Philip Houska In the hunt for the thinnest laptop offered, Apple was in first place with its 12-inch MacBook, but the latest effort from Hewlett-Packard went even further. Here comes the HP Specter, which is a direct competitor to the MacBook.
HP has officially declared that it intends to attack Apple and take on the 13-inch MacBook primarily in terms of device thickness. His weapon is the Specter 10,4, which with its 4,8 millimeter thickness is the thinnest laptop ever. Not only did it surpass the XPS 13 from Dell by 2,8 millimeters, but also the MacBook itself, by a full XNUMX millimeters.
The HP Specter is encased in an aluminum body with admixture of carbon fiber and runs on Skylake i5 and i7 processors from Intel, which are noticeably more powerful than the Intel Core M processors in the previous MacBook. The Core M processor equipment is the standard for devices of such dimensions. Vice President of Consumer Computing Mike Nash is aware of this. "We know that. We've seen it with Apple. But our customers want Core i," said Nash.
The cooling of such a thin device is solved by a hyberbaric system directly from Intel with two fans. The latest MacBook challenger also has a 1080-inch 512p Corning Gorilla Glass IPS display, 9GB of SSD storage and promises up to XNUMX and a half hours of battery life.
Compared to the latest MacBook, the Specter 13 presents itself with three USB-C ports, while the machine from Apple has only one, and that is still primarily intended for charging.
The engineers at HP have created a really durable piece of iron that feels luxurious and ditched the traditional HP logo. This also corresponds to the price, which is around 28 thousand crowns (1 dollars). It is going on sale in the United States in May.
There is no doubt that this piece of technology will rival the 12-inch MacBook in every way. Not only is it thinner, but it is also more powerful and more user-friendly in terms of the port solution.
Why is it the MacBook's competition? This file of MacBook Air or Pro because of the processor. Jink a good fake, make a narrow keyboard and throw a nasty and thick boulder for it ;-). Personally, I don't like it at all, at least in terms of color, and then there is the question of how the display will hold up on two thin legs.
Otherwise, I would expect it to cost around 35000 CZK in the Czech Republic, based on that price. Don't forget VAT.
12″ Macbook is a toy with a mobile processor, I have a 3 year old MBA and I hope apple releases something new this year or I will have a hard time deciding.
So surfing users don't need a lot of power, but otherwise agree. For me it's not what I expected either and for the price ;-). The display of the MBA isn't too bad though :-(. It would like more resolution and the quality could also be better. So I understand your dilemma exactly ;-). Hopefully something will happen!
In fact, Safari looks quite a lot on 12" MB with every open window, and not just RAM. Otherwise, it is strangely possible to work with it on the road - unless one is currently compiling a 1 GB project or editing an HD video.
If it was the same as the MBA, I would still understand, but with a bigger price tag and slower HW, it sucks. Already on my MBA, I sometimes try games.
Mobile phone processor? He is an expert :-)
certainly not an expert, but I need at least an i5 to occasionally run something more demanding. With an MBA, I have no problem running a virtual machine or developing in Java.
Not to mention that they also have a higher model with an i7 for an extra charge, which has the same battery life (I was thinking about it this year, but it's a shame about the display, so I'll wait for now)
And the absence of USB2.0 is also a practical problem for me - I don't care that the macbook is a few millimeters thinner if I still have to carry the adapter with me.
It's actually quite good. And in terms of price and taxes, it will still be comparable to apple
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Well, the back side is the biggest design failure I've ever seen on a laptop.
So you haven't seen much :-)
You'd be surprised :-)
I still find the Macbook a lot friendlier. Regarding the thinness, we have to assume that the macbook is ergonomically beveled and that it is 2 mm thicker at the thickest point of the notebook. However, I think that Apple wanted to make a thin portable machine with passive cooling, hence the low power. Otherwise, spectra can be a nice alternative for the PC world, except for the location of the ports on the back of the laptop, which I consider quite wrong. I see it more like a swallow for the future (probably like the new macbook) than as a machine fully usable today) with HP because of the connectivity via USB C. I wouldn't rely too much on wireless with a PC.
One nonsense after another. It's nice to have a thin mobile phone or notebook, but at any price. And I prefer to add two extra millimeters and increase the battery with its capacity
The HP is much more powerful than the Macbook 12. And that's a fact, lady... The connectivity is also better..
But the user buys a MacBook because of OS X and because of the intertwining with the iPhone. It doesn't matter that this is thinner, more powerful and has more ports when Windows is in it. MacBook costs 30 thousand. 8GB Ram and 256GB SSD. That's no bat.
Why fail? I really like the USB from the back, this way I have a big table with a MacBook Pro on it and cables running from it, which reduces my work area. Although it's crazy to climb there and e.g. in a train or anywhere sitting / standing - where the greatest potential of laptops is, it's pretty stupid, but it's still only used at home and at work, where all the sockets available on the table are connected and it goes. At that point, I'd rather plug it in from the back and keep some space around (specifically, right now I have money, documents, a camera, a radar, an iPhone, a calculator, a pen and papers, a glass of water and fresh coffee around. And thanks to the power cable (and its side location) I have to do all the things to the right of the MacBook because the left side is killed by cables (audio, power and usb). :)
I have a charging cable to L. So nothing will bind me to the left of the macbook...
In terms of design (at least in the photos) it seems to me to be the best I've seen from HP so far. Connectors at the back are not a problem, especially since there is more than one. :D I'm a bit worried about the mechanical qualities - hinges, keyboards and especially touchpads are not a miracle in the most ordinary world. It is probably impossible to make a passively cooled laptop with Windows, I just wonder how noisy their new cooling will be. When B&O takes care of the sound…
Perhaps not the only, but the most significant drawback is that you cannot run OSX on this machine.
Linux does. :)
I like Linux, but it's still not OSX…
Well, that's bullshit, OSX has been running on Intel systems for a long time :)
I wouldn't directly call that HP notebook bullshit, but if you think... :-) ..otherwise; the difference is that it is difficult to pick up a hackyntosh according to all the parameters of the machine, so that in the end it breaks up at least partially, when the trackpad will not work anyway (a fairly essential part of the entire system for a perfect user experience) and a lot of other limitations, including the impossibility of automatic updates, etc.; or have an Apple computer. :-D go bullshit... :-)
finally someone showed them what a macbook should have looked like...bitch slap
I don't like the design, it seems a bit cheesy. with long-term use, the macbook can still be faster, the x-axis simply works better and the system speed does not slow down over time...
So I have to admit that it is possible to talk about design here as one of the few non-Apple products.