![]() In addition to a legacy USB-A port, you get two USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10Gbps) Type-C’s (including the nice angled one). The port selection consists of a full-sized HDMI port, power adapter port, and audio headset jack on the left. In addition to the integrated Intel UHD 620 graphics for mainstream use, there’s a discrete Nvidia GeForce MX150 for light gaming, CAD and the like. On the other end of the spectrum is a 256GB SSD sans Optane, for which you’ll pay $290 less. The left side of the HP Spectre x360 15 (shown on a unit colored Poseidon Blue/Pale Brass) includes ports for (left to right) AC, HDMI, and audio.Īt the heart of our Spectre x360 15t touch is an Intel i7-8565U CPU fed by 16GB of DDR4-2400 DRAM. Our test unit arrived with the top-of-the-line 1TB combo Optane/NAND SSD storage option. You can also fold it into an upright tent position, or anything in between. That might seem like a daunting size for something hand-held, but if you nestle it up under your arm clipboard-style, it’s actually quite doable for short periods of time. In that orientation, it’s essentially a large tablet-a very large and heavy tablet, measuring 14.22 x 9.84 x 0.76 inches, and weighing in at right around 4.8 pounds. ![]() However, when removing the power cable, guess where I placed my forefinger for leverage? Yup.Īs the name indicates, the Spectre x360 is a convertible, with a display that rotates a full, yes, 360 degrees. Similarly, HP told me the power button was placed in the corner to avoid incidental contact. They’re easy to get to without being obvious, and it’s very convenient to have the USB cable extending at an angle that tends to keep whatever’s attached to it out of harm’s way. My favorite minor embellishment is the placement of the power button and USB port on the mitred back corners of the keyboard deck. Note the mitered back corner with a Type-C USB 3.1 Gen 2/Thunderbolt port. The alternative to the Dark Ash Silver and Copper Luxe that I like so much is the equally classy Poseidon Blue and Pale Brass. The white point (the point in the color matrix where white should occur) is very close to perfect. HP claims this laptop’s display achieves 100 percent of DCI P3 color space, which simply means it can reproduce a lot of different colors-far more than most displays. The color is quite accurate as well, better than I’ve seen on consumer OLED TVs, because it’s a real three sub-pixel (red, green, and blue) RGB display rather than the WRGB (white, red, green, and blue sub-pixels) found in the former. Also, real black gives you a sense of lushness that you don’t get with the dark grays of LCD.Īll that’s just a fancy lead-in to telling you that the 500 or so nits’ peak brightness that this display can generate is plenty for normal conditions and even bright environments, such as the great outdoors. What’s the thing with black? When you start from that zero brightness, you don’t need as many nits to create high contrast (the difference between the lightest and darkest points). Under most working circumstances, on a PC, the backlight will remain lit. LCD’s, on the other hand, are imperfect shutters that leak light when they’re off, unless you turn off the backlight. As self-emitters, OLED pixels emit no light when they’re shut off, hence the nice black. The thing about OLED, or AMOLED (the same thing-AM stands for Active Matrix, which is simply the way the pixels are wired), is its near-perfect black. We had to try the AMOLED version of the Spectre x360 15 (we’ve already tested a 2019 non-OLED version), because it offers a still-rare visual experience on a laptop.
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