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HP EliteBook is a line of business-oriented laptop computers made by Hewlett-Packard (), [1] marketed as a high-end line positioned above the ProBook series. [2] The line was introduced in August 2008 [3] [4] as a replacement of the HP Compaq line of business laptops, and initially included mobile workstations until September 2013, when they were rebranded as HP ZBook.
Most free and open-source graphics device drivers are developed by the Mesa project. The driver is made up of a compiler, a rendering API, and software which manages access to the graphics hardware. Drivers without freely (and legally) -available source code are commonly known as binary drivers.
If a WDDM driver hangs or encounters a fault, the graphics stack will restart the driver. [2] [9] A graphics hardware fault will be intercepted and if necessary the driver will be reset. Drivers under Windows XP were free to deal with hardware faults as they saw fit either by reporting it to the user or by attempting to recover silently.
Following HP's acquisition of Compaq in 2002, this series of notebooks was discontinued, replaced with the HP Pavilion, HP Compaq, and Compaq Presario notebooks. The OmniBook name would later be repurposed for a line of consumer-oriented notebooks in 2024, made to complement (and supersede) the Pavilion and Spectre series of notebooks.
Generic components of a graphics card. Note that the VGABIOS is a separate chip located on the graphics card, and not part of the GPU. Practically all processing units require basic initialization, not just GPUs. Video BIOS is the BIOS of a graphics card in a (usually IBM PC-derived) computer. It initializes the graphics card at
The original motivation for EFI came during early development of the first Intel–HP Itanium systems in the mid-1990s. BIOS limitations (such as 16-bit real mode, 1 MB addressable memory space, [7] assembly language programming, and PC AT hardware) had become too restrictive for the larger server platforms Itanium was targeting. [8]
The Envy 13 from 2009 uses a mobile 1.86 GHz CULV Core 2 Duo processor with 3 GB of DDR3 memory and the entry-level ATI Radeon Mobility 4330 graphics. The Envy 13 has a 13.1-inch HP LED Ultra BrightView Infinity display with a 1366 × 768 resolution. Available as an upgrade was the HP Radiance Infinity Display with a 1600 × 900 resolution.
It was initially sold with Intel integrated graphics, but an option to upgrade to a discrete Nvidia GPU became available after a few months. It replaced the raised pointing stick with a "low profile" model and introduced the option of 4-cell and 9-cell batteries in addition to the standard 6-cell model.