HP today announced a skinnable home entertainment PC, the Pavilion S7500. But new owners won't be able to have skin on their skin, if you know what we mean.
HP today announced a skinnable home entertainment PC, the Pavilion S7500. But new owners won't be able to have skin on their skin, if you know what we mean.
The computer giant is following in Nike's footsteps and reviewing what material customers have printed on their PC skins.
Nike has been stung numerous times by political campaigners ordering Nike ID personalised shoes with inscriptions like "sweatshops" on them.
Australian Product Manager Manpal Jagpal said people could choose from a range of HP supplied images, or upload their own.
The designs would then be printed onto vinyl and sent from the US for around $50 (Australian dollars).
But "if you send through images we don't like, say, Playboy, well, we'll stop you there," he told APC.
He said HP does not anticipate a problem with customers ordering offensive PC skins, as "the target audience, 18-24 year olds, normally have parents guiding them."
Julianne Bean, product manager for handhelds, pitched in with, "Also, people won't be walking round wearing their PC like they do with Nike shoes."
I don't know about Julianne, but there's nothing we like more here at APC than wearing our PC to work.
The skinnable Pavilion S7500 PC, which will be available in July, is a slim-line "7 litre" custom chassis design by HP with an inbuilt PSU. Because of the system's small size, it uses a Pentium M CPU, though HP says it is looking at putting Conroe (Core 2 Duo) in the machine instead.
It offers 7.1 surround sound if you have an amp or speakers that takes coax digital input.
It is priced from $1999, which includes a 19" TFT monitor, and Windows Media Center (though it does not have an inbuilt TV tuner, or DVI, HDMI or TV output... it's VGA only.)
