HP nc6XXX, nc8XXX, nx8XXX Roadmap Questions

Hi All,

I have been searching around on the web and haven't found any info on the following...

1. Does HP plan on offering LED backlights for the nc6XXX, nc8XXX, nx8XXX in the near future (6months)? I'm wondering if it will increase the battery life by 10% or more.

2. Has anyone used a solid state drive in the above products? If not, does anyone know if the CD/DVD drives can be removed and replaced with a secondary harddrive in the slot? I'm thinking about a solid state drive for the primary (windows partition) and moving the factory default drive to the other slot.

3. Anyone have a good site for place for the HP product roadmaps?

Thanks,
MB

 

There's no real way of knowing what HP's intentions are with these lines, or any for that matter, they keep product plans under wraps and only share the information as NDA with suppliers or maybe some reporters. You'd have to guess what they'll put in next by looking at what the competition is doing and what they need to do to keep up / stay ahead. Solid state flash drives won't be in there for awhile though, way too expensive to sell mainstream right now.

 

abaxter,

Thanks for answering the roadmap question. As for the solid state flash drives, I would think that there are some folks on these boards that sit outside the mainstream and have actually implemented such a change (if physically possible) considering how great the nc and nx line of notebooks from HP are.

Thanks
MB

 

Wow,

Talk about timing. With today's announcements it sounds like...

1. LED backlighting may come to the nc, nx lines in the next 6 months. But I'm a bit confused about the power consumption statement. I thought the LED backlighting reduces the power consumption for equivalent brightness. Also a bit worried about the high end multimedia notebooks... will this include the nx8XXX series?

2. Sounds like SSD drives from samsung may reduce in price this year... especially in the 4-8gig range.... plenty for my windows xp and applications. If nothing else, this will pave the way for more hybrid drives that should improve performance and battery life!

-MB

 

- You can't just move the HD to the DVD bay since the latter uses an IDE interface and not SATA. The previous generation had IDE only though.

- The second problem is that you need a multibay II adapter which is not sold separately, it only comes with a 60 or 80 GB HD.