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It’s not quite as good as the Microsoft Surface Pro 6’s Surface Pen, and if you want tilt sensitivity you’ll need to spend $80 extra and upgrade to the HP Tilt Pen. I like the XPS 13’s touchpad a lot better.įinally, there’s an active HP Pen in the box, and it works fine thanks to 4,096 (interpolated from 1,024) levels of pressure sensitivity.

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But while most Windows 10 multitouch gestures work fine, the three-finger swipe to move between apps is unreliable.

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The Synaptics drivers aren’t terrible, mind you, and the wide-format touchpad is large enough. The touchpad, on the other hand, remains hobbled by HP’s stubborn refusal to adopt Microsoft’s Precision drivers.

In an improvement over the previous generation, the backlighting now enjoys two brightness levels rather than just on and off.

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It has more travel than the Yoga C930, the Gram 14, and the XPS 13, and it lets me type accurately at full speed. That hasn’t changed, meaning it’s just as snappy and precise as always without requiring too much pressure. In fact, it’s one of my most important factors when evaluating a machine, and the Spectre x360 has always been one of my favorites. An excellent keyboard struggles with a stubborn touchpadĪ laptop’s keyboard matters if you spend hours typing thousands of words. An Intel gigabit LTE radio for always-connected internet is an option. That’s augmented by an Intel Wireless-AC chip providing 2X2 MU-MIMO 802.11ac Wi-Fi along with Bluetooth 5.0. There are still two USB-C ports with full-speed 40 Gb/s Thunderbolt 3 support, a USB-A 3.1 port, and a microSD card reader.

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Note that it also turns off the infrared camera, so you’ll want to make sure you’ve logged a fingerprint if you want to avoid entering your password or PIN while the cameras are shut off.Ĭonnectivity is the one thing that hasn’t changed from the previous model. When flipped, the switch kills the webcam electronically and makes it disappear from the system completely. Rather than enable physical security as with Lenovo’s ThinkPad’s ThinkShutter switch and the Huawei Matebook 14’s pop-up webcam, the Spectre x360 has a switch on the side. HP has joined the trend to keep the laptop’s video secure from hackers. Now, though, the latter has been moved from the side to the keyboard deck, where it’s easier to find and use. You’ll still find two ways to login via Windows 10 Hello, an infrared camera for facial recognition and a fingerprint scanner. And while you can bend the lid a bit if you try hard enough, there’s no flex in the keyboard deck or chassis bottom, ranking it close to the tank-like Yoga C930 in rigidity.Īs if that wasn’t enough, HP has also improved the Spectre x360’s security features. HP seems to think you’ll want something to hold onto in portrait tablet mode, and they’re not wrong. Of course, this is a 2-in-1, so while its side bezels are relatively thin, the top and bottom bezels can’t compare to the ones on more diminutive clamshell laptops like the Dell XPS 13. The Spectre x360 remains light enough at 2.92 pounds compared to the Lenovo at 3.0 pounds and the Gram 14 at a featherweight 2.5 pounds. Both of those 2-in-1s sport 14-inch displays, but they’re nevertheless the best comparisons. The laptop is now 0.57 inches thick, compared to the Yoga C930 at an identical 0.57 inches and the LG Gram 14 at 0.70 inches. The new Spectre x360 is nicknamed the “gem-cut” model, and for a good reason.Īnother functional change is that HP made the Spectre x360 0.9mm thicker, which isn’t enough to notice but allows for better thermal performance. There’s nothing else like it and other 2-in-1s, such as the LG Gram 14 and the Lenovo Yoga C930, look downright boring with their simplistic designs and muted colors. I love the look, though I recognize that some people might consider it a bit much. Even the speaker grills have an angular pattern. The edges of the lid, the chassis sides, the border around the keyboard deck, the chassis bottom – they’re all angled, in much the same way as a precious stone. Every facet has been shaped to reflect light from as many angles as possible. HP has nicknamed this Spectre x360 the “gem-cut” model, and that’s for a good reason. Did they manage to make something great even better, or did they kill the magic? An exotic design that’s built well and turns heads This new model makes major changes to my favorite 2-in-1, and HP is asking a premium for it. The configuration retails for $1,350 at Best Buy(on sale right now for $1,150) but you can spend as much as $2,240 at HP.com if you max out the components with 16GB of RAM, a 2TB SSD, and an LTE modem. HP sent me a review unit with a Whiskey Lake 8 th-generation Intel Core i7-8565U CPU, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB solid-state drive (SSD).