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I think it COULD be a good idea. And that's a big could because they could end up turning out really good or they could be heading in a really wrong direction with how they are designing them and how much they cost.

Do they come with extra sharp edges so they can cut themselves while writing about how much their life sucks on their LJ's at the same time?

I hope they are going to get a top of the line team of teenagers... Not some *just became teenagers*, and then like screw it up and make them have mickey mouses on the case and stuff, and for the design used, raise the price from 900 dollars to like 2,499 dollars...


Or maybe they might change the design for the better so it will look really useful, maybe give it more of a clean design with extra features, that would be better. I hate how all those computers have a dumb card thing in the front so you can insert your digital camera or phone card. Why don't they put that somewhere more resourceful, maybe on the top of the case right by a new Windows side show device. and maybe a slide left to right cover so we don't have to look at all those small holes in your computer. I just don't like having that dumb card thing on the computer, very useful when you don't have a printer with a card thing in it, or some extra device connected that supports them but do something to make them look more clean. Maybe we can get rid of all those freaking pretend DVD drives that look like they slide DVDs in and out but just have this ugly cover on them and put real sliding drives in.

I think HP and some other brand computers got it confused a little, cover the cards thing and don't cover the DVD drives and instead put sweet slide drives in.

Hopefully they're picking some practical teenagers. Not the "Let's impress our friends!" ones, but the ones who have some sense of design and what a product actually needs. For example, laptops with big logos, etc. that look "cool" don't necessarily look good. And please, PLEASE put in a reasonable keyboard and trackpad! The current HP laptops are uncomfortable to put your hands on. Why did they decide to replace a smooth trackpad with a bunch of small dents?

My guess is that we'll end up with something Macbook-y out of this. My friends definitely like Macs more than regular laptops, mainly because they're beautifully designed compared to a majority of other laptops out there.

Don't ask why, but I don't see a desktop coming out of this. And I somehow doubt you can make a teen-friendly camera or printer.

This is ridiculous, I'm 16 and I would CATEGORICALLY NOT buy something which even had input from someone my age.

anyone see that special ARTIST edition laptop... it was god awful ugly, and if this is what the Teen Editions are going to be about... this is going to suck

Anything labeled as "teen" is almost always patronizing crap.

Most teenagers don't like thinking of themselves as "teens" and think teen spirit is a joke invented by adults.

The teens that do talk about themselves as teens are tools.

Lame.

Where's the division consisting of people who've been using pc's for longer than those kids have been alive? The same people who'd be able to actually afford the new designs?

I used to hide my pot stash in my old PC years ago when I smoked in high school... so I think there a potential market here if they do small things like integrated stash bins or quick release panels

this just in: the cases will be entirely black and will cut holes/mods in themselves.

what a joke.

This just in: HP buys the rights for the LOL Keyboard

Whats with everyone putting down teens? Sure some may be a pain in the ass, but there are in fact ones out there that are smart and dont do any of the things you said.

I find most of your posts above the same way you are calling teens. Immature..

Is it going to come preloaded with every file sharing spyware application om the market? I am sick to death of having to reload computers because teenagers destroy them in a day by downloading everything they shouldn't be. If HP wants to make a real teen computer take off IE and put on Firefox. That would at least be a start. Make sure that any program with the words Donkey, Mule, Kazaa, or Lime will not install while they are at it.

Another useless comment. Teens actually prefer firefox because it allows some proxies to by pass myspace at school. though most techs at school have blocked almost every single proxie on the net..

Do teenagers destroy computers? not all, Do you work at a school? please explain..

i'm not saying this is a great idea, not a bad one..... i'm just saying you guys should all watch your comments as your saying teens are all immature and stuff when your doing the same thing by making fun of them

I hope they actually chose 17-19 year olds. they grew up in the time where personal computers were new and schools started lessons in the computer lab to get kids familer with computers... 17-19 are ideal for this 16 and younger should work for them...

I work at an office and I support 100 people they bring me their home computers when they need help with them. I can tell you without a doubt that teenagers using file sharing software slow windows to the point that it is unuseable. If you run a spyware scan on the computer it finds a ridiculous amount of stuff. The only way to fix it is to do a system restore. I am not trying to hate on teens but more on the companies that make this software. They are the real problem.

This is going to turn into an excuse to make computers which feature cases you'll NEVER be able to fit a replacement mainboard into, because the design looks cooler.

I know I'm not a teenager anymore, but what I want is a really good out-of-the-box experience, which means:

* No 50 "free trial antimalware" programs. Instead, how abouyt a leaflet on best-practice computing?

* No 20 "ISP signup offers" (the first-time market is now small, so people have an ISP of choice).

* When I get it out of the box and plugged in, I want to be up and running in five minutes. I've seen machines which take like 20 minutes just to do the first boot "preparing your desktop" and loading all the OEM's "assistant" software. Aside from all the lovely "agree to a 90 page EULA" screens.

* Speaking from when I was a student, I wish they'd bring ribbon printers back. The all-or-nothing nature of inkjet print is a huge liability when it's the night before your term paper is due, and you run out. A dot-matrix ribbon, you can always get 5 more pages out of it in an emergency. They'll hate the lack of people HAVING to immediately buy new cartridges, but they can go to hell in this regard.

* Give us some open-source goodies to stock your bundles. Nobody wants Microsoft Works or WordPerfect Suite, but we'd gladly accept OpenOffice. And who exactly are we capitulating to by not bundling the GIMP?

* On a similar vein, can we make sure the legitimate 'mandatory' stuff is installed? Things like the Flash plugin and a PDF reader? I'd also love to see somehow they ticked all the "don't tell me how a secure page works again" boxes.

I wouldn't ever buy this unless it was REALLY cool, but then I'm not an HP fan.

I can see their new TV ads - "Dude, you're gettin' a Hewlett Packard!" I don't know, it just doesn't have the same ring...

whats that i hear from a distance ? .....F....A....I.....L... !!

I think it's a good idea, but will equal a phail.

The problem with people today is they judge teens as no good,dont know anything. whitch may be true for 13-16 year olds. or what the old people call them "punks" My son is almost 18 and hes quite mature. Voted Senior class president, is on the schools leadership team so not all teens are bad........

Well the tag of "designed for teens" is what makes this comedic.

I hope it inst stupid changes - like "laptop with denim exterior" or "audible myspace/facebook alerts" that someone updated

You do know they wont be working alone. HP will the their boss and teens will work with HP...

Keep in mind older teens (16-18+) grew up in the 90s when elementary schools first started to use computers for lessons to get the kids familer with the new world. Now its their turn to take the kids of tomorow and give them the help they got in the 90s.