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I'm that acronym we are here to take a look at the HP spectre 13 spectra is one of HP's high-end premium brands along with envy I think inspectors you generally get slightly more adventurous design and this new version looks and feels like a pretty standard 13-inch Ultrabook at first but there are a few cool things hiding out under the hood the first thing you're gonna notice is the touchpad is extra wide it's really one of the widest I've ever seen we're almost at the kind of that mythical point of the full wrist rest touchpad maybe someday but for right now you get an extra wide touchpad that has what they call control zones over here on the left and on the right and what those control zones let you do is interact with Windows 8 a little bit better because you know what Windows 8 really designed for you know touch screen use if you're using a touchpad or a mouse to try to use a lot of the features like calling up your charms bar like that or all your apps over here like that you know it can get pretty annoying so with the control zones like you do is if you click on one and there's your charms bar and you can scroll up and down it like that and the same thing over here from your most recent apps and of course you can just go back to the Windows 8 screen right there you know in in real world use you probably know how to do that that often but I like the fact that you have an extra-wide touch pad you can actually use all this scrolling space here back and forth and just give a lot more surface area so beyond that what I really like about the Spectre 13 is that the keyboard really well done it's not too much different from other keyboards but it's just exactly the right combination of key size and key spacing and body size so you don't get a lot of dead space here I just felt really comfortable display also very bright and doesn't blow other ones out of the water but just you know no flaws no missteps no mistakes there and the whole package together now it's night starts at $9.99 and that's perfectly reasonable for an upscale filming machine with an Intel Core i5 but 128 gig SSD a 1080p touchscreen and a backlit keyboard and you also get this really nice wide touchpad I'll give you a little hint for $70 more you can upgrade the screen to I think a 2560 by 1440 screen a better than HD screen that 70 bucks I would probably throw into this guy I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the HP Spectre 13