The base model comes with a Full HD (1920 x 1280) touchscreen IPS display. Watching Ready Player One, for example, the movie took up just 57 per cent of the available screen space.ĭepending on how much you want to spend, you have three screens to choose from. But in general, if you’re doing productivity focused tasks you’re most likely to benefit, while if you want to watch a lot of movie and TV content, it may be a little irksome. Whether you prefer 3:2 or 16: 9 is entirely a matter of personal preference and depends the kind of thing you use a laptop for. What this means in practice is that you get bigger black bars when watching movies, but you see more of, say, a web page before scrolling down. (Notable exceptions are Microsoft’s Surface Go and Surface laptops, which pioneered the 3:2 format.) This makes it 13 per cent taller than the 16:9 ratio you find on most laptop screens, monitors and TVs these days. The most notable about the 13.5-inch touchscreen is that it has proportions of 3:2. HP Spectre x360 14 review: Screen and speakers You also get a free laptop case, which is nothing to write home about, but free stuff is always good in our book. This works well with the touchscreen, and is an obvious plus for artists, architects, or anyone who just wants to mess about with digital drawing or notetaking. One final point: you also get a high-quality rechargeable stylus – the HP MPP2.0 tilt pen – completely free with the HP Spectre x360 14. But these are pretty small niggles, and shouldn't detract from the fact that this is one beautifully designed device. Also, anyone used to a 2-in-1 like the Surface Go may find it weird feeling the keys on your lap while using this laptop in 'tablet' mode. The robust hinges work perfectly to let you to move the screen through a full 360 degrees, letting you put it in tent mode for watching movies or giving presentations, reverse mode for using it on your lap as a tablet, or any other angle that suits your purposes.Īdmittedly, you can’t quite open the laptop lid with one hand, and it’s a shame there’s no number pad on the keyboard. There’s also a fingerprint sensor next to the arrow keys.Īs a 2-in-1, the Spectre x360 14 is flawless. There’s also a small and unobstructive 720p web cam at the top, which you can use to unlock your device with Windows Hello, and which you can lock with one tap of a shortcut key. The 1.5mm key travel provides a satisfying click, and there's an impressively size touchpad (74 x 115mm), although we found you did have to press on this a little harder than we're used to. It’s wonderfully functional, too, with large, responsive keys spread almost from edge to edge across the base. In short, it’s one of the most attractive laptops around right now. We also love the speaker grill above the keyboard, with its fashionable dotted stylings the confident capital typefaces on the keys themselves and the subtle placement of the Bang & Olufsen and Spectre logos.
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