HP - Spectre x360 2-in-1 13.3" Touch-Screen Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 8GB Memory - 512GB Solid State Drive - Natural Silver

Salaam(Peace-B-upon-U) My wife bought this 2in1 last week from bestbuy. I took it back and go the same one because on the first one the trackpad was higher on one side than the other. Its not visible but if you ran your hand around the mousepad you can feel it. The exchanged one is much better. However, when i tap on the trackpad, it makes a 'cheap' sound. like tapping on cheap plastic. Not a deal breaker. I was using it in a really quiet room. The trackpad is kinda huge. Sometimes when the palm rest is on the trackpad and you try to scroll using the pad, it wont work, you have to move the palm off. Still okay with me. Downloaded Visual studio while connected to the power outlet. The bottom left got pretty hot. Maybe because I had the plug connected? Not sure. After charge completed, I had MS Edge open, few tabs, 3-4 chrome tabs, while coding on visual studio, it didnt get hot. It was slightly warm. Cool beans with me. I am a programmer. I downloaded trial Photoshop CS6, on battery, It didnt get too hot. It was warm. Out of the box, the F5 key is always on. I HATE IT. But I was able to turn it off via the BIOS setting. Which was cool with me. NOW I always have my computers on MUTE by default. For this machine, when you MUTE it, the MUTE LIGHT comes on. So now I have an orange light on ALWAYS. Did not see any option in the BIOS for this. Also I turned off the FUNCTION keys in the BIOS. Otherwise if you hit the F5 the keyboard back light comes on. I disabled it, because I need the F5 key to refresh my browser window. I am a Programmer/Web Developer. So I need to refresh pages constantly. It was nice I was able to disable it. I dont use much tablet. This is good if you use mostly for laptop ish usage. Its not heavy, its not very light. I had a Lenovo Yoga11s. 2.8/3LB ish. This is not much of a different but it makes it feel heavy due to the strong body (Aluminium casing, if I recall). HATE: * Nowhere CLOSE TO 512gb SSD. I have about 430gb after installing visual studio and photoshop. The W10 os takes about 35gb. Still C'MON HP!!! *Trackpad feels cheap *MUTE orange light is always on (When mute). *HEAT. From what I experienced so far. Might need to play with it a bit more. I did not 'officially' set it up to be mine, in case I want to return it. *BACKLIGHT. Keyboard backlight has only 2 options ON/OFF. when its ON, you can see lights coming out from the edges of the buttons. Also the contrast of light on the button itself is not too great. If you are in a completely dark room, it shows nice, otherwise, Its a bit powerful. Would be nice to be able to dim it a bit more. *BRIGHTNESS. The LCD/Monitor brightness at 0% still is not enough. I feel It could have been less brighter at 0%. *THE DARN BLINKING LIGHT when I closed the laptop and left it next to my face on the nightstand. The bright blinking light woke me up few times. I had to turn the laptop other way. It was not necessary for it to be that bright. LOVE: ---------------------- *Battery life. For me the battery life is really good. (Alhamdulillah, praise God). I get about 8-9 hours on full charge. I work mostly in the dark, so I keep it on very dim (10%). It might go longer, but I have to do more testing and tweaking. I dont do much videos/youtube, netflix, etc. *Screen. I love the screen. It does get finger prints. I dont touch it much. But wipes clean nicely. Like the quality of graphic. I have the QHD model. Really nice visuals. (I have not tested out the speakers yet on full blast). I am confident on its quality from other reviewers. Speakers are not on top of my list for this. *KEYBOARD. Being a coder/programmer, Keyboard is very important to me. So far, from my experience with lenovo, this one is really good. Lenovo had the backspace button small, so I would miss it most of the time by accident. It would take a bit getting used to. This 2in1 offers good keyboard, as if I was using my work 15 inch dell. *BIG TRACKPAD. I am an average size guy, but I enjoy this extra large trackpad. I zoom in and out a lot reading PDFs on it (Adobe touch). Scrolling up down on the trackpad is nice on browser windows. *LONG Power Cable. I can have it on the wall while I am in bed. *Build Quality. Compared this to my brother in-laws macbook, his one is heavier. Love his trackpad though. Just the trackpad tapping sounds cheap. Not sure why my first one had the trackpad quality issues. Overall Its a great machine. Just that for $50 more at bestbuy I can get 16GB ram 512SSD Yoga900. Im sure outside quality is not metal/Aluminium like this one, but my last Lenovo lasted a while. I am looking to keep this (IF I do) for at least 3 years. I am still deciding between the 2 but I am really trying to love the Spectre. Just the SSD really upsets me. I mean c'mon around 430GB to me? 512gb - 35gb for windows10 = 477GB. What happened to the other 35GB? I understand its not actual. But even 5gb makes a big difference. Ask Dropbox. Anyway. God willing, I will give this a bit more try for another week. Start to personalize it a bit more and see where it takes me. 110% sure I would miss it if I returned it. Just dont know if I should have gone with the Y900. I researched about 60 hours total before wife got me this one. Good luck guys.

I am generally pleased with my purchase. Battery life was an issue as noted by several reviewers before I purchased. Needed to do a BIOS update and that increased life from about 6 hrs. to 10-11. Just keep the BIOS update in mind. I am not much of a tablet person, but bought this to have the option available. I bought the i7 processor because I do a lot of math heavy work and have multiple proprietary analytical programs open simultaneously and this unit has worked well under those conditions. I would have preferred to have a 1 TB SSD drive available, as it is I may have to upgrade to a 1 TB in the near future. Lack of 1 TB option is a definite negative for this computer given all of the other superior features. Screen clarity is great. USB 3 ports seem well powered, I have a Tron 4 port USB 3 hub (non powered) and have been able to plug in 2 SSD drives the hub and have both readable and fast for data transfer (I haven't tried transfer between the 2 external drives, however). There were reviewers complaining about excessive heat when running on battery power, I have not notice that, although I am not running games or video which would really put a load on the battery. I bought a couple of after market 45 Watt power supplies to use when traveling and have had not issues. The battery recharge is quite rapid, but I can pretty much be on battery power all day at a meeting without running out of power. One final remark about something I discovered by chance; I have a 125 Watt hour portable battery that I used with my older computers when traveling. It is sold by Power-U, but I have seen similar units from other vendors. Anyway non of the tips that came with this unit were going to fit the much small plug-in on the HP 360 Spectre. I thought I would have to invest in a new external battery, just to have the comfort level of spare power. While looking for an affordable external battery I found the Lizone AC Power cord charger Laptop adapter tip connector converter that works with one of tips from my old external battery and allows me to continue to use the old unit. I found this on Amazon. So for $10 I saved the cost of $100 external battery. Only other issue I have is that Windows 10 is a chore to get accustomed to from Win 7 and the whole tablet centered universe is not what I normally use. Also be prepared to switch to Microsoft Edge because Explorer 11, while it works on this computer, is not optimized for this computer. Edge also takes some getting accustomed to. Also like every other new computer there is a lot of bloat ware, you just need to purge all of that garbage and get down to the basic unit.

Pros: ===== -Appropriately sized keyboard - no tiny keys here accept for the rarely used Up/Down arrows -Sturdy aluminum chassis feels high end and like it will last -Wonderful battery life, easily lasts a week of typical usage for us before needing to be plugged in (A few hours a night) -Vibrant crystal clear screen -Sound is plenty loud, it's not until nearly max volume that you notice major distortion (Which is remarkable for how small the speakers are to fit in this tiny machine). Cons: ===== -Touchpad takes some getting used to, and needs a driver update immediately upon unboxing (Read below) -Some might consider this a con (Doesn't bother me or my wife), but when you tap/touch the touchpad there is an ever so slight "click". You won't notice it at all during normal noise levels, but in a quiet room you definitely hear it. The Dirty Details: ============= This laptop was purchased for family use - particularly my wife and I. As a software developer I much prefer the physical keyboard you get with a traditional laptop, while my wife found herself using our tablets far more often than our old laptop. This 2 in 1 seemed like the perfect blend of those two use cases! First and foremost - when you get this laptop, immediately go to HP's website and download all of the latest drivers (Particularly the touchpad). It would seem that since manufacturing there have been a lot of issues correctly via software update - specifically I was having problems getting my touchpad to remember it's settings. Post update, no problems (My wife wanted the right side of the touchpad to act as a scroll wheel much like our old laptop did). Having the extra wide touchpad took some adjusting - particularly when trying to right click, the first week I found myself accidentally left clicking because I hadn't gone far enough over on the massive trackpad. Now though I have no problems hitting exactly the right button (And it helps that you can use two fingers to tap the touchpad which also acts like right-click). My wife absolutely loves that she can scroll around websites and click by touching the screen just like her phone or tablet - she finds that much simpler to use than the touchpad. The touch screen seems incredibly responsive. My last gripe is more to do with my experience inside Best Buy than it is with the computer - in the store you will notice that the gold/brown finish is $150 more than the silver finish. When I asked why a color change would be worth $150 more the associate tried to convince me that the different color was made of different materials that made it lighter and thus lighter = higher cost. Problem with that theory is that it's 100% completely false - I showed him both Best Buys website as well as HP's website where both show that they weigh the exact same amount, with the exact same specs, and he still tried to tell me that the extra $150 was because the gold/brown model was clearly lighter. The reality seems to be that the gold/brown model is simply a newer color option, and HP felt the need to charge more for that (Which is completely absurd to me) - so we saved our $150 and went with the silver model. Overall a month into ownership we are very happy with this lightweight, powerful, stylish little machine!

I'm really liking my Spectre x360. To be honest, the x360 was originally my runner-up to the Surface Book, but I wound up returning the Surface Book because it was supposed to have 8 GB of memory but only 4 GB was showing under the settings. How can a $2,000 laptop be missing half its RAM? Scared off by such a glaring defect, I went with the Spectre instead. I may try a Surface Book again later, but for now I'm happy with my HP. Here is my list of pros (+) and cons (-): + Good price -- better than the Surface Book for a bigger hard drive (512 GB solid-state) + Runs fast -- Windows 10 is quick and responsive + Solid battery life so far + Thin design is very stylish, and I love the 2-in-1 capabilities. In tent mode, it's great for watching movies when traveling. + Comfy keyboard with the right function keys. The Surface only had one Ctrl key on the left; the Spectre has both, which is crucial for all the keyboard shortcuts I use. + The backlit keyboard is also a handy feature. There's a dedicated function key (F5) to turn it on and off. It's a big bright, but at least it's not hard to miss. + It's not in the Quick Start guide, but my trackpad supports 3 finger gestures. Swipe up for task view, swipe down to minimize + Some reviews complained about the wide trackpad, but I don't mind it. It doesn't respond to your palms touching it and the corners are used for right and left-clicking respectively + Great resolution on touchscreen. Images look sharp and vivid. - On the negative side, glare on the screen can be bad in bright light - Too heavy to use as a tablet. It's more of a lap-tablet. Then again, the Surface Book tablet was almost too big to use as well. - Runs hot sometimes -/+ Mixed: Screen is not detachable like the Surface Book, but I have mixed feelings about this anyway. The Surface Book's screen when detached was so big and slick it was clumsy using it. A part of me still likes the idea of the Surface Book's detachable screen, but in reality it may not be practical.

I had high hopes for this computer. I hadn't purchased a new system in 8+ yrs, so you can imagine having to wrap your hands around all of the tech changes. I researched laptops to death and decided on this b/c I didn't want to pay the bloated amount for a Macbook. Of course this machine is screaming fast compared to my previous 8 YO Dell XPS. It's super light, super fast and the display is awesome. Here are some of the things I would change: I don't like the feel of the silver finish. It's kind of plasticy and I can see this not wearing well. I wish it was more of a matte finish. It seems to show everything that comes in contact with it. The keyboard...hate it. My Dell XPS has backlighting too, so that was a necessity, but the keys on the Sceptre are also silver. So, silver keys and very light backlighting makes it very difficult to actually see the keys in low light. Yes, I am proficient at typing, but that coloration is really distracting. The keys also just don't "feel" right. Onto battery life. They tout this to have exceptional battery life. I used it a few nights to binge watch Netflix and it really chewed up battery. I don't think it lasted more than say.... 4, maybe 5 hrs. I was pretty disappointed since I chose to use the new computer vs my iPad. I would of been better off w/ the iPad. Overall, it's a vast improvement over my Windows Vista XPS machine. I like that it's a 2-1, although that wasn't necessary. The touchscreen is cool and the size & weight seems perfect. If I wanted to improve it, the battery would last longer, they would of used a different color for the keys for better contrast (they are hard to read in regular light too) and the back face of the laptop would be a matte, or different material.

Hello, First things first. I've been in the IT field since 1991 and have worked as a systems integrator, network engineer, product consultant, technology trainer, etc. In other words, I've worked on and handled a lot of computers of all shapes, sizes, and manufacturers. Last December I was looking for a small and very light laptop for road use. I had my heart set on a Surface Book, but to get 512 GB storage, I was looking at 2600. On paper the HP was not only the logical choice, but also the better choice. Unfortunately now 6 months in and I can say with certainty that I hate this laptop. I have really, really, really tried to like it but it's just not going that way. I read glowing reviews which prompted me to buy, but I'm convinced now having read so many reviews from actual owners, that those initial "reviews" were more initial takes from folks that just review for the sake of reviewing than actual use of the equipment. Here's what you can expect from owning this laptop: 1. overall poor performance. I own several laptops; i7, i5, AMD Quad, i7 Macbook, etc. This has a dual core i7 with 8 gb ram and a solid state drive, it loads quickly, but then simple things just drag, specifically anything that needs any sort or graphics horsepower. Just MS Publisher will cause it to drag to the point of frustration. Web browsing with anything that pulls ads or images, i.e. just amazon for example, cause freezes and general frustration. 2. trackpad inconsistency.. I'm used to my mac laptop and the mac trackpad on my imac.. I don't use a mouse anymore because they are just better for me. The HP boasts a gestures capable trackpad but it can't make up its mind. it scrolls one way today and another way tomorrow. It uses 2 and 3 finger clicks and gestures today and tomorrow it doesn't. Setting a profile will work only occasionally. 3. graphics crashes and miserable performance... the Intel 520 should be suitable for office work, light graphics editing, etc.. but it's just terrible. That the short version of my frustrations with this laptop. If you want small and light AND functional. Look for something else.

The initial bumps in the road were: 1) The F5 key stays illuminated when laptop on - major deal breaker. FIX: Install the latest BIOS which has an option to turn the F5 key light off. 2) After installing the updated BIOS and the latest Windows 10 update my wireless AC stopped working. I disabled and then enabled the wireless AC in Control Panel/Devices to get it working but a few minutes later it would stop working again. FIX: Downloaded the latest wireless AC driver. 3) The graphics display would restart occasionally. FIX: Downloaded the latest display driver. 4) Based on 1, 2, and 3 I went to the Control Panel, Devices, right clicked on each individual item in the list and performed a driver update search so all the devices on the laptop would have the latest and greatest drivers. 5) If you put the laptop on your lap it soon becomes extremely hot underneath - probably due to the venting. Stays cool on a flat surface. FIX: Will have to use my portable lap desk instead of my lap . Haven't used the laptop more than two days but after those aforementioned bumps in the road I do like the 3 USB Ports and the display. It boots up fast and appears to be quite speedy. Works great with the LG Ultra Slim Portable Blu-Ray Writer I also purchased. Keeping fingers crossed that no more "bumps" occur.

I was originally looking to get a Surface Book or just a regular Surface Pro, but was drawn to the HP Spectre's spec sheet. What you get in this machine is a steal for the money, compared to the MacBook Pro or the Surface computers. Everything has been working well for me so far and am very pleased in this computer. The display is superb, and as a student I am very happy with the typing experience. The battery is acceptable for my needs. I am able to get through a normal day without plugging in. Saying that, the battery performance doesn't blow me away, so take that into consideration if that is something that you desperately need. For performance, this thing is a beast. I do light 1080p video editing and everything runs fine. It can handle everything I throw at it, and am very happy. Also, Windows 10 is awesome. Miles ahead of Windows 8, and I think it is still way better than Windows 7. I love Cortana and the revamped start menu. Very happy with this computer.