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HP's Z1 Workstation: Designed So You Can Mess With It

By Rain Noe - February 16, 2012

in Object Culture

With so many things intentionally built so you cannot easily open them up and monkey with the innards, it's refreshing to see the design of HP's new Z1 workstation: The machine easily flips into a horizontal position for servicing, and the screen pops up as easy as a car hood. Even better, it's been designed for completely tool-less adjustments—you can swap everything in and out with your bare fingers, so you don't need one of those micro screwdriver sets with bits shaped like all of the individual Lucky Charms.

The attendant video is one of those that's been branded a "Making of" but is in fact more commercial-y, though it's worth watching to hear some of the inspirations and thinking behind the design:

Officially announced just a couple days ago, the machine is expected to start shipping this April.

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Will

12 years ago

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What a sharp contrast from Apple and the iMac. Apple is moving towards a closed unit, where the user will not be able to upgrade most of the parts aside from the ram. Also the HP looks a lot easier to open up
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James

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That display mount would be perfect for a pen display. Wacom, are you listening? Please provide a mobile work station that is also a pen display and I'll be first in line to get one.
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