HP Envy 14 Spectre
Cracking ... new HP laptop has glass lid
Remember when laptops were metal and plastic?
Those days are over if HP gets its way – the Envy 14 Spectre's top panel is a solid slice of glass with the silica theme continuing on the ultrabook's wrist rest.
Elsewhere, there's a more traditional build, meaning you can still crank up the Beats Audio-enhanced tunes with a machined aluminium volume rocker. Mmm, jazz.
Design and build quality
With ultrabooks coming at us left, right and centre, it's all too easy to see them as one big grey blur of slim chassis and Intel processors. HP evidently hates nothing more than to be lost in the crowd, so it's gone to great lengths to make sure the Spectre sticks out.
Instead of a muted grey colour, a huge slab of black glass covers the entire lid. It's an extremely bold statement and one that we're quite keen on. It's encouraging to see companies appreciating that we don't all want to carry around identical-looking laptops.
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