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I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here taking a look at the HP spectre 13 X 2 now that X 2 means unlike the regular Spectre 13 which was a 13-inch ultrabook we liked a lot this is a hybrid so that means it actually comes apart we've got the laptop mode right here you put this little switch right here over and then BOOM look at that I've got a tablet and what really separates this from a lot of the other hybrids that we've seen is that this guy is a 13 inch screen it's very rare you see a 13 inch tablet or even a 13 inch hybrid I really like the idea of having a bigger screen in one of these it's great for movie watching it's great for presentations and it's big enough that you can use it as your full-time laptop all day every day you can't really do that with one of those you know a 10 inch or 11 inch hybrids now I like that you have a full 1920 by tangi screen here that's a small upgrade over the base price but for I think an extra $70 well worth it big keyboard typical HP style that works well I didn't love the touch pad that was a little bit of a deal killer for me it just was not sensitive enough it missed enough taps and swipes so I got frustrated using it I did like however that unlike a lot of other hybrids you get a decent amount of ports and connections on here you've got two USB in the base you've got an HDMI out in the base and you've got a micro SD in the screen and you've also got some pretty handy media controls you've got little volume control they fit right under your fingers on the base of the screen while you're holding it and that makes a lot easier to let's say turn on the volume while you're watching a movie but you need to do something else a lot of tablets and hybrids in particular make that kind of hard to get to this guy starts at 1099 we added a cup of upgrades to get the high-res screen and 802 dot 11ac Wireless that brought us up to just a little bit under 1200 bucks still pretty reasonable Core i5 128 gig SSD when you factor in that the spectres are very well made and that you have this pull apart nature to it it is a hybrid and still did not love the touch pad and the thing gets a little bit top-heavy because all the components are back here tilts back a little bit too easily not the best weighted in laptop mode you can however use pretty much all day long if you use the one battery that here and the second battery that's in the base that's one of the great things about hybrids you have this opportunity to squeeze an extra battery in there I'm done Akron and that is the HP Spectre 13 x2