 I never really understood why anyone would need a computer smaller, thinner, or lighter than a razor blade. And then, I got a small procedure to ensure that I wouldn't have any more children, and the doc was all like, Yo, dog, you can't lift anything for a bit. So I was all like, Well, hey, how about this Spectre X360 2017 2-in-1 from HP? And then he was like, Okay, that looks pretty light. 🎵 TunnelBear is the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse privately and enjoy a more open internet. To try TunnelBear for free, check out the link in the video description. Some notebooks, even ones that I like, manage to use premium materials and solid internal hardware, and still feel like a compromise, because at some point, a designer figured that that extra millimeter, or that cool-looking hidden hinge, was worth whatever we were sacrificing. Not the Spectre X360 2017. I've rarely seen such a marriage of beautiful design and pragmatism. The machined aluminum chassis is light enough to keep the entire device under 3 pounds and 14 millimeters thick, but both the base and the display hold up shockingly well to my twist test, with battery life coming in well over 4 hours in my usual PCMark work test. A very strong result. And the Core i7-7500U dual-core could be cooled passively, but instead, we get ventilation intakes along the bottom and a side exhaust that stayed practically silent under light workloads, while still allowing the processor to stretch its legs to 3.1 GHz under heavy, multi-threaded loads. Since we're under the hood, the rest of the hardware specs are... What are they, exactly? Well, mine has a 256 GB NVMe SSD, 8 GB of RAM, onboard graphics, and a 72% color gamut, whatever that means, 1080p multi-touch IPS display that I would describe as pretty good. But the product page for this thing tries to be everything to everyone and just ends up being really confusing. There's talk of optional 4K displays, optional micro-edge displays, dual or quad speakers. Why does the bigger model have only two speakers? Is that better? And then in that case, why is four speakers a selling point? It's even got a sales pitch for Nvidia graphics cards with a blurb under it, explaining that the 13.3-inch is only available with Intel Iris Plus onboard graphics. And they managed to get all of that stuff on there without mentioning the outstanding mix of I.O. On the left is a Type-A USB 3 port, a 3.5mm combo jack, and a power button that's easy to reach in laptop, tablet, or anything in between mode. And on the right, we've got volume control and the frac? Thunderbolt 3? How did two Thunderbolt 3 ports not make it into the marketing materials? I had to confirm for myself by hooking up to a Razer Core that they are actually Thunderbolt 3 and not just fast charging Type-C ports with a confusing graphic on them. And they are. It worked completely seamlessly out of the box with the Core and managed to handle an all-night gaming stress test in Rise of the Tomb Raider flawlessly. And there's more good news. Some may object to the thicker top and bottom bezels. But this is that function merged with form thing again. The top is thick because it rocks a decent 1080p webcam with, wait for it, IR emitters for Windows Hello, my favorite feature ever, and the antennas for the 2x2 Wi-Fi that performs admirably. And the bottom is to lift the display off the desk a little bit, meaning less neck strain, and give a little more depth to the product for the Bang & Olufsen speakers that are, and you can quote me on this, the best I've heard yet on a thin and light. I'm not sure how they did it, but they sound great. The keyboard and trackpad are a couple of mixed bags for me though. The feel of both is outstanding thanks to nice long travel distances with satisfying tactile feedback on the keys and the glass top for the trackpad. But there are some design choices that I disagree with here. The widescreen aspect ratio of the trackpad is great, and both the tracking acceleration algorithm and palm rejection are top notch. But the clickpad has a very inconsistent feel from the top to the bottom that's hard to forgive now that Apple Force Touch exists. As for the keyboard, it's off-center, seemingly to make room for dedicated keys for functions that I prefer to have combined with function arrows anyway. And this misalignment forces your shoulders or your neck out of whack, which is kind of a bummer, because aside from that, and the couple of QC issues with my sample, listen to this. It's one of my favorite laptop keyboards to date. So conclusion time then. At the price, this kind of build quality would have been unthinkable a couple of years ago. 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