To create the laptop, Engel-Hall and his teammates bought some HP laptops and Macbooks and harvested their guts.

FORBES: The Road To A Recyclable Laptop

Given the choice between a dull gray Dell or HP laptops out of corproate inventory, many employees opt to take their sleek personal PCs or MacBooks to work.

FORBES: Linking Personal Compute Devices To Corporate Systems -- Securely

Beats Audio is also available on all HP ENVY premium laptops as well as the HP Pavilion dv7 and HP TouchSmart 600.

ENGADGET: HP Wireless TV Connect streams 1080p video, hits Intel WiDi where it hurts

While it may pale in comparison to the slew of laptops that HP just dropped on us, Toshiba's batch of just-announced systems is certainly respectable enough, including a pair of new Tecras, some updated Satellites, and the desktop-replacin' Qosmio G45.

ENGADGET: Toshiba intros Tecra A9, M9, and Qosmio G45, updates Satellite P205, A205

We'd heard from a few readers that their Envy 14 Beats Edition laptops arrived sans headphones, and HP has confirmed for us that due to "supply constraints" the Dr. Dre Solo from Monster headphones are no longer included with the snazzy black and red laptop.

ENGADGET: HP Envy 14 Beats Edition no longer available with Dr. Dre endorsed headphones, results in price drop

Even though Quanta makes laptops for PC heavyweights like Dell, HP, and IBM, that doesn't necessarily mean that they'll want to implement Quanta's integration technology (to say nothing of the countless mobile device manufacturers that would have to get behind this).

ENGADGET: Quanta and MIT team up on seamless device integration

Don't look so surprised: it was all but confirmed by leaked training materials that webOS was coming to netbooks and HP has already announced its intention to bring desktops and laptops into the fold.

ENGADGET: Evidence of webOS netbook and keyboard-less phone pop up in developer logs

It is, of course, the week of the Consumer Electronics Show, where HP is showing a whole range of new personal computers, laptops, and other gear.

FORBES: The Latest HP Turmoil

Synaptics supplies touchpads for 55% of the world's laptops, serving all the big players--like Dell, HP and Acer.

FORBES: Touchy Touchy