HP Middle East starts 'Live & Personal' annual PSG Roadshow in the UAE

This year's roadshow is themed 'Live & Personal' which focuses on three of the human senses: touch, hear and see to enable and interactive and personal experience with the new range of consumer and business notebooks and desktops, mobile devices and workstations. Placed throughout the conference room were four stands each displaying the new range of products, which highlighted the innovative features through the use of the senses.

Serdar Urcar, General Manager, Personal Systems Group, HP Middle East, said:

'This year's PSG Roadshow is particularly important for HP as we continue to focus on delivering new innovative products, not only in the five countries we visit, but throughout the Middle East. HP is committed to providing our customers with first hand experience of our technology capabilities as we continually strive to deliver to consumers and business the most practical and convenient products, to meet their needs.'

Delivering greater choice and connectivity to businesses

The HP Compaq 2510p Business Notebook PC is HP's smallest and lightest business notebook, weighing on 1.3kg. It joins the HP Compaq 2710p, HP Compaq 6510b, HP Compaq 6710 series, HP Compaq 6910p, HP Compaq 8510 series and HP Compaq 8710 series notebook PCs to round out the company's comprehensive portfolio of mobile offerings. Featuring sleek new looks and the latest technologies, such as an Illumi-Lite display for weight and power consumption savings.

HP's business notebook lineup is one of the first to offer Intel® Centrino® Pro Mobile technology, which offers built-in remote manageability and proactive security. To take advantage of these new capabilities, customers can use HP's Out of Band Management Console, a component of HP's Software's PC Configuration Management Solution, to reduce the need for desk-side visits, improve security by protecting PCs from malware and help ensure that critical management agents are up and running.

Consumer notebooks bringing style to every day life

The new HP Pavilion dv6200 Special Edition Entertainment Notebook PC Series has sleek good looks and all the performance you would expect from HP, this notebook is set to be the fashionista's choice for turning heads well into next season. Complementing the catwalk trend for monochrome fashion, this notebook comes in a smooth, high gloss ceramic white finish with warm silver accents and a subtle, but distinctive pattern.

Also in the Imprint range is HP's very first HD DVD notebook - the HP dv9000 Entertainment Notebook PC that turns the PC into an entertainment powerhouse, with a17-inch widescreen display, featuring HP Ultra BrightView (on select models) and powerful NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 graphics. Delivering rich colours, sharp images and thrilling gaming for an outstanding digital entertainment experience.
Finally, the HP Pavilion dv2000 Entertainment PC, a perfect combination of beauty and brawn. With its chic casing, this notebook PC looks good anywhere and will fit in well in the most fashionable of homes.

With HP QuickPlay and touch sensitive controls, you can launch music and films with just a single swipe of the finger - taking you straight into the action in just 12 seconds, with no need to boot up the PC. And with a 14-inch widescreen display,

HP's brings gaming into your home

The high performance entertainment and gaming HP Pavilion a6000 Desktop PC recently launched in the ME comes with NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7300 LE graphic card which holds 64 MB of dedicated memory, and is powered with TurboCache technology to boost up graphics memory to 320 MB total.

The PSG Live & Personal roadshow introduces for the first time the new HP 500 Voice Messenger series, HP's first SmartPhone that delivers a flexible wireless email experience for business customers through convenient voice control and hands-free operation.

The HP iPAQ 500 Voice Messenger series features voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) capabilities, 'push' email and the latest Windows® Mobile 6 operating system. With up to six hours of continuous talk time on a fully charged battery, the HP iPAQ Voice Messenger also leads the competition in battery life. As the first in HP's new SmartPhone lineup, the HP iPAQ 500 helps highly mobile professionals stay connected wherever they are.

Power to the People

HP's latest xw8400 Workstation is fully equipped with the new Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5300 series and Intel Core 2 Extreme® QX6700 processors which enable certain enterprise application to improve by 48 percent. The HP workstations are designed to help professionals such as digital content creators, oil and gas engineers, and computer-aided manufacturing engineers achieve shorter project cycle times and greater parallelism in their workflow in a stable, multi-threaded, multi-tasking environment.

The HP Compaq dc7700 has advanced technology, manageability and security features for the most demanding business needs. With an enhanced suite of security resources, a choice of manageability tools and the latest Intel technology, the dc7700 desktop PC allows users to focus on their business rather than managing their PCs.

Also launched at the event are the new HP accessories to maximize the user experience for notebooks and desktops. Available are the new docking stations, latest batteries, HP Bluetooth PC card mouse which has all the benefits of standard optical mouse with the added bonus of Bluetooth operability and wireless freedom. Also showcased was the new notebook stand to keep your work area neat and stylish, filter privacy and carrying cases and backpacks for people always on the go. For the desktops, HP has launched its USB finger print and smart card reader.

Dubai is the first stop for the 'Live & Personal' PSG Roadshow, which will also visit Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on 29th May; Doha, Qatar on 4th June; Cario, Egypt on 12th June and Amman, Jordan on 20th June.