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HP Elite X2 1012 G1 Hybrid Tablet Review
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May 30, 2025
Looking for a new laptop that can double as a big, powerful tablet, has a kickstand for easy positioning and the keyboard works well? Then you'll want to check out the HP Elite X2 1012 G1 Hybrid Tablet, as Dave Taylor of http://www.askdavetaylor.com/ does in this review video. It's fast, the screen is bright and rugged, and the keyboard is really excellent. Perfect tool for a road warrior!
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oh hi Dave Tay here again and this time
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I'm having fun with the HP Elite X2
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model 1012 G1 that's this it's a bit of
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a mouthful but this is a really cool
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device so what we have here as you can
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see is it's a draw on with the stylus
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draw on screen but that's not what makes
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this cool what makes this cool is you
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see you have the keyboard you have the
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little
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backstand but it's a tablet so turns out
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that it's actually just a hybrid
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computer so if you want you're running
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Windows 10 Pro so you can do that let me
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um pull out the little kickstand and the
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kickstands cool too number one obviously
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it works even if you don't have the
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keyboard attached but it also lets you
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adjust it to get just the angle you like
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which is nice I know a lot of times I
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get Reflections so just a slight change
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angle can make a huge difference um and
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then it's a magnetic catch so now it's
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docked again uh obviously when you close
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it it's really small this is a very
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small very incredibly welld designed and
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wellth thought out piece of Hardware uh
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when you open it there's two ways you
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can have the keyboard up to get it to
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have a little bit of a tilt to it or you
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can just go ahead and lay it flat and
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the stylus this is what HP calls their
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active stylus
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um they've worked with Wacom Wacom I'm
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not sure I'm pronouncing it right but
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they've worked with them to create the
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stylus and the draw on system which is
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really really nice it's very precise um
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let's see has the battery so the stylus
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stays there let's go ahead and turn this
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on and get it back
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online and one thing that's really nice
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that I like about it is that it's
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actually a pretty powerful computer so
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it's running a an Intel Core M5 at 1.1
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GHz and it also has the um Intel HD
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graphics 515 system so it's pretty Zippy
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now it's not a 4K display so I suppose
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that's something you should consider but
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it is running at greater than 1080p it's
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actually running at 1920 by 1280 um so
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if when I watch video on it or play
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games or something it's plenty powerful
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and the screen looks great I mean it's a
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nice bright screen it's not a 4K
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resolution I don't think that's a huge
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problem um it is powered around the
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USBC and the positive on that is that
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that gives you Thunderbolt which is a
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super fast IO um system so you can
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actually plug in Thunderbolt drives and
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get really really fast interaction the
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downside is it's USBC so it's yet
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another connector but HP really thought
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this through because they also have an
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older USB connection on it too which is
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so nice I'm so tired of companies just
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saying saying you shall go to USBC and
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we're going to get rid of everything
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else but if you have an old flash drive
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or something you can plug it into this
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and it'll work fine and again it's
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running Windows 10 Pro so it's going to
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have all the capabilities that you're
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going to need anyway so this particular
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unit I have has 8 GB of RAM and a 256
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gig solid state drive all in here I
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don't know why I'm pointing at the
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keyboard keyboard is an independent unit
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um and again the keyboard obviously
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detaches um the the front-facing camera
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is a 2 megapixel and it's really a fully
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functional webcam the back camera is 5
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megapixels I don't know how often I'll
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be taking pictures with this versus with
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a smaller device but some people like to
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do that with their tablet so um this
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will do a good job and I guess that's a
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good thing uh interestingly the sound
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system they worked with bang and Olson
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which is this super high-end audio file
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Audio company and it sounds really nice
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there is obviously no little portable
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you know separate subwoofer or anything
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so you still have some limitations in
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the audio you're going to get but it's
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pretty nice and they're also have two
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built-in microphones so when you're
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talking if you're using this for Skype
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or some other video chat or something
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then it actually does a good job of
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voice reproduction and it sounds really
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clean so B and O A nice addition to this
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let's see what else can I tell you about
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it it's a 12in diagonal screen um with
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fhd and it's Gorilla Glass 4 so the
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whole thing is actually really pretty
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tough I could show you by Smashing it
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with a hammer but I'm not going to do
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that who the heck would smash their
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tablet with a hammer that's crazy crazy
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I tell you uh let's see um the active
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Stylus is pretty slick has some a button
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on it too and it even has a button on
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the top so as you saw I pushed the
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button and things happened how about
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that for crazy um something you need to
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get used to
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obviously that's okay um and let's see
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so has dualband Wireless AC so that
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means it supports 802.11 let's get this
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right A B GN an AC does that count as
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one finger or two fingers one finger AC
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um and Bluetooth 4.2 so it's all the
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latest standards all the latest hardware
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and circuitry it's nice and fast and
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here's what's really nice is this
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particular unit also includes all the
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business smarts so that gives you it's a
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little tougher with the gorilla glass
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but it also gives me the trusted
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platform module tpm2 it has a
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fingerprint reader you can see here on
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the back um it has power on
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authentication it has Drive encryption
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on preboot so if someone steals this
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they're not going to be getting anything
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off of it which is super nice um
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biosphere with HP sure start and
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absolute persistence module what is
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absolute persistence module I don't know
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but it's always there cuz it's absolute
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persistence module so obviously a a huge
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benefit but here's here's the reality
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you know all this backs aside what makes
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this really nice is the keyboard this is
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a really amazing keyboard for something
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that's so incredibly thin it's like what
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is it maybe a/ qu inch thick or
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something this actually has the feel of
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a full laptop keyboard so if I'm using
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this system and I need to be typing
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notes or something or I'm just
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interacting with um as if it was a
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laptop it really feels like a laptop
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it's not some weird rubbery nonmoving
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keys or anything I really really am
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impressed with the keyboard the whole
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system it really is just elegantly
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designed and I was last night reading U
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on the Kindle app and it's just like
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this is amazing it's so big and there's
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so much information it can present and
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it's running a full Windows 10 so it
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gives me all the apps all the power all
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the capabilities I can hook this up to
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an Xbox I mean pretty darn nice so that
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leaves only one thing left to talk about
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and that's price so the base cost for
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the HP Elite X2 1012 units is
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$899 this unit as configured with the 8
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gig of RAM and the 256 gig of SSD hard
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drive and the M5 running at 1.1 GHz this
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runs about 1350
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1349 now keep in mind that includes the
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keyboard it includes the stylus right so
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like apple has their iPad Pro but you
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got to spend another hundred bucks for
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the stylus HP I really like their whole
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approach is just like here's the package
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go and it comes with all this stuff
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Windows 10 Pro ready to roll that
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includes the entire Microsoft Office
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Suite lots of really nice stuff I really
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like this this is a really nice unit and
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it's a nice tablet but it's just a nice
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overall setup and I can absolutely see
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this being my go-to device for when I'm
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traveling because it gives me all the
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benefits of having a laptop and if I
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want to just watch a movie or something
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then I just pop this the keyboard off
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and I'm good to go so how can you not
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like that and 10 hours battery life did
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I mention 10 hours of battery life
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that's pretty nice that's a pretty long
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flight right so this is Dave Taylor and
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I've been reviewing the HP Elite X2 1012
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G1 hybrid
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laptop and I really like it so I'll see
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you in my next
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