HP’s ‘Boring’ Business Laptop Secretly Smuggles Gaming Power Under Gray Cover
KEY POINTS
- •HP revealed the ZBook Ultra G1a, a business laptop equipped with a surprising AMD Strix Halo APU and OLED display.
- •This model offers speedy ports including rare Thunderbolt 4 support on an AMD-based laptop, attracting enthusiasts beyond corporate users.
- •The Verge’s Antonio G. Di Benedetto photographed the device, highlighting its inconspicuous gray design that hides powerful specs.
In a daring corporate propaganda twist, HP’s ZBook Ultra G1a masked as your garden-variety snooze-fest business laptop actually harbors a wild side with an AMD Strix Halo APU, OLED display, and rare Thunderbolt 4 ports on an AMD machine—a combo as unexpected as a caffeinated sloth in a board meeting. The Verge’s Antonio G. Di Benedetto caught it loafing on a purple cutting mat, proving that even expensive enterprise beasts (read: gray metronomes) can flex some enthusiast muscle. This 2026-ish revelation follows The Verge’s esports-infused stints with Asus’s ROG Flow Z13 and the Framework Desktop, guaranteeing at least some AI-powered excitement for the nodding corporate masses.
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Business laptop pretends to be boring while secretly flexing a gaming-grade AMD chip. Corporate camouflage hitting new peaks of 'I mean, it’s business, but also gamer vibes.'
HP’s ZBook Ultra G1a looks like your boss’s snooze button but packs enough gaming juice to crash your Zoom call.
Nothing screams ‘serious business’ like quietly slipping a thunderbolt 4 AMD Strix Halo chip into a gray box everyone thought was dead inside.
Source: Theverge | Published: 2/12/2026 | Author: Antonio G. Di Benedetto
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