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While we have some reservations about the HP Spectre x360 16 2-in-1’s software configuration, as an overall proposition it packs plenty of appeal. The HP Spectre x360 16 2-in-1 is an excellent all-rounder. In our 3D-based tests, it produced slightly inconsistent results. Incidentally, we’d say the jury is still out on the overall effectiveness of the new Intel Arc graphics chip. It makes much more sense to use the Spectre on a flat surface in tablet mode. You wouldn’t want to hold it aloft for long. That said, as a 16-inch laptop, it’s a hefty old thing to hold in tablet mode for digital inking purposes. But it wouldn’t take much to adjust for that and the overall inking experience is competitive. And at the lower end of the touch scale at lighter pressures, the sensitivity is perhaps a little lacking. You need something well over 500 nits for that.Īs for the digital inking support, the OLED panel’s 60Hz refresh means it’s not quite as responsive as higher refresh screens. The overall brightness at 400 nits is great indoors, but this laptop isn’t terribly well suited to outdoor use. If you look very closely, you can just see the touch digitisation layer, but it’s invisible in normal use. It makes pretty much any LCD display look ancient. Speaking of working in the field, the OLED display is an absolute beauty, so crisp and contrasty with fabulous colours and fantastic pixel response. But for routine editing tasks in the field, it’s well up to the job. If you’re dealing with truly massive batches of RAW photos, this probably isn’t the rig for you. But as an affordable tool for encoding on the move, it gets the job done.Īs for image editing and digital art work, the CPU, memory and graphics combo is mostly good. We probably wouldn’t want to use the Spectre as a dedicated video encoding rig. The Intel CPU and its 16GB of DDR5 RAM has plenty of punch for light to moderate content creation workloads. However, the core performance of the laptop is good. But whatever, like the HP Dragonfly Elite laptop we reviewed recently, the HP Spectre x360 16 2-in-1 can be awfully sluggish when installing software and during some other data-intensive activities. It may be related to the default McAfee anti-virus software installation, which we’d prefer was optional.
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To get the bad news out of the way, there’s something about HP’s laptop configurations of late that isn’t doing the hardware full justice.
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Total War: Three Kingdoms 1080p Ultra: 20fpsīattery life (1080p video playback): 11h 59m HP Spectre x360 16 2-in-1 review: performance and battery life It’s one heck of an overall package for the price and it compares well with the likes of the Dell Inspiron 16 2-in-1, which isn’t quite as premium an overall machine. As configured, precise pricing isn’t yet available, but we’d estimate in the region of $1,500 or £1,500. That includes goodies like the OLED panel but a lower-spec Intel CPU, a 512GB SSD and Nvidia RTX 3050 graphics instead of the Intel Arc graphics reviewed here. Pricing for the HP Spectre x360 16 starts at a remarkably reasonable $1,429 or £1,399. It won’t be a replacement for the likes of, say, the Adobe suite for serious content creation, but it could be a good starter pack for anyone looking to get some basic experience.
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On a final note, features-wise, HP bundles its own HP Palette, a creative software toolkit that includes a sketching and drawing app plus photo management, among other features. Anyway, that high-fidelity OLED panel plus the pen input bodes extremely well for content creation.Įlsewhere, HP has gone with its usual audio partner Bang & Olufsen for the Spectre’s quad-speaker sound system, there’s a fingerprint reader for easy security, plus an 83WHr battery. There isn’t a slot in the chassis for the pen, but there are magnets on the right-hand side of the display where the pen can be located when not in use. HP also bundles its own HP Rechargeable Tilt Pen with MPP2.0 (Microsoft Pen Protocol 2.0) support.
The Spectre's chassis is slim, but there's still decent performance on offer.
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