Is This Your Next Laptop? #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin and this is one

of the thinnest and most powerful

laptops you can buy this is the HP

Spectre x-360 and huge hello to HP for

sponsoring this video so if we open up

the second box which i've got to say is

actually really nicely done we have the

laptop it's so I'm actually curious is

this real aluminum it looks like it oh

yeah that's real metal I actually like

the brush metal finish on the side here

the entire laptop feels very sturdy

considering how thin it is also included

in the box is the HP active stylus so

the idea here is that now I do you have

the sort of flexibility that you get

with being able to flip the screen

around but also does have what hopefully

should be a pretty decent stylus that

comes in the box I really do like the

way this computer looks having an

aluminum chassis and pretty much

aluminium everywhere you look in touch

feels nice and also having something

like a glass trackpad really does make

it feel like a much more premium product

in addition to the pair of Thunderbolt 3

ports you also have a fingerprint sensor

on the side you've got the volume rocker

and on the flip side now that do we have

a standard full size USB port but you

also get the headphone jack power button

as well as on micro SD card slots this

really is then so something that keeps

jumping out to me is that the thickest

part of the chassis is only barely thick

enough to actually support a full sized

USB port the new Spectre x-360 starts at

eleven hundred and fifty dollars but the

model I have here is twelve fifty and

comes with like Core i7

8550 you eight gigabytes of RAM and a

256 gig SSD because this guy is running

the new 8th gen processors it really

does transform it from being a normal

ultra book to something that feels a lot

faster one of my big issues with

previous thin enlight laptops was that

while they had great battery life

performance was just decent however with

these new 8th gen processors that have a

quad core chip inside it actually makes

a huge difference to how fast these

things feel especially when you're doing

stuff like heavy multitasking it

absolutely can keep up with a desktop

what you're still getting the great

battery life that you would expect out

of an ultrabook and you can absolutely

see that in the benchmarks and Geekbench

noise is this completely destroyed last

generation Core i5 2 nice 7s but it

really is just not that far off from

hiring gaming laptops as well as

desktops if you need even more this

guy's available with up to 16 gigs of

ram and a one terabyte SSD and if you

opt for the 15 inch version of the X 360

it also has dedicated NVIDIA MX 150

graphics this version of the spy

x360 comes with a 13.3 inch 1080p IPS

display covered in Gorilla Glass but

there is also a 4k option

I'm sure the 4k looks great but if I

could you gotta say the 1080p is not bad

either

and personally especially on a 13-inch

laptop I kinda prefer 1080p as a nice

sweet spot between screen resolution as

well as battery life as far as the

battery goes the x360 has a 60 watt hour

battery which combined with the ATM

processor and 1080p display means that

getting through a full day of use

without the charger shouldn't be too

difficult so hv claims that you can get

up to 16 hours of battery on a charge

and that combined with the fast charging

power adapter means the battery life

really isn't a problem with this guy

when it comes to a Windows 10 laptop a

touch screen really is the way to go so

a lot of the time I use the keyboard and

trackpad but so often it's just helpful

to be able to reach up and touch the

screen now because this is the x360

version of the spectre we also have a

fully adjustable display so we can flip

it around to use it in display mode you

also can flip it upside down and use it

in tent mode and because it's such a

thin and light laptop you can use it in

tablet mode most of the time when it

comes to a 13-inch laptop a tablet mode

isn't too useful but because this guy's

so thin in life it actually works pretty

well here and that is especially helpful

when you use the HP Pen I am finding no

means an artist but I've got to say that

doodling with the pen is actually pretty

fun of course you can use it for more

serious stuff than color I mean

sketching stuff like notes would be

really helpful here but it's a

definitely a nice thing to have included

with the laptop the rest of the input is

pretty good as well so the keyboard has

great travel

it has good spacing I like the

backlighting the only thing that

slightly tripped me up was the home page

up and page down keys on the right side

of the keyboard but ones that get used

to that it's no problem

now the trackpad is decent so hardware

wise it does have a glass surface and

the tracking is pretty smooth however

the problem is it doesn't have Windows

precision drivers something that really

jumps out to me is the audio now this

has a set of Bang & Olufsen speakers a

lot of time branding doesn't make a huge

difference on a laptop but this guy is

rocking a full four speaker setup

okay that is really good so now these

are a fair bit of base but there's just

a ton of volume and it really doesn't

distort either this feature also has a

1080p webcam you guys can just the

quality for yourselves I think it's fine

for a video call but you probably won't

want to start a new YouTube channel with

it the specter has support for Windows

hello with both a fingerprint sensor as

well as an IR camera for facial

recognition no actually really do like

the fingerprint sensor well it is a

little bit odd to have it on the side of

the device it's much preferable to not

having a fingerprint sensor at all you

know like a certain thousand-dollar

phone or something with Windows 10 on

board there's also Cortana supports what

is the meaning of life I've led portable

laptops like this Spectre x-360 for a

long time but now that you can get

quad-core power while still keeping the

battery life it makes them so so much

more attractive again big shout-out to

HP for making this video possible

you guys want to check out this Spectre

x-360 the link will be in the

description you should also check out

the holidays unbox channel over at

youtube.com slash unboxed we can find

some of the latest and greatest

unboxings this holiday season anyway

guys thank you so much for watching and

I will catch you on the next one