Wednesday, June 10, 2009

HP unveils cheaper laptops for students - PC World

June 9, 2009

It may seem like HP is jumping the gun here. After all, June is a little early for parents to take their kids laptop-shopping for the upcoming school year. But since Hewlett-Packard is focusing on value, value, value with its new series of portables for college and high school kids, now’s a good time to hammer that message home. (Before the bank takes the home -- yuk yuk.)

HP’s new notes are lower-cost versions of existing HP portables. In addition, HP also introduced four new “green” printers, some of which use less energy and are made with more recycled plastic than earlier models...