HP Spectre x360 14: What Real Users Actually Think

With the printer stuff showing absolutely zero care for consumers, I don't know if I want to buy anything of HP's.

If it's anything like any of the other x360 laptops I've seen, that battery will swell up and become a fire hazard within a year or two.

Not HP supporter by any means but I have one for more than 3 years and other colleagues even longer and not only the battery is totally fine but also still holds a good amount of original charging capacity. The same for the hinges although I don't make significant usage of the hybrid/tablet mode.

I got the 14 about a week ago. Everything has been great except the battery life. I've turned off the backlit keyboard, turned down screen brightness to about 20%, stopped launching most programs at startup, and still getting only 6-7 hours.

My girlfriend got the 16" version with the 4050 and its been great. Screen and build quality is top notch. 100% would recommend it.

Hinges are garbage. I bought one of this exact line. It had an AMD gpu that was no longer supported months after I got it. Was only ever able to have the initial bad set of drivers. So many crashes and black screens. Never again HP.

The digitizer layer is a real pain in the ass when you get a 360 laptop for drawing on white paper. No one said anything about it before buying. People should be made aware of that by the manufacturer.

Bought a Spectre x360 a few years ago. Don't do it. Awful quality control.

I have had great experience using the 2024 Spectre 14-inch model. Mine was an i7, 32GB, 1TB SSD model. I got it at 1.2K before tax with all the discounts. The build quality is excellent. Keyboard is better than Dell, though slightly worse than ThinkPad. Trackpad is average. Screen is fantastic. Battery life is great (no comparison to a Mac). I get 9 hr of Youtube 4K video testing.

The keyboard is phenomenal, the build quality is phenomenal, it's OLED, 120hz, very long battery life, and runs very cool. The 9i is a good laptop but it isn't quite as comfortable to type on and gets very VERY hot very easily.

Coming up on 3 years myself and the battery is still good, way better than my previous laptops at this point in their lives. I'm not an hp fan in general but the laptop has impressed me so far.

I have a Spectre 360 and this has been, hands down, the best computer (laptop or otherwise) I've ever had. I bought it in 2017, and here I am with it 7 years later, still running strong. I used it for the years I had a freelance business and it smoothly ran all Office programs.

Took a while to figure out the bloatware. With oled battery life is not great. The keyboard is weird and has no insert key. Speakers are poor. I still kinda like it, but in hindsight should have gotten a standard business laptop or a macbook.

I have the highest spec model and would love it if it weren't for the problems it has given me. 1st one I got had a faulty lid sensor. When you closed the laptop it would think you were opening it. The new one appears to have some major thermal issues. Will push over 100 degrees Celsius when in sleep mode or just using MS Word and then have a thermal shutdown.

Screen is amazing. Super bright and media looks great on it. Keyboard has decent travel. All the different tablet modes work well and windows responds quickly to changing orientation. Trackpad works well, haven't run into any issues, and good size.

TL;DR: Love it. Had it for 1 month so far. Great build, compact, fast, and being the premium customer laptop, it got enough focus to make it a great build compared to last year. It's also quiet, and a great price with discounts. I got it for 1295 from bestbuy as they had a 400 dollar discount.

I bought a 32GB / 2TB version and I have mixed impressions. Firstly, it is difficult to open because of a very small cutout on the body. Secondly, it sometimes does not turn on until it is connected to an external power source even fully charged.

Not great at all. This was my second Spectre. Almost immediately had issues. I took it back to Best Buy a few months later because it was lagging really badly and the webcam would cut out intermittently. I went over to the Envy with an AMD chip, which runs much faster and cooler.

Screen is amazing, I don't notice any screen door effect. Low/No fan noise most of the time. Touchpad is awesome, better than the MBA M2. Keyboard is nice to type on. Annoying to open, hard to get a grip of the lid.

I needed to uninstall a lot of bloat and do a lot of digging in registry editor and task scheduler, but after configuring it how I want it holds battery well and is very responsive. The display is stunning otherwise!

Heat is much lower than any previous spectre gen. I kicked off a CPU-Z CPU stress test, let it run for 10 minutes, the CPU didn't exceed 67c and the laptop itself only had a slightly warm area around where the CPU is. The fans are bigger than previous models, so their noise is less high pitch — much softer sound.

The 2023 version is a simple rehash of the 2022 one. So bad that the 16 stuck with Arc graphics even when a 4050 would've still been a decent option for DLSS 3 alone. And apart from being a lazy refresh, there actually doesn't exist a high refresh OLED 3:2 resolution.

Have you discovered the keyboard bug yet? If you touch type and do it too quickly, you'll find you get random capital letters, and Caps Lock will be turned on, but it won't look like it's turned on. I've had that on 3 16" Spectres and 2 14" ones so suspect it's there on all of them.

Love everything about my 1 week old HP Spectre X360 14 - except the battery life. Office work and some youtube and I get max 5-6 hours of battery. Other than that the laptop is a stunner. Turns heads at Starbucks. Love the tent mode and pen sensitivity is good.

Have it for a week. Did clean Windows install to get rid of bloatware. Love everything about it: Footprint, (oled)screen, resolution, keyboard (so smooth), trackpad (so smooth), quietness. But getting into 3D (for example: gaming) is almost impossible. Loading CS2 takes about 3 minutes.

I freaking love mine. The screen is impeccable and the new Haptic Touch screen is very nice. I love showing it off and many people compliment my laptop.

I got a great price. The screen is nice. I found the battery life underwhelming. I have been primarily a Mac user for a while. I was underwhelmed with the fluidity of the web browsing experience. It was fast, but it wasn't smooth. The trackpad felt choppy.

Just searched for genuine replacement batteries for the 14 and 16. Guess what? Yup. None. Anywhere. I'll go Asus or Lenovo.

Picked up an HP Spectre x360 a month ago, for my wife. She really likes it. I liked it so much that I picked up an additional one for myself. HOWEVER, buyer BEWARE — the model I picked up seems only able to handle 1 or 2TB SSDs and nothing larger.

Love mine - this is day three. I like the flexibility of tent mode with a BT keyboard and tablet mode as well as using it as a laptop.

Both my charging ports burnt out because of hp terrible chargers after a year right outside of warranty. This rendered the whole motherboard unusable. I got the most expensive one too. Never will buy a product from them again.

We bought my wife one of the 15" versions of this a few years ago. The charging brick died completely after a year. Then the screen broke spontaneously, literally sitting overnight. HP fixed it out of warranty, which was an implicit acknowledgement of the issue. It was replaced with a much thicker, heavier lid.

My motherboard died today. The laptop cost is $2500 aus. I'm so annoyed. It's less than 2 years old! I've taken so good care of it. I've since searched that and can see that hundreds of people have had this issue!

I purchased a brand new Spectre x360 16 inch. The laptop really underperforms for the $$ and specs it lists. Word makes the computer overheat. I can barely run google chrome watching youtube at times as it lags and stutters. Battery life is absolutely horrible.

Im surprised by this, I have a Spectre 360 and its been running great for 6 years. Its starting to act funny now, but I play EA games on it and its supported me through years of college. I think this is a perfect laptop.

I bought my HP Spectre x360 over 7 years ago. It's been so perfect, I dread the day I need to replace it. The OLED screen is gorgeous, performance is great - especially for it's age - and I never had any issues with it. I love this thing.

I will never buy another Spectre laptop. I purchased a 13" and the touchpad has never worked properly. I sent it in before the warranty expired and they said they repaired it. They did not. I sent it in a second time, and they said they fixed it. They did not. Now it is out of warranty.

I have the 14ef 0xxx. Worst purchase of my life. Over the last two years I have lost countless days due to the issues of this laptop. Had it returned for fixing twice. The issue I have had is with the keyboard and trackpad being unresponsive - meaning I can't do anything on the laptop.

I've worked with a lot of HP reps and most of them have no product knowledge. MY Spectre works great with no issues.

I have one with 155H. At first I scored 448 points in multi-core Cinebench 2024, but I finally found in MyHP app a Performance mode. Now I have 658 points.

About 9 hours battery. I am really disappointed in the pen wobble but happy other than that. I find it amazing a top of the line device using a specific pen writing slow produces a wobble. It is pathetic. You can definitely write and take notes but for over 1000 usd there really should be no pen wobble.

My trackpad started out with a delay then sporadically worked. Eventually, I had to return my 2023 Spectre x360 14 to have the trackpad replaced.