June 14, 2008
1:27 am
HP TouchSmart IQ500 – Hands-on
At the “Connecting Your Wold Event” in Berlin this week, HP announced one of those products - the HP Touchsmart IQ500. The slim lines of the IQ500 hide a lot of hardware - an inbuilt 22&Prime high definition widescreen display, Intel Core 2 Duo processor (T5750 or T5850), your choice of an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 or NVIDIA GeForce 9300 M GS HD, a big hard drive and 4 gigs of RAM - that’s a lot to pack in to an integrated unit.
Two models are available soon - here’s the breakdown:
| HP TouchSmart IQ504t | HP TouchSmart IQ506t | |
| Operating System | Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit | Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit |
| Processor | Intel Core2 Duo Processor T5750 | Intel Core2 Duo Processor T5850 |
| Memory | 4 Gb | 4Gb |
| Graphics | Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 with 128MB dedicated graphics memory |
NVIDIA GeForce 9300 M GS HD graphics module with 256MB dedicated video memory and support for Blu-ray, and Microsoft DirectX 10 |
| Hard Drive | 320GB | 500GB |
| Audio | Integrated High Definition Audio | Integrated High Definition Audio |
| Networking | Gigabit plus Integrated Wireless | Gigabit plus Integrated Wireless |
| Price (US$) | $1249.99 | $1449.99 |
| Price (UK£) | £1099 | TBC |
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