Overview The new Windows 8 OS has been out for a couple of months now and one thing users have quickly realized is how much easier it might be to use the new large tile interface with a touchscreen.  The problem is, there really aren’t that many touchscreen equipped laptops on the market, and those [...]

The HP Envy 6t-1000 is a 15.6” size thin and light laptop that HP is calling an Ultrabook, though it may not quite fit some of the expectations you’d have for that Ultrabook nomenclature.  At a weight of 4.75lbs it’s not exactly a MacBook Air, but then again it has a large 15” screen and [...]

The Pavilion dv7t-7000 is HP’s latest 17.3 inch laptop release, it comes equipped with a beefy quad-core Intel Ivy Bridge processer and the latest Nvidia Kepler graphics.  While being very similar to the smaller dv6t-7000 15.6” version of the Pavilion series, the dv7t-7000 differentiates itself with support for dual hard drives and a standard 900p [...]

The HP Pavilion dv6t Quad Edition was HP’s best selling laptop last year, so it’s no surprise that this model was the first to receive the Intel Ivy Bridge upgrade before the rest of the company’s laptop lineup.  The new HP dv6t Quad Edition for 2012, that we’ll refer to as the dv6tqe for short, [...]