Hewlett-Packard unveiled a raft of new Windows 8 PCs this week, and one of them — the Spectre One — grabbed critics' attention for all the wrong reasons. The computer's design looks eerily familiar to the iMac's, as HP's all-in-one machine comes with a curvy aluminum-like base, a flat white keyboard, and a black bezel surrounding its 23.6-inch screen. (See a photo at right and below.) Is HP, a company once known for pushing the computing industry forward, blatantly ripping off Apple's desktops?
Of course this is a blatant rip-off: Meet HP's new desktop, says Matthew Panzarino at The Next Web: The Apple iMac. The Spectre One (release date unknown) "looks like absolutely nothing other than a complete clone." There are "nearly infinite combinations" of designs and components that HP could've chosen, but instead, everything from the keyboard to the touchpad are obvious approximations of Apple's offerings. Hewlett-Packard used to be synonymous with innovation. For HP, "this is just a sad day."
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