And for $3,177 total, you can buy the OnePlus Pad ($629), Asus Zenbook 13 OLED ($799) and Alienware Aurora R16 ($1,749) and still have money left over. This device also offers better performance than the Spectre Fold. It can also stand vertically and have its two screens stacked on top of each other. It’s not a foldable, but it can also serve as a laptop or tablet. If you’re looking for an alternative, I suggest the $1,999 Lenovo Yoga Book 9i. Yes, the HP Spectre Fold is unique for what it offers, but it’s not worth $5,000 for most people. However, my enthusiasm for this product is tempered by the steep asking price. In this specific case, getting a laptop that can also serve as a tablet and pseudo-desktop is commendable. HP Spectre Fold review: Verdictĭespite my skepticism toward foldable laptops, the HP Spectre Fold has done the best job of convincing me that these devices aren’t merely gimmicks. Since we consider temperatures over 95 as being uncomfortable, you won’t have to worry about the Spectre Fold scorching your lap. In our standard heat test, which involves running a heat gun over the laptop after streaming 15 minutes of full HD video on a device, we found the underside reached 79 degrees Fahrenheit. HP Spectre Fold review: Audioīattery test results Header Cell - Column 0 If you want to do serious gaming on the Yoga Book 9i, I suggest using a game streaming service like Xbox Game Pass or GeForce Now. As proof, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI, which isn’t exactly a graphically demanding game, ran at a choppy 19 frames per second at 1,080p resolution on HP’s laptop. The Spectre Fold has enough power for basic computing, but its integrated GPU isn’t suited for playing most modern video games. That’s much worse than the Zenbook 17 (1,480 MBps) and Yoga Book 9i (1,296 MBps). Moving over to our SSD test, which tasks a laptop with duplicating 25GB of multimedia files as fast as possible, HP’s 3-in-1 had a transfer rate of up to 1,085 MBps. The Zenbook 17 (14:15) was two minutes faster, but the Yoga Book 9i (9:19) lapped them both by over 5 minutes. In our video editing test, which tasks the laptop with transcoding a 4K video down to 1080p using Handbrake, the Spectre Fold took a glacially slow 16 minutes and 17 seconds. Performance benchmarks Header Cell - Column 0 The Yoga Book 9i, with its 13th Gen i7-1355U processor and 16GB of RAM, scored better on both single and multi-core. Those numbers are lower than the Asus Zenbook 17 Fold, which also features an i7-1250U CPU, 16GB of RAM. On the Geekbench 5 CPU benchmark, the laptop scored 1,649 in the single-core benchmark and 6,460 in the multi-core test. The Spectre Fold performed decently in our lab tests. In short, HP’s machine is adept at everyday computing tasks. Running a YouTube video on top of all that didn’t slow the laptop down either. It all came down to power consumption.ĭespite the older processor, the Spectre Fold had no problems handling my workflow, which typically consists of having over 20 open tabs. The reason HP opted for this older processor is because the i7-1250U is a 9W chip at base power whereas there is no 9W 13th Gen chip. The Spectre Fold packs a 12th Gen Intel Core i7-1250U processor - a strange choice considering 14th Gen Intel Core laptop CPUs will soon be here.
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