The HP Spectre x360
The HP Spectre x360 convertible notebook is an impressive machine in your hands. It is built around a 13.3-in 1080p IPS LED backlit display that is multi-touch enabled and has the ability to fold back on itself to convert into a tablet. Our model, the 13-w013dx includes a Core i7-7500U Kaby Lake processor, a 256GB NVMe SSD, 8GB of DDR3 memory as well as 802.11ac wireless.
And it’s sexy too – the HP Spectre x360 combines an all metal construction with narrow bezels around the display, an incredibly thin profile and the updated, modern HP logo. When I took this notebook to some meetings on the road, the other media and analysts in the room took notice; not something that you see with modern PCs often.
The HP Spectre 13-w013dx has a modern connectivity implementation as you can see, only including a single USB Type-A port and two USB Type-C /Thunderbolt 3 ports, either of which can be used for charging and display output.
Our competitor is another HP Spectre x360 convertible, this time with the model number 13-4103dx. While this machine has a slightly different design to it, including the older HP and Spectre logo, the hardware implementation is very similar to the new model above and that is what matters for our direct comparison.
I know many power users will love the additional connectivity of last year’s model (extra USB, HDMI and DisplayPort) but today’s story isn’t a review of these notebooks themselves. I’ll save that for a future date!
Hi. Thank you for the reply.
Hi. Thank you for the reply.
HP has his specs: AMD Quad-Core A10-9600P, 8GB, 256GB SSD, AMD Radeon R5, FreeDOS
Does it beat i5 (6th generation)>Asus F556UQ-XO528D / 15,6″ HD / Intel Core i5-6198DU / 8GB RAM / 500GB HDD / Geforce 940MX ?
The 7700HQ laptop CPU has a
The 7700HQ laptop CPU has a 45w TDP and it’s clocked at 2.8GHZ base / 3.8GHZ turbo. Pretty much the same clockspeed as a high end Haswell laptop CPU… maybe 15% faster, whoopie for a 3 generation gap.
Coffee Lake might actually bring something interesting to the table, but I’m really not holding my breath.
Perhaps 6-core laptop CPUs eventually, perhaps another 10% more clock for clock performance, but that’s about it.
AMD, might be able to match it. They’d have to release laptop CPUs that are more than 35w TDP for once in the last 5 years to be remotely competitive with Intel’s high end laptop CPUs..
Hi everyone! I came across
Hi everyone! I came across your converstaion while researching for what laptop to buy. I am not good at specs and technical stuff, and I’ve read some of your comments here.
I am torn between i5 (6th Gen) with NVIDIA GEforce 940MX (2gb) and AMD A9-9410 with Radeon R5 m430 (2gb)
These are the actual notebooks I am looking at:
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https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/hp+15+ba049ng+notebook/eqsqid/09bcef30-…
I’m choosing between the three. Basically, it will be my 2nd laptop as I have a macbook and I need to run some windows program for my studies and I don’t wanna run bootcamp all the time. Thank you so much for all your advise.
Intel’s 14nm+ was offering
Intel’s 14nm+ was offering lower power consumption and in a laptop this is important. So, the higher frequency of Kaby Lake and probably the more time it stays at boost speeds, offer all the extra performance you could expect.
Put Kaby Lake against Skylake on the desktop and you have a second Devil’s Canyon. The only difference is that now you have an optimized process, not better thermal paste.
The only real advantage of Kaby Lake series is probably the better codec support, especially HEVC.