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HP issues Star Wars themed Skylake laptop

by on09 October 2015


The force is strong in this one


HP Empire is hoping to strike back and has released a new Skylake laptop to go with the "The Force Awakens" flick.

The laptop custom chassis with plenty of Windows 10. It can made the Kessel Run benchmark in less than twelve parsecs. It does not really look like a hunk of junk either.

Still it is supposed to be more a tool for the Sith Lord who has everything.

It's done out in a black and dark grey distressed looking design, with touches including images of Stormtroopers on the keyboard. The keyboard itself being backlit with red lighting.

The touchpad looks like the X-Wing Star Fighter Guidance System, which is curiously appropriate as I always turn off touchpad when a voice in my head says "use the mouse" Nick.

As you might expect it is full of Star Wars themes with custom wallpapers, screensavers, and sound effects. Although we would have liked to see a plug in USB drive which looks like an R2 unit. It would not have to do anything it would just be cool.

It is a 15.6-inch display is a full HD affair (with an optional touchscreen), and the machine is powered by Intel's Skylake Core i5 or i7 processors, with battery life being a claimed seven hours.
The laptop also boasts 12GB of RAM, and up to 2TB of hard drive storage, and you can go with integrated graphics or join the dark side and get discrete Nvidia GeForce 940M GPU on board.

HP's Star Wars Special Edition notebook also has an optical drive, with dual speakers and audio tuned by B&O Play (Bang & Olufsen).

It is up for pre-order now from the HP site starting at $699.99

Last modified on 09 October 2015
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