Much of the excitement around Intel’s Kaby Lake-G CPUs stems from its once-unthinkable marriage of a custom Radeon RX Vega M with a quad-core 8th-generation Kaby Lake CPU. The Thunderbolt 3 ports with USB PD will also charge the laptop, but at a slower rate than you’ll get with the traditional barrel charger. The charger for the Spectre x360 15 is a beefy 150-watt unit. If you do a little dance because there’s still a USB Type A port on the new HP Spectre x 360 15, that’s perfectly fine with us. On the left there’s an SD card reader, analog audio jack, standard barrel charger, and-wait for it-a USB Type A port! Yes, Internet, rejoice! Adam Patrick Murray You get a pair of Thunderbolt 3 ports and a full-size HDMI on the right side. The Spectre x360 doesn’t skimp on connectivity. Adam Patrick MurrayĪ fingerprint reader, HDMI 2.0, and a pair of Thunderbolt ports adorn the right side of the Spectre x360 15. We’ve had palm-rejection issues with some of HP’s extra-wide trackpads in the past, but this one we could not get to trigger. The trackpad is a glass-coated Synaptics ClickPad that’s slightly offset to align with the keyboard. Our only quibble is the half-height cursor keys for moving up and down. While Apple and Dell have been acting like airline carriers, taking away creature comforts like keyboard travel, HP gives you what feels like business-class service, with a plush 1.5 mm for your weary fingers. Yes, number-crunchers, it’s a properly designed 10-key, which Gigabyte and MSI still haven’t learned how to implement. In this new design, the speakers disappear and the backlit keyboard stretches edge to edge, allowing room for a 10-key numeric keypad. The prior generation had speakers flanking the keyboard. HP takes a new direction with the keyboard in this generation as well. Unlike Apple and Dell, who are busy taking away key travel, the HP Spectre x360 15 features a full 1.5mm of travel on its keyboard. Our unit’s panel is reasonably bright at a measured maximum output of 319 nits, but other high-end models can hit 400 to 500 nits. As more laptops offer 4K displays, it’s important to know that this spec isn’t a slam-dunk when it comes to quality.
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