I honestly love the black and gold together,
I've used it for a couple days, I agree it's a lot better than Windows 8. But it's still Windows. Clunky and complicated...
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HP Claims Innovation Over Apple With 'World's Thinnest Laptop'
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I've used it for a couple days, I agree it's a lot better than Windows 8. But it's still Windows. Clunky and complicated...
Why so many haters?
At least HP came up with a new design instead of what so many others do nowadays. Just try to re-create the Apple aluminium look with glossy black screen frame and black keyboards. As if a laptop irequired look that way.
At least HP came up with a new design instead of what so many others do nowadays. Just try to re-create the Apple aluminium look with glossy black screen frame and black keyboards. As if a laptop irequired look that way.
Apple, please, don't try to compete on the 'thinness', we don't care. But please note that HP manage to fit 3 (three) USB-C ports into that machine. Try to compete on that level and throw in an SD card reader for good measure into the updated MacBook.
All these companies that boast out-doing Apple... just the very fact that they chase their designs, measurements and colors makes these companies and designs lame. When you consider the lesser software and build quality of the product, they're still considerably behind Apple. When Apple said the Macbook Air was thin, they used an envelope to illustrate the point- they used a pencil to demonstrate the thin-ness of the iPad. All these other companies are using Apple as the standard by which they measure the quality of their products, and don't even seem to get the irony. I love it. 
I'd buy that over the current 15-inch rMBP. Apple needs to up its game.
Need to see exactly how big those bezels are, and the overall laptop footprint, but I like it better than the impractical Macbook. Ports on the back are better than ports on the sides, imo. Whenever I used my MBAir on a desk, I used to hate having the wires coming out the sides whilst using a mouse.
Sure it can also run Linux
I agree. Apple need to admit that if the Macbook Air came with a retina screen no-one would buy a Macbook. Come on Apple, it can't be that easy sourcing non-retina screens any more!
running hyper on a box at home. its been great for the limitiations of Hyper-v. im a vmware guy so take that with a pinch.
HP is trying way too hard to be seen as the innovator of the industry and it looks sad. Of course, I'm glad they are trying, but it just comes off as desperate when they have to tell the press that they are the taking the "mantle of innovation". Real innovators don't tell others that they are innovators...because they don't need to. They show it through great products that bring new things to the table. HP has tried to copy Apple's design language for years and it didn't work, so now they are going to just try and churn out flashy, shiny products in the hopes that they will finally be seen as premium and high end. Hell, that new Spectre even has an extremely high-end model that has real gold and diamonds embedded in the chassis! ($18k Apple Watch Edition, anyone?) If anyone is innovating in the PC industry, it's probably Dell with their XPS series which genuinely offers something desirable (InfinityEdge displays with ultra-thin bezels) that it's competitors don't have.
HP tried to "improve" upon Apple's new MacBook, which is admittedly flawed with its atrocious keyboard. However, in their attempt to improve upon it by making it thinner, have more ports, and power, they totally turned the new Spectre into a completely different machine. This seems more like a MacBook Air competitor than anything else. This just proves, to me anyway, that they totally didn't get the vision the Apple has for the future of notebooks. The one port on the MacBook was a conscious choice because Apple believes in a mostly wireless world where we do things through Bluetooth and the cloud...not wires and external peripherals. They used a Core M processor because it provides good performance for the consumers that it's targetted to...people who want ultra-portable notebooks who don't even use half of the performance that their i5 and i7's offer them, but would rather have a thin, lightweight design and completely silent machine. By changing all of these things, HP proves that they truly don't get it and that their attempts at innovation are rather shallow. And, I mean, come on! The new Spectre has a 13" screen and gigantic, chunky bezels...of course there is room for more ports!
If HP really wants to innovate, perhaps they should try to do something about all of the bloatware they ship their machines, and maybe their awful customer service too!
HP tried to "improve" upon Apple's new MacBook, which is admittedly flawed with its atrocious keyboard. However, in their attempt to improve upon it by making it thinner, have more ports, and power, they totally turned the new Spectre into a completely different machine. This seems more like a MacBook Air competitor than anything else. This just proves, to me anyway, that they totally didn't get the vision the Apple has for the future of notebooks. The one port on the MacBook was a conscious choice because Apple believes in a mostly wireless world where we do things through Bluetooth and the cloud...not wires and external peripherals. They used a Core M processor because it provides good performance for the consumers that it's targetted to...people who want ultra-portable notebooks who don't even use half of the performance that their i5 and i7's offer them, but would rather have a thin, lightweight design and completely silent machine. By changing all of these things, HP proves that they truly don't get it and that their attempts at innovation are rather shallow. And, I mean, come on! The new Spectre has a 13" screen and gigantic, chunky bezels...of course there is room for more ports!
If HP really wants to innovate, perhaps they should try to do something about all of the bloatware they ship their machines, and maybe their awful customer service too!
Yeah, but it's HP. So hinges that are susceptible to wear-and tear and poor thermal design are practically guaranteed, if history's anything to go by. No advantage throwing in an i7 processor if it's throttling every 2 seconds.
Best to wait for the real-world reviews.
Best to wait for the real-world reviews.
It's got some nice touches, well it's thin. Bit on the garish side for my taste. Not sure about the innovation bit, making something thinner doesn't really count as innovation much to me, yes even if it's Apple.
A phone that could last a week of heavy duty use, now that's innovation. Hell, I'd take a day of heavy duty use with a decent brightness level. The youth of today learning respect, my dad admitting he broke his computer and not some invisible tinkering monkey that sweeps through at night causing havoc there's innovation and another thing, I need coffee
Not that it matters, I'll only switch back to Windows over Apples cold dead body.
A phone that could last a week of heavy duty use, now that's innovation. Hell, I'd take a day of heavy duty use with a decent brightness level. The youth of today learning respect, my dad admitting he broke his computer and not some invisible tinkering monkey that sweeps through at night causing havoc there's innovation and another thing, I need coffee
Not that it matters, I'll only switch back to Windows over Apples cold dead body.
And who said steampunk was dead
Couldn't care less abouth it being 0.00000000000000000000000000000001mm thinner.
Couldn't care less abouth it being 0.00000000000000000000000000000001mm thinner.
The fact that it has Core i-series chips instead of Core-M makes this a MacBook Air competitor, not a MacBook competitor. By that fact the Air wins. Sure, it might not have the better display, but it beats it in battery life and sheer amounts of usable ports.
Oh, and carbon fibre may sound fancy, but it bends just as bad as cheap, flimsy plastic. Sounds the same, too.
Oh, and carbon fibre may sound fancy, but it bends just as bad as cheap, flimsy plastic. Sounds the same, too.
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I'm still happy with my MBP Classic, and that's considered a fatty in today's standards. Too thin for me
It does look nice, however I too really don't see this fascination with being able to claim you made the thinnest laptop. Never have I looked at a MacBook Air or Pro and thought "wow that's nice but if only it was 4mm thinner...". On a laptop many things are important, high on the list is the performance of course. Screen size is about the only dimension of a laptop I'm interested in, same with phones, I actually liked a bigger phone. First time I held an iPhone 6 upgrading from a 4s I nearly dropped it, it felt too slim, I had to buy a case.
Maybe I'm unusual, maybe everyone else wants their devices to be so in they almost disappear, personally I can't see the fascination especially at the expense of battery life and features, and I'm sure they must be more vulnerable to breaking.
Maybe I'm unusual, maybe everyone else wants their devices to be so in they almost disappear, personally I can't see the fascination especially at the expense of battery life and features, and I'm sure they must be more vulnerable to breaking.
The overall design is meh, but I am impressed by the thinness, and how it has more ports than the MacBook AND is much more powerful, considering.