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I'm now at the HP Mobility Summit in Shanghai, where HP is now showing off their latest lineup of notebooks, iPAQs, and mobile video solutions. One of the main stars of the show were their new HP Pavilion HDX notebook, aka "The Dragon". More pics after the jump!

I swear, this thing is HUUUUUUUUUGE, especially with its 20" display. Pictures don't do it justice; you have to see it to be awed by it. The same goes for the AC adapter, which is like 2.5x the size of your average notebook adapter. It's so big since it uses up to 180W of power; no joke.

Besides coming in with 400GB of HDD and 4GB of RAM, it comes with the latest ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600XT graphics. And the cover and chassis comes with a very stylish-looking HP imprint called 'Dragon'. It's hard to take a picture of the actual imprint on the notebook, but luckily there was a nearby glass panel which had the design on it, so visitors can have a clearer idea of how it actually looks like.

This was the other HP notebook that they launched yesterday - the HP Compaq 2710p, which is basically the business version of the recently launched HP Pavilion tx1000 'Twist  & Touch' notebook. But unlike the tx1000 which uses a touch screen, the tx1000 uses an active digitizer for its tablet function. So in this sense it's a real tablet PC.

The HP Compaq 2710p throws in a few neat things, including the ability to scan your business cards and save it in your contacts with its OCR technology, or as a BMP file. At the top next to the 1.3MP camera is a small little overhead light that helps illuminate the keyboard when you're typing in the dark - useful when working on the plane!

My favorite bit about this notebook? The dockable battery, which is super slim and docks from the bottom. No more unsightly looking large cell batteries that sticks out on the back! 

Tonight I'll blog about a couple more stuff that they introduce in the summit, including the mscape technology that they demoed to us this morning. It's an interesting concept that has enormous potential, and I'm looking forward to more developers taking advantage of this technology.