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how can you put a new twist on a very familiar design i'm dan ackerman and we're here taking a look at the brand new HP spectre x360 now the x360 line is something HP is done a couple of models in and it's basically their version of dare I say the Lenovo yoga design we call it the the fold back hinge or it goes all the way back 360 degrees like that so even though we've seen this design before in terms of being able to fill the hinge back HP says it's version is new because it has a new hinge design that has a set of interlocking gears on each side which means that it opens very smoothly and evenly and it stays in whatever position you put it and certainly playing around with it it feels very stiff and stable and very smooth so you can start out like it's a clamshell laptop you can flip it around I call this sort of a kiosk mode good for presentations almost like you have an extra monitor here some people can flip it around like a table tent like this I pretty much never do that and then of course if you fold it down like this then you have a tablet you still have the touch pan and the keyboard here but they're deactivated when it's folded like this and of course the touchpad is one of the extra-wide style ones we've seen on HP laptops lately it's nice to have that extra real estate even though it's got a very premium look and feel the spectre x360 starts out pretty reasonably 899 for a current gen core i5 cpu with a 128 gig SSD hard drive and 4 gigs of ram this is a step up model with twice the ram and twice the hard drive space but that's only 999 that's pretty good later on they're going to have a model with a quad HD touchscreen this is just a regular 1920 x 1080 but that's pretty much all you need I'm their neck i'm going to edit the HP spectre x360