Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have had so many issues with this laptop. On paper, this is an amazing machine that will do anything from web searching to gaming. In practice, I can't use it for anything but basic web browsing. The screen is amazing and the 120hz is nice, but the brightness does not go low enough to comfortably use it in a dark room and the 120hz can't be used in most applications because of this next huge issue. The CPU instantly overheats when you give it any load over 50% usage, then throttles down to a snail's pace for a minute or two. It then goes back to full boost mode. When using this CPU for anything, I get framerate drops down to 7 fps, then they shoot back up to 230 fps. I have a warranty plan through best buy and had them look at the laptop for thermal problems, but they took it for a week and gave it back with the same problems. I have reached out to HP support twice and have received no solutions from them either. Everyone I have talked to on support calls says that this laptop is not designed for games, but it has a RTX 4050 that I cannot utilize with any program because all graphics intensive programs require high CPU clock speed. The last issue I have had is that the keyboard and trackpad get confused and disable themselves like the laptop is in tablet mode randomly, and the only way to fix it is to put the laptop to sleep and wake it up again. This is such a downgrade from the HP Spectre 15t that this machine replaced, and that machine is 6 years old already. HP really doesn't make high end laptops like they used to.

Excellent build quality and practical with lots of power. Able to run quiet

Easy to setup and so no problems. Super fast and oled screen great

Great buy! I use it for work, while im on remote. !

I had an older model that started to malfunction. I was excited to get this one but within 2 days I couldn't get it to stay cool enough. Pro: lightweight, touchscreen Cons: Overheats with standard use, larger trackpad means you have to put your hands at an angle while typing or you risk accidentally clicking on something, exhaust is only on the bottom

GREAT LAPTOP, HAS EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR REGULAR COMPUTING TO GAMING!!!

This is a wonderful machine. It does have a fair amount of bloatware that i had to remove but after that was gone... it is a really fast machine with a great monitor and fast track pad.

I've had this laptop for about 2 weeks now, and it is probably the best laptop I've owned over the years. Memory is great as is the battery life. I do miss having a full size number pad. I plan to use this for editing photos and videos and I think this will be an awesome laptop to use over all.

Beautiful Display. Super efficient. Easy to use. You can barely hear the fan. Even the webcam has a great display. The only thing I wish could be better is the sound system. Compared to other laptops its not as loud

Definitely got my moneys worth. I woulnt sugges using it in place of a desktop but as it is as a laptop its perfect. Some of the more detailed games or art pieces i work on it struggles a little bit. Id say that the graphics need a tad more attention with the other components in the computer, it just seems to struggle at times. Not the perfect choice for professional use or work but for cost effectiveness and convienience it gets the job done and then some. Other than that, its generally very aesthetically pleasing.

Beautiful graphics and images, fast, lightweight, and very easy to set up and transition data from prior laptop to this new spectre. My second spectre laptop doesnt disapoint.

I really like this laptop! The storage is great, boots up fast, good graphics. My son bought one too. The only thing that would make it better is if it had the numbers keys.

It's okay. Very durable, accidentally dropped it when I tripped over my shoelace on carpet. Speedy on internet and can handle several different browsers and windows and apps being opened at the same time. But you cannot play a single video game. No League of Legends, it can barely handle Minecraft. Touch screen is a little wonky as you cannot drag most items you have to use the touch pad in order to do so. But it is helpful when zooming in on things.

This is my second HP Spectre. My first one I bought at Best Buy in 2016. It never game me any issues. I just bought this one to replace the older one only because it was 8 years old. This new one has the same quality and was very easy to set up. I expect to get 8+ years out of this one as well.

Love this new laptop. So fast and great at multitasking. I use it for college.

I bought this laptop for my work as a Mechanical Design Consultant. It’s important that I can be mobile, to walk through designs with clients at different types of locations. The two in one feature is useful for sketching concepts. I use Solidworks for 3D modeling daily on this laptop. After adjusting the settings in Solidworks and downloading a studio driver for the RTX graphics card, it does quite well with large assemblies. I also do some gaming which it also does well with. The RTX graphics card eats through the battery pretty quickly, but that’s to be expected. When I’m not 3D modeling or gaming the battery lasts much longer.

I love this laptop. overall everything is great! Since I have this, nothing wrong until now.

Sleek, powerful, and visually stunning, the HP Spectre 16" laptop combines high-end performance with a premium design. Perfect for both work and play.

Let me preface this with knowledge that I've been a Microsoft Surface user for years. I mainly purchased this because it had all the specs on paper that I was looking for and I wanted to try a larger screen. That being said. I also wanted to have enough power to handle some gaming and since this had a dedicated GPU I figured that would help. I was completely mistaken. The first one I got seemed to run fine at first with daily tasks but ran a bit hot and fan got loud compared to the surface pro's I've used in the past. Then I tried to run a game, solitaire, and even that had some jitters dragging cards across the screen. Next I tried Disney speedstorm and game that shouldn't be that instensive. I was lucky if I got 15 frames per second. I though OK maybe it's just that game. So I installed Forza 4 an older AAA game and that couldn't get to 10 frames per second. So something was wrong. The specs and price of this laptop didn't warrant this terrible of performance. I contacted HP support they took control of the laptop and proceded to do a bunch of updates from Microsoft, HP and NVIDIA. Still no difference. They proceded to have me a do factory reset. That took a full day. Still no difference. The support rep proceeded to tell me to send it in for maintence. It was only a week old. I decided to live with it for a while and see if things worked themselves out and still no difference. I ended up exchanging it at Best Buy rather than wait a month for HP to fix the broken laptop they sold me. The new laptop came did the setup and things seemed to be working OK. I started solitaire and it didn't stutter. Speed Storm had about 30 frames per second start out bu then 30 seconds into a race and it start dropping frames like crazy. It was like something triggered some kind of throttling. I checked performance settings and changed it to performance mode and that seemed to work better, but it only lasted for a little while. I was able to do a full race with no issues, but the next race the frame rates dropped again. For the amount of money I paid for this thing it wasn't worth the hassle. I finally gave up and returned it. I ended up getting the Lenovo Yoga 9i 2 in 1 instead with the Intel Arc and have had no issues playing these games. I don't know what HP did to this laptop to make it so unusable. The specs on paper should beat out the Lenovo, but it doesn't. Stear clear of this waste of money.

This is a powerful laptop. Very happy with my purchase. It gives me the gaming platform and business platform I needed. It has great Oled screen. Colors are awesome. I highly recommend this laptop for you go needs.