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the audio jack.
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its various Surface Pro tablets and Surface Laptop clamshells, and the Acer Spin
713 is one of our favorite Chromebooks. But once you get used to their roughly
20% taller view of browsers and productivity apps, it’s hard to go back to a 16:9
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The Spectre’s OLED screen is lovely, with ample brightness, sky-high contrast,
pristine white backgrounds, and deep blacks. Colors are rich, vivid, and
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fastest swipes and scribbles in tablet mode, with a comfortable pen-on-paper
feel and good palm rejection as I rested my wrist on the glass.
I always criticize HP laptop keyboards for arranging the cursor arrow keys in a
clumsy row instead of the correct inverted T, with half-size up and down arrows
squeezed between full-size left and right arrows. But otherwise, the brightly
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keys and a somewhat shallow but snappy typing feel.