5/31/2023 0 Comments Hp spectre![]() The x360’s touchpad is a perfect size and very clicky, responding quickly to Windows 11 gestures, including two-finger scrolling and pinch-to-zoom. The Spectre’s touchpad is centrally located right beneath the keyboard and features chrome-like, pale brass accents, which make the 4.9 x 3.1 touchpad stand out. My normal averages are 88 wpm with 91% accuracy, so I was within my normal range. The brightly backlit keyboard had me blasting away at a solid 87 words per minute during the test while averaging 93% accuracy. The keyboard layout on the Spectre x360 13.5 is excellent, with good travel between keys that even a person like myself with NFL linebacker-sized hands can enjoy. HP Spectre x360 13.5 (2022) keyboard and touchpad The Spectre reproduced the grinding guitar and lead singer Serj Tankian’s wide-ranging potent vocals with exuberant precision. The HP Spectre x360 13.5 does a fine job of reproducing audio crisply without distortion, regardless of the volume, and in my case, it’s always pushed to 100%. I then listened to System of Down’s “Toxicity,” and the vocals were reproduced with clarity and power as the driving guitar blasted into the audio space with rage god power that brings me absolute joy. I am always surprised when laptop makers can deliver solid bass in such a slim form factor. It doesn’t thump like a boombox, but the audio experience is excellent for a tiny laptop. That said, I fired up Spotify and listened to Meg Thee Stallion’s “Her.” The baseline hit immediately, and the Spectre’s speakers do a nice job of delivering rich, defined audio with clearly discernible bass, mids, and highs. Overall, it’s a very solid performing audio experience, with the Spectre x360 13.5 delivering quality audio output and solid mic performance during video chats. The Bang & Olufsen Audio Control software provides movie, music, voice presets an equalizer, and microphone noise cancellation for multiple or single speakers. The Spectre x360 13.5 arrives with quad bottom-firing Bang & Olufsen speakers that work in tandem with B&O audio controls that deliver a nice audio experience with both depth and clarity. The pen clings magnetically to the side of the screen, and there’s a special slot for it in the supplied laptop sleeve. I also used it to sketch and color while relaxing in my backyard. I found it very handy when dealing with multiple PDF documents that needed signing. The stylus works very well when signing documents or using it to sketch. The Spectre x360 comes with HP's rechargeable MPP 2.0 Tilt Pen, which is a 5.5-inch stylus with two buttons and a USB-C port for charging. The ThinkBook 14 S Yoga closed us out with an average of 313 nits of brightness. The Dell XPS 13 Plus came closest at 366 nits of brightness, with the Yoga 9i following with an average brightness of 352 nits. The Spectre x360 averaged 355 nits of brightness during testing, which fell below the 373-nit average. It bested the Dell XPS 13 (84.2%) and the Lenovo ThinkBook 14 S Yoga (76.2%), but like the rest, was left in the dust by (140.1%) Lenovo’s Yoga 9i Gen 7. We measured the Spectre's display with a colorimeter, and it covered 87.7% of the DCI-P3 color gamut, which fell a smidge below the mainstream laptop average of 89.7%. The Spectre’s display did an excellent job at rendering the color and capturing the slight tonal CGI effects that created natural shading to define musculature. I watched Marvel’s She-Hulk on Disney Plus, and the green-hued attorney at law looked resplendent. The 3:2 aspect ratio is really helpful when working on docs and makes the 13.5-inch display look much larger than it is. That crispy-clean image shone through while I was editing documents in Google Workspace, with the white backgrounds popping against the black texts. ![]() The HP Spectre x360 13.5’s 13.5-inch, 3000 x 2000-pixel resolution OLED touchscreen display is more vivid, bright, colorful, and crisper than deep-fried rolled tacos. The Spectre also comes with HP Sure View Reflect, which darkens up to 95% of the light coming from your screen to prevent people from peeking at it from the side. If you leave or get up from your laptop, the webcam can lock the laptop and will wake it up when you come back using the Windows Hello facial recognition login feature. There is HP's GlamCam software, which can detect if a person is looking over your shoulder and will alert you or blur the entire screen. To cover your security needs, HP includes a fingerprint reader, microphone mute button, and webcam shutter on the Spectre x360 13.5, and the webcam has even more advanced security features. For those in need of extra ports, the best docking stations will do the trick. On the right are two Thunderbolt 4 ports and a USB-A port.
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