HP Spectre XT TouchSmart Ultrabook Review
by Dustin Sklavos on May 27, 2013 5:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Laptops
- HP
- Ivy Bridge
- Spectre
- Ultrabook
System Performance
Whether the result of bloat, the result of HP's software being almost impossible to disable, the result of the slow storage subsystem, or the result of an underlying BIOS setting, the HP Spectre XT produces performance that is behind the curve of competing notebooks virtually across the board. I've checked clocks, run tests multiple times, but in the end still been left with a notebook that's just slower than it should be.
Futuremark test results range from competitive to slightly behind the curve. When we hit the CPU itself more aggressively, things take a turn.
The benchmarks that hit the CPU hardest also leave the Spectre XT looking the worst. Results continue to range from competitive to bottom of the pack, and it's difficult to pin down exactly where HP's system is going wrong. This isn't performance so terrible as to render the computer unusable, it's just failing the sanity check and not where it should be.
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Silma - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - link
While writing reviews of products that aren't even available on the market and different from what the Customer will purchase is borderline dishonest, reviews that are published many months after product availability are frankly of very limited interest.The pros and cons of the HP Spectre XT TouchSmart or the Thinkpad Carbon have already been exhaustively enumerated for monthes in other publications.
grave00 - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - link
Bean counter. More like top level management. Same people that always wreck the company.PatriciaBau42 - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - link
until I saw the check 4 $7083, I did not believe that my cousin could truley bringing home money part-time on there computar.. there brothers friend had bean doing this for less than 12 months and a short time ago cleared the morgage on there apartment and bought a top of the range audi. I went here, Exit35.comTAKE A LOOKHrel - Friday, May 31, 2013 - link
Thunderbolt?! Fuck that! I don't wanna pay for that stupid licensing fee. Get rid of it.Also I agree about the cache, anything over 1k should have 200+GB dedicated SSD either through mSATA or SATA. Though I'd prefer mSATA so I can have normal hdd for storage.