The Best-Smelling Laptop of all Time. #Helpful Post

when I first heard HP was making a

laptop wrapped in leather I knew we had

to get one if for no reason other than

to poke fun of people with more money

than brains but once I found out about

it

heaps of battery life gigabit LTE

connectivity and super interesting hinge

design I started to come around to the

notion that the spectre folio might be

more than just a pretty face

we could be looking at right now a

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there are two things you're going to

after you figure out the stupid pending

there are two things you're going to

immediately notice about the specter

fully off first that it's covered in

leather and second that leather smells

really good it's actually kind of

amazing how much a scent can change our

perceptions like pulling this machine

out of your bag there's like this this

feeling of for me anyway of like

readiness like the the closest analogs

that I have are pulling on my riding

gloves and stretching them out a little

bit or cinching up a horse saddle ready

to mount like it's just it's kind of

crazy and it also feels great to hold

with it's nicely rounded spine it just

feels professional but once opened up my

feelings about the specter folio do get

a touch more complicated so the way that

the leather wraps around the screen

creates this kind of weird-looking

double bezel I I really wish they could

have had the leather end right at the

edge of the display and overall I think

given another generation they can

probably improve the way that the metal

components transition to the leather

ones and then there's this pen holder

frankly speaking it's stupid like could

they not figure out any better way to

secure this to the side of the display

honestly I would rather they had just

done nothing I'd rather they say wear a

shirt with a pocket in the front and put

it there because other than that the

overall feel of the machine is very

solid there's virtually no flex to this

thing and I trust HP when they say that

the leather is not gonna wear quickly

like this is really nice it's the same

kind of stuff you might find in say a

Mercedes now IO is pretty bare-bones ish

but overall the three USB C ports two of

which are Thunderbolt 3 all of which can

be used for charging give you a lot of

flexibility to connect other devices to

the folio provided you're willing to

dangler two and a headphone jack is

thankfully present now the display comes

in both 1080p and 4k varieties are rocks

at 1080p one and given the screen size I

really don't see any need to go higher

than that and thankfully HP has provided

the option to have touchscreen on either

resolution good work you guys a problem

with the display though is that it feels

like there is a lot of wasted vertical

real estate here like going from a

surface laptop or a 20-18 macbook air to

the folio is gonna be jarring and it's

made that much worse by this massive

chin bar hanging out here that would in

a perfect world just be more display for

a 16 by 10 aspect ratio it is nice to

see a fairly good webcam implementation

though and the inclusion of Windows

hello facial recognition is a huge plus

overall the display still gets an A for

its excellent brightness colors and

touch support which goes well of course

with the convertible nature of the

spektr folio this is quite possibly its

strongest point like this is a really

smart 2 in 1 laptop design it's got

these nice strong magnets so you can

still operate it like a normal laptop

but put a little bit of pressure like

this and boom moving from one mode to

the other is very simple and the ever so

slight incline when it's in tablet mode

allows the included pen to be used very

comfortably again though I really hate

the way it secures to the device but the

writing experience is solid comparable

to that of the surface pro even if it

doesn't quite keep up with the near

instantaneous responsiveness of the iPad

pro now you do carry around more bulk

than the surface pro but I mean I think

that's a trade-off a lot of people would

be willing to make for the ability to

use the folio on their lap without it

kind of falling off and it's really nice

that unlike some chewing ones the

keyboard is not going to end up getting

scratched up in tablet mode so it just

looks kind of ratty and gross after a

short while the speakers are pretty good

with X

clarity making them great for hearing

dialogue like in video calls obviously

very business oriented products but as

you might expect they do lack bass and

their grill takes up a lot of space at

the top of the notebook that I just I

really wish could have been used to move

up the keyboard and make space for a

bigger trackpad look at this poor thing

actually we should talk about the

keyboard first here's what I can say

about that that's positive

if you finger peck or you type pretty

heavily you might actually really like

it

the travel and the tactile feedback are

both solid but for both me and Alex and

we do often disagree about these things

the stiffness of the key switches and

some noticeable inconsistency in their

key stabilization made it really

difficult to get into a groove and

maintain our top typing speeds that's a

shame now the experience will be better

if you have smaller hands since your

palms will sit on this delightful

leather palm rest instead of on the edge

of the device but when you compare it to

the comfort of the surface laptop and

the MacBook Air it just doesn't quite

hold up and then coming back to the

trackpad well it's also kind of matte

there's slightly more force required to

click it than I'd like and this

completely rules out Alex's thumb

padding technique ways typing and it's

out of the box acceleration curve is

weird at best it kind of seems like

they're compensating for something

you know what I'm talking about no like

literally it seems like they're

compensating for the small size of the

touchpad to make sure you can actually

get all the way across the screen

overall it gets I don't know c-plus so

that was the pretty bad stuff but there

are more good things LTE support means

that you can be productive from

basically anywhere like it baffles me

that features that we take for granted

on a couple hundred dollars Mart phones

like SIM slots and decent cameras have

taken so long to take off in ultrabooks

maybe this is changing though so a

device like this along with cheaper data

will make it so that you don't have to

worry about things like airport hotel or

coffee shop Wi-Fi

and all the security concerns that go

along with them and this feature is

perfectly complemented by the spectre

folios incredible battery life

the shocking fifty four point three watt

hour battery in this thing complemented

by a low-power processor and one watt

display means that you can expect LG

grande levels of freedom with the folio

even if it is a touch heavier and the

low-power processor brings other

benefits the Spector folio is completely

passively cooled and comes with a built

in coffee break feature that is to say

that in short tasks the dual core Core

i7 is pretty snappy but if you ask this

thing to do anything even remotely

resembling heavy lifting like even just

installing a program you might find that

you've got a minute

to run over to the break room and see if

anyone brought in snacks today okay yeah

I was being facetious there that's not

really a feature um

and honestly this was kind of a

confusing thing about this device to me

because on HP's reviewers guide the

number one pain point that HP identified

for Millennials was performance but then

that's where they ended up making the

specter folios biggest sacrifice well I

mean other than the cow that they

slaughtered in order to manufacture it

the dual-core processor makes it

noticeably slower while performing tasks

like basic video editing working on

small CAD files and doing more serious

photo work and this wouldn't be a

problem except that basically every

other Ultrabook on the market with the

notable exception of the MacBook Air has

twice the core count at least as an

available option and with the specter

folio coming in at about the same price

as the surface laptop that makes it

tough to recommend it gets some things

really right

like the hinge design the battery life

and mobile Internet and it really does

feel good but it gets enough things

wrong but I find myself intrigued to see

where they'll go with the next one

rather than ready to pull the trigger

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