HP Spectre 13

By Joe Osborne

HP’s first 13-inch Spectre laptop was an impressive albeit frustrating marvel. One of the thinnest laptops of its time to house full Intel Core processors, it cut a few too many corners in pursuit of that marquee ‘thinnest laptop ever’ moniker. Today, HP is poised to make good on that vision with a more refined Spectre 13 laptop, and the fruits of its labors are clear.

Sure, the new Spectre 13 houses all of the latest components, namely an 8th-generation Intel Core i7 processor and an FHD, IPS touchscreen to start, but it’s the design revisions that surround those leading parts that work in this rendition’s favor.

Price and availability

Starting at $,1299 (about £978, AU$1,650), the new HP Spectre 13 is clearly a luxury laptop just like its predecessor. Specifically, that price gets you an Intel Core i7-8550U processor at 1.8GHz, a quad-core first for the laptop much less most others. Coupling that are 8GB of LPDDR3 RAM and a 256GB NVMe solid-state drive behind that 1080p Gorilla Glass display.

Unless you’re really craving a 4K display, which is optional, this laptop should deliver everything you need power-wise. As of this writing, HP hasn’t disclosed how much the 4K version will cost, …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac