HP Split 13t-m000 x2 Pro Reviews

Despite ample processing power and a reasonable price, the Split X2 is overweight and lacking in refinement

The HP Split x2 hasn’t split our verdict on where this product sits. Literally: it should sit on a desk. And that defies what the product is supposed to be about. For all its efforts at being a two-in-one device - well, physically at least, it succeeds in being that - it fails to deliver a truly portable tablet device; it’s just too large and heavy and, therefore, confused as to what it's meant to be. It’s bigger than the Envy x2 too and we’re not really sure why. We can see why HP has pushed the concept of the Split. It’s where the market is, or trying to be. But for all its efforts the more exciting parts of the concept just don’t really take, while the position of last-generation Intel architecture keeps it behind the curve. Furthermore the Split x2 isn’t really comfortable to use on a lap. Pop it on a desk, however, and it’s a laptop with ample power for its sub-£700 price point, the battery life is fair, and the typing experience is good. The screen, too, has a decent viewing angle, even if its low resolution isn’t going to cause much excitement. So there we have it. As a laptop there’s some good here - hence the score being fair, it’d be lower if there wasn’t some success in its at-home laptop highs - but as a tablet-laptop device the Split x2 makes even the Surface Pro 2 look like a beanpole.