HP Envy Spectre XT
Envy Spectre XT notebook
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| Since the very first HP Envy three years ago, the company has sought to provide Envy customers with displays a cut above. While one of those screens had some color issues and another one annoyingly ran out of stock, HPs generally offered brighter, more vibrant, high-resolution displays at a lower price than anyone else. Just a few months back, the Envy 14 Spectres 1600 x 900 display was lovely. Here, youre stuck with a comparatively dim 1366 x 768 panel that loses brightness and threatens to invert or wash out your colors with the slightest change in viewing angle. Its not quite as bad as the display that comes with, say, the Dell XPS 13, and it’s bearable if you keep your head and the lid in a single position and dont move either one, but there are far better screens to be had in other laptops. | | Speaker quality is almost always an afterthought in these thin notebooks, whether they have a fancy audio brand associated with them or not, but the sound that the Spectre XT produces isnt bad at all. The laptop has four drivers, two angled up towards the user in a speaker bar right beneath the screen, and two more pointed down in the curved sides of the chassis. Between those four drivers and some Beats Audio magic, the audio is reasonably full, and surprisingly loud for a laptop its size. It cant handle high highs or low lows, and layered combinations of instruments get lost, but anything which sounds like it was written specifically with the radio in mind sounds fairly good. |
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