Porsche Design Book One

Porsche Design has released a laptop that rotates 360 degrees and is rivaling the Macbook Surface Book. A laptop from Porsche may sound unusual, but the Porsche Design brand has steadily become integrated into the premium device market, and they unveiled their latest initiative just this week at the Mobile Congress in Barcelona.

'The Porsche Design Book One embodies the DNA of our brand down to the tiniest detail and, as our first 2-in-1 unit, it has expanded our product portfolio by adding a new category: Porsche Design Computing,' said Jan Becker, CEO of the Porsche Design Group.

It’s worth noting the notebook’s hardware was finely done by Quanta, Intel, and Microsoft, the companies also responsible for helping develop and manufacture Amazon’s popular Fire tablets.

Porsche Design’s Book One boasts polished aluminum housing with a flawless anodized outer appearance. The Porsche Design logo below the screen is surely distinctive, yet it’s tastefully understated enough to still be aesthetic. The laptop comes with a hinge design, similar to Porsche’s approach in crafting a sports car’s transmission, allowing the laptop to rotate 360 degrees while still unhinged. The Book One’s hinge also allows the display to close onto the keyboard with any gap. There are even small rubber stoppers to the hinge so that you won’t scratch the laptop in the various modes it flips to. The hinge is sturdy even when the tablet is locked into place.

Inside, the Book One is an absolute power beast, featuring some of the newest and most powerful hardware around today. This includes Intel’s latest Core i7-7500U processor, 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. This is all powered by a Li-Polymer battery that should provide up to 14 hours normal battery use, and can be fully charged in a mere two hours!

The Book One runs on Windows 10 Pro, so you can easily integrate all of your favorite programs and services and sign in to the device using Windows hello and the front-facing 5MP camera. There’s also two USB-C ports and two USB 3.0 ports.

This device will be launched in the United States this April with a price of $2,495.