It’s not every press conference that begins with someone handing you a barf bag. Yet that’s just what happened when HP sent a team of tech journalists on a Zero G weightless flight to promote its new Dragonfly laptop.
The reason we were being sent up in the so-called Vomit Comet was because HP’s new laptop is being marketed with the tagline “Lighter than air,” which its lawyers would likely point out is not the same as lighter than Air. The new Dragonfly is a super-powered laptop that weighs less than 1 kg (that sounds better than 2.2 lbs). It’s built for the road warrior, but even lifelong Apple devotees will not be immune to its charms.
The thing is that as much fun as the Zero G flight was (it was fun, even if it took all day, four cups of ginger tea, and two tubes of Pringles to stop feeling queasy), the laptop kind of sells itself without the need to send tech journalists hurtling through space to prove it. Still, it’s what an aspiring journalist dreams of—battling barfiness while being pitched a laptop.
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