The Hindu Business Line : Home is where HP's heart is

NEW HP PRODUCT: A HP product manager demonstrates the new TX1000 ultra portable notebook at its global unveiling in Seoul on Thursday. - Anand Parthasarathy

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Seoul Jan. 25 Today's mobile hotshot executive works best when he or she can also play — on the same portable computing platform. That might well be the thinking of the world's number one PC maker, Hewlett Packard, which has beefed up the latest ultra portable notebook offering with touchscreen capability, Quick Play controls to manage music and movies and a TV tuner to catch television content anywhere.

The Tx1000 notebook, which was unveiled here on Thursday, has a `twist and touch' feature that will remind users of the Tablet PC: The screen can be twisted to be used in multiple ways — and the display switches on the fly from `portrait' to `landscape'. It allows one to control most operations by touching the screen — a useful feature when operating in constricted spaces such as aircraft. The hard disk can be removed and stowed away separately, reducing the weight of the 12-inch notebook to less than 2 kg, with 2-3 hours of battery backup.

By putting `fun' features and a Vista-multimedia operating system into a productivity tool such as a notebook PC, HP seems to be calculating on attracting customers who are different from the archetype `road warrior'.

The Tx1000 is timed ahead of next week's global launch Vista.

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