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HP Unveils Spectre Folio, a Convertible Laptop 'Made of Leather' (techcrunch.com)
HP announced Monday the Spectre Folio, a convertible laptop made of leather. From a report: Unveiled in an over-the-top press event in Manhattan today, that included such turns of phrase as "aluminum has become the gold standard," the device is a convertible laptop with a leather case. As HP put it at the event, "this isn't a PC that's wrapped in leather, it's a PC that's made of leather." So, what does that mean, exactly? Rather than covering the standard aluminum or plastic, the cow skin serves as both the chassis and hinge.
The laptop has a 13.3 inch pen-enabled touch screen and an Intel Core i5 or i7 processor inside. There's 16GB of RAM and up to 2TB of storage. The battery should get up to 18 hours of life on a charge, according to the company -- admittedly pretty solid. Price starts at $1,300 for the variant with the i5 processor.
The laptop has a 13.3 inch pen-enabled touch screen and an Intel Core i5 or i7 processor inside. There's 16GB of RAM and up to 2TB of storage. The battery should get up to 18 hours of life on a charge, according to the company -- admittedly pretty solid. Price starts at $1,300 for the variant with the i5 processor.
This is literally a killer laptop.
Leather just isn't my material. I typically play either a tank or a skirmisher, so I need laptops that provide a better Armor Class bonus.
Leather Linux.
For $1500 I would like a choice of OS, thanks.
Not sure using "Spectre" in a name this year is a good idea at all.
specter
noun
- a ghost.
synonyms: ghost, phantom, apparition, spirit, wraith, shadow, presence;
The new HP Spectre Folio, when you want a laptop with the ghost of a cow.
At least it isn't false advertising calling it "Spectre"! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Holy cow!
The dog loves to chew on my leather shoes. With a leather laptop, the excuse "the dog ate my homework." will be believable once again.
Support Right To Repair Legislation.
I bet it smells very nice as the laptop heats up and possibly catches fire!
12 months of sitting on a cooling caddy and there's a noticeable bend. Maybe this will fix that.
This isn't a PC that's wrapped in leather, it's a PC that's made from the very Holstein cows that were Gateway 2000's Mascots.
Other PC manufacturers were just kicked out of the herd.
are going to love this.
A Leather Bear festival in Charm City? Not my cup of espresso, but party on dudes.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Or that man-made crap that will quickly peel, stiffen, split, crack, and tear?
It's made of plastic
HP are now in the business of murdering cows.
To make matters even worse, they're moderate, non-partisan, centrist cows. Truly a dying species.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
I'm sure the new pro Hindu govt and NDTV India will have a field day with this.
Tech support in India is just going to love this.
Have gnu, will travel.
NDTV a left wing h i n du news channel will have a field day with this.
Celebrate with the Village People!
I personally think this is awesome and would love to have one. We're slaughtering all those cows everyday to make non-vegan food, we may as well make good use of the leftovers. Leather can be used for so much more than belts and boots.
I personally prefer bison. Any way I can get a bison-hide model?
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I want a tablet made of the same stuff that yogurt raisins are made of. Smooth, shiny and white on the outside with that delicious raisin interior! Just the thing for a nibble when you get hungry, surfing the web. And so convenient!
Oblig. Futurama:
Victor: The seats are stuffed with eagle down, and the dashboard is made from the beaks of a thousand eagles. Also, there are some eagles under the floorboards
Amy: That's an awful lot of eagle.
Victor: Yes, and yet (sighs)
Amy: What's wrong?
Victor: It is just, the luxury edition has so much more eagle. It saddens me to think of you missing out.
Such a product is a reason for me to boycott HP. There are already enough products out there which use parts of dead animals for no good reason.
If it doesn't it will have overheating issues. If it does, it would just be icky.
I must have this laptop!
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were just waaay ahead of their time?
just not the why.
In Soviet Russia jokes are formulaic and decidedly non-humorous.
The buried lede here is that double-hinged keyboard with the magnet. THAT'S how I've wished the Surface Pro keyboard functioned, since the day I got mine in 2014.
If you are forced to pay for an OS, you already had not choice.
You KNEW that's what he meant. Yet you chose to be a dick.
Can't wait to see the heat dissipation efficiency, throttling reports ... And why not, laptops catching fire ...
Totof
Spectre ? They couldn't license the rights to Existenz?!!
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I have a funny feeling!
A computer that's into sadomasochism!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Or more immediately, will the screen or mobo snap the first time it sees a meaningful amount of force from being packed in a bag or some accidental rough handling?
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
I like Leather in a lot of things, but a laptop chassis is not one of them. If you don't keep leather clean and moisturized with oils it can get to look really bad really quick. HP has done some really good things to PC design, but this isn't one of them.
it's a tablet with a leather keyboard case glued to it... not a leather laptop, that would be interesting to see.
They should have used pigskin. It feels better, and it would enamor us to an entirely different population that already hates us enough to kill. Nothing lost.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
It puts the lotion on the laptop or it gets the hose.
Make laptops from skin of shitty smelly parasites hindu-chimps infesting IT with bogus fake degrees out of jungle.
Wouldn't that be haram though? Pissing off muslims is ALMOST as dangerous as pissing off SJW vegans.
"Tech support in India is just going to love this."
The Vegans and Peta will love it as well.
All of the groups you listed will hate you regardless of your actions. Even if they like the action you take, somehow it will be considered misappropriation.
...does it use RPN or algebraic entry?
Absolutely fucking obscene
to launch it this past weekend at the Folsom Street Fair.
Plants have pain receptors just like animals do. Their nerve system merely works a bit slower.
Where is your virtue signaling god now?
... Super shitty generic OS.
Great.
That's like getting handmade Hermes luggage to carry your h&m t-shirts and offbrand jeans around. LOL!
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
This is really a bad idea that wasn't well thought out.
As mentioned, some people from India would find this offensive and India is a major consumer of technology devices.
Add to that people who are against using animals for food and other items.
HP is essentially offending a large portion of their customer base.
Stupid "management".
Spectre Folio. Honest marketing of Intel's trash.
when it gets cold, it turns into a tablet.
or for some a smartphone.
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So, in other words, it is an updated copy of Lenovo's 15th anniversary "Reserve Edition" ThinkPad? http://www.notebookreview.com/...
Meh.
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Aryeh Goretsky
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