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>>Bought this a month ago - the HP Spectre x360 (the i7 model)
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>>Got tired of lugging around a heavy (7.3 lbs) 17.3" screen laptop, and was looking to get one of the thin hybrid laptops that doubled as a tablet.
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>>Looked at the Lenovo and thought about getting a Surface Pro, but went with the Spectre instead. This thing is awesome - unbelievable display, great SSD drive, and very long battery life.
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>looks nice. my main worry would be RAM, seems to be limited to 8GB - good enough even to run a DB server, but only well in host OS, and I switch more and more to separate VMs, where RAM is again bottleneck if you have many of them running side by side. That extra large touch pad - problems when using built in keyboard?
For me, the 8 GB means I can't really use SharePoint 2013 in a VM.
The other amazing thing about the Spectre is three USB 3 ports in addition to a regular HDMI and HDMI mini. And like I said, the 1920x1080 resolution is amazing.
I bought the Spectre for trips and for community/conference presentations (I do about 20-25 a year) and for days when I feel like working in a Starbucks or Panera. I never need to run VMs side by side in those situations. My two home computers have 16 and 24 GB for those situations.
I wondered if the large touch pad would be a problem but it hasn't bothered me too much. I did buy a very small Bluetooth mouse.
I read that MS helped HP in the engineering of the Spectre.
- My reason in picking the Spectre over the Surface was because I HATE the Surface Typepad keyboard and didn't like the low # of ports. Also thought Surface screen was too small. My 2 cents, a Surface is a tablet first and a portable laptop first. Spectre is the reverse.
- I picked the Spectre over the Dell XPS because, while the XPS is extremely impressive, it didn't double as a tablet and also suffered from a lower # of ports.
- While I really liked the Lenovo, the Spectre just had a better overall configuration (and the Lenovo i7 was heavier).
Since the Spectre doubles as a tablet, I gave my iPad to my wife. :)
