HP Elitebook Folio: Oh man. HP have been busy. Really busy. Not “busy” in the biblical sense, but “busy” in the “Shitsticks! We’d better steal some more designs from Apple!” sense. If that’s a sense of the word “busy”. If it wasn’t, it is now.
HP suck. And not in a good, biblical way.
(image from The Verge)
HP Spectre XT: Fish. Shooting. Barrel.
(Updated: This is even better.)
(image from Some Website, via He Of The Silver Star, Whom We Adore)
HP Touchpad keyboard: We covered HP’s giant iPhone 3G a while back. If you’re one of the few that managed to bag yourself a bargain, perhaps you were lucky enough to pick up one of these Apple Keyboard knock-offs to go with it. You were? *Willy Wonka face* Tell me again how great WebOS is.
HP Slate 2: What with Google tearing off its kindly-old-widow rubber mask to reveal some kind of money-gobbling, privacy-ingnoring, performance-failing dick-monster, and RIM generally sucking at existing, the tech-tables have very much turned. If you’d have told me three years ago that Microsoft would take the moral high-ground or that they were (partly) responsible for the nicest non-Apple hardware out there, I would have laughed, kindly, and then committed you to some sort of sanatorium, which is a polite way of saying that I’d have thought you were fricking nuts.
*backwards record scratch*
And then there’s this. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. A upgraded version of *the* worst “iPad killer” ever made. Even Paul Thurrott thinks it’s a bad idea.
(image from Paul Thurrott’s Supersite for Windows, the world’s most cumbersomely named blog, via The Brook Review)
Engadget’s review of the HP Envy 15 is in:
But HP stumbles in several critical areas: the Envy 15 is heavier than other laptops in its class, and in exchange for toting that extra heft, you’re rewarded with middling battery life. The keyboard’s alright, but we did have to type in a deliberate way to ensure it recognized our every press. The display appears to have some color calibration problems. Most importantly, though, the laptop’s saddled with a finicky, stiff touchpad — a nuisance large enough to slow down your entire workflow. A shame, since this is an otherwise speedy machine. Because of these shortcomings, the Envy 15 doesn’t best the MacBook Pro, though it admirably undercuts its lofty $1,800 starting price. All told, the Envy 15 offers some compelling features for the money, but before you pull the trigger we’d suggest you also check out the Dell XPS 15z, which is lighter with a comfier keyboard / trackpad, as well as the long-lasting Samsung Series 7 Chronos. If you do go for the Envy 15, we hope you have a pretty stationary setup in mind: you’ll want an outlet close by and also, a mouse.
Sounds great!
(image from Engadget)
HP MS200 All-In-One PC: If there’s one thing that HP should have learnt in 2009, it’s “do not take profile shots of our products as it makes themlook really like Apple products.”
(image from TechFresh)
HP Slate: Was it really over a year ago? Here’s some vintage “Inspired” By Apple gold, courtesy of everyone’s favourite flip-flopping PC-manufacturer HP.
The best, best, best bit about this remains the little plastic tray you have to pull out to view the Windows licence information. Or maybe the ctrl-alt-delete button. GEEN-YUS.
(image from Engadget. You can see the funny, funny pictures in the gallery. So funny.)
HP Spectre: “Ah, MacBook Pro, we meet again. But this time the advantage is mine.”
From Wikipedia:
SPECTRE began…as a small group of criminals but became a vast international organisation with its own SPECTRE Island training base in the films
As quoted by Blofeld on several occasions: “This organisation does not tolerate failure”
Others may comment; I merely admire.
(image from Information Week)
HP TouchPad: Poor TouchPad. Like the gold iPod mini or Sporty Spice, unlikely to be anyone’s first choice. Unless it’s on sale for less than a BlackBerry Playbook in which case we’re all like “ZOMG! I WANT ONE OF THOSE! NOW!”
With its clever operating system and charging dock, it’s a cute product. Also, the back looks like giant iPhone 3G. That’s cute too - imagine if you sat on a giant chair and held it up to your ear, you could pretend you were The Borrowers, transplanted to 2008. Such fun.
(image via Digital Trends)
HP Envy 15: “It’s fine. No-one will ever put it side-to-side with a MacBook Pro. No-one will ever know.”
(image from The Verge)
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