Company Hewlett-Packard (HP) has finally officially introduced Pavilion Notebook DV8, referring to the upper segment of the market, which is embedded in Blu-Ray drive.

Notebook HP Pavilion DV8 placed on the quad-core Intel Core i7-720QM, has a 18 "display, video card nVidia GeForce GT 230M with 1GB of video memory GDDR3, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and hard disk capacity of 1TB. The source reported that due to the high cost of this Laptop demand for them is limited, but it is expected that before the holidays it is good to grow. Currently, the share of notebooks with Blu-Ray has about 5% of total revenue, HP, and in terms of deliveries, their share is even smaller. Manufacturer believes that the 2010 this situation has not fundamentally changed.

HP also announced the launch of 15.6 "notebook Pavilion dv6 without Blu-Ray drive and a lower price, as well as the launch of Pavilion HPE, collected on the basis of processor Intel Core i5.

At present, the gap between Blu-ray drives and DVD burner is still very large, their prices differ by about five times. It is expected that in the second half of 2010 prices for Blu-Ray equipment will fall, and the gap is reduced.