HP Spectre Foldable
All the gear, no idea
If only HP could fold that price in half. They might be on to something.
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FOLDABLE SCREENS are everywhere now. We first saw them pop up in the mobile world, then they made their way to monitors with the likes of Corsair’s Xeneon Flex, and now we have them in laptops, too (if this can even be called a laptop). You see, the HP Spectre Foldable is technically a laptop, an all-in-one, and a tablet. Its downfall is that it’s a $5,000 tablet with sub-$1,000 performance.
Yeah, that’s kind of the problem with the HP Spectre Foldable. On the surface, it is an incredibly versatile device. You’ve got a crisp, beautiful OLED panel with some solid pixel density, that is entirely foldable, with a detachable, magnetic wireless keyboard and mouse combo. That allows you to do a few things: first, you can just use it as a full-on display plus a wireless media keyboard. There’s a kickstand embedded into the back of the product—pop that out, and you get a full-size 17-inch 2560x1920 16:10 display. Alternatively, flatten it out entirely, turn the keyboard off, and you’ve got a chunky 17-inch tablet instead.