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Update July 11, 8:40 a.m. PDT with additional information on Toshiba notebooks and correction of integrated graphics chipset shipment date.

With Intel's rollout of Centrino 2 processors due Monday, Hewlett-Packard is not wasting any time in readying new notebooks, including a 17-inch model offering at least four of the new processors and 64-bit Windows.

Intel will roll out "Montevina" Centrino 2 processors including the P8400 (2.26GHz), P8600 (2.40GHz), P9500 (2.53GHz), and T9600 (2.80GHz). The 3.06GHz X9100 Extreme processor is also expected to debut.

P7XXX series processors, such as the 2.… Read more

Ah, summer. Summer means long sunny days, vacations at the beach, and--if you're in the United States--the Independence Day holiday. Which is why this weekly wrap-up is coming a day early: tomorrow my colleagues and I will be busy eating grilled meat and watching fireworks, all in the name of patriotism.

Because it spans the middle months of the calendar, summer can also be a time of reflection. We took the opportunity this week to look back on all that's happened so far this year and came up with a list of notable notebooks from the first half of 2008. … Read more

Open source has become so commonplace, about the only time that one sees press releases around it is when a company releases all or a significant chunk of its software under an open-source license. The other time is when a company new to open source releases code, and wants to tell the world that slowly but surely it is getting a clue.

All of which makes HP's announcement that it is contributing its Tru64 Advanced File System (AdvFS) to the Linux community a bit puzzling. It's a significant contribution, yes, but it's not as if HP hasn'… Read more

The AdvFS file system has had a bittersweet history. When introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation in the mid-1990s for DEC's Unix flavor (which would eventually become Tru64 UNIX), AdvFS was one of the most capable--if not the most capable--Unix file systems in existence.

As a 1999 Illuminata research note by my colleague Jonathan Eunice said: "Tru64 UNIX has the features one expects of a top-drawer enterprise Unix: multiprocessing, multithreading, disk volume management, a journaling file system, multi-path I/O, extensive TCP/IP networking, and conformance with a range of de jure and de facto standards. Its AdvFS filesystem, … Read more

Hewlett Packard on Monday said it is making its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System available under the open-source General Public License, version 2.

The AdvFS file system, which was originally developed for Digital Equipment Corp. Alpha Unix machines, can be adopted to Linux, the company said.

HP chose version 2 of the General Public License so that it could be compatible with the Linux kernel. The system can improve the uptime time and performance of Linux file systems, the company said.

Good news for green tech: The fastest supercomputer in the world is also one of the most energy efficient. That's according to the Top500 supercomputers list, to be released Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.

Twice yearly, the list measures the 500 most powerful computer systems available commercially. This year, the 31st time the list has been put together, the honor of top supercomputer goes to IBM's Roadrunner, which is housed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory. It's the first system to reach 1.026 petaflops (1 petaflop … Read more

Hewlett-Packard's line of MediaSmart TVs includes the built-in ability to stream digital media from your home network and the Internet straight to their screens. But for the vast majority of us who don't own an HP TV, the company will soon have a second option: the MediaSmart Connect. The little black box connects to your home network (via its built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi or wired Ethernet) and streams a wide variety of digital audio, photo, and video files--including content from compatible Internet services (including Live365, Vongo, CinemaNow, and MovieLink).

The MediaSmart Connect should be able to pull digital … Read more

Update: Pricing is live on HP's site. The new Exhiliration Edition starts at $6,600, and that gets you 2GB of 1,600MHz DDR3 RAM, two 160GB 10k hard drives, as well as a separate 1TB drive for storage, along with the other specs previously mentioned. This also appears to be something of a deal, as similar specs from other vendors cost at minimum about $400 more. HP's site says "limited time starting" near the price, which we take to mean the price may go up, not that the hardware is a limited run.

Rather than … Read more

This week belonged to HP, which announced 50 new products on Tuesday. Highlights include a Voodoo-branded MacBook challenger and a semirugged EliteBook. All the Pavilions and HP Compaq business notebooks got a little sprucing up, too. The company is no doubt hoping its "shock and awe" product release strategy will help it maintain its grip on the No. 1 spot for notebook sales in Q1.

The No. 2 spot belonged to Dell, which is planning a mini Inspiron to compete with the likes of the Eee PC. This week saw information leaks about Dell's new 8.9-inch Netbook, … Read more