![]() The $1,199 Lenovo Yoga 910is a good option for people who don't care about 4K and prefer this machine's 10.5 hours of battery life, but the Yoga lacks the Thunderbolt 3 port and SD card slot that the Spectre x360 offers. The warm temperatures and modest Nvidia GTX 940 graphics are relatively small drawbacks. There's so much to like about the 15-inch HP Spectre x360, including its vivid 4K display long battery life and quality speakers, which are some of the best you can find on a laptop. However, every model comes with a 4K display and a stylus in the box. įor $1,279, you can downgrade to 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD, while a $1,699 model bumps the storage up to 1TB. The Spectre x360 I reviewed costs $1,499.99 and has a 2.9-GHz Intel Core i7-7500U CPU, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, Intel HD Graphics 620 and an Nvidia GeForce 940MX GPU that has 2GB of RAM. See how the company did on our Best and Worst Laptop Brands rating and Tech Support Showdown. HP sells the Spectre x360 with a one-year warranty. It's sort of like Lenovo's SHAREit app.īut there's also a bunch of bloatware, including Facebook, Twitter, Drawboard PDF, Minecraft, Candy Crush Soda Saga, Royal Revolt 2 and Netflix. The Orbit software is among HP's most useful apps, making it painless to transfer links and photos between an iPhone or Android phone and your laptop (though only phones can send pictures). HP's Audio Switch makes it easy to change audio outputs over HDMI. JumpStart teaches users to use the laptop and Windows 10, information most people don't need. The Spectre x360 comes loaded with a bunch of software, including some of HP's own. The latter two measurements surpassed our 95-degree comfort threshold. After the machine streamed 15 minutes of HD video from YouTube, the touchpad measured 91 degrees Fahrenheit, the center of the keyboard reached 97 degrees and the bottom of the laptop hit a toasty 106 degrees. The Spectre felt the heat when we put the notebook through its paces. This camera is fine for casual video chatting, but you might want an external camera for professional use. However, very specific details, like my hair, were hard to see. A test image snapped at my desk appeared clear and had accurate colors. The 1080p webcam on the Spectre x360 produced fairly average results. ![]() MORE: Laptops with the Longest Battery Life The Notebook 7 Spin was a poorer performer (5:53), but the Yoga 910 outclassed the field at a whopping 10:36. (Last year's 1080p model ran for 8:27, so this is an impressive feat.) The category average is 6:43, which the Inspiron managed to top, at 6:55. ![]() The notebook ran for 8 hours and 36 minutes on the Laptop Mag Battery test, which involves continuous web browsing over Wi-Fi. ![]() You might get a light boost in Photoshop performance, but creators and gamers alike would be better served by a workstation or gaming laptop with an Nvidia GTX 1050 GPU.ĭespite its 4K screen, the Spectre x360 has surprising endurance thanks to a large battery. On the 3DMark graphics benchmark, the Spectre earned a score of 93,759, beating the category average (83,427), Notebook 7 Spin (940MX 88,956), Yoga 910 (Intel HD Graphics 620 77,093) and Inspiron (Intel HD Graphics 520 64,067). When I ran Rise of the Tomb Raider on our budget settings (SMAA anti-aliasing, high and medium settings), the game stuttered along at 15.2 fps. The Nvidia GeForce 940MX isn't primed for intensive games, though. Using its integrated Intel HD Graphics 620, the Spectre ran Dirt 3 at 29 frames per second on par with the 29-fps average but below our 30-fps playability threshold. The laptop can do some very light gaming. On the typing test, I sped along at 115 words per minute (on the higher end of my average range) and my usual 2 percent error rate. But it requires just 50 grams of force to press (we prefer 60g), which occasionally resulted in me bottoming out, but didn't really affect my performance. The keyboard on the Spectre x360 is punchy, with a deep 1.5 millimeters of travel. It measured an average 255 nits on our light meter, which is lower than the mainstream average (268 nits), the Notebook 7 Spin (260 nits) and the Yoga 910 (292 nits). The Spectre's screen could also be a bit brighter. The screen has a Delta-E color-accuracy score of 3.5 (0 is ideal), above the average (2.4) and much higher than the Yoga (0.8), Inspiron (0.9) and Notebook 7 Spin (1.8). Those vivid colors aren't always precise. The screen covers an excellent 113.2 percent of the sRGB color gamut, surpassing the 92-percent mainstream category average and showings by the Yoga 910 (98 percent), Notebook 7 Spin (72 percent) and Inspiron (62 percent).
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