HP The Spectre x360 Laptop

HP has just taken the wraps off of its latest notebook, the HP Spectre x360, and it's a dozy. 2015 has been a good year for laptops. Even though they are one of the largest PC makers on the planet, is slowly reinventing itself. Seen their Stream laptops and tablets already, which are a great take on the low end of the and now HP has a new offering to go after the premium laptop market. The HP Spectre x360 delivers a high-end, flexible Windows laptop design at a mainstream price with a battery that runs all day. The Spectre x360 is a 13.3 inch laptop, with a CNC aluminum chassis. Details following below.......

HP Spectre x360 Laptop

HP Spectre x360 Laptop

Specification of HP The Spectre x360

The HP Spectre x360 13t touch, the latest in HP's line of Yoga-like systems, fills the gap between the company's previous 11 and 15-inch systems designed to flip from notebook to state and everything in between. This all aluminum ultra portable also has a bright display, extra-wide touch pad and excellent battery life. The HP Spectre x360 has an aluminum body that's 15.9mm thick and weights 3.3 pounds. It has a simple, silver-gray style that probably won't draw too many glances.

Design of HP The Spectre x360

The design is pretty inoffensive, with few flashy bits to loudly announce how different it is from a MacBook Air. It’s all-silver, to show off that all-metal style. Is portability and weight. At 1.49kg the HP Spectre x360 is extremely light, but has the feeling of hard density that we like to get in an Ultra book. HP also opted not to adopt an IGZO panel for its QHD panel version.

HP Spectre x360 Laptop

HP believes Panel Self Refresh (PSR) technology equalizes any power advantages IGZO offers for high-resolution displays. HP again reaches for the Synaptics’ wide track pad that appeared in the previous Spectre 13. HP said it also spent an inordinate amount of time making sure it got the keyboard just right. Using it throughout my hands-on, I have to agree. The keys aren’t too cramped like they are on the XPS13 2015, and travel is rated at 1.5mm. It’s a pleasant keyboard for a thin laptop.

Display of HP The Spectre x360

Notebook mode is fairly basic, but the hinges allow the lid and display to be opened further, to lay flat, fold around into Display or Tent mode, and finally fold back flat into tablet mode. A full HD display (1,920-by-1,080 pixels) offers good picture quality, and HP uses optical bonding—bonding the display panel directly to the glass—to offer better clarity and minimize light loss.

HP Spectre x360 Laptop

Keyboard of HP The Spectre x360

In all, typing on the x360 was a pleasurable experience. The x360's keys have 1.34mm of travel and require 62 grams of force to press; both numbers are typical of most notebooks (1.32mm/57 grams). While the keys were slightly mushier than I'd prefer, it didn't affect my typing speed by much. On the 10fastfingers typing test, I averaged 59 words per minute with 92 percent accuracy, nearly on a par with my desktop average of 60 wpm with 97 percent accuracy.

HP Spectre x360 Laptop

Battery of HP The Spectre x360

Thanks to thoughtful engineering, built the Spectre x360 using fewer parts, which allowed to create a strong and light convertible PC with thin and powerful polymer battery. Up to 12.5 hours of battery life lets you get back to doing the things you love without being chained to an outlet. That's about 2 hours longer than the category average (7:27) and touch-screen version of the XPS 13 (7:24) and an hour longer than the Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro. The non touch Dell XPS 13 (11:42) and the MacBook Air (12:20) both endured considerably longer, but not having a touch screen increases battery life.

Configuration and Price of HP The Spectre x360

The prices are quite competitive as well, with a starting price of just $900 for the Core i5 model with 4 GB of memory, a 128 GB SSD, and the Full HD touchscreen. To bump up in performance, HP will also be offering a model with a Core i7, 8 GB of memory, and a 256 GB SSD with the Full HD display for $1150, and the top end model will have the Core i7, 8 GB of memory, 512 GB SSD, and the Quad HD touchscreen for $1400.