That’s exactly what the company did. The new Spectre
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small enough increases that you’d be hard-pressed to
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performance improvement and 21 percent longer
battery life. Spoiler alert: The precise percentages might
vary, but this is indeed one of the most powerful,
longest-lasting ultraportables we’ve tested.
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change: the back-left corner now has a power button,
and the right-left corner has a USB Type-C port.
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sleep when you’re using it as a tablet. On the other
hand, if you place the power button on the left or right
edge, as HP and other manufacturers have done on past
2-in-1s, it’s too easy to accidentally press when you’re
gripping the laptop to unplug a peripheral. A corner-
mounted button solves this problem while still making
it accessible when the device is folded into a tablet.
These corner-
mounted features are
a unique approach to
solving a frustrating
problem: turning off
the device when
you’re using it as a
tablet.The 2019
iteration is
simply an
ingenious
update to an
excellent
design that’s
been around for
a few years.