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There are a lot of different Windows 10 laptops on the market today, but precious few of them have the slick trick up their sleeve of the HP Pavilion x360 Convertible. This well-designed, solid laptop has four different viewing modes and with its 360-degree hinge can be used as a laptop, tablet, portable viewing screen in "tent" mode and sketchpad too, as Dave Taylor from http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ demonstrates in this review video. If you're looking for versatile, this might just be the unit for you...
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I'm looking at the HP Pavilion x360
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convertible that's this guy and you're
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thinking okay it's a Windows laptop but
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it's more than that before I go further
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though let me tell you this is the m3
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you 0:03 DX what that means I don't know
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but if you want to get this unit that's
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the number you use and let me tell you a
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little bit about this this is actually a
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really nice light laptop with lots of
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nice features I'll show you in a minute
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what makes it super cool but before we
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get there I'll tell you this is running
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on an Intel Ice I five six to two
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hundred CPU so it's pretty darn speedy
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actually I find it to be very snappy has
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a fairly modest eight gigabytes of RAM
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and 128 gig internal hard drive a sort
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of SSD and that's nice it's not a huge
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amount of space but with a unit like
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this it's so easy to plug in little
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flash drives and stuff that you you know
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and of course with all the cloud not
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sure how much space you actually need
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and plus I think that this unit is
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targeted more for maybe a student or
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maybe someone that's a light user it's
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definitely not a heavy-duty Windows
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machine but that's okay because it is
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the price tag to match and again we'll
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get to that in a minute to has a really
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nice sound system they have a Bang &
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Olufsen of what they call B and L play
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and the sound system on it's actually
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really nice I'd use it but you're still
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not going to really be able to hear
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without being in person so just trust me
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on that
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13.3 inch screen running at basically
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1080p so it's 1920 by 1080 so 1920 1080
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and it's a nice resolution works fine
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for things like Netflix if you want to
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watch a video or you want to watch the
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Olympics on it or something it's going
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to look great and there's some trick it
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has up its sleeve that makes it even
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better for that Windows 10 full-size
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keyboard doesn't have a DVD drive but
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then again how many laptops nowadays
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have DVD drives digital digital digital
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download streaming you know
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all the words so what makes this
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particularly interesting and what makes
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this something that HP is very proud of
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is that the hinge is a 360 degree hinge
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so now I can use it as a tablet and
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that's a big darn tablet and what's nice
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is I'm actually pressing the keyboard on
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the back but it's not reacting because
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it knows I'm in this mode so obviously
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it's a touchscreen so I can just use it
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as a touchscreen unit don't actually
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want to launch that program let's get
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back here so that's one mode and then
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you can also use it like this so now I
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can use this for example a presentation
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where I want to show everyone here's
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what we're talking about and here's this
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cool little box thin blue that I drew on
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the screen so that's two and then they
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also point out that you can also use it
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in and I like this one particularly this
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is tent mode this is what they call
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playing in tent mode and this actually
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works really well when I want to use
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this as a second screen so I might have
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my main computer here and then I'll have
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this in this mode and you know this is
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when it rocks to be able to be streaming
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Netflix or streaming NBC online to watch
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an Olympic event while you're working I
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mean you've got your own little world
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right here so again what makes this
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pavilion interesting is that it really
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has these four completely different use
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patterns and the hinge there's some of
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these laptops I've seen that have these
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sort of hinges are really flimsy this is
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a really good hinge and as you can see
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any angle I put it on it just stops at
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that angle I guess here might slowly
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close we'll see what happens here isn't
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this exciting watching my laptop closed
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how awesome is that okay so alright when
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you get it within an inch it closes but
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in general in particular if you have a
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funny angle you like to work at or you
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you know have an issue with your back or
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something then obviously this gives you
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lots of options and same here I can do
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it just like this or I can back it up
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and of course since it's a touchscreen I
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can easily do it like this and then work
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and actually use this for sketching or
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something so really really nice lots and
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lots of functionality so they refer to
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this as having notebook stand tent and
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tablet mode so there you go the four
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modes of the HP Pavilion x360
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convertible now you want to learn more
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about it got a couple of fairly
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complicated URLs for you you can learn
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more at hp.com
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could push the pause button right there
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and that would actually help things
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actually no I think the pause button is
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over there it's in one of these two
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directions is a pause button that would
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let you see this URL but by now I'm sure
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you've seen it for long enough you want
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to get one for yourself you can pick it
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up a Best Buy
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and here's a shortened URL that will get
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you there and have HP know that I
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pointed you there which is good for both
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of us and generally the price as
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configured with eight gig and the SSD
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drive and everything's about set just
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under seven hundred and fifty dollars
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which is pretty darn nice this is not
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some little Chromebook with no brains or
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anything this is really a laptop that
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really can get you through certainly
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undergrad unless you're doing hardcore
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heavy science and stuff this is a really
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nice student notebook this is nice
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notebook for Grandma or uncle Joe who
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really just like surfing the web and
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playing on Facebook and doing some games
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and again to be able to go from this to
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this to this is awesome this is really
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cool and I really want my main laptop to
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have this set of features so this is the
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HP Pavilion x360 convertible I'm Dave
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Kaela
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and I'll have you in the neck
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