When I first saw the new HP laptop, I could not help sigh of delight – I have not seen such a beautiful device. Then, when I started to recover speech and brain resumed work, I realized that the HP Spectre 13 is … art for art’s sake.
HP Spectre 13, at first glance, it has a sleeve all the aces to attract attention, vision, and clients’ money. What HP stresses in the first place, we are dealing here with the thinnest laptop in the world, measuring barely 10.4 mm at its thickest point, which is even less than the 12-inch MacBook.
It is impossible to deny Spectre 13 beauty. The slim silhouette is only part of the story – the rest is great, subdued colors, reminiscent of a luxury product and incredible attention to detail. HP has created for the purpose of Spectre 13 completely new mechanism hinges, grill speakers (caused, traditionally, in collaboration with Bang & amp; Olufsen) were cut by laser in a block of aluminum, the new HP logo is elegant and prey at the same time, the keyboard is backlit, glass trackpad reportedly could embarrass MacBooks (believe it when I see it), and the 13-inch display is covered entirely with glass Gorilla Glass.
HP in advertising says that HP Spectre 13 looks more like the work of a craftsman than mass production and … in part have right.
It is beautiful there too, where nobody looks, which is under the hood. Although it is rather engineering beauty. The thinnest body in the world did not prevent HP press there low voltage i5 or i7 processors, instead of Core M, which usually can be found in the thinnest machines. There poskąpiono a battery, because Spectre 13 has to withstand away from the wall 9.5 hours, what in the world other Windows laptops is a very good result. Engineers also reportedly modified components in order to improve the dispersion of heat and cooling, making use of the Intel Core i5 / i7 does not have a negative impact on the work culture.
As for the rest of the specification, it gets a bit less exciting but still interesting. HP Spectre 13 has 8 GB of RAM and 256 or 512 GB SSD. the display may be a little disappointed – we are dealing with niedotykową matrix IPS LCD with a resolution of “only” FullHD, which falls pale against touch screens 4K as windows competition, whether Retiny in MacBooks, but thanks to HP is able to provide a slightly longer working time.
Very interesting presents to be a matter of connectors. These are placed on the back edge of the laptop, but if you expect to see here standard USB ports and HDMI, you can forget about it. the manufacturer decided on the 3 USB ports type C, with each of them can be used for charging laptop and two of them also support Thunderbolt standard 3 and can be used to connect external monitors. There were also a place for the connector jack 3.5 mm.
HP Spectre 13 is certainly a small work of art … created “for art.”
I can not help feeling that Spectre 13 arose because he could. That no one thinks of it as a market success, but rather a demonstration of strength and designer taste. The price for the basic model does not fall, in principle, so tragically. 1169 dollars. You can be justified, looking at parameters. Looking at the price of the MacBook Pro in the basic configuration (1299 dollars.) It falls quite positive.
BUT! MacBook Pro has a built-pełnonapięciowy processor, longer runs on batteries and has a screen with a much higher resolution. as if that were not enough, on the side of Windows or not the lack of cheaper and more attractive proposal, and Razer Blade Stealth Lenovo Yoga 900s, Dell XPS 13 and Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1.
Spectre 13 certainly stands a beautiful appearance, slender and future-oriented approach, but at the same time is NOT different. It is “only” a laptop, without the frills without a touch screen, not a hybrid, functionally does not offer anything, you will not find a cheaper competition.
And how many users will be ready to sacrifice functionality just to be able to boast a beautiful, thinnest in the world laptop? probably very few. So I appreciate art, which made creating their new HP laptop. But looking at it, in my head I have only the “ars gratia artis”. Beautiful, niche curiosity.
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