HP presents magnesium and leather laptop

Manufacturer HP has presented the Specter Folio, a laptop with a magnesium and aluminum housing, with a layer of leather. Thanks to the way the screen can fold down, the laptop should also be usable as a tablet.

Thanks to the integration of forty magnets, the laptop can be placed in multiple corners, where, for example, the keyboard can no longer be used, but the touchpad can. Users can also fold down the screen and use it as a tablet, HP claims.

There will be three screen variants, all with a diagonal of 13.3 “. A full-HD screen with up to 300 nits, a low-power screen with the same resolution that only requires 1W of power and can deliver 400 nits of brightness and a 4k option, due later this year HP will include a stylus with tilt detection and 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity.

The keyboard is backlit and there are four speakers that HP has developed in collaboration with Bang & Olufsen. The thickness of the 2-in-1 device is 15 mm and the weight is 1.45 kilograms.

There will be variants with an Intel Core i5-8200Y and a Core i7-8500Y, in addition to a Core i5 variant with 4G support. These processors of the new Amber Lake generation are passively cooled. The manufacturer claims to have designed a very small motherboard for the model. The laptop has a maximum of 8GB lpddr3-sdram memory and a pci-e nvme-ssd of up to 256GB.

The Specter Folio has three USB-c ports, two of which have support for Thunderbolt 3. There is also a USB-a port and 3.5mm connection. The Core i5 variants have a battery of unknown capacity that should last for 19 hours, the Core i7 comes to 17 hours, HP says. The code name HP used internally during development was Godzilla.

The LTE and WiFi versions of the HP Specter Folio will be available in January 2019, for suggested retail prices of 1799 and 1599 euros respectively.