(HP uses the same AC charger design on its thin, light, and leather-wrapped Spectre Folio.)
With the Spectre x360 13 reviewed here, we see yet another evolution, with curved sides so you can wrap the 65-watt cloth-braided cable around the body for storage. The company moved to a more modern shape with the last generation. The original USB-C brick HP used as recently as two years ago was literally a small brick as boring as what you’d get with an $11 hard drive enclosure. It’s no surprise that the Spectre x360 13 uses a standard USB-C Power Delivery charger, but the charger’s design shows HP has been listening. “Too thin” for USB Type A? HP says that’s just a bunch of malarkey The corner location fixes both of those issues. We also find that side-mounted power buttons force a lot of head-tilting to find that button when you need it. Raise your hand if you’ve picked up your laptop and accidentally pressed its side-mounted power button, putting it into sleep mode or worse. The other feature that’s just stupidly clever is the relocation of the power button to the cut-out corner. Yes, the beloved square USB you’ve known for so long actually fits on this thin laptop, saving you from dongle hell. The right side of the Spectre x360 13 is sparser, but it offers two very important things. You can see that although it’s about as thin as the Dell XPS 13 9380, the Spectre has a larger foot print. The right side of the new HP Spectre x360 13 features two Thunderbolt 3 ports, an analog headset jack, and microSD slot. You probably can’t see it, but there’s also a tiny slide switch to let you disable the webcam.
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The HP Spectre x360 13 sports two Thunderbolt 3 ports on the right side, plus a microSD port and analog headset port. The clever use of the corner allows the HP to angle the cable away from the laptop when in use and doesn’t interfere with how the screen folds. For weight, our scale put it 2 pounds, 14 ounces, which is a few ounces heavier than Dell’s XPS 13 9380. Its 0.57-inch girth sounds thick, but it’s actually comparable to that of other laptops in its class. If you’re a film or photography student and you need a laptop for photo and video editing, or if you want a laptop that can also play games, we have picks for you, too.The laptop is 12.1 inches wide about 8.6 inches deep.
To achieve their more-affordable price tags, these cheaper options all make serious trade-offs-in shorter battery life, bulkier size, or more-limited functionality-and they’re not likely to last as long as our picks.
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We also have more portable picks if you’re able to spend more, and for anyone on a tighter budget, we have less expensive options that are also well suited for younger kids. Our top pick offers the best balance of all those factors for most high school and college students, whether they’re attending classes remotely or schlepping it to a physical classroom. A laptop’s price-to-performance ratio is the most important factor, followed by battery life, size and weight, keyboard and trackpad, and good-enough performance. We test dozens of laptops every year, and for this guide we’ve rounded up the picks from our other guides that are the best for students. But choosing the right laptop can be more challenging than writing a thousand words on Proust. College is expensive-including tuition, housing, and textbooks, not to mention food and other miscellaneous costs-so students need a reliable laptop that’ll last for years of taking notes, writing papers at 3 in the morning, and editing slides for a group project.
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