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HP's got a new hybrid that's built for tough situations I'm Danny Ecklund and this is the HP Elite x2 it starts off as an 11-point 6 inch Windows 8 tablet you can get it with a 1366 by 768 resolution or an upgraded 1920 by 1080 model and like a lot of other super thin systems that we're going to see in 2015 it run Intel's new core M processor as part of the new Broadwell family and while it's not quite as fast or powerful as your standard Core i3 or Core i5 it's meant to run in systems that are very thin very light and in this case like many of them run fanless ly which is great for keeping things quiet and cool this is a lot more rugged than a lot of other hybrids because it's meant for commercial purposes they test it to some mil spec standards and it's got things like a TPM chip and Intel vPro technology and a smart card slot built into one of the keyboard bases and these are all things that your IT department may require even if you as an end-user are generally not aware of them the tablet can plug into several accessories including two different keyboards one is a traditional sort of clamshell bigger tablet keyboard that has some decent ports and connections on it the other one is a thinner more surface like travel keyboard there's even a whi gay wireless docking station those had a little black cube that makes it easy to connect to your bigger desktop monitor a mouse and keyboard the x2 is going to start at 899 in the US when it's available in late January I'm Dan Ahmed and that's the HP Elite x2