For the hot-desk crowd
The maker of expensive printer ink, HP has decided the laptop is too ordinary and has built a full Windows PC into a full-size keyboard you can cart between desks.
Shown off before the gathered throngs at CES on 6 January 2026, the HP EliteBoard G1a looks like a normal board with 93 keys and a numpad, plus a vent and either two USB-C ports or a single port with a built-in USB-C cable dangling off the back.
The sales pitch is simple enough. Plug it into a monitor with USB-C video, pair a wireless mouse, and you have a desk setup with one cable doing power and data.
If your monitor is stuck in HDMI land, HP bundles a USB-to-HDMI adapter, and you can feed it with a 65 W USB-C power brick when the screen will not play ball.
HP says the thing weighs 1.49 to 1.69 pounds depending on the config, and it measures 14.1in by 4.7in by 0.7in, so it is slimmer than many laptops but still an awkward plank to stash.
Inside, it runs AMD Ryzen AI 5 or 7 (330, 340, or 350 Pro) with Radeon 800 graphics and an NPU rated up to 50 TOPS, with up to 64GB DDR5 5600 MT/s and up to 2TB SSD storage.
Microsoft’s Copilot+ badge comes along for the ride, which means offline AI bits such as “Recall, Click to Do, and Windows Studio Effects” whether you asked for them or not.
HP will ship it in March with or without that embedded cable, and the built-in option sounds like a great way to make it harder to pack and easier to snap.
There is an optional 32Wh battery, which HP reckons can do up to 3.5 hours unplugged or two days asleep, handy if you are ferrying it between meeting rooms without wanting a reboot.
HP wants companies to swap laptop culture for keyboard culture in offices that do hoteling, and somehow keep a matching monitor-and-mouse setup at home without IT groaning.
Call centres and cramped desks are the obvious fit, where a keyboard PC could replace a chunky all-in-one and be wiped and reused between shifts, rather than being treated like a commuter’s pet brick.
For everyone who still wants a normal laptop, HP also refreshed the EliteBook X G2 line in 14-inch form, with three silicon flavours across the usual suspects.
The EliteBook X G2i pairs HP’s chassis with Troubled Chipzilla’s upcoming “Panther Lake,” Core Ultra 5 and Ultra 7 parts, while the G2q runs Snapdragon X2 Elite or X Plus, and the G2a uses AMD Ryzen AI 5, 7 or 9.
Most configs land around 2.4 pounds (1.09kg), with a lightweight G2i starting at 2.2 pounds (998g), and a bend-back EliteBook X Flip G2i coming in at 2.86 pounds (1.29kg).
Screen options range from 1920 x 1200 at 300 nits up to a 2880 x 1800 OLED touch panel hitting 700 nits at 120Hz, because someone in procurement will always tick the shiny box.
Storage tops out at 2TB PCIe SSD with up to 64GB LPDDR5x, plus a 5MP webcam with IR for facial recognition and presence detection to dob you in when you wander off.
Wi-Fi 7 is standard, Bluetooth 6 is onboard, and there is optional 5G, with Qualcomm supplying the modem in the G2q while the AMD and Chipzilla variants use HP R15 or R18 5G kit.
HP also wants to shove Copilot into the office printer, because nothing says productivity like AI living in a box that eats paper.
HP for Microsoft 365 Copilot runs on the printer or scanner touch screen and can redact personally identifiable info before printing, suggest file names for scans, and spit out AI summaries and translations on-device, right next to the jam warning.
