The abovementioned stylus, the HP Active Pen, is a two-button, AAAA-batteried unit that showed good palm rejection and kept up with my scribbling and sketching on screen with only one or two missed strokes. It's one of a slew of house-brand utilities for everything from a Windows 10 tutorial to assigning functions to the stylus buttons, accompanied by more software ranging from McAfee and Dropbox trials to Windows' Candy Crush Friends Saga and Royal Revolt 2: Tower Defense. Preinstalled HP Audio Control software offers music, movie, and voice presets and an equalizer. Its Bang & Olufsen speakers aren't raucously loud but can fill a room with clear tones, distinguishable mixed tracks, and even a bit of bass without being tinny or distorted. The extra-wide touchpad glides and taps smoothly, though it clicks with a hollow feel. Unfortunately, it also offers HP's trademark placement of the cursor arrow keys in a row, with half-size up and down arrows squeezed between full-size left and right, instead of the proper inverted T.Īfter a few minutes' practice, you'll enjoy a comfortable typing feel, with adequate travel and firm feedback as the keys hit home. The keyboard offers handsome, thin lettering two levels of backlighting a numeric keypad and dedicated Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down keys. You can use either its face-recognition ability or the fingerprint reader in the palm rest to sign into Windows Hello. The webcam captures bright and sharp if slightly noisy images at 1080p rather than the lowest-common-denominator 720p resolution. A tiny sliding switch on the system's right edge disables the webcam if you're worried about snoopy spies. You'll also find the power connector, an HDMI port, and an audio jack on the left side a microSD card slot, a USB 3.1 Type-A port, and a second Thunderbolt 3 port are on the right. The diagonally cut left and right rear corners hold the power button and a Thunderbolt 3 port respectively. The chassis is made of fingerprint-prone machined aluminum with almost no flex if you grasp the screen corners or pound the keyboard. The XPS 15 2-in-1 is trimmer at 4.4 pounds, while the Yoga C930 is much easier to carry at 3.1 pounds. It measures 0.76 by 14.2 by 9.8 inches, about the same as the Dell Inspi2-in-1 (0.74 by 14.2 by 9.5 inches), and is minutely heavier at 4.7 pounds. It combines 16GB of RAM with a 1TB solid-state drive and the same 4K (3,840-by-2,160-pixel) touch screen as its sibling.Įither way, the Spectre is one of the five or six best-looking laptops you can buy, a sleek slab with wedge-y, edgy sides and corners, available in Poseidon Blue with Pale Brass accents (contrasting trim and hinges, pictured here) or Dark Ash Silver with Copper Luxe accents. The $2,049.99 version seen here and sold on HP.com raises the ante considerably with a six-core, 2.2GHz Core i7-8750H processor and the Max-Q version of Nvidia's 4GB GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Dell XPS 15 (9570) Review The $1,599 model sold at Best Buy is much like our May 2018 review unit, with a quad-core Core i7 CPU, relatively modest Nvidia GeForce MX150 graphics, 16GB of memory, and a 512GB solid-state drive. While several configurations of the Spectre x360 15 are available, HP chiefly promotes just two. It easily replaces the Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 as my favorite plus-size hybrid-even if the lighter, 13.9-inch Lenovo Yoga C930 remains our Editors' Choice. As of now, that's the HP Spectre x360 15 (starts at $1,599 $2,049.99 as tested), a stylish six-core, 4K-screened beast with superb battery life. But if you're shopping for a desktop replacement that can occasionally fold and stand for a presentation, you might as well get the most powerful desktop replacement you can. I've written more than once in these pages that I'm not wild about 15.6-inch convertible laptops, finding them too heavy for comfortable use in tablet mode. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages.
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