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what's going on guys Ron Purita here from TechnoBuffalo and over the last one to two years we've seen PC manufacturers really stepping up their game from Dell to Lenovo to Microsoft themselves we've seen awesome products in terms of hardware HP has also been one of those companies and today I want to talk about their spectre x360 to let you guys know how it stacks up against the competition and to see if it's worth taking a look at HP is in a really good job here in terms of build quality the laptop feels very sturdy good weight to it in the hand good feel to it overall despite how thin the laptop is it doesn't feel flimsy or plasticky at all feels like a good nice hunk of metal the design is a little more subjective I think it looks good but by no means great also by no means ugly it's just a very neutral looking laptop the very thin has a very slick profile but it's definitely not something crazy like the new Lenovo products with their floaty holographic keyboards or anything like that and speaking of keyboards this was one of my favorite things about the spectre x360 really really nice keyboard keys were nice and big and the spacing was good felt a tad cramped sometimes but I really like to travel on the keys despite how thin the laptop is they still are very very clicky it was a pleasure to type on it actually made me want to type up more thing so that's probably the best compliment I can even give a keyboard trackpad was a little bit weird very wide but short regardless a big enough trackpad that after a little bit of adjustment you get used to scrolling and gestures were all very smooth in terms of ports we have one USB type a on the left as well as the headphone mic input right next to it and on the right way of 2 USB see Thunderbolt 3 Ford's would have been nice to see one extra USB see Thunderbolt 3 port on the left or see them split one and one on each side just for flexibility and charging just be able to charge from both sides of the laptop but not really a big issue and speaking of charging the battery life on the spectre x360 was slightly below average in my usage I was getting about 5 to 7 hours of good usage time that was with a combination of document creation web browsing watching Netflix and then a little bit of video editing some slightly heavier stuff on the side moving on to the screen we have a 13 inch display here in 1920 by 1080 w LED backlit touchscreen I think it looks fantastic 1080p is perfectly fine and for the screen size images look very sharp very saturated very vibrant colors my favorite thing about this whole display however was the super thin side bezels it gives you this feeling that you're watching some widescreen experience or watching movies and TV shows it's really enjoyable now if you've been looking at this laptop and you haven't guessed to get HP loves the name of this laptop hence why it's over the entire thing but there's another name as well on the speakers and that's Bang & Olufsen HP seems to be very proud of their partnership with them and I gotta be honest the first time I use the speakers I really wasn't that impressed they were very loud but the sound is very muffled but it then found the Bang & Olufsen app as well as the HP audio app both of which give you full control over the sound profile you get a full EQ so you can control the levels of all the frequencies and whatever you're listening to as well as standard bass and treble controls with this manual control in the correct settings depending on what you're listening to and what you prefer in terms of sound you can get some really good results out of these speakers they're nice and powerful without sounding like they're too loud or busting at the seams and you can tell HP was really focusing on the speakers and sound of this product because they had speakers on top but also speakers below they made sure to place them in such a way that no matter what mode you're in laptop mode tent mode or tablet mode you're always getting clear loud audio and speaking of those modes that's the big thing with this laptop it's a convertible and HP like other manufacturers is marketing the convertible as this amazing laptop in this amazing tablet and my experience of using and reviewing convertibles I've come to the conclusion that as of now and this can obviously change in the future the perfect laptop doesn't make the perfect tablet the perfect tablet does not make the perfect laptop the spectre x360 is no different it is a much better laptop in my opinion that it is a tablet and there's two big reasons for this when you flip it back and use it in tablet mode it makes for a very very thick tablet because you have two parts where you of the keyboard base and you have the screen also having that keyboard flip back even though it's turned off you're still sitting there pressing the keys while you're holding it in tablet mode it just doesn't feel as secure and as pleasurable to use as dedicated tablet would that being said I don't think it's really fair to complain about it because as a feature it doesn't take away from the device being a good laptop at all it's just more of an additional thing if you want to use it moving on to performance we ran some Geekbench tests and got a single course score of four thousand and thirty seven and a multi-core score of eight thousand and thirty six we also ran an open CL test and got an open sales score of 19107 so you guys can go see how that compares and contrasts against other computers that are priced similarly or whatever you may be using at the moment from what we saw this is about on par with things like the MacBook Air which the spectre is clearly competing with and the spectre actually came out quite a bit faster on some of those tests in my real-world usage it was definitely quick very zippy got everything I needed to done if you're gonna be a regular user browsing the web creating documents watching videos this laptop is gonna be more than a quick enough and does a really good job stacking up against the competition and so those are the big things that kind of shaped my overall experience with the spectre x360 however there were a couple of other small features that I thought were awesome very thoughtful and very helpful and also define maybe who this product was for features like quick charge allowing the battery to charge up to 50 percent in 30 minutes HP's sleepin charge mode where the computer can be sleeping or in the hibernation mode and still be charging things plugged in like phones or tablets via USB these features plus the slim profile of the computer make me really think that it's made for someone who is traveling constantly on the go and needs a super versatile device that can be charged up very fast and charging other devices when it's in your bag I know what I'm traveling these features are very welcome and would be greatly appreciated let me know in the comments down below who using this computer is for is it for you if you're in the market what does it have that you like what is it missing that you would like to see I'm very curious to hear so leave us that comment down below I'm Ron pretty from TechnoBuffalo thank you again for watching and I'll see you guys the next one