HP is stepping up their premium portfolio w/ the newest PC. Meet the all-new HP Spectre: the new crown holder for the world's thinnest laptop. We had the pleasure to check it out in person last week and it is a real beauty of a machine.
You need to pay close attention to what HP is doing on a design-level.
The new Spectre is quite the engineering feat as it is only 10.4mm thick (as thick as a AAA battery) and weighs in at only 2.45lbs. It touts a new hidden piston hinge borrowed from the cabinet industry to raise the display and disappears to help it retain a flat/thin profile. Its a smooth open and close hinge as its just the right amount of tension. The build is made out of a CNC aluminum top/keyboard, durable carbon fiber bottom, and an Ash Silver/Copper finish. Intel even created a hyperbaric cooling system that pushes the heat out of the motherboard area and keeps this thin machine from overheating.
As far as the specs go you have a 13.3inch 1080p IPS display w/ edge-to-edge Gorilla Glass 4 coating, powered by your choice of an intel Core i5 or i7 CPU, 8GB of RAM, up to a 512GB SSD, backlit keyboard, glass trackpad, stereo speakers w/ audio tuned by Bang & Olufsen + HP Audio Boost, and up to 9 hours & 45 minutes of battery life on a single charge.
Pre-orders for the all-new 13.3inch HP Spectre kick off on April 25th starting at a lower price point of $1,169 on HP's website + BestBuy.com. It will hit Best Buy stores on May 29th starting at $1,250.
