Fortunately for B-P, HP left the form factor of its notebook batteries  as Thinkpad X31 battery, thinkpad x30 battery, Thinkpad t20 battery, Thinkpad T42 battery relatively consistent, meaning that the Sonata will fit into 18 of HP’s consumer notebook PCs, representing 70 percent of its product line. HP will sell the Sonata batteries for $149.99 apiece, either as part of an HP notebook or as a standalone upgrade or retrofit.

HP said in December that it will sell the Sonata technology as the “HP Enviro Series,” and it will be priced at just $20 to $30 over its other batteries. HP will sell the Enviro Series on its Web site, where it will post a list of compatible models, including representatives from its HP Pavilion, HP HDX, Compaq Presario and HP G series.

Specifically, those models include: the HP Pavilion dv4, dv5, and dv6 Pavilion DV8000 battery, omnibook 6000 battery; the HP HDX 16; the HP G50, G60, G61, G70, and G71; and the Compaq Presario CQ40, CQ45, CQ50, CQ60, CQ61, CQ70, and CQ71.

The “HP Enviro Series” label capitalizes on the fact that HP will guarantee the battery will last for three years. Boston-Power’s Sonata technology has also won a Nordic Eco-level certification, and a similar endorsement from the Chinese Environmental Protection Agency.

“It’s a celebration of the number-one player in the market re-embracing innovation,” said Christina Lampe-Onnerud, B-P’s founder and chief executive. “I think that’s pretty rare, and a testmanent to their slogan, ‘HP: Invent’.”

However, HP laptop battery will not be the first major PC manufacturer to offer a three-year battery. That honor goes to Apple, who has announced a three-year battery inside the most recent MacBook Pro. Apple has never announced which company is supplying it batteries for the MacBook Pro Laptop battery, however. Lampe-Onnerud said B-P was not the supplier, but was “delighted to see Apple participate in the message to that space, of the betterment of the earth.”

Apple used to purchase from Sony, according to Sara Bradford, principal consultant for Frost & Sullivan’s Energy & Power Systems group, and she said she believes they still do. But she said she was not clear on whether or not Sony or another supplier provides batteries for the MacBook Pro.

Apple representatives declined to comment, referring a reporter to the details of the battery launched within the MacBook Pro, which can be refreshed up to 1,000 times and lasts eight hours on a single charge. In the press release accompanying the launch, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs claims that Apple “developed new battery technology” to enable the new features.

Boston-Power is “qualified for big OEMs” with its Sonata technology, and Lampe-Onnerud confirmed that the company was in talks with other suppliers. In February, B-P signed a deal to essentially double its battery output via a Chinese supplier.

After several hours practice, I have successfully changed my HP Pavilion DV4 1103TX OS from Vista to XP. Now let me introduce my experience when you install the XP OS to your Pavilion DV4 1103TX.

I bought my HP Pavilion DV4 in April 02 in HP store. To avoid some trouble, I decide install XP into my Notebook in April 19 ( 15 days after I buy the notebook, as the HP supply the 15 days free replacing ). Please notice this :The HP Pavilion DV4 hard disk is the ICH9 SATA DISK. Some XP OS edition driver cant support the ICH9. I tried many XP OS edition to face the situation. Not all the HP Pavilion series laptop are ICH9 SATA disk, that means you dont need to special download the ICH9 XPS SP3 for Pavilion DV1000 battery, Pavilion DV2000 battery, Pavilion DV4000 battery, Pavilion DV6000 battery, Pavilion DV8000 battery, Pavilion ZV5000 battery, Pavilion zv6000 battery.

To ensure the OS change cant effect the HP quality warranty. I called the HP customer center to query the problem. They said that they are not accountable to the broken of userself bios fresh, but they say I can change my notebook OS to XP SP2 without bios freshing. But when I finished my XP SP2 install, the voice card driver cant work. So I must fresh my bios, you only need to notice that dont interruption of power supply when you fresh BIOS.

Please notice that : Please fresh the F11C BIOS program before you install the XP OS, or you must reinstall the OS again.

Now let me install the XP SP3 into my Pavilion DV4 step by step:
• First download or buy ICH9 XP SP3 CD (the CD must be ICH9 XPS SP3), you can google it
• Then prepare the F.11C-BIOS fresh program. Fresh the F.11C-BIOS here : http://www.icare.hp.com.cn/TechCenter_StaticArticle/45904/59726.zip
  The BIOS only can be freshed in DOS.
• Next you only to install the XP SP3 into your notebook in standard step. Dont care of the black screnn when installing.
• After finish the install, you can go to XP edition desktop to fresh all the driver.
  Chip set : http://h30445.www3.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp39001-39500/sp39316.exe
  Video card Driver : ftp://file6.mydrivers.com/display/nvidia_gfgo_17637_xp32.zip
  Card reader driver : http://www.icare.hp.com.cn/TechCenter_StaticArticle/45904/59729.zip
  Hotkey driver : http://www.icare.hp.com.cn/TechCenter_StaticArticle/45904/59735.zip
  Finger driver : http://www.icare.hp.com.cn/TechCenter_StaticArticle/45904/59810.zip
  Net work Card Driver : ftp://file6.mydrivers.com/net/realtek_rtl8100e_702_xp.zip
  WLAN Card Driver : Intel ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp40001-40500/sp40120.exe
  Broadcom ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp39501-40000/sp39912.exe
  Modem driver : ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp39501-40000/sp39689.exe
  Voice card driver : ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp38501-39000/sp38558.exe
  Please Notice this : as I install the XP SP38558 OS, first we must uninstall the originally voice card driver. Then install the download voice card driver. Also you can install XP SP3 in to you pavilion DV5, pavilion DV5T, Pavilion DV7.

In the end fresh the F11C BIOS, restart the notebook , then you will find your notebook works fine with all drivers. You can update your Pavilion DV1000 battery, Pavilion DV4000 battery, Pavilion ZV5000 battery, Pavilion zv6000 battery XP OS to XP SP3 without redownload all drivers and BIOS.

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