![]() Microsoft Surface Pro 4 (2.4GHz Core i5-6300U, Intel HD 520) HP Spectre x2 (1.2GHz Core M7-6Y75, Intel HD 515) Toshiba Radius 12 (2.5GHz Intel Core i7-6500U, Intel HD 520) Razer Blade Stealth (2.5GHz Intel Core i7-6500U, Intel HD 520) But your eyestrain will be kept to a minimum, and, if you're like me, you'll enjoy the extra screen real estate when you're working in a spreadsheet or jumping among a dozen browser tabs. Is it the sharpest, most color-accurate laptop screen money can buy? Hardly. Setting aside the fact that 1080p is actually gentle on my not-so-good eyes, the colors are pleasant and the IPS panel allowed for wide enough viewing angles that I could spend hours working next to a window on a sunny day. (I believe it is.) The real shame there is that I would have liked to know how the battery fares when forced to light up those extra pixels, though I can at least attest to the machine having good runtime at 1080p (more on that later).Įven with that lower resolution, I still enjoyed looking at the display. Unfortunately, the unit I tested had a lower-res 1,920 x 1,080 panel, so we're going to have to trust that the 4K display is as sharp and pixel-dense as the 4K displays on every other 15-inch laptop. One of the main things separating the 15-inch Spectre x360 from the 13-inch version is its optional 3,840 x 2,160 display. ![]() That won't save me space on my desk, but it at least makes it that much easier to hold the machine in hand. The x360 is also thinner than I would have guessed, at 0.63 inches thick. I can't do much about the larger footprint in this case, but at 4.05 pounds, it's definitely easier to tote around than other 15-inch systems. Typically I dread reviewing 15-inch machines because I know they'll weigh down my bag and take up a lot of space on my desk. What you might not expect, though, is how light the thing is. Hopefully HP can fix that through a firmware update. To match, there's an extra-wide, single-button trackpad that gave me ample space to move around but could be a little flaky, even with single-finger tracking. Though the buttons look shallow for a laptop this size, in practice they're comfortable to type on, not to mention quiet. The keys are also made of metal and are as well spaced as you'd expect on a machine with this large a footprint. Like the smaller edition, it has a beautiful machined aluminum body with rounded corners, blunt edges and a 360-degree lie-flat hinge that makes the machine look equally thin regardless of whether it's in clamshell or tablet mode. Microsoft Windows 10 Home (64-bit) 2.7GHz Intel Core i7-7500U 16GB DDR3 SDRAM 1,866MHz 128MB dedicated Intel HD Graphics 620 512GB SSDĪpple MacBook Pro with Touch Bar (15-inch, 2016)Īpple MacOS Sierra 10.12.1 2.True to its name, the 15-inch Spectre x360 is a bigger version of the 13-inch model that we tested last year. Microsoft Windows 10 Home (64-bit) 2.3GHz Intel Core i5-6200U 8GB DDR3 SDRAM 1,600MHz 128MB (dedicated) Intel HD Graphics 520 256GB SSD Microsoft Windosws 10 Pro (64-bit) 2.6GHz Intel Core i7-6600U 16GB DDR4 1,866MHz 1GB Nvidia GeForce GPU 512GB SSD Microsoft Windows 10 Home (64-bit) 2.6GHz Intel Core i7-6700HQ 8GB DDR4 SDRAM 2,133MHz 6GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 256GB SSD Microsoft Windows 10 Home (64-bit) 2.5GHz Intel Core i7-6500U 16GB DDR4 SDRAM 2,133MHz 2GB Nvidia GeForce 940MX 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD Microsoft Windows 10 Home (64-bit) 2.7GHz Intel Core i7-7500U 16GB DDR4 SDRAM 2,400MHz 2GB Nvidia GeForce 940MX 512GB SSD You can find cheaper convertibles, but given the Spectre X360 15's 4K display, it's quite aggressively priced against models with similar configurations but only QHD-resolution (or less) screens. In practice, it's fine for the typical a-little-bit-of-everything type of use it's intended for. It incorporates a dual-core version of the i7, and if you look at the charts you can see where that lags behind the quad-core versions in the Razer Blade 14 and MacBook Pro. It's faster than the 2016 model we tested - but that one had a lower speed class of processor and graphics card. While HP goes all out for the visible aspects of the system, it keeps the price low by equipping it with components that deliver decent but not earthshaking performance. You need to keep that in mind when using it as a tablet, since the keyboard section is the part you hold or rest on your lap. Not burning, but noticeable around the hinges and on the wrist-rests. ![]() It vents out the sides, though I never felt a hot desert wind come out of them and it remained quiet, the keyboard section did run hot under intensive use.
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