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HP Says It Made the World's Thinnest Laptop (time.com)
An anonymous reader writes: HP claims that its Spectre laptop, unveiled April 5, is the world's thinnest laptop. It measures 10.4mm thick or 0.41 inches. That would mean that it's slimmer than the 12-inch MacBook (0.52), MacBook Air (0.68 inches) and Dell XPS 13 (0.59 inches) at their thickest points. It's also thinner than the 0.52-inch Razer Blade Stealth. The new notebook is equipped with an advertised nine-hour battery life, 13-inch HD 1920 x 1080 resolution display, and sixth generation Intel Core i5 or i7 processor. The Spectre will be available for pre-order on April 25 for $1,169.99 before it hits Best Buy stores on May 22 for $1,249.99.
Thin laptops are vulnerable to being bent and cracked in half. They're not very durable. They also tend to have shorter lifespans because there's little room for adequate air circulation and the overheating shortens the life of the components. This probably isn't a good way to spend your money.
I have children. This laptop would be destroyed in less than 20 minutes.
Can't say I'm a fan of laptop hinges that are a an inch or so from the edge.
...if you sit on it. Or drop it. Or sneeze on it. Or look at it the wrong way.
This anorexic idiocy has got to stop. 0.75-1" is fine, especially if built properly, and allows for maintenance hatches and cooling systems that can handle 35-45W TDP processors. These things are idiot status symbols.
I can remember when there was a bunch of complaints about the Chicklet keyboards on the Texas Instruments 99/4 computer, so they put a real keyboard on it, and called it the 99/4A.
Now every laptop has keys that are worse and no one complains. HP made better keys on a folding keyboard I had for my Compaq iPaq. I could put that in a pocket.
The thing still tops out at 8GiB RAM? I still don't understand why mobile devices have such low amounts of maximum RAM. I purchased a cheap ass 10" netbook some 3-4 years ago for only $300 and was able to effortlessly upgrade it to 8GiB of RAM. Surely a 13" system with more horizontal space could pack more RAM, especially with the increase in memory density?
"I feel like I'm going to break this damn thing!"
I won't be happy until I can shave with mine. And we're talking ZZTop here, not Justin Bieber.
HP locks down a large number of their "laptops" with a custom shit-bios. I believe most of their laptops have 2 ram slots. And when you put 2x8GB slots in there - the Bios says 16GB, and when your system finally boots, your OS is allowed to see and use 8GB.
Because if it doesn't... talk to the hand, or buy a macbook.
That is not a hinge design of a laptop that I would want to pick up the laptop by the display. The hinge should be both equally strong using the display to pickup the laptop, or the laptop strong enough to pickup the display.
Those flashy hinges look like they were designed by someone in marketing, not someone who actually has to use a laptop.
If you have your choice between this shiny piece of marketing-designed drivel, or an XPS 13 which is known-bulletproof and in at least it's second design revision.. Get the XPS 13.
moox. for a new generation.
Srsly? A year ago I was ready to replace my Gen1 MBAir, the then current 13" MBAir also had 8GB max, but for just 200g more, I bought the MBpro and put 16GB in it.
Okay, so my MBpro is a couple mm thicker. The diff between 10mm, 13mm, and 16mm doesn't bother me; mainly it's the weight I care about. And being able to put 16GB of RAM in it.
My 6 years old Dell Adamo-XPS is 9.99mm thick.
Have a Thinkpad W520(Last legendary thinkdpad keyboard!, not those crappy applesque type.), what 3 generations CPU behind? don't care. Have 32GB of RAM, CPU i7, and 3 SSD's (2 are raid 0) and runs circles on these.
My pockets are too small. How fat do I need to be until I can wear pants with pockets big enough to contain the laptop? Or are there professional looking cargo pants that'll work?
"HP Says It Made the World's Thinnest Laptop"
A construction company I know has a Cat CS44 vibratory soil compactor that says otherwise.
Oh. You mean a useful laptop. :)
The world's marketing people are going to try selling negative numbers for width pretty soon.
Because, you know, in the list of things HP users wish the company would do differently: stop with the bloatware garbage, etc. "Thinnest laptop" is really right there at the top. You know, here on the bleeding edge of 2010. Yawn.
This isn't useful for my business, there is no CD-ROM drive or PCMCIA slot.
Thunderbolt to VGA dongles are readily available, so I'm glad other 1990's technology is still alive in the PC.
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Where is B: in Windows 10 ?
But it is still has HP engineering, which has burned me on laptops and PCs enough already.
I won't bore everyone with all the failures over the years.
Won't touch anything from HP, except PA-RISC stuff.
...will it blend?
I'm American, and I'm constantly defending the use of our traditional units on this US website.
But hundredths of an inch? That's moronic.
This thing had better work, 'cause Spectre doesn't tolerate failure. If a screen breaks, who gets thrown to the sharks?
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At this point I am more concerned about the amount of data harvesting being done by Windows 10 than I am about the thinness of a laptop.
12.5" and mSSD slot
I'd prefer a thicker laptop if it meant NO FAN!
They want to cram a Core i7 into this thing? Hell, no,
If only they had shaved off an additional 400 microns.
Businesses like to maximize:
* Repeat sales
* Less product for more cash
News at ten.
Requiem for the American Dream
But it's still a HP
and it still only run M$ Windows
IMHO, a real sucky combination.
Why is it that the people that dont do work are catered to, yet those of us that need the Quad i7 at 5GHZ, 32gig of ram and dual 1TB SSD drives along with a 2K 17" screen cant find shit that is faster than what we bought 3 years ago?
When laptops reach the dimensions of a sheet of 8.5" x11" 20-24lb. paper, it will be good enough.
Everything until then is an advance.
Should be "It measures 10.4mm thin."
Relevant Pictures for Sad Children:
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I'd link to the original, but I'm pretty sure it was deleted in John's mentally unstable rage-quit.
HP made the World's Thinnest Claims! /sarcasm. I actually, could not resist!
I wont be satisfied till I am able to fold my laptop ...
Just like with phones, thin means they're not using space which would allow for a more powerful battery. You'd have to be an idiot to not see that a thicker, and therefore stronger and more useful device is better than an unnecessarily thin one.
Meaning all that extra whatever-ware that HP includes with its offerings.
Pass.
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
As a Dell tech, sometimes I want to pull my hair out working on some of our laptops and especially convertible laptop/tablets. I can only imagine the nightmare that this one would be. And being so flimsy, a *lot* of them will get broken.
HP has the world's slimmest chance of selling me a laptop, or any other computer. Last time I got one it failed due to a known issue and it took me 24 hours+ on the phone with various support departments, and having a customer advocate assigned to me and spend enough time talking to learn things about one another's personal lives, before I got my laptop replaced.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
So they've managed to make a super thin laptop, which is thinner than something Apple launched a year ago, near as it matters (April 10, 2015). And knowing the superb build quality of HP's normal products, this one might last a whole 10 months before it's smashed through normal use. And I'll bet it comes loaded with all kinds of helpful shovelware that guarantees the thing will need to be wiped and fresh installed right out of the box. And speaking of which, what kind of bargain-basement proprietary garbage did they solder into the thing in order to keep the price down, making it a royal pain in the balls in order to do an OS reinstall or replace with Linux?
At least with Lenovo you know what you're getting inside the thing if you don't just buy a retail channel unit - you can make sure you don't end up with garbage Broadcom and Realtek networking trash and pay an extra $50 for Intel wireless and ethernet that works everywhere.
Why should anyone that isn't locked into a poorly thought out HP purchasing contract care about this thing?
With technology continuously developing in this direction, we'll soon not be limited to papercuts.
Could somebody be paying them to create a battery aftermarket?
I happen to own an absurdly, impractically thin phone (Samsung Galaxy 4S, and that's considered "fat" by 2016 standards), and as you might imagine, one of my biggest complaints about it is that the battery doesn't last long enough.
There is a solution available to me, for a price. I can spend more money to get an aftermarket combination battery/case. Yes, that bumps the price of the phone up $70 but it also gets the battery up to a practical level. And it also happens to make the phone twice as thick, but really, it's still not too thick.
The original manufacturer gets to cheap out on the parts, but still charge full price as though the product worked. The aftermarket guys get to correct the deficient product, and owes the original manufacturer a favor, which can be repaid somehow. User gets to tell their friends they correctly conformed and bought a stylishly thin phone. User pays out the nose, twice. Everyone wins except whoever is paying for it.
Look at all the junk Apple and Samsung are selling, at pretty high prices but super-cheap components. Is it any wonder HP wants in on that?
When a laptop lacks a wired NIC, I have no reason to purchase it even if the other features and the price/performance ratio is adequate.
There are already so many laptops on the market that have wired NICs that there's no way for manufacturers to force me into buying one of these pieces of shit.
I don't use the wired NIC very often on my laptops, but they come in handy for things like doing OS updates on a new OS install and for using the laptop as a HTPC which plays media on my NAS using a single HDMI cable to my receiver.
It doesn't matter how you design a laptop, if it runs Windows, it is still a shit box.
Who the hell would want a POS laptop that lacks everything usable in the name of being thin? Do these higher ups ever even ask the general public what they want? Personally I like a nice think METAL cased laptop with a trackball. But that's just me.
It so thin, Well nothing less could have been expected from HP. Nice work guys. But i am wondering what kind of material they had used to make it thin and strong at the same time. The world sure is on fire....
I take a MacBook Pro w/ BootCamp over a HP ProBook any day, but I also take Windows 10 w/ Classic Shell, Cygwin and OpenBSD in VirtualBox over OS X. This gives me the best of all worlds, plus in my professional work there's a lot more software available for Windows. http://www.mobiletv.com.pk/