Plus, the HP Chromebook x2 11 has gone on sale repeatedly since its release, seeing prices as low as $399 for the 8GB RAM/64GB eMMC (non-LTE) unit reviewed in this article. Yes, the retail price of $600 is a little too high for the performance you get, but you have to keep in mind that you get a keyboard, a universal stylus, and a magnetic stand in the box. It’s also a durable device, and since it comes with everything you need to get going, the HP Chromebook x2 11 is perfect for school life while still being plenty useful for professional work while on the go. This is a device designed to be toted around all day, ready to help you get work done even if there’s no power outlet around. Sure, the performance of the Snapdragon 7c isn’t going to blow you away, but the battery savings, in my opinion, are worth the hit. While it sounds cliche, the HP Chromebook x2 11 is more than the sum of its parts. You’ll have some black bars in videos, but that’s a small price to pay for a ratio that’s better at everything else. In tablet mode, the 3:2 screen is excellent for landscape work since there’s extra headroom to fit webpage text, and in portrait, the ratio is perfect for comic books, manga, and general e-reading. Charge time is also excellent, where you can hit a 50% battery level in half an hour and 100% in a little over an hour. I’ve left the unit to sit on my end table for days, eventually picking it up to find my battery level had barely dropped. I managed to get 10 hours of use in a single day, and the standby time is equally fantastic. Thanks to the low-power Snapdragon 7c, the 32 Wh battery will last an entire workday and then some. The highlight of the HP Chromebook x2 11 is the battery life. To get a better idea about performance, here are a few benchmark results. Though it’s not like slow apps are the end of the world, many are functional enough to get work done. So even with 8GB RAM packed in, it would appear the bottleneck is the CPU when using Android and Linux apps. Playing Spotify through the Android app resulted in lag and skips in my music, all the while the PWA performs flawlessly. And even though you’d think the Snapdragon chip would handle Android apps with aplomb, I found many of them were buggy and slow, and the eMMC storage isn’t especially helping this situation. Opening a Linux app takes too long (over a minute to open GIMP), though once you have something open, you can at least use the app without too much slowdown. But then there are Linux and Android apps, which can bog down the Snapdragon chip, especially the more demanding Linux apps.
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