Oops, HP just used a screenshot of MacOS in an ad for its laptops

What’s your perfect laptop? Is it a sleek and light ultra-portable? Or a powerful gaming machine for games on the go? Well, according to HP, the perfect laptop is a HP device running… MacOS?

At least, that’s the case judging from HP’s latest ad on Reddit. Spotted by eagle-eyed Twitter user @aaronp613, HP had seemingly been advertising their laptops but for some odd reason, the image of the laptop they used has a browser with Gmail on it, complete with the MacOS interface too such as the Menu Bar. The ad comes in the form of a post from the HP Store Reddit account, and has been ‘promoted’ to appear on the Reddit feeds of users.

It also comes with the following caption:

“For the digital nomads and work from anywhere-but-home types (yeah, we see you), HP has perfect laptops for wherever you’re working from. Check ’em out.”

Of course, it should be noted that HP obviously doesn’t sell laptops with MacOS pre-loaded on them, but rather Windows. It appears that whoever did the photoshop job for HP’s Reddit ad might’ve been using a MacBook to do so, and inadvertently used a screenshot of their device rather than a more appropriate Windows one.

Pretty much the only way to legally get a device running MacOS these days is to just get a computer from Apple, but back in the 1990s, Apple did lease out MacOS 7 to other third party vendors for a short while. There are also plenty of people online dedicated to installing MacOS onto their own hardware, known as Hackintosh PCs. However, with Apple having switched to Apple Silicon, Hackintosh machines have since been on a steady decline.