Intel Core Ultra is a Big Improvement! HP Spectre x360 14 Review -14t-eu000

VIDEO INDEX:
00:00 - Intro
00:42 - Price
00:56 - Processor, RAM and storage
01:40 - Display
02:30 - Weight & Build Quality
02:46 - Ports
03:41 - Keyboard & Trackpad
04:52 - Webcam
05:19 - Speakers
05:49 - Web Browsing & Youtube
07:01 - Browserbench Speedometer Test
07:20 - Battery Life
07:46 - Pen
08:34 - Video Editing
09:49 - Gaming: Red Dead Redemption 2, Doom Eternal, Fortnite
12:03 - 3DMark TimeSpy Benchmark
12:51 - 3DMark Stress Test and Fan Noise
13:09 - Conclusion

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[CantankerousDave]

I have a 13" Spectre x360 from 2017 with a 7th gen i7. Still runs great.

[luddeluring]

I just got back from Best Buy looking at this laptop and I have to say that this was the best track pad out of all the laptops I tried

[korblox]

Thank you for this very helpful review. You are not the first reviewer to reference the palm rejection weaknesses of the tack pad but as of today in late March we still don’t seem to have a solution from HP as these issues still continue. I am holding off from buying for now u til I know they have fixed this as it is key to my own use profi, e of such a laptop, but I agree with you that this is otherwise a very solid offer.

[tcalbrecht]

Got the 16" version recently. Very nice. Battery life could be better. Not as good as my old Spectre.

[IsaacFromHK]

so far one of the best review, as you cover the PEN show us if Palm rejection works, a bit of video editing, and my favorite game RDR2, these are the things we want to know, but not just some benchmark.

One tips, since the screen is at 2880x1800, ideally, you could also game in 1440x900, and enable Integer Scaling, and this will further boost the gaming performance!

[morten]

Great review 👍
This seems to be the best 2-in-1 laptop overall at that price so far

[andyH_England]

After the woeful iGPU of the last three years, it is a relief that Intel has finally caught up with AMD and Apple. There is so much praise for ARC Graphics, as this is overdue and not a revolution, simply coming from a very low level.

The same applies for efficiency. Intel has trailed Apple and AMD for many years, and I am glad they have closed the gap, but the congratulatory overtones may be a bit much!

Obviously Intel took the opportunity to put prices up, or maybe OEMs hoping to benefit from contemporary comparable performance. I am not a gamer, so if I could get the last gen with a big discount I would choose that.

[LearningAndGrowingInLife]

Thanks for the review. Would you happen to know how's this laptop compared to the Asus Zenbook 14 2024? Between both, if you had to buy one, which one you would go for?

[TrusteftTech]

Colossus from the Forbin Project will be very happy to see us getting more and more AI hardware directly into our computers.

The laptop looks good, but the price is way too high for my taste for the graphics performance which might be much better than before, but still remains pretty much an iGPU.
I can't find the same model here (Greece), but the equivalent 15 and 16 inch models are well over 2000 euros. Depending on the exactly model you can get a laptop, from HP mind you, with a RTX 4060...for half the price.

The other thing is, while I have no beef with HP, always had good experience with their laptops, how can I trust Intel for their driver support for games? I can't.

Lastly, FFS HP, bring back the gold!

Thanks for the video!

[pedrohenrique-wbed]

Hopefully it will get a bigger sale in 2-3 months time, at this point retailer prices from hp are just a joke, 1 month on the market in already have a 20% drop in price 😅

[unseen]

Ram speed on black model is 6400 or 7467. As per hp official website black one has 6400 and the blue colr model has 7467. Just wanted to confirm.

[bendeco]

It always seems like if there's not a haptic trackpad, then that's a ding. And then if there is a haptic trackpad, then that's a ding. I want to find a good trackpad whatever it is.

[RK-umtu]

Why you don't do a PC Mark 10 battery test?
Giving your opinion on battery life is not very useful or accurate...

[keyboard_g]

The Spectre x360 16” in blue looks amazing. They don’t offer it in AMD, but I would love that. I dont need the Nvidia gpu for Linux.

[wenull]

How do the hinges hold up? I hate how cheap all the laptops are made these days. My Dell G3 and sons HP Enve or what ever it's call both have damaged hinges now. His just started and mine completely blew apart inside with the metal hinges locking up and all the plastic inserts with screws in them falling out. It's not like I was carrying it around holding the screen or anything and I don't use it a ton l. Just cheap materials which I think is by design so u have to replace it. Everything is designed to fail in a short life cycle it seems. I was thinking of getting this Spectre but fear the build being cheap. Switched back to my desktop unit due to the total failure. :(

[KAPIL]

Can someone please suggest which colour looks better for spectre - blue or black?

[syedmohdfaize]

Is spectre 14inch ulra7 good for Adobe suite. I mainly work on Photoshop, Illustrator, XD....i am planning to buy this. Could you please tell shall i go with Specter or another laptop. Please suggest to me if there are any better choices.

[rodolfofarinas]

Does anyone know what type of RAM memory this laptop comes with? I just ordered one from HP and selected the 32Gb option, but it doesn't say the specs of the ram, I'm guessing it is DDR5, but I'm not sure, and what speed in Mhz?

[d.lukenskas]

I'm confused, I heard some youtubers praising the trackpad for being macbook like!

[TheNinjaMarmot]

Bit disappointed it doesnt work with linux.

First thing i do nowadays is to load up linux as Im moving away from the windows as a service