Ordered HP EliteBook 8460w

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Thomas Maurer

Some days ago I compared the new HP EliteBook and ProBook series. Now I decided to buy the HP EliteBook 8460w mobile workstation. I think this is the best option between performance and batterylife.

Here the 8460w configuration I ordered:

HP EliteBook 8460w Mobile Workstation
Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM Processor (2.0 GHz, 6 MB L3 Cache)
Mobile Intel QM67 chipset
14.0-inch diagonal LED-backlit HD+ anti-glare (1600 x 900) with 720p HD Webcam
AMD FirePro™ M3900 w/1 GB gDDR3
8GB 1333 MHz DDR3 SDRAM (2D)
500 GB 7200 rpm 2.5-inch hard drive
DVD+/-RW SuperMulti DL Drive
DualPoint (TouchPad and PointStick)
Intel Centrino® Ultimate-N 6300 (3×3)
Bluetooth® Wireless Technology 2.1
TPM & Fingerprint
HP 9-Cell 100 Wh Li-Ion Battery
56K v.92 high speed modem
HP Elite Support with limited 3 year standard parts and labor warranty 3/3/3

As I said the main reasons for me to buy this notebook, are the performance, the form factor, the batterylife and of coure the design. I am sure the EliteBook 8460p would be enought performance for me, but I really like the color of the EliteBook w-series notebooks.

Since HP will not release the EliteBook 8460w in Europe I ordered the notebook directly in the HP Online Store with my myus.com account.

Nokia and Microsoft bringing awesomeness to the mobile world

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Thomas Maurer

Today Nokia and Microsoft announced a partnership and Nokia will use Windows Phone 7 as their primary Smartphone OS. Both of them are really underdogs in the mobile world right now. Okay Nokia is still selling a lot of phones but symbian is no really a big shot. I don’t really understand a lot of negative comments out there.

I see this partnership as a big chance for Microsoft and Nokia. Microsoft brings the great new Mobile OS and Nokia adds great Hardware to this. I don’t see a lot of good hardware out there which could mess with the iPhone 4 except Nokias latest Smartphones.

So I am really looking forward to see the first Nokia Phones with Windows Phone 7.

iPhone Firmware 2.1

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Thomas Maurer

Letzten Freitag veröffentlichte Apple die Firmware Version 2.1. Nähers dazu gibt’s bei fscklog.com. Die Batterielaufzeit hat sich wirklich merklich verbessert. Ich verwende so ziemlich alle Features auf meinem iPhone, auch Push-Mail von MobileMe, und mein Telefon läuft nun bereits drei Tage ohne es zu laden.