Well right or wrong, Apple does have patents on it:There is a big difference between a novel design and a patentable innovation. The MBA was a very novel design, but nothing that could be considered proprietary.
If a car manufacturer makes a car with a wedge shape that sells very well and the next year a bunch of other manufacturers have similar designs, then they are just being smart and following the preferences shown by consumers.
If a company invented a hovering car and the next year everyone came out with hovering cars, there would be a case for infringement because it was an innovative concept and patentable.
I love Apple as much or more than the next guy, but the shape of the MBA and chicklet keys set in the frame are not really innovations. It is a nice design, but to berate someone for following what consumers have shown a preference for is silly.
OS X anyone? Make your little laptops look just like the Air, but the joke's on you as soon as I boot it up.
Built with a mix of premium materials, the HP ENVY SpectreXT boasts an all-metal design with stark lines that contrast with a soft texture. Crafted for mobility, the HP SpectreXT measures 14.5 millimeters (mm) thin, weighs 3.07 pounds(2) and includes a 13.3-inch HD(1) diagonal display with a slim bezel line. It also includes 128 gigabytes (GB) of solid state storage(3)) and up to eight hours of battery life.(4)) A full array of ports, including Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 and HDMI, provide more ways to network without compromising size.
Why do they need to defend?
Who the hell choose those names?????
Seriously, would anyone look at that laptop and think MacBook Air?
I think there are other 'ultrabooks' that rip off the MBA look than this one from HP but it's clear they're all taking their cues from Apple as all these 'ultrabooks' came out after people were drooling over the look of the MBA.
sometimes people just don listen to reason. Even when given proof that apple didn't invent the ultra book, or the chiclet keys or the colour silver, they pretend it never happened and keep spouting bollocks.
Those who have no ideas of their own and can't innovate try to steal the ideas of others.
Oh yeah, will someone break it to HP gently that they have named this after the fictional world criminal organization in Ian Fleming's James Bond books. In those books, SPECTRE's technology always fell to Bond's intellect and cunning.
And what's wrong with competition and providing consumers with choices?Innovation has much less to do with solving problems in new ways than discovering new ways to conceive problems. This is where Apple has always outdone its competitors.
HP and ASUS set out to solve the problem Apple set for itself in creating an ultra-light notebook.
Same with tablets. Until Apple came along and re-conceived what a tablet should be, everybody automatically tried to solve the problem of how to make the best Windows Tablet PC. Now, of course, everyone tries to outdo Apple in making the best iPad.
And, of course, same with personal computers. Twice.
If the MBA was white, this laptop would've been white and their argument would've been 'Apple doesn't own white'.
You can't expect them as a company to say, yes we copied MBA.
For a start, the keyboard has the split buttons poking through the case - Apple were the first with this.
Its funny how everyone is steeling Apple's keyboard. The rest of the machine looks like someone without design experience tried to copy the MacBook Air, but failed.
PICASSO QUOTE "Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal"
Not a fan of HP, but copied or not!, it is better than most PC`s out-there
If Steve Jobs taught us anything, it's that the future belongs to the innovators. Whether HP deliberately "copied" anything isn't the issue; their design doesn't bring much innovation to the table.
"Similarities" are seldom accidental. Had HP's design been genuinely innovative, it would have been on the market long ago. It wasn't. The reason is pretty simple: HP still leads by the bottom line. Apple leads with passion that isn't managed by the board or otherwise forced to conform to economic constraints.
HP could build an identical ultrabook if they want, with only the logo being different. I'm still buying the MBA for one reason, and honestly I think it is the one that makes the decision for most people as it should: the OS.
Thank you for not being retarded and posting a comment that actually makes sense. Got tired of all the "omg, it has a keyboard and a trackpad, they sooo copied apple". Apple didn't come up with the idea of a keyboard, or a screen, or a thin laptop in general. They didn't even come up with the chic-let-style keyboard. Sony did that. And macbook air thinness in a laptop, the original sony x1 did that. Anyway, I agree with what you wrote.