Gadgetory

this is Joanna for the verge and this is the HP envy 14 specter which was just announced today and while I just reviewed the HP folio 13 ultrabook this is HP's more premium system which comes in at 14 hundred dollars and that's really the first thing I notice about the laptop the entire thing is made out of premium parts the lid the display and the palm rest including the touchpad is made out of Gorilla Glass even better HP's brought over its radiance display and it has a 1600 x 900 resolution based on my first impressions the system feels really nice and hand and well-built but it's much heavier and thicker than any of the other ultrabooks I've reviewed it weighs three point nine pounds and it's definitely thick enough to accommodate a range of full-size ports including a couple USBs an HDMI and an Ethernet and of course HP has its notorious Beats Audio with a special jog dial the trackpad and the keyboard look pretty much the same as the envy 15 and 17 which were released last month the trackpad seemed pretty responsive though a little bit stiff and the keyboard is really nice and backlit internally the spectre has specs pretty much typical of the rest of the ultrabooks out there the 14 hundred dollar starting configuration is going to have a core i5 processor and 128 gigabyte SSD and 4 gigs of RAM HP is doing something interesting on its palm rest though it's embedded in NFC chip which will work with any NFC Android phone that runs HP's app at first it's going to allow you to transfer URLs though HP says you'll be able to do more later on overall the spectres shaping up to be one of the best-looking ultrabooks I've seen but I'm looking forward to taking a more detailed look when it hits the market on februari 8th