HP doesn’t want the HP Spectre 13 to look like any old laptop, and it certainly doesn’t. The shape may be similar to that of last year’s 13-inch HP Spectre x360, but its visual impact is in an entirely different class.If the Aztecs still existed and formed a tech company, the HP Spectre 13 is the sort of laptop you could imagine them coming up with. There are more than a few jutting angles here and there, the HP logo has been given a fancy chopped-up haircut, while the ultra-glossy gold-colour metal used to form the laptop’s hinge make the Spectre 13 something you can imagine being buried in some rich guy’s tomb as a prized possession.
he lid and main part of the Spectre 13 are metallic grey, cast in aluminium. This clashes dramatically with the gold of the backside, which returns in the lettering and sides of the keyboard keys, but in more muted form.Its big banner claim has nothing to do with the colour accents, though. HP says this is the thinnest laptop ever, at 10mm thick. It sure is supremely thin, and brilliantly light too, at just 1.3kg. That’s closer to the weight of some 11-inch laptops, and similar to the MacBook Air.