s Creed 3/Revelations comes out…), the design of the brochure is certainly unlike previous ones from HP, there’s just something elegant and matching about the layout and text elements (reminds me of Microsoft and their Zune/Windows Phone 7 user interface and Zegoe UI font). HP has also subtly included dark gray and orange colored fonts in the brochure, which quietly matches to the same colors used on their EliteBook laptops.
And just a quick update about something else, the review of the HP Mini Wireless Keyboard we were planning to post last weekend has been pushed forward to tomorrow because of the long Canada Day/July 4th weekend… we know a number of readers from the US and Canada might potentially be too busy partying and taking pictures of fireworks to be reading our review 
. So stay tuned for our review soon!
