“It’s painfully obvious where HP drew its inspiration for its newest Envy laptops,” Dana Wollman reports for Engadget.
“It’s not because of any single design choice, like the aluminum unibody chassis, island-style keys, glowing logo or giant clickpad; it’s all of the above!” Wollman reports. “HP’s latest 15-incher is the most flagrant Mac imitation we’ve seen in some time, and the resemblance is close enough that you could, at first glance, mistake the interior for an MBP. ”
Wollman reports, “Of course, HP threw in some flourishes that keep it from being a total facsimile: the lid and underside are black, not silver, the keyboard area has a thin red ring around it and there are Beats-branded volume controls on the laptop’s right side.”
Read more in the full review here.
MacDailyNews Take: One has to wonder if HP has anyone smart enough left on their staff of overpriced printer cartridge salesmen to realize the irony of branding these things “Envy.”
Boy HP, how far you’ve stooped in your desperation. Have you no pride at all? From top to bottom, every HP employee should be horribly embarrassed; you’ve now become as derivative as the OS you load into your Apple Mac wannabes. If this is the best they can do, HP should have ditched their PC business after all.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” and “Lava_Head_UK” for the heads up.]