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Samsung got a $1.05 Billion fine for copying Apple.
Then, HP comes out with this:

This looks like a pretty flagerant copy - perhaps HP would have been better off just abandoning the PC market when they made that announcement several months ago. HP can't afford a $1 Billion dollar judgement.

I don't know about the legal/design stuff, but I know that if people want to buy an iMac, they are going to buy an iMac, not an HP trying to look like an iMac.

That design reeks of either HP thinking they can fool some people into buying an HP, or not understanding what HP customers are after. If it's the first, people should be upset that HP thinks their that gullible. If it's the latter, stockholders should be upset.

HP and the other companies should take a page from Apple's design book though, not on the actual styling, but on the options and number of models. When there are a half a dozen variations of a model named "HP HP138-1365txyz" it doesn't really help customers. When you select a tower and then are presented with 12 different CPU options, most of which are like 0.10GHz or 0.20GHz apart or something, it doesn't help customers and it increases the complexity of your supply chain.