#HP SPECTRE X360 15 4K REVIEW 720P#
#HP SPECTRE X360 15 4K REVIEW FULL#
#HP SPECTRE X360 15 4K REVIEW WINDOWS#

The inevitable compromise of such compactness is ports. If keeping size down is important to you, you’ll love that the Spectre x360 measures 306mm wide, 195mm deep and 16.9mm thick. This is another huge leap over the 2019 edition and it all helps to make this laptop incredibly compact.

#HP SPECTRE X360 15 4K REVIEW 720P#

What’s most impressive is that HP has squeezed in the camera – which, unfortunately, doubles up as the usual drab 720p webcam – despite the narrowness of the bezels. Flip up the screen and it recognises you almost immediately, making this laptop almost instant-on.

#HP SPECTRE X360 15 4K REVIEW WINDOWS#

I didn’t even mind the single-height Enter key.Ī fingerprint reader sits underneath the cursor keys, but I suspect most people will defer to the excellent infrared camera that can be set to automatically log you in via Windows Hello. This is again shorter than you might expect, but the keys are still large and easy to hit. Other than its shortened height, the glass-topped touchpad is excellent, and once I adjusted my typing style a fraction I also enjoyed using the quiet but solid-feeling keyboard. HP bundles its rechargeable Tilt Pen with all the UK editions of the Spectre x360 13in, and while there’s nowhere to stow the pen this is still a welcome inclusion. This is rapidly becoming the norm for laptops, and two solid-looking hinges enable this machine to smoothly rotate into any of its three modes: clamshell, tent and tablet. READ NEXT: HP Elite Dragonfly review HP Spectre x360 (2020) review: Design and featuresĪs the x360 in its name gives away, this 13in version of the Spectre is a convertible. It’s a superb security feature, and my previous tests of such screens suggest you’ll get similar accuracy and coverage scores to the IPS panel that I tested. This means, with a single press of the button, you can stop people from either side of you reading what’s on your screen all they see is a grey blur. They not only include a top brightness of 1,000cd/m2 but also HP’s Sure View technology.

One final caveat: aggravatingly, the IPS screens currently on offer from HP in the UK are actually different from the US model I tested.

#HP SPECTRE X360 15 4K REVIEW FULL#

Nevertheless, unless you need absolute accuracy in those colour spaces, I’d still opt for a Full HD panel’s battery life. Where it falls down is coverage of Adobe RGB and DCI-P3, as it only covers around 70% of those gamuts. Its Adobe RGB setting returned excellent figures of 96.1% coverage and 102.5% volume.ĪMOLED also gives effectively perfect contrast, but even the IPS panel scored well here with a 1,644:1 measurement. Switch to DCI-P3, and it shows 99.6% of the gamut (but 119.6% volume). In sRGB mode, the AMOLED Spectre delivered 100% of the sRGB spectrum (and108.4% volume, which means some of the colours it shows sit beyond sRGB so it’s not perfectly tuned) but only 77% of the DCI-P3 gamut. Fortunately, such apps are now in a shrinking minority. If anything, 4K is more of a hassle in everyday life as certain programs don’t comply with Windows 10’s built-in scaling, which results in tiny system text. Colours leap out at you from the screen in a way that IPS technology can’t match.įar less obvious, though, is the difference that 4K makes versus Full HD – despite the fact that 4K offers four times as many pixels. Put the two machines side by side and there’s no disputing the extra punch delivered by AMOLED. This, then, is your first big decision: to sacrifice the glory of a 4K AMOLED screen for a more humble Full HD IPS offering. HP Spectre x360 (2020) review: Display and battery life

If you want a Full HD screen then you will need to drop down to a 512GB SSD and 8GB of RAM for £1,399. That means I have two HP Spectres sitting in front of me: one with a 4K AMOLED screen and top-end specification (1TB SSD and 16GB of RAM) that you can order today from HP’s UK store for £1,799 and one with a Full HD IPS screen and top-end specification that you can’t. Ironically, it’s because the early sample HP sent me was only available in the supplied specification in the US hang on to it, HP suggested after I pointed this out, and give it a road trip before we send you a UK spec that’s actually available to buy. It’s not often that I take a laptop to America as part of the review process, but the Spectre x360 is an exception.

Hp spectre x360 15 4k review