By Kevin Lee
The original HP Spectre x360 was arguably the one of the handsomest 2-in-1 laptop ever created and now the company has released a dramatically improved next-generation model. The new 13-inch 2-in-1 laptop brings a ton of improvements including a new chassis that’s 13% thinner and 11% lighter while featuring a quarter more battery life and Intel Kaby Lake processors.
Numbers aside, the new HP Spectre x360 is practically an all new laptop with a slimmer design, reengineered display and a few features we can’t live without now. Although it’s a hands down improvement over the older model in almost every regard, a few sacrifices have been made in the name of thinness including a higher starting price.
Design
We always felt like using the original Spectre x360 was more like handling a pizza paddle than a tablet due to it being overly wide and heavy. Thankfully HP has dramatically trimmed the new model’s chassis.
Measuring 13.8mm thin, it’s significantly thinner than the outgoing 0.63-inch thick model. The new design also trims the convertible’s annoyingly wide 12.79-inch body to a more sensible 12.03-inches. Both of these changes stem from the new display micro edge display HP has implemented, but we’ll get more …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac