CES 2020: HP’s Spectre x360 15 Gets Comet Lake, Goes on Diet, Gains 17 Hrs Battery Life
by Anton Shilov on January 16, 2020 10:00 AM ESTNotebook makers put a lot of efforts into making their 13.3 and 14-inch notebooks as sleek and light as possible, which is why road warriors can enjoy more compact systems every year. Meanwhile, technologies designed for the aforementioned PC are eventually used on other types of laptops too. This is the case with HP’s 2020 Spectre x360 15, which inherits many design elements of its 13.3-inch convertible sibling to make the 15.6-inch machine more compact.
The key improvement of the 2020 HP Spectre x360 15 over its predecessor are narrow display bezels that enabled the company to install a 15.6-inch Full-HD or Ultra-HD display panel into a chassis that resemble those of a 14-inch laptop. The notebook now boasts a 90% screen-to-body ratio (STBR), up from a 79.78% STBR in case of the 2019 model, and is 24 mm shorter than the predecessor. Meanwhile, the PC did not become any thinner, yet it is now clearly more compact than before.
Obviously, to make the Spectre x360 15 more compact in general, HP had to redesign its internals. The system is powered by Intel’s 10th Generation Core processor (Comet Lake) that is accompanied by an optional NVIDIA GeForce GPU, solid-state storage as well as everything else that you come to expect from a premium 2020 laptop, including Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth, Thunderbolt 3, USB Type-A, HDMI, a microSD slot, Windows Hello-compliant webcam with IR sensors (which can be switched off), a microphone array, a Bang & Olufsen speaker array, and a 3.5-mm combo audio jack for headsets.
Just like last year, the flagship Spectre x360 15 will come with a 15.6-inch AMOLED display with TrueBlack HDR 400 certification that covers the DCI-P3 color gamut. Meanwhile, HP will also offer an optional 4K LCD panel that consumes 2 W for those who want a very long battery life of around 17 hours. Select machines will also come with an anti-reflection glass.
As usual with Spectre-branded notebooks, HP put a special emphasis on style of its new 15.6-inch mobile PC. The system will come in Nightfall Black with Copper Luxe Accents or Poseidon Blue with Pale Brass Accents chassis with gem-cut edges.
HP’s Spectre x360 15 will be available this March directly from HP starting at $1.599.99
Related Reading:
- HP’s 2019 Spectre 13 X360 Launched: Ice Lake, OLED, 22 Hours
- HP at CES 2019: HP Spectre x360 15 Gets AMOLED Display
- HP Launches Ultra-Thin HP Spectre 13 x360: Quad-Core i7, Gigabit LTE, 22.5 Hr Battery Life
- HP at CES 2018: HP Spectre x360 using Intel with Radeon RX Vega M, $1370
Source: HP
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atirado - Friday, January 17, 2020 - link
To be honest , what I expect from a 2020 laptop is everything you mentioned sans USB Type-A, a microSD slot and a 3.5-mm combo audio jack for headsets.I will take a TPM to complement the camera and make that nVidia non optional.
Cliff34 - Sunday, January 19, 2020 - link
Any reason why they choose not to use Ice Lake chips?m53 - Monday, January 20, 2020 - link
@Cliff34: The 13 inch model has the ice lake.https://www.anandtech.com/show/14932/hps-2019-spec...
Older-than-dirt - Sunday, February 16, 2020 - link
Thanks for the heads-up on this new Spectre X360 for 2020. I’ve been waiting for quite a while for HP to finally put an Intel Optane memory with Solid State Storage card (don’t know if this is their M10 or M15 chipset) with 1TB disk + 32 GB memory into either their ENVY or Spectre laptop line. The best I could ever configure or find was the 512 Gb of disk space + 32 MG Optane. I would prefer the 1 TB disk drive.Was also hoping that this combo would eventually be available on their HP ENVY laptops but it doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen soon (unless you’ve heard some newer ENVY’s are also coming).
Doubt that there will ever be a 17” Spectre X360 so the 15” will be fine.
Thanks again for a great article… and please keep us posted of any new HP Envy laptops coming out soon too...