we've seen mainstream laptops built out of plastic and premium laptops filled
out of magnesium and aluminum but the HP Spectre folio is the first laptop that
is built with leather so we're not kidding
the Spector folio uses full grain leather this is not PVC not polyurethane
real leather it's bonded to the frame and let's open it up so you can see what
it looks like so here you see the traditional clamshell design and all I
have to do is pull a little bit on the display and it goes into this sort of
movie-watching mode if I push it like this it turns into a tablet so it's not
like a traditional detachable where you have to pull everything apart it just
moves into these three different modes you also see there's a pen here on the
side there's a pen included with the Spector folio and this is the same pen
that you'll see with other specters and the cool thing about this pen is that
it's USBC chargeable alright so let's take a look at some of the other aspects
of the folio here you see the track pads and you can see it's got leather all
around it which is really comfortable when you have your wrists on this and
you're navigating this keyboard is part of the new bottom part of the folio it
has an aluminum frame underneath and the battery is underneath this keyboard too
but HP still made enough room for a 1.3 millimeter travel on the keyboard so
you're still getting you know a reasonable keyboard experience for a
laptop this thin up here you have the speaker grille these are actually
laser-cut speaker holes I believe they're over 2,000 of these in there and
then they retain this aluminum on the side for strength around the holes here
you have the hinge on the side and you can see there's a little bit of space
behind the hinge for the airflow the motherboard that's underneath here is a
fanless motherboard so you're not going to get a lot of heat this display here
is a full HD 1920 by 1080 display it has a brightness of 400 nits which is a
really great brightness level for a laptop it's still a very low-energy
display though so you're not going to lose a lot of battery life and right
along here on the top you have the LTE antenna so that if you have a plan
with your mobile carrier you know you'll have instant connectivity and the sim
slots are actually hidden underneath the hinge this is a very very thin product
but they still found a room for two USB seaports on this side as well as another
USB C port on this side and the other thing you'll see here is a
three-and-a-half millimeter audio jack and while there are USB C audio devices
available right now three-and-a-half millimeter headsets means that all of
your legacy audio devices that you know and love including your Bose headphones
are going to be fine with this laptop you're not going to have to struggle
with the you know dicey standards of USB C I want to put this into tablet mode to
show you how nice it is to have the keyboard hidden underneath your laptop
instead of you know sticking out on your lap or on the desk and and getting that
rough feeling and I also want to emphasize here that you have full
leather on the bottom of this so when you're holding this on your lap instead
of feeling cold metal or really hot metal where the CPU is you're going to
have this soft surface on your clothing or against your skin that's just going
to feel so much better than metal or plastic ever did so let's think about
who would want this laptop I mean it's so different from anything else that
we've ever seen the people who want this are people who are definitely looking
for something different they want to stand out a little bit they may also
just want something that's a little more comfortable but as someone who loves
handbags I can tell you that the feel of this leather the softness the smell just
the smoothness compared to the sort of the hard feeling of plastic or the cold
feeling of metal it really makes us feel like a premium product and something
that you want to carry around with you and have next to your skin and
especially on your lap I spend so much time with a laptop and I I can say
that's the you know this feels like having a leather jacket on or a leather
skirt it just feels good so I'm sure you want to know how they did this so I'm
here with Joe tan who's the head of consumer notebooks at HP and she's going
to tell us all about the design and construction
of the Spector folio as you can see on this particular device the base you see
here on the leather underneath there is actually a Lumina metal to strengthen
the construction of the nipple so you have that rich ETV feel don't have to
worry about that the top part in order to get the right balance of weight as
well as good user experience the top up we actually have underneath the letter
magnesium alloy and one of the beauty everybody knows make me seem alloy
actually give you better wait people also would be curious about how a
leather laptop cools itself and how it feels on your lap can you talk about
that yeah the good news with leather is not like a metal weight transfer heat
very quickly right so and leather maintain that kind of a constant
temperature right is warm to touch and is solve is comfortable and so that's
the beauty of using leather and which is also one of the reasons we went down
this path well also the motherboard is span 'less yes so you're very good point
not reading a lot of heat anyway but by creating this little space in the hinge
area provide better airflow to yes and then as you said just now the leather
conducts the heat in a different way that doesn't feel as extreme as it can
feel on a metal chassis and I've definitely felt that with my leather
with my metal laptops is that the heat conduction from the CPU you can really
feel that so the spektr folio it has been announced today and when is it
going to be available don't have to wait too long you'll be available at Best Buy
on October 29th at thirteen ninety nine with a core i7 can see other options
will be available in HP com