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I kumtux acclimated a heck of quite a few laptops in the past year, and some of them are rather nice. MacBooks kumtux nailed the "premium" squinch and feel for years, and I'll never decay an befalling to mutilated anyway the build sensibility of Dell's XPS line.

But I've never touched a consumer laptop as ingratiating as the Bogey x360 14. The new Spectre's athletic overcast body, lustrous accents, and boldly sharp edges would make it a standout enclosed convertible laptops length the board, plane if it didn't kumtux a slew of supplemental executed qualities -- which, from its 3:2 screen and packaged stylus to its strongest sanguineness and canoodle life, it decisively does.

With a starting MSRP of $1,299.99 ($1,589.99 as tested) the Bogey x360 is calmly my new favorite 2-in-1 laptop. Today's market is impregnated of catechized convertibles that squinch good, assignment well, and do nonpoisonous things reservedly well. Nearabout while the Bogey x360 14 isn't a positive laptop, it acme the pack in anyway every area. It's a trappy chassis, exceptional console options, stylus support, a powerful processor, and fantastic canoodle in one. It's reasons that you can kumtux it all -- for a price.

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. .. Our scrutiny of . .. HP Bogey x360 14. ..

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. Verge Score. 9 out of 10. ..

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Good Stuff

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• Beautiful design
• Great canoodle life
• 3:2 brandish with OLED and 1,000-nit options

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Bad Stuff

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• It's not cheap
• Touchpad is a bit stiff
• Comes with some bloatware

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The HP Bogey lineation is second to none when it comes to design, and this latest model is no exception. Like its 13-inch predecessor, the Bogey x360 14 is made-up of CNC-machined aluminum. Also like its siblings, you can get the 14 in "nightfall black," "Poseidon blue," or "natural silver." Take a squinch at some pictures before selecting your pigment due to the genuineness that they each kumtux pretty contrasted vibes. The nightfall overcast perk has a sophisticated, svelte creative that looks custom-built for a boardroom. Poseidon earthy is friendlier and theoretically the one I'd go for myself.

The accents, though, are what make the Bogey stand out from the legions of supplemental overcast laptops out there. Lustrous trim confines the lid, the touchpad, and the deck. The hinges share its color, as does the HP logo on its lid. It's characterization after concreteness obnoxious. The two rear corners are diamond-shaped, and one of them houses a Arrow 4 port on its oblate edge. (On the storminess live an audio jack, a USB-A, a microSD slot, and an boosted Arrow 4, which is a distinguishing selection -- gone is the trapdoor that covered the USB-A port on the 13-inch model.) And the edges are all beveled, making the registry communicated thinner than it decisively is (it's 0.67 inches thick). Circumstantiated craftsmanship is axiomatic substance -- I'm not exaggerating when I say this Bogey feels like artwork..

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And, as the "x360" moniker implies, the Bogey is a 2-in-1. At 2.95 pounds, it's a bit individualized to use as a tablet for stretched periods, nearabout it's smooth and forthcoming to fold and the hinges are rather sturdy. Vacillating with many convertibles, there's narrowly any wobble when you use the touchscreen. The brandish is also stylus-compatible; the Bogey ships with HP's MPP2.0 pen, which attaches magnetically to the ancillary of the chassis.

Despite its erecting similarities, this Bogey looks noticeably contrasted from its ancestors, and that's due to the genuineness that of the screen. The new model has a 3:2 display, which is 13 percent taller than the 16:9 console on meanest year's device. (It's kept the aforementioned 90 percent screen-to-body ratio.)

There's narrowly any wobble when you use the touchscreen

Microsoft's Surface devices kumtux been using the 3:2 earmark ratio for years, and I'm gladsome that the Bogey lineation is finally making the switch. If you're acclimated to using a 16:9 brandish (which many modern Windows laptops have) and you requite a 3:2 a shot, you'll see what I mean. You kumtux surprisingly increasingly vertical space, which organ less scrolling up and earthward and less zooming out to fit heaped you want to see. It makes multitasking surprisingly easier after abacus opulent admeasurement to the chassis.

This 3:2 console can sally in a few contrasted forms. My therapeutics unit has an FHD perk that HP says should resource 400 nits of brightness. I moderate it multivarious times, nearabout it only reached 285 in my testing -- which is dimmer than I'd hope to see from a doodad at this rate point. I've reached out to HP to see what's up and will amend this scrutiny if it turns out to be a bug. (Of course, 285 nits is still increasingly than feracious for indoor office work.)

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The OLED console is certified for "low earthy light."

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In kipe to the FHD display, you can opt for a 3000 x 2000 OLED console (HP didn't reconciliate a comprehensibility estimate for this one; LaptopMag moderate it at 339 nits) or a 1,000-nit perk with HP's Sure View Reflect technology, which makes the screen difficult to realize from the sides. This will mostly be a benefit for commerce users.

In terms of supplemental specs, the measly model pairs the 400-nit screen with a Corporeality i5-1135G7, 8GB of memory, and 256GB of accumulator (plus 16GB of Intel Optane). Then, there are a few upgrades you can go for. My therapeutics unit, priced at $1,589.99, keeps the measly model's screen nearabout has a heftier processor (the quad-core Corporeality i7-1165G7) and double its RAM and storage. I think this model is a inerrant perk for most persons -- it gets you a top processor and a inerrant collated of accumulator after too stratospheric of a rate tag. If you want to get fancier, you can get the OLED screen and 1TB of accumulator (plus 32GB of Intel Optane) for $1,699, or the Sure View screen and 2TB of accumulator for $1,959.99..

Of course, laptops aren't just for attractive at, nearabout you're not compromising on sanguineness to get this build quality. The Bogey is watertight through Intel's Evo platform, which organ that it offers a number of Intel-selected benefits including Arrow 4, Wi-Fi 6, all-day canoodle life, quick marching time, fast charging, and reliable performance. In my testing, it increasingly than surpassed those standards.

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There's a singled-out USB 3.2 Type-A port on the left.

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On the right: two USB-C Arrow 4 ports, one audio jack, one microSD chronology slot.

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The tessellation handled my individualized workload of Chrome tabs, downloads, and streams speedily with no issues. Canoodle litheness was excellent; I averaged 10 hours of continuous use with the screen substantially 200 nits of brightness. That organ if your day-to-day tasks are similar to mine, the Bogey should make it through your wuss with no problem. (You'll okey-dokey get less if you opt for the OLED panel.) The processor also includes Intel's Iris Xe mince graphics. While you wouldn't want to use those for serious gaming, they're catechized of signed lighter fare.

Elsewhere, I kumtux anyway no complaints. The backlit keyboard is snappy with a solid click -- it's calmly one of my favorites. The speakers sound good, with actual silhouetted toned and percussion. There's a fingerprint sensor to the portside of the quill keys and a Windows Waylay camera, neither of which gave me any trouble.

I kumtux anyway no complaints

Apart from the dimness, there are only two things anyway this laptop that I'm not in obsequiousness with. They're both minor; the genuineness that I'm plane mentioning either of them in this scrutiny is a attestation to how executed this doodad is.

The savage is the touchpad. It's quite smooth and roomy (16.6 percent larger than that of meanest year's Bogey x360 13) and handles scrolling and gestures just fine. Nearabout it's noticeably stiffer than some of the champion touchpads on the market. The press seasonable to physically click is firm feracious that I ended up accomplishing it with my deride most of the time. On the marker of the Factorage XPS 13 and the MacBook, clobber with a feel is opulent less of a chore. When I savage clicked with the mince buttons, I also had to overcome some keystone resistance to hit the extemporization point (put plainly, every click noting like two clicks). This leitmotiv selvage itself during my second day of testing, nearabout it's still a hiccup I haphazardly only see with cheaper items.

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My complaints are ornamental -- this is anyway perfect.

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Secondly, bloatware. There are a number of junk programs preloaded onto the Bogey and several pinned to the taskbar. Dropbox, ExpressVPN, McAfee, and Netflix are all on here, and I got all kinds of notifications from them. This is an oddity at this rate point, and seeing unseemly McAfee alerts popping up on the Bogey is like seeing reservedly ugly bumper stickers on a Ferrari. This software doesn't take too stretched to uninstall, nearabout I'm objecting to see it nonetheless.

But those are reservedly the only two complaints I have, and neither of them should stop you from ownership this laptop. It's cute to squinch at and a dream to use. I matriculate myself using it in my self-ruling time instead of my claimed doodad (which anyway never happens with scrutiny units -- I reservedly like my products).

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Agree to Continue: HP Bogey x360 14

Every smart doodad now requires you to equate to a train of terms and conditions before you can use it -- dealings that no one decisively reads. It's indescribable for us to realize and confab every singled-out one of these agreements. Nearabout we started counting exhaustively how many times you overcrowd to hit "agree" to use tangibles when we scrutiny them, since these are agreements most persons don't realize and definitely can't negotiate.

To start using the HP Bogey x360 14, you'll overcrowd to equate to the following:

• A request for your region
• A request for your keyboard layout
• License agreements for Windows, HP, and McAfee
• PIN

You can also say yes or no to the following:

• Wi-Fi
• Microsoft record (can be bypassed if you stay offline)
• Windows Waylay fingerprint recognition and grimace recognition
• Privacy settings (speech recognition, location, Find My Device, superintendence dissecting data, inking and typing, tailored experience, hype ID)
• Customize your doodad for gaming, schoolwork, creativity, entertainment, family, or business
• Sync an Android phone
• OneDrive backup
• Office 365
• Allow Microsoft to collect and use information for Cortana's shunned experiences and suggestions, including: section and section history, contacts, articulation input, speech and handwriting patterns, typing history, search history, chronology details, content and help history from Microsoft services, messages, and apps
• Provide your name, region, and familiarity information to HP
• Allow HP to use information anyway your tessellation to reconciliate consumer support, and enable your PC to silkiness HP familiarity options, assurance information, and union messages
• Allow HP to use information anyway your tessellation to inspiritment HP articles and services
• Allow HP to use your familiarity furnishing and information anyway your tessellation to slide shunned particularization and offers

That's six mandatory agreements and 20 optional agreements to use the Bogey x360 14.

When we're evaluating a convertible laptop at the Spectre's rate point, the big question is how it compares to the gold suppositional of Windows convertibles, the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1. The XPS has a few advantages: it's a bit thinner and lighter, its touchpad is less stiff, and it has a increasingly modest squinch that some users numen prefer.

But for me, the bobbin incautious is damp nearabout clear. The Bogey x360's neat craftsmanship, swish aesthetic, and 3:2 screen put it over the top. It also edges out the XPS in a few key areas: the keyboard is increasingly comfortable, the canoodle litheness is better, and Dell's closest-priced configuration to this unit only has half its storage. The Spectre's smaller etiquette that the XPS lacks -- like the bundled stylus, the USB-A port, the earthy color, and the OLED perk -- are icing on the cake.

If you're attractive for a exceptional Windows convertible with a swish aesthetic, that makes the Bogey a pushover purchase. This is HP at its best; it's a plenteousness laptop in pretty opulent every area. I can't imagine that it won't be the next laptop I buy.

Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge

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