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hey guys this is Austin and this is one of the thinnest and most powerful laptops you can buy this is the HP Spectre x-360 and huge hello to HP for sponsoring this video so if we open up the second box which i've got to say is actually really nicely done we have the laptop it's so I'm actually curious is this real aluminum it looks like it oh yeah that's real metal I actually like the brush metal finish on the side here the entire laptop feels very sturdy considering how thin it is also included in the box is the HP active stylus so the idea here is that now I do you have the sort of flexibility that you get with being able to flip the screen around but also does have what hopefully should be a pretty decent stylus that comes in the box I really do like the way this computer looks having an aluminum chassis and pretty much aluminium everywhere you look in touch feels nice and also having something like a glass trackpad really does make it feel like a much more premium product in addition to the pair of Thunderbolt 3 ports you also have a fingerprint sensor on the side you've got the volume rocker and on the flip side now that do we have a standard full size USB port but you also get the headphone jack power button as well as on micro SD card slots this really is then so something that keeps jumping out to me is that the thickest part of the chassis is only barely thick enough to actually support a full sized USB port the new Spectre x-360 starts at eleven hundred and fifty dollars but the model I have here is twelve fifty and comes with like Core i7 8550 you eight gigabytes of RAM and a 256 gig SSD because this guy is running the new 8th gen processors it really does transform it from being a normal ultra book to something that feels a lot faster one of my big issues with previous thin enlight laptops was that while they had great battery life performance was just decent however with these new 8th gen processors that have a quad core chip inside it actually makes a huge difference to how fast these things feel especially when you're doing stuff like heavy multitasking it absolutely can keep up with a desktop what you're still getting the great battery life that you would expect out of an ultrabook and you can absolutely see that in the benchmarks and Geekbench noise is this completely destroyed last generation Core i5 2 nice 7s but it really is just not that far off from hiring gaming laptops as well as desktops if you need even more this guy's available with up to 16 gigs of ram and a one terabyte SSD and if you opt for the 15 inch version of the X 360 it also has dedicated NVIDIA MX 150 graphics this version of the spy x360 comes with a 13.3 inch 1080p IPS display covered in Gorilla Glass but there is also a 4k option I'm sure the 4k looks great but if I could you gotta say the 1080p is not bad either and personally especially on a 13-inch laptop I kinda prefer 1080p as a nice sweet spot between screen resolution as well as battery life as far as the battery goes the x360 has a 60 watt hour battery which combined with the ATM processor and 1080p display means that getting through a full day of use without the charger shouldn't be too difficult so hv claims that you can get up to 16 hours of battery on a charge and that combined with the fast charging power adapter means the battery life really isn't a problem with this guy when it comes to a Windows 10 laptop a touch screen really is the way to go so a lot of the time I use the keyboard and trackpad but so often it's just helpful to be able to reach up and touch the screen now because this is the x360 version of the spectre we also have a fully adjustable display so we can flip it around to use it in display mode you also can flip it upside down and use it in tent mode and because it's such a thin and light laptop you can use it in tablet mode most of the time when it comes to a 13-inch laptop a tablet mode isn't too useful but because this guy's so thin in life it actually works pretty well here and that is especially helpful when you use the HP Pen I am finding no means an artist but I've got to say that doodling with the pen is actually pretty fun of course you can use it for more serious stuff than color I mean sketching stuff like notes would be really helpful here but it's a definitely a nice thing to have included with the laptop the rest of the input is pretty good as well so the keyboard has great travel it has good spacing I like the backlighting the only thing that slightly tripped me up was the home page up and page down keys on the right side of the keyboard but ones that get used to that it's no problem now the trackpad is decent so hardware wise it does have a glass surface and the tracking is pretty smooth however the problem is it doesn't have Windows precision drivers something that really jumps out to me is the audio now this has a set of Bang & Olufsen speakers a lot of time branding doesn't make a huge difference on a laptop but this guy is rocking a full four speaker setup okay that is really good so now these are a fair bit of base but there's just a ton of volume and it really doesn't distort either this feature also has a 1080p webcam you guys can just the quality for yourselves I think it's fine for a video call but you probably won't want to start a new YouTube channel with it the specter has support for Windows hello with both a fingerprint sensor as well as an IR camera for facial recognition no actually really do like the fingerprint sensor well it is a little bit odd to have it on the side of the device it's much preferable to not having a fingerprint sensor at all you know like a certain thousand-dollar phone or something with Windows 10 on board there's also Cortana supports what is the meaning of life I've led portable laptops like this Spectre x-360 for a long time but now that you can get quad-core power while still keeping the battery life it makes them so so much more attractive again big shout-out to HP for making this video possible you guys want to check out this Spectre x-360 the link will be in the description you should also check out the holidays unbox channel over at youtube.com slash unboxed we can find some of the latest and greatest unboxings this holiday season anyway guys thank you so much for watching and I will catch you on the next one