HP’s EliteBoard G1a is a Ryzen-powered Windows 11 PC in a membrane keyboard
The most familiar, full-fledged PC experience you can get from a keyboard.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/hps-eliteboard-g1a-is-a-ryzen-powered-windows-11-pc-in-a-membrane-keyboard/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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If this can run win11 at all, it should be great on Linux!
Perhaps the basis for a cyberdeck?
@arstechnica Have you gotten your hands on a Raspberry Pi 500 (or better yet, the 500+ with the mechanical keyboard) yet? Same deal but with Linux and no corporate bullshit.
@cstross @arstechnica well, it’s more like the reverse: the HP keyboardoongle is a raspi 500 with corporate bullshit.
(But I understand it can have a place in corporate environments, where the bullshit is part of the ecosystem)
@jguillaumes I was shouting at an American webzine, remember, not you.
@cstross no worries. I was just commenting… not shouting at you at all. That webzine deserved to be shouted.
@arstechnica ghosts of 1980s home computing?
@arstechnica This is an ad.
@arstechnica Yep, HP has been dead to me for a very long time.
@arstechnica I have been desperately awaiting something to replace the little Intel Atom SBC type things that Intel killed off for no apparent reason I can discern, and I'm super glad to see this kind of thing, but this absolutely begs one really really big question. Can you get Windows 11 OFF of that thing?
If anyone would be willing to do crap like a locked bootloader or making it wildly nonstandard, it's absolutely HP...
