Alas, the Spectre x360 13’s touchpad is subpar. It’s far
too twitchy out of the box, making accurate cursor
movements all but impossible. After the “Wow, what is
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people’s mouths when I let them play around with the
Spectre x360 13 was, “Um, what’s up with the
touchpad?”
Worse, because HP uses Synaptics’ touchpad software
instead of the more user-friendly Windows Precision
Touchpad interface, there are plenty of esoteric
adjustments such as SmartSense, Momentum, and
EdgeMotion but no simple speed or sensitivity settings.
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Control Panel for that.) In the end, I spent a lot of time
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got the touchpad to work to my satisfaction.
In addition to the USB Type-C port in the right corner is
a second USB Type-C port on the right edge, both of
which support Thunderbolt 3 connections of up to
40GBps. A USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A port, a microSD card
slot, and an audio input/output port round out the I/O
selection. That’s a generous array, especially when you
consider that some of the Spectre x360 13’s competitors
lack Thunderbolt 3, USB Type-A, or both.
I spent a lot of
time fiddling
with settings
in multiple
dialog boxes
and never got
the touchpad
to work to my
satisfaction.