Hands-on review: CES 2016: HP Pavilion x2 12

By Kevin Lee

HP has been on a roll producing some excellent budget laptops including the low-price Stream and

Design

From an incidental glance you could easily write off the Pavilion x2 12 as a blown up version of its 10-inch sibling, but HP has made some big changes with this larger hybrid. For starters, the outer shell of the tablet section is wrapped in metal rather than plastic. The new material choice makes the Pavilion x2 12 feel like a more premium device and the tablet section is actually lighter than its plastic-bound predecessor.

The screen is also taller not only by nature of being larger, but thanks to having boxier proportions thanks to its 3:2 aspect ratio. The extra vertical pixels come in real handy for tasks like photo editing, editing documents and other productivity-related tasks. Though, I have to say the top bezel on the screen is conspicuously massive.

Although there are noticeable changes, the 12-inch model has inherited much of its smaller predecessor’s styling including a pair of booming front-facing Bang & Olufsen speakers. The larger 2-in-1 machine also retains the simple, latch-less magnetic connector for docking with the device’s keyboard section. It even keeps …read more

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