Hewlett Packard has unveiled its new HP ProBook S-series Notebook for business professionals. The ProBook S-series follows HP's EliteBook series notebooks.

The new HP ProBook Standard series is available in glossy merlot (red wine color) and noir (black) colors with HD LED backlight screens. You can get it in three different screen sizes at a street price starting at US $529 (Rs. 26,500 approx.).

After the success of the HP EliteBook series notebooks, of which we reviewed the EliteBook 6930p, HP rolled out the ProBook Standard series laptops with extra graphics power. HP ProBook standard series is the first to have Linux (SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11) pre-installed for business customers, apart from the regular Windows Vista flavors.

HP ProBook S-series include two 14-inch screen notebooks, two 15.6-inch display notebooks and one 17.3-inch display notebook.The two 14-inch models include HP ProBook 4410s and ProBook 4415s. Both notebooks offer 16:9 aspect ration HD widescreen LED Backlit display with 1366x768 pixel resolution support. Of these 4410s offers Intel processor options while the 4415s offers AMD processor options. Both ProBook 4410s and 4415S support up to 8GB of DDR2 800MHz memory modules with two slots having dual-channel support.

For graphics, HP ProBook 4410s features integrated Intel Mobile GMA 4500MHD graphics while for ProBook 4415s has ATI Radeon HD 3200 integrated. HP ProBook 4510s and 4515s feature 15.6-inch LED-backlit HD with 1366x768 pixel resolution. ProBook 4510s offers Intel processor options, while 4515s offers AMD processor choice.

The big HP ProBook 4710s features 17.3-inch Widescreen HD LED Backlit screen with 1600x900 pixel resolution. This notebook has Intel processor options paired with Intel Mobile PM45 Express Chipset and has ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 with 512MB video memory.

All these notebooks support 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless Internet, HDMI port for connecting to HD displays. All the ProBook models support up to 8GB DDR2 800MHz RAM usable in dual-channel mode and offer storage options of up to 500GB support for 5400 RPM SATA HDD and up to 250GB support for 7200 RPM SATA HDD.