The HP EliteBook 2540p balances light weight and a compact design with full-size features. It’s fast enough for day-to-day office tasks while supporting about 5.5 hours of battery-based performance.

Such is the case of HP’s EliteBook 2540p, ... Bluetooth, webcam, fingerprint reader, DVD burner, and a three year warranty. The whole rugged angle isn’t just a gimmick, either.

Features. As the EliteBook designation suggests, HP’s 2540p caters to business users looking for serious computational horsepower packaged neatly into a road-ready design.

The HP EliteBook 2540p makes the fewest sacrifices among its rivals, but you have to be willing to put up with a 12-inch screen. 4 Jan 2011. Pros. Ruggedized for business travel.

HP Fansite has unearthed the specifications of two upcoming HP EliteBooks: the 2560p ultraportable and 2760p convertible tablet.The former is the successor to last year's EliteBook 2540p and ...

The EliteBook 2540p (pictured below) is a more conventional thin-and-light laptop, but it's the lightest ever in HP's EliteBook range, weighing in at a dainty 1.5kg and boasting a 12.1-inch LED ...

HP have announced their lightest EliteBook ultraportable yet, the HP EliteBook 2540p, and while it may only tip the scales at 3.3lbs it's still got the same MIL-STD 810G vibration, dust, humidity ...

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.

The HP EliteBook 2740p starts at $1,599 and will be available in the U.S. next month. HP also announced the new 12.1-inch EliteBook 2540p , which it calls its lightest rugged notebook at 3.3 lbs.

The HP EliteBook 2540p has been a successful business model for HP. Today, this model sports a 12.1-inch screen, weighs about 3.5 pounds, and uses prior-generation Core i5, i7 chips.

With a 2.3GHz Intel Core i7-640LM processor and 4GB of RAM, this new EliteBook has lots of pep and the battery life is respectable at 5+ hours. The only cons: slow graphics processing and poor 3D ...