HP has adapted 2018’s consumer-oriented Spectre Folio into a business-class device, the new Elite Folio, which features the same leather-wrapped 2-in-1 design, but has swapped Intel’s Core chip for a Qualcomm Snapdragon—and swiped the pen design from the Microsoft Surface Pro X.
HP has thus transitioned the 13.5-inch Elite Folio laptop from a statement PC to one designed more for practicality. Though the Snapdragon 8cx lineup has suffered somewhat in terms of performance, there’s no question that it can offer massive battery life—and though HP didn’t specify the exact size of the battery, executives claimed that it can offer up to 24.5 hours of local video playback, in a laptop weighing just 2.85 pounds.