HP Elite Folio
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PRICE £1,269 (£1,523 inc VAT) from hp.co.uk
Remember the leather-clad HP Spectre Folio 13 (see issue 300, p48)? That clever 2-in-1 hybrid eschewed the 360° hinge found on most convertibles in favour of a foldaway screen that offered the twin advantages of reduced thickness and weight. The Spectre Folio was squarely aimed at consumers, but now HP brings the idea to its Elite range for businesses.
Not only that, but the Elite Folio runs on the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx chipset, with the promise of exceptional power efficiency. The flipside of that coin is the need to run 32-bit Windows x86 software in emulation, and you can only run 64-bit Windows apps if you sign up to Windows Insider and load a developer version of the OS.
What’s the point?
HP is pitching the
