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when i first heard hp was making a laptop wrapped in leather

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i knew we had to get one if for no reason other than to poke fun of people

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with more money than brains but once i found out about its heaps of

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battery life gigabit lte connectivity and

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super interesting hinge design

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i started to come around to the notion that the spectre folio might be more

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than just a pretty face we could be looking at right now

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there are two things you're going to after you figure out the stupid pending

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there are two things you're going to immediately notice about the spectre

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folio first that it's covered in leather and

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second the leather smells really good

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it's actually kind of amazing how much a scent can change

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our perceptions like pulling this machine out of your bag there's like

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this this feeling of uh for me anyway of

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like readiness like the the closest analogs that i have are pulling on my

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riding gloves and kind of stretching them out a little bit

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or cinching up a horse saddle ready to

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mount like it's just it's kind of crazy and it also feels

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great to hold with its nicely rounded spine it just feels

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professional but once opened up my feelings about the

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spectre folio do get a touch more complicated

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so the way that the leather wraps around the screen creates this kind of weird

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looking double bezel i i

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really wish they could have had the leather end right at the edge of the

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display and overall i think given another generation they can probably

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improve the way that the metal components transition to the leather

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ones and then there's this pen holder

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frankly speaking it's stupid like could they not figure

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out any better way to secure this to the

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side of the display honestly i would rather they had just done nothing i'd

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rather they say wear a shirt with a pocket in the front and put it there

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because other than that the overall feel of the machine

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is very solid there's virtually no flex

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to this thing and i trust hp when they say that the leather is not going to

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wear quickly like this is really nice it's the same kind of stuff you might

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find in say a mercedes now io is pretty

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bare bones-ish but overall the three usb-c ports two of which are Thunderbolt

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3 all of which can be used for charging give you a lot of flexibility to connect

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other devices to the folio provided you're willing to carry a dongle or two

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and a headphone jack is thankfully present

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now the display comes in both 1080p and 4k varieties ours rocks the 1080p one

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and given the screen size i really don't see any need to go higher than that and

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thankfully hp has provided the option to

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have touchscreen on either resolution

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good work you guys a problem with the display though is

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that it feels like there is a lot of wasted vertical real estate here like

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going from a surface laptop or a 2018 macbook air to the folio is gonna be

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jarring and it's made that much worse by this massive chin bar hanging out here

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that would in a perfect world just be more display for a 16 by 10 aspect ratio

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it is nice to see a fairly good webcam implementation though and the inclusion

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of Windows hello facial recognition is a huge plus overall the display still gets

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an a for its excellent brightness colors and touch support which goes well of

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course with the convertible nature of the spectre folio this is quite

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possibly its strongest point like this is a really smart two-in-one laptop

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design it's got these nice strong magnets so you can still operate it like

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a normal laptop but put a little bit of pressure like this and

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boom moving from one mode to the other is very simple and the ever so slight

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incline when it's in tablet mode allows the included pen to be used very

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comfortably again though i really hate the way it secures to the device but

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the writing experience is solid comparable to that of the surface pro

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even if it doesn't quite keep up with the near instantaneous responsiveness of

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the ipad pro now you do carry around

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more bulk than the surface pro but

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i mean i think that's a trade-off a lot of people would be willing to make for

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the ability to use the folio on their lap without it kind of falling off and

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it's really nice that unlike some two-in-ones the keyboard is not going to

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end up getting scratched up in tablet mode so it just looks kind of ratty and

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gross after a short while the speakers are pretty good with

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excellent clarity making them great for hearing dialogue like NVIDIA calls

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obviously very business oriented products but as you might expect they do

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lack bass and their grill takes up a lot

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of space at the top of the notebook that i just i really wish could have been

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used to move up the keyboard and make space for a bigger trackpad

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look at this poor thing actually we should talk about the

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keyboard first um here's what i can say about that that's positive

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if you finger pack or you type pretty heavily you might actually really like

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it the travel and the tactile feedback are both solid

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but for both me and alex and we do often

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disagree about these things the stiffness of the key switches and

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some noticeable inconsistency in their key stabilization made it really

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difficult to get into a groove and maintain our top typing speeds that's a

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shame now the experience will be better if you have smaller hands since your

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palms will sit on this delightful leather palm rest instead of on the edge

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of the device but when you compare it to the comfort of the surface laptop and

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the macbook air it just doesn't quite hold up and then coming back to the

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track pad well it's also kind of meh there's slightly

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more force required to click it than i'd like and this completely rules out

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alex's thumb padding technique while he's typing and it's out of the box

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acceleration curve is weird at best it kind of seems like they're compensating

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for something you know what i'm talking about no like literally it seems like they're

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compensating for the small size of the touchpad to make sure you can actually

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get all the way across the screen overall it gets i don't know c plus so

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that was the pretty bad stuff but there are more good things lte support

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means that you can be productive from basically anywhere like it baffles me

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that features that we take for granted on couple hundred dollar smartphones

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like sim slots and decent cameras have

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taken so long to take off in ultrabooks

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maybe this is changing though so a device like this along with cheaper data

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will make it so that you don't have to worry about things like airport hotel or

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coffee shop wi-fi and all the security concerns that go along with them and

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this feature is perfectly complemented by the spectre folio's incredible

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battery life the shocking

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54.3 watt hour battery in this thing

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complemented by a low power processor and one watt display means that you can

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expect lg ground levels of freedom with the folio even if it is a touch heavier

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and the low power processor brings other benefits the spectre folio is completely

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passively cooled and comes with a built-in coffee break feature that is to

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say that in short tasks the dual core core i7 is pretty snappy but if you ask

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this thing to do anything even remotely resembling heavy lifting like even just

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installing a program you might find that you've got a minute to run over to the

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break room and see if anyone brought in snacks today okay yeah i was being

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facetious there that's not really a feature um and honestly this was kind of

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a confusing thing about this device to me because

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on hp's reviewer's guide the number one

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pain point that hp identified for millennials was performance

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but then that's where they ended up making the spectorfolio's biggest

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sacrifice well i mean other than the cow that they slaughtered in order to

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manufacture it the dual core processor makes it

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noticeably slower while performing tasks like basic video editing working on

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small cad files and doing more serious photo work and this wouldn't be a

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problem except that basically every other ultrabook on the market

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with the notable exception of the macbook air has twice the core count at

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least as an available option and with the spectre folio coming in at about the

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same price as the surface laptop that

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makes it tough to recommend it gets some things really right like

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the hinge design the battery life and mobile internet and it really does feel

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good but it gets enough things wrong but i

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find myself intrigued to see where they'll go with the next one

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rather than ready to pull the trigger today

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