The Commodore C64's spiritual godson surfaces on HP's online store — EliteBoard G2a brings 'Gorgon Point' Ryzen AI 7 Pro APUs to a novel form factor with a battery and an eye-watering $4,200 price tag
HP's EliteBoard G2a keyboard computer costs up to $4,191 and still ships with 32 GB of RAM on a single stick.
HP has quietly introduced the EliteBoard G2a keyboard PC to its online store, priced between $3,028 and $4,191 for the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 450 model with a 32Wh battery. The device utilizes AMD's Gorgon Point refresh, which offers only a 100MHz increase from the G1a's Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350, maintaining the same core count, cache, Radeon 860M graphics, and 50 TOPS NPU.
Since the G1a's debut at $1,499, entry-level pricing has doubled due to rising DRAM costs and HP's 30.9% year-over-year decline in PC shipments. The top configuration, SKU E6FY3UA, includes AMD's Ryzen AI 7 PRO 450, 32GB of DDR5-5600, a 512GB SSD, a 32Wh battery, and a detachable USB-C cable, totaling $4,191 before discounts or $4,167 with the cable included.
The EliteBoard G2a draws a nostalgic comparison to the Commodore C64, which debuted at CES in 1982, complete with a keyboard form factor and an attached screen, and became the best-selling computer model of all time with a launch price of $595. The G2a's price, roughly seven times the C64's launch cost and double the inflation-adjusted price, carries only half a million times its 64KB of RAM, distributed across a single DDR5-5600 SO-DIMM stick.
Despite its limitations, HP highlights the G2a's novelty as the first AI PC residing within a keyboard, a claim undercut by the lack of enterprise-grade specifications required for the designation.
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