The BEST 2-in-1 Yet - HP Spectre x360
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,200 words · ~6 min read
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I never really understood why anyone would need a computer smaller thinner or
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lighter than a razor blade and then I I
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got a small procedure to ensure that I wouldn't have any more children and the
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doc was all like yo dog you can't lift
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anything for a bit so I was all like well hey how about this Spectre X 360
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2017 2 in1 from HP and then he was like
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okay that looks pretty light
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ones that I like manage to use premium materials and solid internal hardware
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and still feel like a compromise because
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at some point a designer figured that that extra millimeter or that cool
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looking hidden hinge was worth whatever we were sacrificing not the Spectre X360
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2017 I've rarely seen such a marriage of
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beautiful design and pragmatism the
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machined aluminum chassis is light enough to keep the entire device under 3
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lb and 14 mm thick but both the base and
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the display hold up shockingly well to my twist test with battery life coming
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in well over 4 hours in my usual PC Mark
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work test a very strong result and the
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core i7 7500u dual core could be cooled
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passively but instead we get ventilation intakes along the bottom and a side
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exhaust that stayed practically silent under light workloads while still
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allowing the processor to stretch its legs to 3.1 GHz under heavy
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multi-threaded loads since we're under the hood the rest of the hardware specs
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are what what are they exactly well mine
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has a 256 gig NVMe SSD 8 gigs of RAM
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onboard graphics and a 72% color gamut
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whatever that means 1080p multi-touch
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IPS display that I would describe as pretty good but the product page for
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this thing tries to be everything to everyone and just ends up being really
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confusing there's talk of optional 4K displays optional microedge displays
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dual or quad speakers why does the
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bigger model have only two speakers is that better and then in that case why is
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four speakers a a selling point that's even got a sales pitch for NVIDIA
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graphics cards with a blurb under it explaining that the 13.3 in is only
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available with Intel Iris plus onboard graphics and they manag to get all of
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that stuff on there without mentioning
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the outstanding mix of IO on the left is
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a typea USB 3 port a 3 1 12 mm combo
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Jack and a power button that's easy to reach in laptop tablet or anything in
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between mode and on the right we've got volume control in the Frack Thunderbolt
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3 how did two Thunderbolt 3 ports not
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make it into the marketing materials I had to confirm for myself by hooking up
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to a razor core that they are actually Thunderbolt 3 and not just fast charging
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type c ports with a confusing graphic on them and they are it worked completely
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seamlessly out of the box with the core and managed to handle an allight gaming
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stress test in Rise of the Tomb Raider
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flawlessly and there's more good news some may object to the thicker top and
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bottom bezels but this is that function
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merged with form thing again the top is
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thick because it rocks a decent 1080p webcam with wait for it IR emitters for
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and the antennas for the 2x two Wii that
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performs admirably and the bottom is to
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lift the display off the desk a little bit meaning less next strain and give a
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little more depth to the product for the bang and Olson speakers that are and you
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can quote me on this the best I've heard yet on a thin and light I'm not sure how
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they did it but they sound great the
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keyboard and trackpad are a couple of mixed bags for me though the feel of
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both is outstanding thanks to nice long travel distances with satisfying tactile
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feedback on the keys and the glass top for the trackpad but there are some
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design choices that I disagree with here the widescreen aspect ratio of the
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trackpad is great and both the tracking acceleration algorithm and palm
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rejection are topnotch but the click pad
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has a very inconsistent feel from the top to the bottom that's hard to forgive
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now that Apple Force touch exists as for
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the keyboard it's off center seemingly
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to make room for dedicated keys for functions that I prefer to have combined
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with function arrows anyway and this
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misalignment forces your shoulders or your neck out of what back which is kind
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of a bummer because aside from that and
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the couple of QC issues with my sample
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listen to this it's one of my favorite laptop
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keyboards to date so conclusion time then at the price this kind of build
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quality would have been Unthinkable a
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couple of years ago the Spectre X360 2017 proves that two and ones are all
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