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so you could tell them in a special location right now so HP invited me out to this really cool suite in Las Vegas with an amazing view to be one of the first people to look at the new elite book x360 ultra-thin convertible this product in front of me it's a business convertible laptop but it's also capable of some entertainment functionality let's jump inside the box and find out what makes it special so the first thing I'm noticing about this is just how crazy light it is I'm told it's under three pounds the new slick logo and this is as I mentioned a convertible got a 4k display 13 inches look at these little touches around here a little bit of bling there another thing I just noticed as well the type of fingerprint scanner right there this one looks capacitive so I'm assuming that's going to function a lot more smoothly a micro SD card slot a USB type-c Thunderbolt connector a full-sized HDMI port a traditional USB that's actually not all of it we've got a dedicated power switch another USB full-size headphone jack what looks like a volume rocker oh cool that is a sim card slot so apparently you've got some quick charge functionality in here you get up to 50% of total battery life recharged in only 30 minutes oh right it's a pen from a company called Wacom this gives you some of the most precise input possible on a touchscreen if you're in any way artistic or you want to manipulate something more precise this is a great way to do that inside the package is the pen itself as well as some extra tips I love when they include the batteries let's power this up one of the cool things here as well is if you set up different profiles it may be more than one person uses the laptop they they could get access so they could use their own applications but your files and your profile can still be protected by your finger so you've also got a low profile backlit keyboard it looks like has a few stages here and here's the real magic trick by simply folding it over you can completely change the way that you interact with it now you're watching Netflix now you're watching movies that you've got stored on there's complete up YouTube how about a little unbox therapy possibly this vertical has four separate modes this being one of them folded completely flat where it turns into a tablet as you can see here I could actually have this as my input method like that there's the mode I spoke about earlier which takes up very little space laptop mode if you're getting into the content creation you want to type up a document speakers you might think because it's so thin you're making some sort of compromise HP went out of their way here to do the military standards testing and this is actually designed to pass twelve different standards tests including drop test so does feel solid even though it's incredibly thin and light you can get the full-fledged core i7 processors in here from Intel that'll be your selection now another thing you might have noticed are these keys up here these are dedicated buttons for Skype for business the idea here is to give you quick access to Skype for business functionality take a look at that that's 4k content and here's an example of how you can shoot 4k content enjoy it on a convertible like this the future is now look at this do you ever think the laptop could do all this for some reason that feels so cool putting it completely flat so there you have it the EliteBook x 360 from HP unveiled right here in Las Vegas at CES 2017