Gadgetory

hey I'm Scott Stein and when it comes to buying a laptop at this point you might want to wonder can it turn into a tablet well also are there laptops that you want to look at that aren't necessarily in the area of consumer laptops that might be worth buying sometimes there are gems out there that are business targeted laptops the HP EliteBook revolve 810 was one of those ones I saw back at CES and you thought maybe this could be a contender because that's an 11.6 inch laptop that also happens to convert into a tablet it has a swivel screen flips around like this boom pop down and it's a tablet and it's not really a tablet in the sense of like a thin tablet that you might be used to this is point eight inches thick it's three pounds it's okay in one hand but this is really a laptop and it's got a sort of an old-fashioned swivel screen design that existed before Windows 8 but now this has been reinvented in a multi-touch capacitive design it's a lot like the ThinkPad twist which debuted last year from Lenovo but HP's iteration is really nice it's got a magnesium chassis it's got a backlit keyboard that's very comfortable this excels in the details it's got a really nice trackpad here it's small but it's clickable and comfortable and the screen looks really crisp although it's only 1366 by 768 so what's the drawback well one the price it starts at 12:49 and this goes up to 1400 ish for this configuration with a core i5 processor and that brings up the second drawback which is battery life because this doesn't run the latest Haswell level core iSeries processors this is yet to upgrade to that so the battery life was ok it's just not as great certainly as the levels that we've been starting to see in things like the MacBook Air and you're getting a whole new level of expectation then maybe this with those next-gen processors you could be onto something but you're also getting some features and specs here that are really meant for pro users v pro you've got DisplayPort in the back as opposed to HDMI so you know if you care for a SIM card slot you want to have a broadband capable laptop this might be for you but the sturdy semi rugged design here it's got a splash resistant keyboard and it's designed to take a little bit of a beating some people might go for that but I think this is really like if it's available in your IT department and you might want to upgrade to this it's a nice laptop but you're going to regret that the battery life isn't just a little bit better if I saw this back in January I would have really loved it but mid summer kind of feels like it needs a bit of an upgrade already I'm Scott Stein and that's a look at the HP EliteBook revolve 8