I brought this notebook 2 and half years ago. I fully agree with other reviewers sound is crap as is battery life. Now the key board will not connect with the tablet. I will never buy a hp product again. For the price i should have brought a Microsoft pro.

I bought the laptop less than three years ago. When it was new I was expecting around 7 hours battery as advertised but I never got more than 3 and a half. The sound is terrible. The laptop hasn't been shutting down for the last year even that I tried every possible trick and did few clean windows installations so I always force shut down. for the last year and a half, the battery doesn't last more 45 minutes and lately around 10 minutes. I can't say enough how bad it is.

I agree with the other reviewers, sound system on my cheap mobile phone has better sound volume and quality, touch screen, pen & battery are poor also, I find too its freezing and lost confidence very quickly as I was using it for public speaking, even connecting to my hp envy printer is a problem. I hate writing negative reviews like this but I have too now, buy a new device and was hoping this would last a little longer, thanks hp. I'm sure hp is a great product in general but the spectra is a let down disappointing.

What looks like a very snappy product simply fails to deliver. The touch pad is super sensitive and one finds the computer doing tasks that were not requested, it is slow in comparison with an earlier Toshiba Ultrabook which still outperforms this expensive piece of disappointing material. I would not touch an HP again. It is also struggling to work with Windows 10 which doesn't help!
It has no USB ports and the store selling this product did not even manage to get my requested 2 connections for USB devices correct. They sold me an HDMI connector but failed to tell me what they had done. Not happy.
I agree with another reviewer who knew quickly that they had made a mistake. I wish I had my money back

I used to be a Toshiba Satellite fan, after purchasing several HP laptops (5 in total) over the last 2 years I would never go back. I changed due to poor performance with my last Toshiba purchase. What a difference. The sound system on the spectre is awesome. The performance is great. I have had no issues. Only con was a smallish 500gb SSD, but that's only due to technology of the day vs price. I matched it to a HP Envy printer and the family live it. No issues at all.

The bang and olufsen speakers are terrible. I haven't checked it with headphones but you'd think a brand like B&O could produce an inferior product but they have. The laptop/tablet has many fine features but the audio quality is really disappointing. Oh and the usb ports - there's only two usb type c ports and the adaptor is not supplied. Be prepared to pay an additional $40 to $100 for a usb-c hub to accommodate you usb 3.0 devices.