HP goes for bling with new super-thin, copper-accented Spectre notebook

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Back at this year's CES in January, HP showed off its new sleek and slim Elitebook Folio G1, which echoed the design and Thunderbolt ports of Apple's new MacBook. That device is part of HP's business lineup, and now the company is introducing the new HP Spectre for regular consumers to ogle at. However, the Spectre has a few different tricks in its small, dark frame, including CPU power up to Intel Core i7, three USB Type-C ports, and up to 9.5 hours of battery life.

All of the Spectre's features revolve around its design. HP already has the Spectre x360 convertible laptop series, but with this notebook the company focused on making it as thin as possible while retaining power, efficiency, and battery life. The Spectre measures 10.3mm, making it even slimmer than Apple's 13.1mm MacBook. It is heavier than the MacBook at 2.45 pounds, but weight wasn't necessarily at the top of HP's priority list for this device. Not only is the Spectre an attempt at a slim and stylish statement laptop that you can still do serious work on, but it's also another HP device that mimics the MacBook in the best ways while attempting to fix the issues that most users have with it (namely a lack of ports).

There's not a lot of real estate for an array of ports on the Spectre either, but HP managed to put three USB Type-C ports on the back of the copper-coated edge just behind the notebook's hinge. Two of those ports are Thunderbolt as well, and they all support display, charging, power, and data. You can charge the notebook, hook it up to external displays, and share data using any and every one of the ports.

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