HP Spectre X360 16" Review - It's BIGGER but Better?

[@MatthewMoniz]

What do you guys think of the HP Spectre X360 16" ?

[@keyboard_g]

This looks good. As a linux user, I would want an AMD version and 32GB of memory.

[@togoxo]

it is not bios related at all most hp laptops come with the bios set up to run the cpu as fast as it can and give it all the power it wants. all of the slowing down happens inside windows. so the hp command center and my hp app or whatever they have can act really weird. you can just reinstall windows or run the two removal scripts that are located inside the intel extreme tuning utility install folder. then that performance or cool things wont be available anymore but all of the power limits will be removed and fans will run only run up to the max of the default profile. so the cpu and gpu will use as much power it wants but it wont cut from. the cpu gpu power balance wont be an issue it will still do the balancing correctly. this means if you run some cpu only stuff the cpu can run insanely hast and you will get the fastest result ever from that model of cpu (inside the cooling limitations of course) (sorry for commenting this more than once i just wanted you to see it)

[@TheNewSynchronicity]

is this really the case?@@togoxo i have the 16" and i really want to figure out how to make this feel punchier than it currently does. Its been a bit shocking with how poor the battery life is as compared to how it is touted. Additionally performance is really not great either :(

[@togoxo]

@@TheNewSynchronicity for the battery life try disabling the battery optimization thing in the bios settings. that feature limits the battery to how much it wants usually. you can just use it without that that feature it just limits the battery to preserve its life. its not a problem to have it off.

[@togoxo]

@@TheNewSynchronicity doing the things i said for the intel xtu limiting is great everything will still work great but the long term power limit will still be at the intel’s tdp but you i dont know if this will wotk for you cus i have envy, you can use OmenMon to set it to performance mode and then you can just quit omenmon. that and no intel xtu will enable it to use as much power as it can and it will not slow down till it hits the thermal limit

[@Parallel_]

That webcam is actually really impressive. Did a double take to make sure it was the webcam.

[@the-voyager-in-me]

but the sound / microphone not that good

[@Mr.aAdDies]

A little contrasty but yea it's good

[@Burbanana]

MY DUDE, thanks for the lap test, that helps A LOT

[@dianamuurithi243]

You actually did what I asked😂speaker comparison. Thank you Mat

[@MatthewMoniz]

Youre welcome!

[@Johnmims65]

​@MatthewMoniz would you recommend the hp spectre 16 over the m3 pro 16inch MacBook pro?

[@VNaik713]

@@Johnmims65 I’m comparing those two as well! So I’d be interested to know which you’d recommend as well

[@Johnmims65]

@@VNaik713 I ended up with the MacBook Air base model m3 13.6”

[@Johnmims65]

​@@MatthewMoniz I just ordered the ASUS - ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024) 16" OLED 240Hz Gaming Laptop - Intel Core Ultra 9 - 16GB LPDDR5X - GeForce RTX 4070 - 1TB SSD - Eclipse Gray which cost $1699.99 thinks to the sale at best buy. Should I keep that when it arrives or should I return and get the lenovo yoga pro 9i from bestbuy when it's available or get the hp spectre 16 with 32gb of ram and 4050 which is on sale now for $1699.99? I can't afford more than $1699.99. Like will the asus be reliable

[@디아블로2아마존공략]

This was the best review ever. One thing I was wondering about was that the geekbench score of Spectre 16 was lower than that of Spectre 14. From this video, we found out pl1 problem spectre 16 has under 30w pl1 setting. So Hp have to make spectre 16 pl1 to 45w. Notebookcheck benchmark has mean 155h have the best performance at 45w. 😊😊

[@Mythos675]

Do you know if they have changed something?

[@albocaj5975]

Hey Matt, the other review on KZbin reportedly HP will push an update which it's supposed to fix performance tests & more CPU issues.

[@AhmadQ.81]

I be waiting for that short vedio. Thanks for the great efforts 🎉🎉

[@akarna69]

Will it still work if your printer ink runs out? 😄

[@bryans8656]

I appreciate your honest reviews Matt. This one clearly is not ready for prime time.

[@togoxo]

no you can run the intel xtu removal scripts that are in the intel xtu install folder and it will run as fast as it can. it will only be thermally limited wich means it will get up to the 90C's

[@sandman_slim4301]

I'm typing from this very device. My specific 2-and-1 being the 16 inch, 32 gigs ram, 1TB storage, and RTX 4050. Very happy with my purchase. The keyboard is FANTASTIC The Battery life is solid - I'm averaging around 10 hours on full charge. Downside - Finger prints love this screen and no micro SD slot is disappointing as the reviewer here rightly points out. But as a finance professional I admire the great big screen, ability to read newspapers, articles, and take notes in Tablet mode while also having a battery life that last's my full day of work. It was between this and the Dell XPS for me. But the 2-and-1 functionality made the decision for me.

[@exa4564]

Up to which GPU can you upgrade? Where I am looking to buy it, it either comes with a RTX 4050 laptop or Intel Arc Integrated GPU. From online GPU comparisons it looks like the Intel Arc GPU is better? Do you have any experience with heavy GPU workloads such as gaming on this laptop?

[@keagm13]

I also am a finance professional, and I just bought the XPS 15 OLED today… but I’m wondering if I made the right choice

[@FarmingLifeatLaForge]

​@@exa4564which GPU did you end up getting? I'm looking at buying this and am wondering the same thing

[@exa4564]

@@FarmingLifeatLaForge I got the RTX 4050. I chose it since there was currently a decent sale and I do like to play video games on my laptop. From my experience, the integrated graphics are more than enough for normal work loads such as Microsoft Office applications, video streaming etc. However, if you do have tasks that need heavier GPU loads like gaming or video processing it is very handy to have 32GB of RAM and a good laptop GPU. Battery life is decent (Personally I only use the RTX 4050 when actively charging, otherwise you drain your battery in like 30 minutes). Can use it for a good 5 hours with medium tasks (aka working with multiple applications and browsers open) and up to 10h if just watching an offline movie or similar tasks. If battery life is a big concern to you, I'd choose one of the newer laptops with Snapdragon chips or a MacBook (unless some of Apple's restrictive nature is a problem for you. It certainly was for me when looking for a new laptop).

[@FarmingLifeatLaForge]

@@exa4564 thank you very much for that feedback! It's for video editing but I'm now also looking at the dell inspiron 16" 2-in-1 so very confused what to go for but your feedback helps 👍

[@shuris_vibranium]

Any thoughts on this device in comparison to the Lenovo Yoga 9i 16"?

[@alpacamale2909]

I like your take on not needing a numpad. if you work with numbers a lot the best choice is an usb mechanical numpad on the left side.

[@nikhilpandey3985]

Exactly num pads are very dangerous and responsible for billions of Dollars of losses for financial firms. This is one of the reasons of numpads going away.

[@alguem..]

Wow great news, ordered the 16 inch model after watching 14 inch reviews. I hope this issue doesn’t happen with all units or it’s at least fixable

[@sirhamsterlot7736]

how is it?

[@abdulazizmansurov2904]

Hey man I shortlisted 3 laptops, Asus ROG zephyrus G16, HP spectre x360 14/16. I appreciate your review it helps me to decide between them. I am gonna hold a little bit longer so more reviews can come in. In short Thank you for your reviews

[@penssytestsy9581]

Might wanna consider the upcoming dell xps's too, they look really clean.

[@ibraxhimx]

@@penssytestsy9581 but the screen refresh rate is disgusting

[@noahp8422]

⁠@@penssytestsy9581sadly these laptops ended up having terrible I/O rip dell

[@Burbanana]

will you contact hp about the performance issue? That's not normal.. It doesn't seem to be able to hit full load

[@MatthewMoniz]

They are already aware I mentioned it before putting out the review. I’ll definitely submit a short once it’s fixed. Thanks for joining by the way! Much appreciated

[@Burbanana]

@@MatthewMoniz you only have yourself to thank! great content man

[@BanishedByNightmares]

The question is, did they improve their hinges?

[@Mythos675]

Did you find out anything?

[@geraldhenrickson7472]

I have a four year old Spectre 15" (15.4?) and the hinges are still flawless. I was unaware of any hinge issues and am happy with the folding mechanism. I hope someone else chimes in on this question as I am close to ordering a 2024 model 16".

[@BanishedByNightmares]

@@geraldhenrickson7472 well, mine one got broken with in first 2 years and it happened while the laptop lid was already open and suddenly the glue detached from front glass and lid balance got out and the whole hinge from left side got broken. All that happens so fast I couldn't even get to support it.

[@loiuls5578]

Are you sure about the battery? You say it can only last 5 hours, but HP store say it can last 13 hours, and a couple of professional review i've found stated that in their test, it lasted around 11/12 hours, which is good enough to use it for a whole day. Are you sure about the graphic card? You say it is in the average, but from what I've read from those same professional review, they say the graphic card is really bad, that it is way under what pc with a RTX 4050 usually can do. From your experience, is the pen given with the pc is similar to an apple pen? Or is it more similar to a 3DS pen? And lastly, I can't figure out in my mind how much 40db is, but I've read everywhere that this pc made a lot of noise all the time, is it what it means? I know I ask a lot of things, it would be cery kind to anwser what can be anwsered. I've been looking for a pc for quite some times, due to my major, I need both powerful graphic card and powerful CPU, plus, I need to be able to draw, so need a 2 in 1 pc or to pay for both a pc and an iPad. I have a budget of 2000€ at max, so I'm hesitating between either this pc for 1700, a victus at 1000 + an ipad, or an Omen at 1700 and I learn to use the mouse to draw. I'm a bit afraid that those 1000€ pc will deteriorate and die in a couple of years only, I can't afford to spend 1000€ every 2 years (BTW, i say "professional review" as in "review made by people specialized in this", not as in "you're not a professional")

[@hazele.abanto4566]

If you need a powerful laptop that you can draw on, try checking out the Acer Conceptd 7 Ezel, it has intel core i7, rtx 3080 and supports EMR tech so you can use any EMR pens like Wacom One Pen, Staedtler Noris Pen, etc. Check out the Acer page if you wanna see the full specs.

[@jzee95]

It might be a stupid question but did you put the laptop on charge while bench marking it? I have specter 15 2021 and it needs to be on charge if you want to utilize the full power of the laptop on performance mode.

[@MatthewMoniz]

Of course laptops are always plugged into the wall. This ain’t my first rodeo :P

[@HDRPC]

My friend purchased 16" spectre 2024 and he said battery life is One and a half days. HP claims 15 hours of battery life using "MobileMark 25" which is more than 14" I think it has software issues.

[@gabennewell8494]

Was that with the arc gpu or nvidia??

[@HDRPC]

@@gabennewell8494 his laptop has RTX 4050. Wait for Andrew Marc David review.

[@lars2894]

Found the HP sales rep

[@mohitaggarwal5153]

What about hp spectre 16 aa0665tu model, if we don't need graphics card

[@gsquared1997]

How do you think the integrated arc gpu does in comparison to the 4050?

[@johnl871]

How could you tell the manufacture date BEFORE purchasing from the HP site? It is the HP Spectre x360 2-in-1 Laptop 16-f2097 build.And would this build have the update? Is there a slot to add more ram? Thanks.

[@nitro8003]

Got the 2023 model with arc 370m gpu, battery life is in the 6-8 hour’s ish, but powerful laptop with beautiful 4k oled screen.

[@janmarkowicz4633]

I have very bad experience with terrible coil whine /static noise in HP laptops. Can you hear something similar in your unit?

[@tinycontractor]

battery life is a complete deal breaker. btw, I've checked the HP website and this unit doesn't come with a pen

[@welldonefromhereon]

yea doesn't make sense..hopefully things can be fixed with an update....fingers crossed lol

[@tinycontractor]

@@welldonefromhereon i don't think any software updates can add two or three hours to the battery life.

[@Jeremy-oo7gq]

Do these performance issues also apply on the 16 inch model without the RTX4050?

[@hidddenpower]

please make comparison video to this and asus rog flow x16

[@LearningAndGrowingInLife]

Between the 14 and 16 inch variant of this spectre, which one would you recommend/go for?

[@FarmingLifeatLaForge]

Could you do a comparison between this and the Dell inspiron 16" 2-in-1 They seem very similar and would be great to know how they compare practically. Can't find any comparison video on here

[@OmniverousLawnClippings]

Is the charging port soldered to the motherboard?? That has absolutely screwed me on my current laptop.

[@Jimmyfly215]

how do the specters compare to the new windows laptops with the 14th gen intel? any recommendations for other manufacturers? a 16 inch screen would be nice.

[@tarikhulmahfudz7829]

3:40 is haptic material ? I'm confused

[@MatthewMoniz]

Yes it’s a haptic touchpad

[@simpleman9306]

Hardworking Matt! When I am buying a new top laptop, I won't get it without your recommendation!

[@MatthewMoniz]

Thanks man I appreciate it! Always happy to help

[@lisaelizabeth9195]

Got one but it was overheating and making bios updates regularly and freezing until one day it never came on again. The screen kept showing the blue screen and error messages. 😢

[@Stuartone7]

I was thinking of buying this laptop to upgrade from my 2016 model, but after watching this, im not too sure not due to reasons specified in the video. Can anyone comment whether these issues have been resolved with this laptop??

[@geraldhenrickson7472]

The link you provide seems to be for the integrated graphics version. I was under the impression you were describing dedicated graphics. As always I could be completely wrong. Just a heads up. Thanks for the review.

[@Ibrahimhoodk-ni1pg]

another reviewer also stated the the overall CPU performance was indeed worse than the 14 inch

[@LuisGutierres-d2f]

I know it’s been a month but did you end up making a short to the video seeing as this ended with you saying don’t buy it yet?

[@navixaxa5023]

Liked the previous Spectres. The design and looks, I mean. Looked far more stunning.

[@WondyKnows]

Even it tho it does has 2 type c port does only one type c port can used to charge?

[@stephenkbolton]

My guess is that since the battery is the same as the 14" they are pulling performance back a bit to keep battery life up. Would've been nice to put in a larger battery

[@MatthewMoniz]

My contact at HP just emailed me earlier today and its in fact a CPU throttling issue with certain workloads. They are working on a fix and will push an update out

[@albocaj5975]

​@@MatthewMonizI see. If this were a pinned comment up top would give people some peace & will rather wait for this update reel 🙂👍🏼

[@7dvish]

İ need to buy urgently im a graphic designer which one should i get?

[@maykz2127]

no HDMI port in 14 inch version

[@LaciBarzo]

I cannot understand the reason behind no sd card slot with OLED display.. this should be a crime.. It would've been a perfect laptop for creators if it had sd card slot.. what a shame

[@thewolfofgod3908]

Dongle?

[@LaciBarzo]

@@thewolfofgod3908 no thank you. I don't want anything hanging from my laptop when I'm traveling..

[@young-precious7795]

Does the spectre 15 come with an Sd card slot?

[@americangulag]

That's a nice table you have there.

[@MatthewMoniz]

Why thank you!

[@wsxol1]

Great Review, hey i think you got the review model in the blue color, because the black variant has golden accents on it

[@meepmorp1359]

Nah man that's the black version, it was last years spectre that had the accents (this year looks a lot better imo)

[@omegamalkior1874]

If you're down to solving the performance mystery, with Throttlestop you can see what the PL1 and PL2 are in the TPL menu by default and crank them to theoretical max, but HP always locks down the PL1's, so you'll probably bypass the soft limit on PL1 but not the hard one. On my Spectre 16 2021 it's PL1'd hard at 40w, but I suspect they should've raised that cap much much higher since the Spectre 14.0 can do 36w by now

[@MatthewMoniz]

Ya I spoke to HP they are aware and have confirmed the CPU is throttling during certain workloads. They are working on a fix

[@megawren368]

​@MatthewMoniz so there's a chance thus will be as.performant as the 14"???

[@ZEYADMOHAMED-ko4uy]

Which is better this or hp spectre 14-Ef2013Dx

[@Kadoku_]

Thanks a lot. I'm just thinking about buying this laptop.

[@theangeldesu]

Please sir can you review the Galaxy book 3 series and if possible the book 4 series too I'll be grateful cuz I really want to see how it stacks up to the competition ❤

[@epos_rising]

Thanks for the thorough presentation. I am also looking for something very portable. For 4K-5K video editing in davinci and large video exports, would you rather go with this one or with lenovo yoga pro 9i 32GB RAM ? (If macbook is not an option)

[@HarshChavan2211]

What would you suggest, go for the 16" with integrated Arc GPU or the one with 4050? I don't really play GPU intensive games that much (just Valorant and CS)...

[@MFHRaptor]

It depends if you prioritize battery life or not. Obviously, the GPU version consumes more battery.

[@HarshChavan2211]

@@MFHRaptor I think getting 7+ hours of battery is just about enough for the day for me and both of them tick that box so...

[@HarshChavan2211]

Also I just want to know which one is better for its price, since in my country the 4050 varient costs 2400$ and the intel Arc one costs 2100$. Is it worth getting the 4050 over the Arc even though I won't really be utilising the GPU much?

[@nikhilpandey3985]

Depends on the use case AI, ML models training or video editing or GPU use cases then better to have 4050 version else buy regular one. More than the price it’s the use case which matters.

[@Faizaanlol]

@@HarshChavan2211 what did u decide on?

[@CDbiggen]

No SD card, unreliable gaming performance, awful battery, no numpad. Basically the complete opposite of what the Spectre series used to be. I still use my Spectre from 2019 for everything, real shame it has taken steps back for me.

[@Quityapping]

This aint a gaming pc bro 💀 it handles very demanding game very well still with the nvidia 4050 its not supposed to give you 300 fps on fortnite while being on full graph 💀 And you Can't complain about it not having a numpad thats not an obligation its just something that some people like you prefer to use but its not something bad not having a num pad are you gonna tell me mac's are bad because they dont ???

[@CDbiggen]

@@Quityapping , oh dude stop defending a product like your life depended on it. I just skimmed over that shit. To me it's shit, that's all. Opinion.

[@tommye9251]

I'm looking for a 16" 2 in 1 with a graphics card. What is an alternative to this one? Touch-Screen with pin support.Thanks

[@hazele.abanto4566]

Acer Conceptd 7 Ezel

[@yolenglun1352]

What is could be the battery life of a 16 with Intel GPU?

[@141290KAPIL]

Can someone please suggest which colour looks better for spectre - blue or black?

[@Combatant_Gentleman]

Did that Bios update ever happen? Strongly condsidering upgrading from my 2018 Spectre.

[@MatthewMoniz]

Not yet! They are almost done fixing it. They sent out an email to us a few days ago that it will be out shortly. They said they want to make sure they get it right.

[@megawren368]

Oohhhh, this might fix the performance issue?1

[@naryvisual]

@@MatthewMoniz Oh nice, so, now, it's a good thing to buy it ?

[@PixogenPixels]

Its out as of 2 days ago

[@naryvisual]

​@@PixogenPixels Oh nice ! Does fix the problems have the HP Spectre x360 "16 ?

[@shalom399]

what's the differences between lg gram pro 2in1 and this one？😂thank you

[@adammsfamily]

How do you put the pen in pairing mode for Bluetooth pairing?

[@AreYouKenneth]

Should I get the version with Nvidia GPU if I'm not going to use it to play? (maybe just learn some Blender)

[@sh4unity204]

Is it 16:10 aspect ratio?

[@MatthewMoniz]

Yup!

[@spirit7125]

Hi, could you kindly tell me if the SSD can be changed? and please the precise name of the model and how much read/write speed it has, I saw on the official website that it is TLC and it worried me a bit that it might be slow, would you be very kind if you give me this info thanks

[@technologygardening]

hi.. I am using this laptop for last 4 months. They will send laptop with hynix ssd. You can use any m.2 nvme. I replaced hynix with Samsung 990 pro 2tb. And it's working quite good. Recently received few updates from intel and few days back received update for firmware from hp.

[@KXNGSLOW]

I love it irregardless of performance and battery issues.

[@stephanthurn1104]

Samsung Book Ultra 4 Original this? Van you help me?

[@Waltkat]

I have the 2019 version of this laptop and I still love it, even though I just bought a new Lenovo Legion 7i with higher specs. Many times when I'm going to sit at a coffee shop for awhile, I prefer to bring my HP Spectre rather than the Lenovo because the Spectre will run circles around the Lenovo when it comes to battery life. Like three times or more longer. I guess that's the difference between having a i7 CPU and NVidia 1050 GPU compared to a i9 and 4070. On top of that, the HP is noticeably lighter. The main negative for my version of the Spectre is that when playing games, the poor little 1050 GPU is working its arse off and you can feel it in the amount of heat it generates. Like hot enough where you don't want it sitting on your lap. Unless you like 3rd degree burns. A secondary effect from this is shorter battery life before needing to plug in. I get about 2.5 hours of game time before needing to plug in. The Lenovo gets only 2.5 hours just surfing the web or watching YT videos. When playing games, it gets about 1.5 hours.

[@907nvl]

Excellent review 👍👍

[@ooharloo]

Thank you for reviewing what really matters. The sticker placement is a make or break feature. Better sticker = more FPS.

[@sidratulamintonmoy6919]

Please make a comparison video between Samsung Galaxy book 3 pro 360 & HP Spectre intel core i7 x360 14inch (2024)

[@gloriahernandez-hb8mc]

me la recomiendas la puedo usar para traiding.

[@P.S.-dv3du]

Does It work with passive pen?

[@KingOfNy9]

What’s the model # for the pen?

[@elalemanpaisa]

Numpads kill the ergomics you can't type centered even the trackpad is shifted off. No laptop should ever have it. if you are an account get a Bluetooth numpad which will be more comfy anyway

[@josephle2381]

Some people like numpad layouts. Everyone is different🤷‍♂️

[@Rippone]

You are making a very good point Sir!

[@Daktari_Muziki]

Some people like me have software (Musescore and Sibelius) which have shortcuts with numpads

[@togoxo]

it is not bios related at all most hp laptops come with the bios set up to run the cpu as fast as it can and give it all the power it wants. all of the slowing down happens inside windows. so the hp command center and my hp app or whatever they have can act really weird. you can just reinstall windows or run the two removal scripts that are located inside the intel extreme tuning utility install folder. then that performance or cool things wont be available anymore but all of the power limits will be removed and fans will run only run up to the max of the default profile. so the cpu and gpu will use as much power it wants but it wont cut from. the cpu gpu power balance wont be an issue it will still do the balancing correctly. this means if you run some cpu only stuff the cpu can run insanely hast and you will get the fastest result ever from that model of cpu (inside the cooling limitations of course)

[@吴宇轩-n6v]

Have you test this method on this model?

[@togoxo]

@@吴宇轩-n6v no but they mostly work the same way it isnt like they completely rewriting bioses for each products

[@MatthewMoniz]

Its 100% bios related. I just received an email from my contact at HP. They confirmed that the CPU is incorrectly throttling during certain workloads and are working on a fix.

[@aryavchanduka8861]

Please test a few key games and examine the rog g16 (2024).Please review the 4070 device with 32 GB of RAM if at all possible.

[@mandioca3210]

I'm quite shocked by that battery life. Was expecting it to be a bit better than the 14", not a lot worse.

[@rafaelmateodev]

I wouldn't buy the nvidia version. The integrated GPU version has way better battery life and you pay a lot less. Enough to get a used xbox or something.

[@avalagum7957]

Yeah, I need another USB type A port (mouse & keyboard). Actually, I need 2 more USB type A ports as my mechanical keyboard uses 2 of them.

[@arnulforamirez4836]

is the ssd upgradeable

[@e21big]

"I am not saying don't buy it... but don't buy it"

[@AreYouKenneth]

¿So ARC performed better than RTX 4050?

[@shemkipruto4394]

Does it have a finger print sensor ??

[@technologygardening]

yes, integrated with power button.

[@michaelbrown192]

Contradicting information regarding the battery, according to notebookcheck it's great, you sound like it's really bad, in the end one is confused. Also: - can you stream a 4k youtube video full screen with it staying silent by silent I mean the fans are off - does the dedicated gpu get turned off if you are not gaming, any optimus support? - does it have g-sync? Actually, notebookcheck reviews one without the nvidia gpu so that might explain the difference in battery life which leads me to believe it does not have optimus and it's just running constantly, so buy one without nvidia if you care about battery.

[@cag19549]

This model and the 14 don't have the same ports. The 14 doesn't have an HDMI port.

[@adriano8809]

Mine didn’t come with a pen

[@Faizaanlol]

is the battery life good?

[@adriano8809]

@@Faizaanlol it should be 10 hours, not the best but surely very good considering that it comes with an oled screen.

[@Faizaanlol]

@@adriano8809 do u have the 16" x360 with an integrated graphics?

[@adriano8809]

@@Faizaanlol yes, the most expensive version

[@joukenienhuis6888]

Mine didn't come with a pen or any other extras. Very weird that empty spot in the box

[@TheSpamabys]

To me the microphones still sound much worse compared the ones found in MacBooks. Especially with Voice Isolation turned on it’s not even close. The microphones in the Spectre have this typical hollow laptop microphone sound that makes online conferences even more exhausting. It’s not entirely terrible. But with Voice Isolation activated on my MacBook Air I have to use headphones to hear the difference between the build in mics and my Elgato Wave usb microphone and that is very good. It‘s a pity that the Windows side of the laptop world still hasn’t caught up by now… Are there any Windows laptops that are actually competitive in this regard?

[@benjijmason]

Is the battery user replaceable?

[@no1g8tor08]

Yes. You just need to open it up and replace it. Simple.

[@benjijmason]

@no1g8tor08 what I mean is. Is it a sealed unit or can the battery come out with a clip or something

[@no1g8tor08]

Don’t even know of a newer Laptop you can replace a battery. No external Ones anymore. At least high end ones

[@karlInSanDiego]

Ports aren't identical. The 14" doesn't include chassis HDMI port, but the dongles give that.

[@joukenienhuis6888]

But that is not included standard. In the Dutch version it surely is not, samd with the pen

[@AbdullahZubair1]

I think the color not nightfull black!! It’s a slate blue 🤍

[@sandeepreehal1018]

Those have to be some serious software issues for that bad battery and performance

[@Mysterious_pere]

Can I use it for Gaming?

[@杨建-l1v]

当然

[@nsns1996]

Battery life is letdown.. not good for a brand new CPU. Another user mentioned same for the new galaxy book 4. Minimum 10 hours is a must to leave the charger home. and why hp can't make it smaller, like Samsung chargers 1 cable only. Thanks for the review

[@vardanrathi7777]

Should revisit once the Bios updates

[@MatthewMoniz]

I will!

[@Mythos675]

Did they update it yet?

[@jonnymakers9560]

I purchased this but now returning it. The nvidia graphics 4050 is ONLY used when gaming or other graphic intensive task. The default and normal use is the Intel ARC graphics. So I have no way of changing this to run ONLY on nvidia. I was surprised by this, you basically have two GPUs. Why?

[@strongebow]

in the bios ? normaly you can diseable motherboard gpu.

[@Old_Hickory_Jackson]

Older gem design was so much more beautiful, wish they've kept it

[@lidwineelisabeth1056]

But as you are left handed, like me, it is just arghhh that the pen is stored on the right side -_-

[@TrusteftTech]

Hey is that a laptop on your lap or are you just happy to see eh someone? I am not a comic. As i mentioned on your Instagram post, where is the gold? Show me the gold! FFS! The prices here are insane, 2200+ euros for 16GB of RAM, 512GB of SSD and the igpu. You can get a laptop, perhaps not a 2 in 1, for half the price with a dedicated GPU which will smoke this. I like HP, but r u kidding? I am not getting into the performance issue. Great video man.

[@JammyWhite-ri4sk]

The TDP of 4050 only 45w？ That's so weird

[@bigeric123]

it is designed for content creation, not for gaming. but for 4050, even you push 60+W, you only can get 10% extra performance or less

[@Unknown28219]

sorry to say this but the macbook destroyed the spectre in terms of base but overall they pretty much sound the same

[@NeerajManjunath]

that looks gorgeous

[@andyH_England]

I would buy a tablet and laptop combo rather than this 360 hybrid at this price. I still need to get these 2-in-1s, especially 16 inches, that are not practical to use as handheld tablets. The battery life and performance are subpar but hopefully will improve with an update, but even then, it just runs off the mill. An easy pass.

[@perfectlyimperfect953]

Which touchscreen laptop would you recommend? Just curious for your opinion 🤗