Intel introduced the new Atom N470 netbook CPU back in September and then Lenovo showed off its S10-3t with the new processor at CES, but chipzilla's taking the time today to give its newest Pine Trail CPU a proper unveil. The 1.83GHz N470 joins the 1.66GHz N450 as an option for netbooks, and like the rest of the Pineview integrates the GMA 3150 graphics controller on the same chip and supports hyperthreading. According to Intel, the major OEMs are expected to introduce new netbooks based on this processor soon, but if our experience with the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t is any glimpse into the "performance boost" of this processor we're not sure there's anything to wait for. Our full review of the S10-3t netvertible is almost done cooking, but we can tell you right now the system didn't feel faster in use even with its 2GB of RAM, and on PCMark05 it scored in the same range as other N450 netbooks. While the slightly faster clock speed may be a nice bragging right, at the end of the day Atom N470-based netbooks are still, well, netbooks.

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No offense to the previous ProBooks s-series, but we think HP may have finally removed the last pieces of boring from the line. The new crop of business laptops - if you can even call them that anymore - are available with 13.3, 14, 15.6 and 17.3-inch display sizes, and can be configured with Intel's latest Core i3, i5 and i7 processors. There are too many configurations to list, but the $900 15.6-inch ProBook 4520s with a Core i5 CPU and a 500GB 7,200RPM drive sounds like a deal to us. Fear not graphics mavens, you can configure any of the models with ATI's Mobility Radeon HD 5350 GPU. Specs aside, we were pretty enamored with the externals - all are clad in a brushed aluminum case and a matte surface lid that's available in "caviar" brown or a reddish "bordeaux." Our fingers were big fans of the chiclet keyboard, but the addition of the ClickPad with its integrated mouse buttons makes us a bit anxious, you know, given the issues we've had with those on the Mini 210 and Envys. We'd be remiss if we didn't mention HP's new Day Starter software that lets the workaholics amongst you check a configured Outlook calender while the laptop boots up in the background -- it doesn't work yet with Google Cal, we asked. You should be able to start configuring the lappies in the next few weeks, but hit the break for some hands-on pics and the full PR.

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Thought HP was done unleashing its new line of semi-rugged EliteBooks at CES? So did we, but apparently it needed just a little bit more time to pull the 12.1-inch 2540p and 2740p out of the oven. An update to the 2530p, the 3.8-pound 2540p still has the same magnesium alloy chassis that's met all those super-tough MIL-STD 810G military standard tests, but its innards have been freshened up with the alluring scent of Intel's 2010 Core processors. Prices start at $1,099, but in typical HP fashion it will be configurable online with tons of juicy options, including standard and low voltage Core i5 and i7 processors and a range of 7,200RPM and SSD drives.

Up next is the 2740p which packs much of the same internal spec options as the 2540p (sans the low-voltage CPUs), but puts them into a convertible tablet form factor. Starting at $1,599, its capacitive multitouch 12.1-inch display now supports both pen and finger input and thus pits it head-to-head with Lenovo's ThinkPad X201t, though from our hands-on we found the 3.8-pound 2740p to be much slimmer and lighter. A lot of that has to do with its flush battery, but if adding some juice (and thickness) is your thing, you can add a slate battery (or two!) to the bottom of the system. Both the 2540p and 2740p will be available later this month, but hit the hands-on gallery below to get a look at these magnesium puppies up close.

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pa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/under_nda_until_3.1_-_elitebook_2740p_-__closed_turned.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_under_nda_until_3.1_-_elitebook_2740p_-__closed_turned.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //aThe a href="http://gizmodo.com/5038124/hp-elitebook-2730p-tablet-is-ruggedized-and-means-business"HP EliteBook 2730p/a was a tough little convertible tablet, and its successormdash; HP's a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #elitebook2740p" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/elitebook2740p/"EliteBook 2740p/amdash;is no exception. The 2740p meets the same rugged MIL-STD 810G military standards, and adds a capacitive touch screen and Core i5/i7 goodness./p pThe 12.1-inch WXGA (1280 x 800) LED display includes anti-glare and optional outdoor view, and can be operated with a pen, your finger, the keyboard, or some combination thereof. Under the hood, you've got your choice of Core i7 or Core i5 processors, but there's sadly no discrete graphics option./p pYou'll get up to five hours out of the standard six-cell battery, but can add on an HP 2700 ultra-slim battery for an additional six hours (listed). And the standard set-up weighs under four poundsmdash;not bad for a tough guy convertible tablet. The a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #hpelitebook2740p" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/hpelitebook2740p/"HP EliteBook 2740p/a will be available in the US in April, starting at $1600./p blockquote pProcessor: Intel® CoreTM i7 Mobile Processor Family with Turbo Boost Technology; Intel® CoreTM i5 Mobile Processor Family with Turbo Boost Technology/p pMemory: DDR3 SDRAM, 1066/1333 MHz*, two slots supporting dual-channel memory, 1024/2048/4096 MB SODIMMs, up to 8192 MB total15 *Running at 1066 MHz/p pRemovable Media: Optional HP External USB CD/DVD R/RW Drive Optional fixed 9.5-mm DVD+/mdash;RW SuperMulti DL Drive available for HP 2740 Ultra-Slim Expansion Base9/p pGraphics: Intel® HD Graphics with dynamic frequency/p pWireless Support: Optional HP un2420 EV-DO/HSPA Mobile Broadband Module (requires mobile network operator service)5 (GPS-enabled)6; Intel Centrino; Intel 802.11a/b/g/n;4 Broadcom 802.11a/b/g/n, b/g;4 HP Integrated Module with Bluetooth ® v2.1 Wireless Technology; HP Wireless Assistant, Connection Manager 3.1/p pExpansion Slots: 1 ExpressCard/34 slot, Secure Digital slot (SD/MMC)/p pChipset: Mobile Intel QM57 Chipset; Intel vPro Technology24 (optional)/p pInternal Storage: 1.8-inch bay: 160/250 GB25 5400 rpm SMART SATA II HD, 320 GB25 5400 rpm HDD or 80/160 GB25 SSD, HP 3D DriveGuard/p pDisplay: 12.1-inch diagonal LED-backlit WXGA ultra wide viewing angle anti-glare (1280 x 800) – digitizer only or digitizer multi-touch Optional Outdoor View, (Outdoor view only available with digitizer and multi-touch)/p pAudio/Visual: High Definition Audio, stereo speakers, combo headphone/microphone jack, integrated dual-microphone array, integrated 2 MP Webcam/p pCommunications: Integrated Intel Gigabit Ethernet PCI Controller (10/100/1000 NIC), 56K v.92 modembr Ports and Connectors: 3 USB 2.0 ports (one powered), VGA, combo headphone/microphone jack, 1394a, power connector, RJ-11/modem, RJ-45/Ethernet, docking connector for HP 2740 Ultra-Slim Expansion Base/p pSoftware: HP Recovery Manager (Windows 7 and Vista only), HP Support Assistant (Windows 7 and Vista only), Intervideo WinDVD (select models),/p pSecurity: Standard: HP ProtectTools, Integrated Smart Card Reader, HP Fingerprint Sensor, TPM Embedded Security Chip 1.2, Kensington Lock slot, Enhanced Pre-Boot Security, HP Spare Key (requires initial user setup), HP Disk Sanitizer19 Enhanced Drive Lock, Drive Encryption for HP ProtectTools, Credential Manager for HP ProtectTools, File Sanitizer for HP ProtectTools;19/p pPower: HP 6-cell (44 WHr) primary battery, HP Long Life 6-cell (39 WHr) primary battery, optional secondary HP 6-cell (46 WHr) 2700 Ultra-Slim/p pWarranty: Limited 3-year, 1-year and 90-day warranty options available, depending on country, 1-year limited warranty on primary battery; 3-year: limited warranty on HP Long Life Batteries10. Optional HP Care Pack Services are extended service contracts which go beyond your standardbr warranties. 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pa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/under_nda_until_3.1_-_probook_4520s_-_bordeaux_front.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_under_nda_until_3.1_-_probook_4520s_-_bordeaux_front.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //aHP's ProBook s-series wants to be your everything: punchy enough for work, stylish enough for home. And with a new brushed aluminum industrial design and Core i3/i5/i7 processing power, they may just bridge that gap./p pHP's rolling out four new ProBook models, ranging from the 13.3-inch 4320s to the heavy-duty 17.3-inch 4720s. In addition to those speedy Arrandale processors and "caviar" and "bordeaux" aluminum finishes, the new line-up also features optional ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350 discrete graphics (compared with the a href="http://gizmodo.com/5230540/hp-probook-s+series-businesspeople-can-have-sassy-red-laptops-too"previous generation's Radeon 4330/a, HD LED-backlit displays, and an optional 2MP camera./p pThe ProBooks also feature DayStarter, a feature that lets you view your calendar to distract you while your computer loads, and ArcSoft TotalMedia Suite audio and video editing software. WIth an optional 9-cell battery, the battery life is listed at an impressive 10 hours./p pYou won't find any USB 3.0 here, and the price pointsmdash;starting at $719 for the 13-inch base configurationmdash;are good-not-great. But if you need a work notebook with a little flair, and a home notebook with a little kick, ProBook might be your answer for both. You'll have a chance to find out when they become available later this month. [a href="http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF04a/321957-321957-64295-3929941-3955552.html?jumpid=re_R295_prodexp/busproducts/computing-notebook/hp-probk-ntbk-pcpsn=notebooks_tablet_pcs/notebook_pcs"HP/a]/pbr clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=bf402b0a8a8dc58d1242545dcd970d0ap=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=bf402b0a8a8dc58d1242545dcd970d0ap=1"//a img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226"/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=-k2ZFjjtV7Y:ZhZkWRRwr80:H0mrP-F8Qgo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=-k2ZFjjtV7Y:ZhZkWRRwr80:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=-k2ZFjjtV7Y:ZhZkWRRwr80:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=-k2ZFjjtV7Y:ZhZkWRRwr80:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=-k2ZFjjtV7Y:ZhZkWRRwr80:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=-k2ZFjjtV7Y:ZhZkWRRwr80:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/-k2ZFjjtV7Y" height="1" width="1"/

Uh, folks -- we've an identity crisis on our hands. Is this a MID with a penchant for navigating? Is this a PMP with pre-loaded maps? Is it an ultra-sleek navigator that just so happens to play music? There's a fair chance the world will never know, but we'll soon be stopping by Mio's booth at CeBIT in order to get a view of things ourselves. At any rate, the Moov V780 is undoubtedly one of the most appealing things to come from the outfit in quite some time, offering up 720p multimedia playback, an HDMI output, digital TV support, a 7-inch (800 x 480 resolution) display, 600MHz CPU, 512MB of memory, 4GB of onboard flash and a pretty tremendous list of supported file formats. Sadly, it's humming along on Windows CE (rather than, say, Android), but at least it ships with WiFi and optional WiMAX. There's no mention of a price or release date, but we'll be on the hunt for those tidbits as soon as the show floor opens up.

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pimg src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/thumb160x_playstation-network-logo.jpg" class="left image158" width="158" /Something is happening in a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #playstationnetwork" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/playstationnetwork/"PlayStation Network/a land this evening, and it isn't good. Known cryptically as emError: 8001050F/em, all we know right now is it won't allow users to log into their accounts or play online./ppAccording to one user over at the official PlayStation boards, the error does not prevent him from using the Internet via his PS3, but logins have become nigh impossible. Several other users chimed in after that comment to report identical problems./p pWho amongst the Gizmodo population can't access PSN right now to play MAG or any of the other online games at your disposal? And, if so, what the heck are you doing instead?/p pFor more info, hit the links or visit a href="http://kotaku.com/5482328/ps3s-suffering-from-global-network-lockdown"Kotaku/a for more. [a href="http://boards.ign.com/ps3_lobby/b8269/189807005/p1/?5"IGN Boards/a, a href="http://boardsus.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Network/8001050F-Error-message/m-p/45309292;jsessionid=9B01CA82D7EA20C8A9BB860AF7B3D2E1"PlayStation Boards/a - emThanks, Janesh/em]/pbr clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a2d3978b8f2be82c126786dbb08b45eep=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a2d3978b8f2be82c126786dbb08b45eep=1"//a img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226"/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=HZczq7cMsTw:sPd-819_aLY:H0mrP-F8Qgo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=HZczq7cMsTw:sPd-819_aLY:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=HZczq7cMsTw:sPd-819_aLY:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=HZczq7cMsTw:sPd-819_aLY:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=HZczq7cMsTw:sPd-819_aLY:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=HZczq7cMsTw:sPd-819_aLY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/HZczq7cMsTw" height="1" width="1"/

This one slipped under our radar last week, but it's interesting nonetheless: Apple's filed for a "Magic Trackpad" trademark, which would seemingly indicate that there's a companion to the Magic Mouse in the works. That's all we know for now, but recall that John Gruber at Daring Fireball hinted that Apple was working on a "multi-touch trackpad gadget for desktop Macs" back in October just before the revised white MacBook was released. Obviously nothing's come of that yet, but it all seems to fit -- either that, or Apple's trademark attorneys are just trying to cover their bases. We'll see what happens.

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It's unclear exactly what's going on at the moment, but it appears that the PlayStation Network is down and causing a whole host of related problems for PS3 systems, including 8001050F error codes, game crashes, corrupted trophy info, and even the complete inability to launch certain titles. There's no ETA on when things will get back to normal -- looks like it's gonna be a Blu-ray kind of evening for PS3 owners out there.

Update: Sony's tweeted that it's "looking into it," and our boys at Joy say that owners of original PS3s are seeing their clocks reset and even data loss in some cases. We'll keep you updated.

Update 2: Given that issues started to appear as February 28th became March 1st, it's being speculated that the PSN woes are related to an improper handling of leap years. Similar to the issue that bricked those Zunes back in 2008. Sorry, manually setting your date doesn't help, we tried.

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This week Inhabitat peered into the future of green tech as we liveblogged the most exciting moments from this year's Greener Gadgets Conference. The highlight of the day was the on-stage live-judging and announcement of this year's Greener Gadgets design competition winner, the AUG/Living Goods Program. Renowned industrial designer Yves Béhar also wowed us by unveiling a brand new design for a "Hackable" solar-electric car that is composed of modular components. (Engadget liveblogged it here.)

Speaking of sun-powered vehicles, Hungarian auto company Antro has just unveiled plans to create an out-there yet undeniably cool solar-powered car that splits into two vehicles. And for those looking to ride the seas in style, take a long, hard look at this giant solar boat. Then again, why ride a conventional vehicle when you could hop aboard this insane futurictic crawler town on wheels? Too bad it's made out of LEGOs.

Finally, we brought to light several illuminating energy projects: researchers have found a way to generate electricity by shining light on tiny gold nanoparticles, opening the door for self-powered molecular machines, and Phillips unveiled a blooming solar street lamp that soaks up energy during the day and uses it to light up the night.

Inhabitat's Week in Green: Solar cars, solar boats, solar... gold? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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