It’s a convertible laptop made of leather. Well, not quite. There is glass and plastic in the appropriate places, but the exterior is genuine high quality leather, similar to what you’d find in auto upholstery or a wallet. When it’s folded, it looks like the kind of leather portfolio that business people sometimes carry their papers in.
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It’s not just a leather case. The leather is permanently attached over the magnesium frame that gives the laptop the strength it needs. And speaking of strong, it’s also an excellent laptop with, according to HP, 21 hours of battery life. It’s built around Intel’s dual-core 8th-generation Intel Core Y-series chipset, which is optimized for long battery life over performance.
The Spectre Folio has a premium price to match is premium leather, priced from $1,399 for the non-LTE version with 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB solid state storage. Another $100 buys you the same configuration with LTE. It costs $1,608 for a model with 16 GB of memory and LTE.