HP Spectre X360 15 Late 2019 Convertible Review: Comet Lake Core i7 with GeForce MX Graphics

[Redaktion]

It's one of the heftier and better-looking convertibles for sure, but performance becomes a bit unsteady when under higher loads. Power users may want to consider the faster Core H and GTX SKUs instead.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/HP-Spectre-X360-15-Late-2019-Convertible-Review-Comet-Lake-Core-i7-with-GeForce-MX-Graphics.449926.0.html

[Malav Patel]

Hello, it appears you have no even bothered to mention Hp command center. If the CPU is set to high-performance from the hp command center, the PL1 limit is raised to 25W, thus giving much higher clocks. I am a owner of this laptop as well, and this review is slightly misleading.

[weeeeeeeeeeee]

MSI Prestige 14 and 15, similar price, hexacore, Nividia graphics GPU, double the performance on Cinebench.

[adam.mt]

Hello, it appears you have no even bothered to mention Hp command center. If the CPU is set to high-performance from the hp command center, the PL1 limit is raised to 25W, thus giving much higher clocks. I am a owner of this laptop as well, and this review is slightly misleading.

Seems to be the same with every Spectre reviewed at NBC (and possibly other laptops with similar switchable performance profiles...who knows!?).

There is also an insistence on calling any active pen Wacom, when that often isn't so.

Having mentioned both a few times, I think it's likely the editorial team don't read the comments. I'll try and email. It's a pity since NBC has far more authoritative reviews than most.

[Allen.Ngo]

hi guys,

thanks for the feedback and apologies for the late response. HP has told us that the upcoming 2020 Spectre x360 15 refresh will make Command Center more overt to owners by having its own dedicated key since system performance is so closely tied to HP's proprietary software instead of the usual Microsoft power settings. We'll adjust the settings from there for our next Spectre review.