![]() "Wow." That's all I could muster when the Spectre x360's top-firing speakers blasted audio loud enough to fill a large conference room. The Spectre x360's 4.7 x 2.3-inch touchpad responded quickly to my swipes, and I appreciated how much real estate my fingers had to execute gestures, like swiping with three fingers to change windows or pinch-to-zoom. Both of those scores are a point above my typical 119-wpm, 95-percent speed and accuracy rates. My fingers blazed through the typing test, reaching 120 words per minute with an accuracy rate of 96 percent. HP did it again, fitting a super-comfortable keyboard onto a razor-thin chassis. Getting back to this beauty's design, even the large, simple font HP used on the keys looks sophisticated. Yes, that's a bit short of our 1.5-mm preference, but the keys still feel punchy and provide excellent tactile feedback, perhaps because of their ideal 70 grams of actuation force.īetter yet, the keys are large, well-spaced and offer two backlit brightness levels, the highest of which is quite luminous. With 1.4 millimeters of travel, the Spectre x360's chiclet-style keyboard depresses deeper than most of its ultrabook competitors. I had no problem using the Spectre x360's touch screen to navigate the web or draw pictures in Paint 3D with my fingers or the included Active Pen. MORE: Help Me, Tom's Guide: Can I Use a TV as a Monitor? Then again, the Yoga C930 (273 nits) and Gram 14 2-in-1 (253 nits) also fell short in this area. While the panel is far from dim, at 287 nits, it doesn't get as bright as the category average (329 nits) or competing laptops like the MateBook 13 (318 nits). In contrast with the Spectre x360's vivid display, its peak brightness is somewhat of a letdown. The display on the average premium laptop (118 percent) also isn't as vibrant. That makes the display more colorful than those on the Gram 14 2-in-1 (128 percent), Yoga C930 (100 percent) and MateBook 13 (122 percent). The panel's punchy colors reflect the Spectre x360's ability to cover 150 percent of the sRGB color gamut. A Thunderbolt 3 charging port on the right side offers blazing-fast transfer speeds and the ability to connect to multiple 4K monitors or an external GPU. The Spectre x360 doesn't have many ports, but those it does have are functional and futureproof. Anyway, I was far too busy gawking at this thing's contoured edges to care about tenths of an inch. #Hp spectre x360 charger portableIt's still a very portable machine and the extra height allows for a USB Type-A port and improvements to battery life (more on that later). I applaud HP for going a bit thicker with this year's model. MORE: 10 Biggest Gadget Design Fails - Worst Gadget Designs In comparison, the LG Gram 14 2-in-1 (12.8 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches, 2.5 pounds) is thicker yet lighter than the Spectre, while the Lenovo Yoga C930 (12.6 x 8.9 x 0.6 inches, 3.1 pounds) and Huawei MateBook 13 (11.3 x 8.3 x 0.6 inches, 2.9 pounds) are heavier but just as thin. The Spectre x360 is a very portable device, at just 12.2 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches and 2.8 pounds. Now you'll need to tap your way into the volume settings when using the machine in tablet mode, instead of adjusting audio via a physical button. Also, instead of improving the stiff volume rocker on last year's model, HP did away with it altogether. But for all of my praise, I can't ignore the Spectre x360's chunky top and bottom bezels, especially since nearly all of its competitors now have edge-to-edge displays. ![]()
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