Not only did Tam use her new peony theme on clothes, she also designed the exterior of an HP laptop.

H-P, which has long operated an environmental program, ramped up its efforts on PCs in 2005 after Mark Hurd took over as chief executive and asked, 'What more can we do?, ' Mr. Chahil says.

More recently, H-P in 2008 launched an EliteBook line of laptops that lets the user access email, calendars and contacts without having to power up the computer.