HP Chromebook 13 arrives by using Skylake, USB-C and MacBook-inspired style and design.

CHROMEBOOKS Will be the 'meh’ of the notebook world:
functional but deficient power. HP’s latest Chrome OS notebook looks to improve that perception by making use of Intel’s Skylake processors.

The HP Chromebook 13 has higher than a little whiff of the particular MacBook Pro about the design. It comes with several high-end tech but begins at a relatively pocket-friendly $499, or perhaps about £342 over the following.
This gets you any sixth-gen Intel Core Meters CPU, 4GB of RAM plus a 13in display with a great eye-searing 3200x1800 QHD+ decision.

More money gets any nippier Intel chip or over to 16GB of RAM MEMORY. That’s a lot of memory to get a Chromebook, but sadly it seems like Europe will only access 8GB. Battery life is claimed at around 11 hours, despite being charged by way of a dinky USB Type-C. It looks pretty nice too using a brushed aluminium chassis what a mere 12. 9mm thicker. This keeps it comparatively light at 1. 29kg. You can find lighter laptops out right now there, but the Chromebook 13 remains very portable.

The style sits somewhere between Apple’s very best and Google’s Pixel a couple of Chromebook, both of which cost around double the purchase price. HP has even compressed in Bang and Olufsen audio system for nice slice regarding audio.

HP describes the Chomebook 13 being a mobile and desktop system, pointing out that the RAM being offered makes it more that merely a laptop for road enthusiast. The firm claims which it has the power to help keep chugging along when working both apps alongside the browser sessions that comprise Chrome OS.

HP has added any dollop of its own software together with the usual Chrome OS stuff by means of Lucid Sleep. This appears like the title of a song from an early on 2000s indy band, yet actually allows the Chromebook to be able to update documents, emails and notifications whilst in sleep mode to give you the latest information when it really is prodded awake.

The Chromebook 13 is anticipated to hit Europe this calendar month, and it looks just like HP has upped its game inside the Chromebook and ultraportable areas, which is a intelligent move given Acer's not too long ago revealed Aspire S 13 and also Switch Alpha 12.