HP made a leather laptop. Really.
HP heard you like leather laptop cases. So it's making you a whole laptop out of the stuff.
The HP Spectre Folio, unveiled on Monday, folds into a laptop or tablet just like plenty of other models, but is surprisingly manufactured — or, as HP uncomfortably puts it, manucraftured — with cow skin where aluminum or plastic should be.
The Spectre Folio's Intel Core processor, keyboard, and other internal workings are still made of the traditional titanium. You'll still get an estimated 18 hours of life out a metal-based battery, and can doodle on its glass 13.3-inch touchscreen with a plastic stylus. But all those innards are encased in genuine stitched leather from cows already being killed for meat, per Wired.
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Beyond its atypical casing, Gizmodo also appreciates the Spectre Folio's second hinge, which lets it fold down into the "media mode" you can see in this hilariously dramatic video.
HP made the Spectre Folio with a classy, younger crowd in mind, and used leather for its "durability" and "authenticity," HP tells Wired. It all adds up to "a device that is transforming and will transform the industry," HP tells Gizmodo.
Leather is also, as Wired suggests, a way for HP to get some attention, seeing as it usually produces run-of-the-mill devices. Obviously, it worked.
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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.
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