Windows laptops are cool again. After a boring year for both desktops and ultrabooks, the PC story's different this year.
PC manufacturers are actually making a concerted effort to sell laptops with premium designs at reasonable prices. Asus's ZenBook UX305 is a real head-turner and Dell's XPS 13 is wonderfully small for a 13-inch laptop.
Lenovo may have popularized the 2-in-1 convertible ultrabook/tablet with its Yogas, but it's HP's premium Spectre x360 which runs Windows 8.1 and starts at $899 that takes that concept and shoots for the stars.
The x360 is the product of a deep collaborative effort between HP and Microsoft. It isn't a Microsoft Signature Edition laptop, but it's damn close. If Microsoft designed its own laptop, it'd probably look like this.
Plastic out, metal in
Just as smartphone makers are ditching plastic
in favor of metal and glass, so too is HP. The x360 is created from a
block of aluminum; its frame has almost no flex and no visible parting
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