so we'll begin as always with a shout out to Squarespace thanks for allowing
us to be here at CES 2016 so in walking past the HP Booth the
thing that immediately grabbed my attention of course was the Star Wars
co-branded laptop now to be perfectly clear this is not a super high
performance machine it's a 699 MSRP machine it comes with a core i5 8 gigs
of RAM a 1 TB hard drive a 1080p but
fortunately IPS display in a form factor
that it's not exactly groundbreaking by any stretch of the imagination but what
it does come with is just a pretty darn cool concept and the Star Wars branding
is more than just Skin Deep with Darth Vader on the top cover a stormtrooper on
the wrist rest and even packaging that comes in the shape of a TIE fighter you
actually get a ton of exclusive content with it with everything from visuals to
sounds of the machine optimized for the Star Wars fan as well as I think it's
something ridiculous like 1,00 photos in a gallery that comes with it
as well as all the trailers in Full Resolution it's got a couple of
accessories like this uh soft shell case
as well as a sort of I don't know it's it's sort of an average feeling
Bluetooth mouse clearly for the Star
Wars fan but not necessarily the kind of thing that I would otherwise geek out
over although this is really cool the touchpad itself has Luke's Reed out from
A New Hope as they go down the Death Star trench so that is a pretty cool
touch but then I came over here and they're like well hold on a second
actually this is the star of the show this is the new folio and I'm like okay
so it's a business laptop it's an elitebook those are cool they tend to
have really nice glass touchpads they tend to have outstanding build quality
security features things like touch uh fingerprint sensors this one actually
doesn't have that but supposedly with a wink and a nudge they're investigating
other biometric Technologies so it's actually it's obviously got a actually
that looks like a real sense camera is that a real sense camera on
here I'm getting a bunch of shrugs but there's two lenses on the top okay it is
definitely not so all they'll tell me is they're investigating other biometric
Technologies I can't tell you guys more than that but the things that I do know
are the speeds and feeds as well as the form factor of this sucker so it's using
a Coram processor it's a fanless design and they've basically taken all that
extra space not to mention the extra power that comes along with the corm and
used it all up to give you better battery a rock sound system and hold on
a second I will get back to that in a moment as well as by far the best
keyboard I have ever encountered on an HP laptop this size and this weight
which is not really saying anything because they've never done anything this
thin or this light before but it actually does feel surprisingly good now
back to the audio quality why would that matter they actually talk about this
thing I heard two reps screw up and call it a phone because they really do intend
for it to be used as a business phone whether it's individually with the 720p
webcam and not to mention the dedicated Hardware Skype buttons for hanging up
and muting all that cool stuff but actually just as a collaborative device
so you can sit down use the 180° hinge sit across the table from it and boom
now it really is legitimately more phone
than computer I think that pretty much wraps it up oh yeah no it doesn't it
comes with a 10-hour battery life with the full HD display it features an NVMe
SSD up to 512 gigs they're quoting 10 hours of battery life for the 1080p but
uh they won't say anything about the 4K for now we can probably assume it'll be about 2 hours to 2 and 1 half hours less
than that depending on screen usage and
I think I'm pretty much done yes oh yeah
the audio system is banging Olson if that matters to you people who think
bang and Olson might be a fairly reputable audio brand so thank you guys
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