HP Spectre Boosts Of Being 'The World's Thinnest Laptop'; Thinner Than Apple's MacBook
Retina MacBook is supposedly a symbolic representation of Apple's engineering quest to create the world's thinnest laptop, a device worthy of emulation for its extremely ferocious competitors. In the race to designing the world's best ultrathin laptop, Apple clearly leads the way until now.
While waiting for the rumored launching of 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros this year, HP seems to have come up with worthy response to Apple's sleek MacBook to date.
"Whether you are old or young, using Windows or some other operating system, the desire for a super-thin device is super-high," HP VP for Consumer PCs Mike Nash said as reported by The Inquirer.
The HP Spectre 13 simply referred to as Spectre, pretty much absorbed many of MacBook's sexy design attributes minus some frills or add-ons like 4K display, touchscreen, detachable or twisting body.
As reported by BGR, HP's stylish 13.3-inch lappy is a little over 0.4-inch thicker than an iPhone 6S or a triple A battery and weighing 2.45 pounds. It owes its light weight to its aluminum hood and body and carbon fiber base. The hinge design obviously drew inspiration from cabinet door hinges. If compared to other slim high-end laptops in the market, the device would be thinner than Apple's MacBook (13.2mm thick) and Dell's XPS 13 (15.2mm thick).
Going over its features and specs, the Spectre has a 1080p display resolution, 8GB of RAM, and a base storage offering of 256GB. While most ultrabook gets Core M, HP armed it with Core i to make it more efficient and powerful but not nearly as hot typical among notebooks.
"We know that. We've seen Apple do that," remarked Nash as quoted by The Verge. "But our customers want Core i, and I'm here to tell you today we pulled it off."
As for the pricing, the Core i5 version costs around $1,169.99 while the i7 one sells for about $1,249.99 in the US.
