During a press briefing this morning, HP product marketing manager for business notebooks, Sarah Bussell (pictured), confirmed that HP "re-tested" its EliteBook 6930P notebook introduced last June using this time Intel's latest SSD and an LED flat panel display and now claims a battery life of over 24 hours (with a 12 cells battery). That's 5 more hours than Dell's new Latitude notebooks just launched last week!

Bussell also cut into the SSD hype. Although SSDs are more reliable because of a lack of moving parts and consumes less power, prior generations of flash-based drives were actually lower or equal in performance than traditional disk drives. But with Intel's latest generation of SSDs which make use of DRAM to accelerate the "write" process, HP is now seeing 570% performance improvement over disk drives, as HP vice president Keith LeFebvre mentioned during today's afternoon keynote at IDF.

The video of Bussel and a short clip of LeFebvre presentation at IDF: