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- and one convertible laptops are devices that I've always wanted like the idea of it is really cool to have a laptop that can turn into a tablet just by folding the screen back but there's always been issues with usability it's just something that comes with the nature of a screen that folds back and then you're now holding a keyboard that's at the bottom of a laptop it's a lot of companies attempt to do it but a lot of companies don't do a good job at it and that's why I don't cover them very often in this channel because I feel like a lot of companies produce them just they're not really noteworthy this one is the HP spectre x360 and of all the two long devices that I've been able to use I think this is the best one in terms of usability for the average person so there's a 13 inch and a 15 inch version to this this is the 13 inch and my honest opinion if you're kind of deciding between a screen size for 13 or 15 inch for two and ones there's very few people that would be able to comfortably use a 15 inch tuned one as a tablet as at laptop that's great but if you're looking for a tuned one and you plan on using it as a tablet relatively frequently I would go for the 13 inch okay let's start with the keyboard it's a good keyboard can't complain it's backlit very good layout good spacing it's a little bit slick because the keys don't have any textures just took a smooth plastic but it's a very comfortable typing experience and the trackpad is also good it uses a synaptic driver I would have loved to have seen a winner's precision driver but it's actually a very good touchpad it's got good tracking and good button mechanics there is pen support and it's included in the box but the pen itself isn't amazing or anything and it works it does everything that a kind of average stylus would do but it feels like an older generation surface pen to me ports on this thing are pretty standard for an ultrabook there's two USB sees one use PA a micro SD slot and a fingerprint sensor the u.s. PC support Thun well three and it's four-lane PCIe for the people that want to plug this thing up to an external GPU inside the RAM and the Wi-Fi are soldered on the SSD is replaceable if you need but that's basically it everything else is soldered on the battery down here is a nice size sixty watt hour slab and the battery life is very good it's pulling up comfortable on nine and a half hours with the screen at around 215 it's it's relatively long for a to mon device i mean there are devices that have longer battery life than this but it's very the performance on the 13-inch x360 is actually quite good a lot of tune one devices are using y processors which I don't love this is using the regular u processor quad-core 8th gen cable a car and it's awesome for multi-core stuff you do need the right type of application for the CPU to really flex but these are really fast processors gaming performance is pretty limited light games will play at reasonable frame rates but nothing amazing the Intel UHD 620 is not a gaming GPU so you kind of expect that now one of the more interesting things about this laptop are the fan noise and the thermal performance so this thing has two fans which at first I thought would give it some amazing thermal performance and it does but not in the way that expected so this laptop is quiet one of the quietest laptops that have ever used even onload it can get a little warm nothing too bad though because you can comfortably use this laptop on your lap now because this thing had two fans I was under the assumption that this would have the ability to increase the wattage in XTU to sustain boost clock but I wasn't able to I was getting throttling even with under volting and it's not a weak AC adapter it's a very comfortable 65 watt one but it's just that this laptop was not designed to run above the original thermal specifications so the fans on this laptop are great if you just want to keep things adequately cooled while being quiet but you can't push out crazy performance with them the usability as a tablet is where this device excels and I think this is where a lot of manufacturers just kind of fail so here's the thing if you're gonna buy tune one device if you're gonna spend the money and pay a little bit of a premium to get a tune one device you have to be someone who's actually gonna use it as a two-in-one device like I know it sounds really obvious but a lot of people will buy something like this and just use it as a laptop and rarely use it as a two and one and it just doesn't make sense if you're going to use it as a laptop just purchase a dedicated laptop but if you're going to pick up something like this you got to be damn sure you're gonna using it as tent mode presentation mode tablet mode and this thing is very comfortable to use in all of those positions it's weird because visually there's a lot of angles and edges on the specter but it's actually really comfortable to hold now there's four speakers on this device there's two on the top and then two on the bottom and they've positioned them in a way so you get clean audio in laptop mode tablet mode presentation mode doesn't even matter the audio itself is not amazing I'm not gonna say that this is the best speakers ever it's an ultrabook but they sound good but most importantly you have access to clean audio regardless of the position you have this thing set up in alright lastly I want to talk about the screen this panel is a 1080p panel it's bright it's got a good color gamut and the viewing angles are good now the side bezels are thin they looked nice but the top and bottom panels are thick right well they look a lot thicker than you would want them to but I think they do this on purpose a lot of tuned one devices have thinner bezels and it looks nice but in terms of usability these thicker bezels on the top and bottom are really nice int Alamo there's just way fewer accidental clicks and taps when you're handling the device which is something that I think a lot of Windows 10 tablets have an issue with but you just don't get that with this thing and I really like that the webcam looks pretty clean and it's located in the normal position up top so it doesn't look up your nose or anything like that the overall device is very comfortable to use and this is something that a lot of manufacturers overlook or just straight up don't care about to learn devices should be comfortable as a laptop and as a tablet and this guy does both well ok hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it something you loved it see you guys next time