Expanded by The smooth, buttery glass touchpad responded swiftly to my swipes, taps and Windows 10 gestures , which included three-finger swipes to switch between windows and the handy pinch-to-zoom. HP throws in the Rechargeable 2. It's pretty standard stuff here; the pen has two reprogrammable buttons, it supports tilt for line variation, and gets 30 hours of battery life after which you can recharge it via a hidden USB-C port on the side.
There was a nice depth to the drum hits and a clear sizzle to each tap of the hi-hat. The vocals were crisp but overshadowed, and some of the treble tones of the electric guitar were peaky.
The plentiful trebles in The White Stripes' "Icky Thump" were sharp but at least this Spectre doesn't suffer from the same hissing static I've noticed in previous models. The vocals in this lively rock song were clear and present but the speakers struggled to juggle the cacophony of electric tunes being strummed from every angle. Firing up dozens of Chrome tabs didn't induce exhaustion; the Spectre kept running along like a well-trained marathoner.
Graphics and text blinked onto the page the moment I pressed Enter, even when two p YouTube videos and a pair of Twitch streams were running in the background. Scoring a 5, on the Geekbench 5. The Spectre needed 17 minutes and 2 seconds to convert a 4K video into p resolution, a decent result though slower than the XPS 13 2-in-1 and the Yoga 9i The Spectre landed right around the category average and finished several minutes before the Galaxy Book Flex 15 That is quicker than the Yoga 9i Decent gaming performance from integrated graphics?
Yes, this is the strange new world we live in. In real-world testing, the x 14 struggled to play Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm p , averaging 20 frames per second, or well below our fps threshold. Again, it lost to the Yoga 9i 25 fps and the average 28 nits but topped the Galaxy Book Flex 16 fps. When equipped with a x pixel display, the Spectre x 14 achieved excellent battery life of 12 hours and 11 minutes on our test, which involves continuous web browsing over Wi-Fi at nits.
That beats the XPS 13 2-in-1 , the Yoga 9i and the premium laptop average Only the Galaxy Book Flex 15 put up a better time. The upgraded panel dropped the Spectre x 14's battery life to 7 hours and 14 minutes. That's an OK runtime given the high-res OLED panel, but a few hours short of what we consider acceptable for an ultra-slim laptop. If you're a content creator needing the very best display while on-the-go, get the OLED.
Otherwise, save some cash and get the lower-res panel. Laptop webcams have set a low bar and the p camera on the Spectre x 14 only does enough to meet it. That's to say that the images and videos taken from this laptop look poor. A selfie I snapped in my office was shrouded in tiny dots of visual noise, enough to obscure my beard into a dark abyss.
My naturally rosy complexion was blanched to a sickly pale while my green eyes were more seaweed than emerald. It'll do in a pinch but do yourself, and everyone on the other side of the conference call a favor, and buy one of the best external webcams like the Logitech HD Pro C Taxing the Spectre x 14 with a heavy workload can cause the bottom panel to get warm, but not troublingly hot.
After playing a minute, p video, the underside of this convertible, near the vent, reached degrees Fahrenheit. That's considerably hotter than our degree comfort threshold, so consider buying a cooling pad. Fortunately, the areas your fingers will touch remained cool with the keyboard reaching 85 degrees and the touchpad warming to only 80 degrees.
I'll keep harping on this until it's resolved: HP, please package your apps into a single one-stop-shop program. There are too many icons clogging my Taskbar. And by "too many" I mean 11 of them counting only those starting with "HP. That's not to say these OEM apps are bloatware.
HP's Support Assistant gives you all the diagnostics you need to know about your specific system, from its battery health to the remaining warranty.
Here, you'll find the latest software and drivers. Command Center, which has its own dedicated keyboard key, lets you change the cooling mode and prioritize your network to give high-priority apps the fastest bandwidth.
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Apps General Discussion. Question Does a docking station that bridges peripheries and monitors to a laptop and computer exist? The only issues I've ever come up against with older hardware are sata drivers but I'm about to reinstll W10Pro on my new Spectre and if this is still a problem I'll be disappointed, M.
If you want a flawless install it's advisable to wipe a drive first but I'm not sure that's needed on a solid state drive. The only thing you'll lose is the recovery partition but if you really want that just manually partition about 20Gigs at the start and use macrium reflect, it's free and even gives you a boot option for recovery which has always worked flawlessly for me.
The only issue you might face is selecting the boot media at startup, this is usually F12 but if you experience issues you can change this in the system BIOS. Its F9 on an HP for boot order, but the above discussion from Korendir is essentially correct. If Windows 10 was ever installed and activated on the machine you pretty much forever can reinstall Windows 10 even after hardware changes other than the motherboard and it will just activate itself like magic.
It will also include some HP system type apps which are nice to have in most cases just baggage in others. I have a question regarding the question from sasqwatch and response from Provost in posts titled 'Hp spectre x Clean Install Windows 10". Specifically, the final paragraph of Provosts's response : "You could also just install HP Support Assistant and it will scour the HP servers for drivers and some HP apps you need to round out the clean install.
Before I screw things up, I want to be sure I'm on the right path. HP Support Assistant will go out to the servers and get the latest versions. By the way if I've gotten your your name wrong again, I owe you two apologies. Didn't find what you were looking for? Ask the community. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Learn how to upgrade to Windows Create an account on the HP Community to personalize your profile and ask a question.
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