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We found sound quality perfectly acceptable for a laptop of this size and when used as a tablet, the speakers resonate effectively under the screen.
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On the plus side, HP does provide a faux-leather carrying case in the box, a nice touch of class.Īs for audio, that's delivered by dual upward-firing Bang & Olufsen-branded speakers situated either side of the keyboard, which can be fine-tuned to your liking through the Bang & Olufsen Audio Control desktop app. It's no light laptop either at 2.01kg, meaning carrying it around can be a strenuous task. With its 15.6in size, the Spectre x360 measures 356 x 251 x 179mm. Copper accents glint out from the x360's "Dark Ash Silver" body, which is built entirely from aluminium. It's a 2-in-1 convertible laptop, which means the screen folds over rather than detaches, and it's lovely to look at. The HP Spectre x360 is designed to perfection.
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For context, the lower-power Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 lasted less long with a smaller screen - 7hrs 54mins to be precise.įor wireless connectivity, meanwhile, you've got an Intel 802.11ac 2x2 Wi-Fi antenna for blazing-fast speeds and Bluetooth 4.2 to connect up wireless speakers or headphones. That spec also means it supports a 3,840 x 2,160 native resolution without breaking a sweat, which, if you’ve never used a 4K screen before, makes an enormous difference to overall visual quality – more on that later.įor its size, we weren't expecting miraculous battery life, but the X360 still survived for 8hrs 13mins in the battery life benchmark - an excellent result for a laptop with a screen this large. It even comes with a discrete Nvidia GeForce 940MX GPU, and so will run most high-end video games if that’s a must. This results in an extremely quick boot and beautifully smooth experience, even with highly-demanding apps. It comes with a dual-core Kaby Lake Intel Core i7-7500U processor, clocked at 2.7GHz, as well as 8GB of RAM and a lightning-fast 512GB PCIe SSD. The Spectre x360 has some impressive internal hardware. HP Spectre x360 review: Performance and battery life The closest is probably the Dell XPS 15 at around 1,500, but this is a regular laptop and doesn't offer quite the same feature set as the HP Spectre x360. There's the Dell XPS 13 (2016) 1,450 and the 1,300 Lenovo Yoga 910, but neither of these come with discrete graphics.
We found a few laptops that compete with the HP but none that offer a similar combination of specifications. The cheapest model is the 1,200 13.3in variant with an Intel Core i5 processor and no discrete graphics card. You can buy it on Amazon and directly from HP's website. *Lenovo has recently introduced 13-inch Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Yoga model with a 4K OLED option.The model we are reviewing is the 15-bl000na, a 15.6in laptop with a 4K display, an Intel Core i7-7500U, a 512GB SSD, discrete Nvidia GeForce 940MX graphics and a price if 1,500.
Other upsides: very fast performance, lightweight (2.8 pounds), high-quality materials/finish, all-day battery life, and a good sound system (albeit not as good as the previous, larger 2018 model because some of the speakers have been moved to the bottom of the chassis in order to shrink the design). Summary: The new Spectre x360 13’s compact size is a remarkable feat of engineering. In addition to the optional 400-nit display 4K OLED display, the 2-in-1 Spectre x360 keeps the gem cut and dual chamfered angular corners of the previous design.Ī notable addition is Intel’s 10th Gen Core processors.
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But HP managed to fit a tiny Windows Hello face ID 2.2 mm IR camera into the top bezel for face ID, which Dell does not have (yet) on the XPS 13.
One conspicuous size reduction is on the thinner top bezel, roughly matching the Dell XPS 13 “borderless” design. Overall, one of the best laptops I have ever tested: HP redesigned (an already well-designed) 2018 Spectre x360 13 and shrunk it by 13 percent over the previous iteration of the Spectre x360 13. Samsung didn’t start to ship 13-inch OLED displays to customers like HP in commercial volumes until last year. A Spectre x360 with 512GB of storage and 16GB of memory goes for about $1,300 direct from HP. OLEDs have been slow to arrive on laptops despite being used for almost a decade on Samsung Galaxy phones and since 2017 on the iPhone.
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