This New HP Laptop Is Officially My Favorite MacBook Air Alternative
The model I tested isn't the base configuration, which only features a 1920 x 1200 display. While that's perfectly usable, the $60 upgrade to the 2880 x 1800, 120-Hz display is a no-brainer. Unfortunately, HP forces you to also upgrade the CPU to at least the 12-core Snapdragon X2 Elite to get it. It's a frustrating limitation, as the ideal configuration sits somewhere in the middle. This pricing structure is especially tough to swallow when HP sells budget laptops like the OmniBook 5 and OmniBook 3 with OLED displays for half the price. In fact, this configuration pushes closer in price to the base M5 MacBook Pro, which also includes twice the storage.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus easily holds its own. Graphics performance received a massive improvement over the previous generation, even matching the M5 MacBook Air in benchmarks like 3DMark Steel Nomad Light. While that doesn't always...
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