HP just announced its newest business laptops today – the HP EliteBook Folio 1020 – and even though the company is touting them as the thinnest and lightest ‘business-class’ notebooks ever made, they certainly look a hell of lot like the MacBook Air.
This isn’t the first time HP’s design team ripped off Apple’s work, but the copycats have fine-tuned the design of their previous MacBook Air rip-off, the 1040, by removing the unsightly ventilation fan on the side, so it looks even more Apple-esque.
Here’s another look:
The new HP Folio 1020 laptop comes in two varieties that differentiate it slightly from the MacBook Air. You can grab the standard version with a touchscreen that beefs up its weight to 2.6lbs, or there’s a special edition that goes without the touchscreen, dropping its weight to 2.2lbs (0.1 lbs lighter than the 11-inch MacBook Air).
On the inside, it packs 8GB of RAM standard, and an SSD for all your storage needs. HP decided to put a weaker processor in it than the MacBook Airs though, opting for Intel’s Core M processor so it wouldn’t need a fan anymore. It also has a fingerprint sensor and enterprise port.
Pricing hasn’t been announced yet, but if it’s like the other HP EliteBooks, it won’t be cheaper than a MacBook Air.
Via: Gizmodo
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
3 responses to “HP’s new ultralight laptop is yet another MacBook Air doppelgänger”
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, right?
All this tells me is that HP’s reorganization isn’t going so well when they have to rip off their competitors designs.
“HP’s new ultralight laptop is yet another MacBook Air doppelgänger”
Not quite. To be a doppelgänger, the HP would have to be a person, not a thing. But your point is well taken, for a doppelgänger only bears a resemblance, and is not an exact copy. Needless to say (but I will), the HP could never, ever be confused with a Macbook Air… except in appearance… in the fog… by a novice… who never used the Apple.