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 has quietly listed the EliteBoard G2a keyboard PC in the US and UK, from $3,028 to $4,191 for the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 450 model with a 32Wh battery The underlying AMD Gorgon Point refresh adds just 100MHz over the G1a's Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350, with identical cores, cache, Radeon 860M graphics, and a 50 TOPS NPU Entry-level pricing has roughly doubled since the G1a's $1,499 debut as DRAM costs soar and HP's PC shipments fall 30.9% year over year HP has slipped a second-generation keyboard PC onto its web store with remarkably little fanfare.

The EliteBoard G2a appeared on HP's US and UK sites around nine months after the EliteBoard G1a's CES 2026 unveiling , and we couldn't find a press release to go with it.

The top configuration, listed as the E6FY3UA SKU , pairs AMD's Ryzen AI 7 PRO 450 with 32GB of DDR5-5600, a 512GB SSD, a 32Wh battery, and a detachable USB-C cable, and costs $4,191 before discounts, or $4,167 with the cable attached.

A hard-to-resist Commodore comparison for an EliteBoard G1A with slightly better silicon A Commodore comparison is hard to resist when it comes to the EliteBoard G2a.

The C64 also made its debut at CES in Las Vegas in January 1982, packed a whole computer under its keys, and borrowed someone else's screen, usually the family TV.

It went on sale that August for $595, roughly $2,000 in today's money, and the Computer History Museum still ranks it as the best-selling computer model of all time.

HP's flagship G2a costs about seven times the C64's launch price, around double its inflation-adjusted price, and carries roughly half a million times its 64KB of RAM and, somewhat unimpressively, on a single stick.

The G2a is essentially the G1a, which TechRadar Pro recently covered, but with one small caveat: it has a slightly faster APU under the hood.

The underlying chip is AMD's Gorgon Point silicon, part of the Ryzen AI 400 family AMD launched at CES , and it's a mild upgrade over the G1a's configuration, coming with only a 100 MHz boost.

The chip also supports faster LPDDR5X-8533 memory, but that's moot here, since the EliteBoard uses DDR5-5600 SO-DIMMs in a single-channel configuration.

The keyboard-cum computer also carries over the same fatal memory limitations that the G1a has: a single 32GB SO-DIMM memory stick that limits bandwidth by running in single-channel mode.

This would affect on-device AI performance and general compute needs, as the APU's iGPU and NPU use the same memory for localized models.