Interview with Director of Notebook Design at HP

http://video.gearlive.com/ (1st video on top)

Found this, and thought it was interesting to know about HP's computer designs. Director goes though & explains designs of the HDX, dv6500se, dv2500 verve, & 2710p tablet.

 

Good find! Thanks for sharing.

 

well. glossy finish on case of laptop -1, glossy finish on screen -1. multi-color designs -1. I wish they made at least some of the consumer models like business models......flat black no glossy glossy screens, no multi colors. they do look great but after awhile the pretty colors wear off(zv5160) and the glossy finish of the newer ones tx1000 for example show fingerprints galore. and of course the glossy screen................ewww.

 

That 1710p seems so cool...

Especially the battery and the base thing.

 

Well I don't like the glossy coat of the computer, I really don't see why people don't like glossy screens.

Glossy screens have much better coloring, they're generally brighter than matte, and just all around look 100x better than matte. I never even considered getting a notebook until glossy screens were standard because matte screens just looked so terrible.

 

On another note, this guy in the interview said that HP has invested a lot of money to make sure they don't have product failures out there...

why is it that I've had two notebooks fail? Thats almost false advertising right there. I'd like to talk to this guy and show him my two failed HPs.

 

Glossy screens do have their drawbacks and depending on where/how you use the laptop it might affect you more than the next person. A matte screen is always going to be better if you have to regularly use the notebook in bright light situations

 

Well the HP glossy screens are not the brightest (I'd hate to see their matte screens), I've used the glossy screen on my MacBook in many brightly lit situations. Including the local library. I had giant open windows behind me with the sun starting to set and bright lights overhead. Set on the highest setting I could see it as clear as I could see it in a dark room. Even with lights directly behind me I can see the screen flawlessly. The only time I see a reflection is if I turn the brightness down.

Glossy screens are great. Maybe HP needs to buy higher quality screens just like they need to manufacture better motherboards and buy better DVD drives

 

Maybe its just you who doesnt have any issues with but as I said some people most certainly do ...
http://www.thejavajive.com/blog/?p=605
http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits.ars/2006/5/16/4004

 

Because we all know a picture that captures ALL light shows what it will look like in a real world situation, right?

Just like someone over in the Apple forum here took a picture of the glossy LED 15.4" MBP against one with a matte screen and tried to use the picture as evidence that the matte screen was brighter. When in reality, the glossy screen had reflected the light back and it washed out the actual screen.

I could take a picture of my MacBook right now and it would make the screen look yellow, but its not. Pictures don't always show the true story

 

Like it or not pictures are pretty much the best way to show such issues. Most people like glossy screens and I am one of them, I wouldnt buy a notebook without one and having compared a matte to glossy I can see its advantages but I dont shy away from admitting there are drawbacks to it.

 

I hear ya....got a tx1210 the screen went blank when I was typing the initial username and password. I did get it working the next day but it did the same thing a few hours later. my replacement tx1210 came in last night...working great!

 

Actually, with regard to the screens on an HP, or any other system available at brick&mortar retail, the best way to evaluate these things is to go to a retailer and examine them in person.

Pictures, while generally useful, should never be taken at face value and, like statistics, are actually a very useful way of ... misrepresenting ... facts. The glossy vs matte issue is a very good example - most pix that end up online are generally taken with a point-n-click digital, which generally has an auto flash set right next to the lens that goes off when a pic is taken. That will, generally, result in pix of a glossy screen that appear washed out compared to a matte screen because the glossy screen will generally reflect a lot more of the flash light right back to the lens, whereas the matte screen will diffuse much more of the flash light.

A better pic would be one taken without a flash, in a reasonably darkened environment, but that would require the use of a tripod or some other surface the camera can be set on in order to avoid a hopelessly blurred pic. You would also have to carefully examine the pix you see in order to attempt to determine whether or not such measures were taken.

Finally, you also need to have some means of ensuring that a pic of a glossy and a pic of a matte were taken under identical environments with identical camera settings - something that is very difficult to tell just from a couple of pix someone threw up online.

For example, simply by tinkering with the background lighting and the exposure level of the camera (something done easily enough with a basic DSLR, which can be had for about $500 to $600 now), I could generate ostensibly identical pictures that clearly "showed" the glossy as brighter than the matte, or vice-versa.

Thus, while pix may be somewhat useful, unless you know the provenance of the pix in question, you're better off giving them little weight and, instead, going to see the differences in person.