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Also installed on the Spectre is an app with documentation, another with privacy settings, and myHP, which gives you how-tos on basic Windows 10 options. Worth keeping around is Support Assistant, where you can run a diagnostics test, download the latest drivers, or find help from a virtual assistant. With Command Center, you can adjust the fan speed, performance output and network bandwidth of the Spectre. I'm relieved to see only five HP-branded apps installed on the Spectre x360 13, not the usual dirty dozen.

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That is toastier than we'd prefer, but at least the areas where your skin touches, like the center of the keyboard (89 degrees) and touchpad (83 degrees), kept their cool.

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The bottom panel reached 101 degrees Fahrenheit after we played a 15-minute, 1080p video, exceeding our 95-degree comfort threshold. If there are any positives, it's that the colors looked accurate my high-contrast bike helmet in the background was a highlighter yellow and the longhorn on my baseball cap was the right shade of burnt orange. The picture was so blurry that I couldn't make out wrinkles in my face or individual strands of hair. The average for premium laptops is 4,774. Scoring a 4,459 on the 3DMark Fire Strike benchmark, the Spectre x360 13 flexed against the XPS 13 (3,598, Iris Xe) and the Spectre x360 14 (4,229, Iris Xe). Proper gaming will be a struggle on the Spectre which ran Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm at 23 frames per second, below our preferred 30-fps threshold. For that, you need an eGPU or a gaming laptop with a discrete GPU. What it can't do is run the latest games at high frame rates or execute real-time 3D rendering.

Relying on Intel Iris Xe graphics, the Spectre x360 13 can play less intensive games, stream 8K videos or export 4K files. It gets nowhere near as fast as the storage drives in the Spectre x360 14 (764 MBps), XPS 13 (806.2 MBps) or the category average (820.6 MBps). The 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD in our review unit took 59 seconds to duplicate a 25GB multimedia file equating to a transfer rate of 452.6 megabytes per second. The Spectre was even up to the task of editing photos for this review in Affinity Photo. I fired up four 1080p YouTube videos, played Dayglow's album on YouTube Music, and streamed First Take on ESPN, without any problems.

HP Spectre x360 13 performanceĮquipped with an Intel Core i7-1165G7 and 16GB of RAM, the Spectre x360 13 has enough muscle to run demanding workloads including my usual gauntlet consisting of 30 Microsoft Edge tabs, many running processes in the background. It's worth noting that the Spectre x360 14 has a quad-speaker setup capable of more sonic oomph than what you get with this 13-inch model. They sound fine, with a decent punch on the low end but the midrange lacks depth, making my alternative and indie playlists sound flat. Not even the Spectre x360's dual bottom-firing speakers could prevent me from rocking my head to Dayglow's groovy retro jam 'Close To You.' But let's be clear, these aren't the best-sounding speakers, even with luxury audio brand Bang & Olufsen doing the tuning.