![]() ![]() It is, at least, available in two colors, the Cognac brown on the review unit, which I prefer, and a more purplish Bordeaux Burgundy.įrom a more pragmatic standpoint, adding a leather covering on top of a traditional, clamshell-style laptop would probably be no more difficult than gluing a carpet to a keyboard deck. But you also won’t experience the pleasant patina effect that occurs to other leather products as they age. That’s by design, and the HP-chosen leather will withstand years of use and abuse without discoloring or thinning. It looks and feels high-quality because it is.įrom an aesthetic standpoint, the leather that HP used more closely resembles a basketball than it does the leather used on an expensive wallet, iPhone case, or jacket. There is never any sense that the leather and metal might separate, because they won’t, and there is every sense that this is a single, harmonious creation. Instead, it used leather as the chassis for this PC and then integrated a metal frame, batteries, display, and an incredibly small motherboard into this base. Nor did it glue this material to metal, as Microsoft did, infamously, with the Alcantara. It is, after all, the first thing that anyone will notice, and it is the obvious starting point for any conversation about the Spectre Folio.įrom a design perspective, HP didn’t simply create a convertible laptop and then wrap the outer frame in a leather shell or slipcase. And it’s not even the most innovative thing about this PC.īut we must address the leather first. But I’ve come to realize two things about this innovative product since then: The leather is no gimmick. When HP launched the Spectre Folio a few months back, my knee-jerk reaction was that its leather-clad body was some kind of a gimmick, the result of a brainstorming session in which the firm was trying to take a step up from the Alcantara carpet that Microsoft uses on its Surface Laptop line. But does this design makes sense? And does the Folio deliver on the performance and longevity that a premium PC buyer should expect? Design With its hybrid leather and metal body, it presents a handsome and professional design that is unlike anything else in the market. You get weaker performance if you tweak the Folio to run with more balance between longevity and performance, too – with a more modest power mode activated, the Folio’s Geekbench multi-core score dropped to 5,311.That HP’s Spectre Folio is unique is the understatement of the year. Its Cinebench CPU result of 282cb competes with the latest MacBook Air, which has a similar Amber Lake CPU, but it’s around half as quick as the 15W chips. Other benchmarks further illustrate the performance gulf. In day-to-day use, it means that you won’t be able to run loads of applications side-by-side on this machine – or handle complex content or photo work. ![]() That’s no surprise given that those parts have twice as many cores. However, the HP’s multi-core score is half as quick as 15W chips. In real-world terms, it means that the Folio will have the pace to handle web-browsing and Office applications without issues. It’s barely any different to the scores returned by rivals, and it proves that the HP’s Turbo abilities work well. The Folio’s single-core result isn’t bad. ![]()
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