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HP's Folio 13, the first of a new product line designed to appeal to both mainstream and business users, isn't the thinnest or lightest Ultrabook around. But unless you're a fanatic about such things, it will probably fill your needs better than its thinner and lighter competitors. It offers excellent performance and battery life, a fetchingly minimalist design, and a typing experience that thinner units can't match.

HP delivers a system that’s speedy for its small(ish) size, but left out details that could have brought it closer to the top.

This system simply screams, but HP had to overlook a few elements in order to achieve its killer price-to-performance ratio.

Want to get the highest possible performance out of your security device? Make sure it only handles connectionless UDP traffic – the stuff that, according to studies from CAIDA and other sources – makes up less than 5 percent of traffic on Internet backbones.

HP's newest netbook is an economy-class version of the company's popular Mini 1000 line.

HP's been making some pretty aggressive moves in the consumer laptop market these past couple of years. Now, it's the business division's turn.

This generation of Intel Atom-based netbooks has reached a certain maturity, with similar components, functions and size, as well as similar prices. Here's how Hewlett-Packard's Mini 1000, Lenovo's IdeaPad S10 and BenQ's Joybook Lite U101 stack up.

The Pavilion dv7t is one of HP's "entertainment powerhouse" notebooks, just one step down from the ludicrously oversize 20-inch HDX. Beyond the 17-inch screen, and under the cool "liquid metal" exterior, lies Intel's new Centrino 2 processor. The result: high-octane performance in an extremely shiny package.