HP's Spectre x360 13 Promises Up To 16 Hours of Battery Life in a Faster, Cooler Design (pcworld.com)

From a report: The HP Spectre x360 13 is already one of the most popular 360-degree convertible laptops, and it's about to get faster and cooler, thanks in part to Intel's latest 8th-generation Core CPUs. Announced Wednesday, the refreshed Spectre x360 13 also offers greatly improved thermals and other nice tweaks. The Spectre x360 13 will ship on October 29 with a starting price of $1,150, including a color-matched pen. Best Buy will begin taking pre-orders October 4. Multiple configurations will be available, but we're listing below the specs we were given for the higher-end model ae013dx: CPU: Intel 8th-generation Core i7-8550U, a quad-core CPU with a 1.8GHz base clock and turbo boost up to 4GHz. Core i5 CPUs will also be available. RAM: 16GB LPDDR3 SDRAM. Storage: 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD.

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The 8th Gen Intel CPUs might be interesting

[rsilvergun]

Intel's turned the i3's into i5s and i5s into i7s. They've shifted the entire product line in response to Ryzen from AMD. For the first time in a decade we're going to see significantly more performance on the lower end. Now if nVidia could get their 1050 laptop chipset down in price you might start seeing sub-$600 gaming laptops. Plus the lower power draw means they might not burn out in a year.