What They Say
Laptop magazine reviewed the HP Spectre x360 15 and found that the 15.6″ AMOLED UltraHD display was good enough to ‘take your breath away’. There are five display modes:
- Default,
- sRGB (optimized for web browsing),
- Adobe RGB (best for printing and imaging work),
- DCI-P3 (ideal for photo and video editing) and
- Native (no optimization applied)
The publication measured a gamut of 146.7% of DCI-P3 and quoted other UltraHD notebooks at
- Dell XPS 15 (93.7%),
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga (133%) and
- Asus ZenBook Flip S (113.1%)
Accuracy was great at 0.3 Delta-E and brightness was 339 cd/m², so relatively limited brightness for a premium dusplay.
The notebook has good graphics (Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q GPU with 4GB of VRAM), but the battery life is ‘laughably short’.
On the Laptop Mag battery life test, which involves surfing the web over Wi-Fi at 150 nits of brightness, the Spectre x360 15 lasted 2 hours and 51 minutes, which is nearly seven hours less than the average premium laptop (9:56).
What We Think
Once you see a notebook with an OLED, you really do want it, but this review shows the downside. A flong-time friend of mine, who is a senior exec at Lenovo always goes for the FullHD version of his notebook, although he could have any PC, purely because of the battery life. (BR)
