A diamond in the rough –
There was a lot to fix, so HP added a few features to make this convertible even better.
Valentina Palladino – Jan, (1:************************************************************************** (UTC UTC) **************
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The higher screen-to-body ratio is great to see, but HP is still using a panel with a (**************************************************************************************: 9 aspect ratio. That means a lot more scrolling than necessary, and it makes me wish that HP looked at the previous version of the Specter x (******************************************************************************** in a different way. Instead of abolishing the top and bottom bezels entirely, the company could have instead put a 3: 2 aspect ratio screen on the laptop and removed any excess bezel that surrounded it. The final design wouldn’t be as narrow as this new model is, but it would have given users a more practical display.
The display options are typical of a flagship laptop like this: there’s an FHD touchscreen, an FHD panel with HP’s SureView privacy filter , and a 4K OLED panel that will surely be enticing but will likely be overkill for most. The FHD touchscreen on my review unit was lovely to use, although it did suffer from glare when angled toward open windows and while in the pathway of direct sunlight. Only display enthusiasts and creatives will actually get practical use out of a 4K OLED panel, and they must be willing to sacrifice some battery life in order to get it.
The camera kill switch sits on the right side of the laptop, and it’s now accompanied by a mic-mute button on the keyboard. The camera switch electronically cuts off power to the webcam, so similarly to a webcam shutter, it’s a good feature to have for those who want more control over their privacy. The only bad thing about it is that the webcam and the IR camera are connected, so if you flip the kill switch, you won’t be able to use the IR camera for Windows Hello. In addition to the IR camera, passwords, and pins, though, the Specter x 13 also has a fingerprint reader on its right palm rest that you can use to unlock the machine.
Dell continues to produce XPS s without USB-A ports, and that likely will never change. But we’re still a bit far off from USB-A being totally taken over by USB-C, so it’s useful to have on any laptop. It’s reassuring that HP did try to go as thin as it might could on the Specter x (****************************************************************************************** (like it did on the Elite Dragonfly ), but, rather, the company kept a bit of heft in order to keep a valuable port on the machine.
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