HP Star Wars Laptop... but something else AWAKENS! - CES 2016
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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so we'll begin as always with a shout out to Squarespace thanks for allowing
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us to be here at CES 2016 so in walking past the HP Booth the
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thing that immediately grabbed my attention of course was the Star Wars
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co-branded laptop now to be perfectly clear this is not a super high
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performance machine it's a 699 MSRP machine it comes with a core i5 8 gigs
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of RAM a 1 TB hard drive a 1080p but
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fortunately IPS display in a form factor
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that it's not exactly groundbreaking by any stretch of the imagination but what
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it does come with is just a pretty darn cool concept and the Star Wars branding
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is more than just Skin Deep with Darth Vader on the top cover a stormtrooper on
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the wrist rest and even packaging that comes in the shape of a TIE fighter you
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actually get a ton of exclusive content with it with everything from visuals to
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sounds of the machine optimized for the Star Wars fan as well as I think it's
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something ridiculous like 1,00 photos in a gallery that comes with it
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as well as all the trailers in Full Resolution it's got a couple of
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accessories like this uh soft shell case
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as well as a sort of I don't know it's it's sort of an average feeling
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Bluetooth mouse clearly for the Star
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Wars fan but not necessarily the kind of thing that I would otherwise geek out
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over although this is really cool the touchpad itself has Luke's Reed out from
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A New Hope as they go down the Death Star trench so that is a pretty cool
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touch but then I came over here and they're like well hold on a second
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actually this is the star of the show this is the new folio and I'm like okay
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so it's a business laptop it's an elitebook those are cool they tend to
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have really nice glass touchpads they tend to have outstanding build quality
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security features things like touch uh fingerprint sensors this one actually
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doesn't have that but supposedly with a wink and a nudge they're investigating
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other biometric Technologies so it's actually it's obviously got a actually
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that looks like a real sense camera is that a real sense camera on
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here I'm getting a bunch of shrugs but there's two lenses on the top okay it is
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definitely not so all they'll tell me is they're investigating other biometric
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Technologies I can't tell you guys more than that but the things that I do know
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are the speeds and feeds as well as the form factor of this sucker so it's using
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a Coram processor it's a fanless design and they've basically taken all that
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extra space not to mention the extra power that comes along with the corm and
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used it all up to give you better battery a rock sound system and hold on
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a second I will get back to that in a moment as well as by far the best
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keyboard I have ever encountered on an HP laptop this size and this weight
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which is not really saying anything because they've never done anything this
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thin or this light before but it actually does feel surprisingly good now
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back to the audio quality why would that matter they actually talk about this
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thing I heard two reps screw up and call it a phone because they really do intend
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for it to be used as a business phone whether it's individually with the 720p
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webcam and not to mention the dedicated Hardware Skype buttons for hanging up
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and muting all that cool stuff but actually just as a collaborative device
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so you can sit down use the 180° hinge sit across the table from it and boom
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now it really is legitimately more phone
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than computer I think that pretty much wraps it up oh yeah no it doesn't it
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comes with a 10-hour battery life with the full HD display it features an NVMe
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SSD up to 512 gigs they're quoting 10 hours of battery life for the 1080p but
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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
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than that depending on screen usage and
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I think I'm pretty much done yes oh yeah
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the audio system is banging Olson if that matters to you people who think
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bang and Olson might be a fairly reputable audio brand so thank you guys
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