HP introduced the MacBook Air an exact copy of Windows 7

Hewlett-Packard Company has released ultrabook that looks strikingly similar to the MacBook Air, says Cnews. According to observers, the design of the HP Envy Spectre XT repeats the appearance of ultra-thin notebook Apple, which has become the unofficial standard for a new category of laptops.

 

By analogy with the new MacBook Air dressed in full metal body wedge shape - the thickness of the device is reduced to the leading edge. Overall thickness is 14.5 mm, 2.5 mm less than the "apple" machine. Interestingly, HP has introduced a form factor as soon as Apple has a patent on this design. In Cupertino still silent on the matter.

HP Envy Spectre XT is equipped with 13.3-inch display with 1366 x 768 pixels, comes with 4 GB of RAM and a SSD-drive capacity of 128GB in the base (or in the extended 256 GB). The claimed battery life of up to 8 hours from the interfaces, which can offer the user a new model: Wi-Fi 802.11 a / g / n, Bluetooth, Intel Wireless Display, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 and HDMI.

 

The laptop boasts four built-in speakers and technology Beats Audio, a manufacturer equips with the latest models of computing systems, as well as the presence of keyboard illumination. HP Envy Spectre XT will be complete with Intel Core third generation, code-named Ivy Bridge, and 64-bit operating system Microsoft Windows 7 Premium. Sales in the U.S. is scheduled to begin June 8. The cost of the base configuration is $ 999.

At the request of journalists to comment on the similarities with the MacBook Air HP representatives said that this similarity is the result of technology development, rather than the fact that designers drew inspiration from Apple.

Digitimes: New iPhone will be released in September, iPad mini - in August

Taiwanese contract electronics manufacturer OEM-Pegatron Technology has received orders to produce next-generation iPhone Smartphone, Which will release in September this year, according to local news publication Digitimes.

 

In addition, according to the source, the company Pegatron has signed orders for the production of tablets iPad with screen sizes 10 inches, to be delivered Apple's fourth quarter of this year.

It is also reported that the Taiwanese-Chinese firm Foxconn Electronics will collect compact models iPad. By August, Apple will supply six million of these devices with screen 7.85 inches.

At the moment, Pegatron is already OEM-partner of Apple and is responsible for the release of smart phones and iPad iPhone 4S third generation. According to insider reports, Pegatron has already conducted the necessary increase in staff to meet new orders Apple.

 

In addition to orders from the Cupertino-based Pegatron also serves as an assembly laptops for Toshiba, Acer, Lenovo and Fujitsu. However, in view of obtaining a large order from the manufacturer's iPhone and iPad, the company conducted a permutation of personnel and reduced plans to release their own motherboards SI. Also, shortly before that Asustek cut order volumes on their motherboards.