Hands-on review: CES 2016: HP Spectre x360 15

By Kevin Lee

The ultralight and thin craze has greatly changed the landscape of Ultrabooks and now it’s making waves in world of the 15-inch laptops. In 2015 we saw some incredibly thin and powerful notebooks like the Toshiba Satellite Radius 15 and Dell XPS 15. Now HP is introducing Spectre x360 15 as one of the thinnest 15-inch 2-in-1 laptops.

Measuring just 0.63-inches (16mm) thin, it comes at the same thickness as its 13-inch Ultrabook sibling, the HP Spectre x360 13. What’s more, the starting weight of this rig is just four pounds, making the HP Spectre x360 15 truly one of the thinnest and lightest 15.6-inch laptop to come out this year.

Design

The HP Spectre x360 15 is just absurdly thin and while holding it up, it feels almost like you’re wielding the dirk-version of Cloud’s sword from Final Fantasy VII. Luckily it’s not designed to be as sharp as cheese-cutting MacBook Air. Instead, the edges are blunt, nicely rounded and feature a mirrored finish for a classy touch.

The device feels as solid as a single sheet of metal and that’s not surprising because that’s exactly what they’re made of. …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac