Skylake meets Skywalker in HP's limited-edition Star Wars laptop

HP's new Skylake-powered laptop celebrates The Force Awakens with a custom chassis and tweaks aplenty to Windows 10

HP's new Skylake-powered laptop celebrates The Force Awakens with a custom chassis and tweaks aplenty to Windows 10.

HP has certainly done something a little different with its latest 15.6-inch notebook, which is a special edition laptop themed on Star Wars to tie in with the new film.

Tech spec

In all the Star Wars excitement, we might have forgotten to mention one small thing – namely the notebook's tech spec.

The 15.6-inch display is a full HD affair (with an optional touchscreen), and the machine is powered by Intel's Skylake Core i5 or i7 processors, with battery life being a claimed seven hours.

The laptop also boasts 12GB of RAM, and up to 2TB of hard drive storage, and you can go with integrated graphics or get a discrete Nvidia GeForce 940M GPU on board.

HP's Star Wars Special Edition notebook also has an optical drive, with dual speakers and audio tuned by B&O Play (Bang & Olufsen).

The laptop is due out later this month and will be priced starting at £549 (around $840, or AU$1,170), with a special edition Star Wars themed sleeve for the device running you an extra £30.

Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for T3 across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel was published by Hachette UK in 2013).