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Originally Posted by Masterlu
Dan... Congrats! I may very well follow your lead and get one for myself too.
Thanks for your always detailed review! 
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Ivan.......I am positive this laptop would please you. It is solid as a rock yet appears delicate with its close tolerance build quality. I'm still playing with mine. Just finished down loading JRiver Media Center 24 and a fresh copy of the Wyred 4 Sound DAC2 driver. I am sitting here listening to Tidal with my Sennheiser HD800 headphone from the new laptop. Of course the laptop and DAC are connected with a Wireworld Platinum USB cable. Sounds excellent.
If you're interested in the identical model I ordered it is HP Item # 4VW40AV. That gets you into the powerful Intel i7-8705GPro + Radeon RX Vega M Graphics processor with 4GB dedicate RAM. This build included a 1 TB PCIe M.2 SSD. You can upgrade the SSD to 2 TB for an additional $400. I decided 1 TB on laptop is plenty for my purposes. This build also includes 16 GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM (2X8 GB) that can be upgraded to 32 GB (2X16 GB) user installed. Again, 16 GB of fast RAM is more than satisfactory for me. The preinstalled software MS Office Home & Business, and the Adobe software added to the bottom line. I can't grip at the price. With Free Shipping this laptop came to $1859.97 plus 7% FL sales tax for a grand total of $1990.17. Not bad at all for a premium level laptop. I couldn't be happier. I deleted the 30 day free trial of McAfee Internet Security. I prefer Norton 360. My five pack license let me immediately download Norton 360 onto the new laptop, one of the first things I did after the OS was set up.
Here is a copy of my order:
HP Spectre x360 - 15t Touch Laptop
Product number: 4VW40AV
•HP Pen (dark ash silver)
•No DVD or CD Drive
•$50 off Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 + Adobe Premiere Elements 15
•6-cell, 84 Wh Lithium-ion Battery
•Intel® Core™ i7-8705G (3.1 GHz, up to 4.1 GHz, 8MB cache, 4 cores) + Radeon™ RX Vega M Graphics (4GB dedicated memory)
•HP TrueVision FHD IR Camera with Dual array digital microphone (dark ash silver)(for i7-8705G)
•15.6" diagonal 4K IPS micro-edge BrightView WLED-backlit touch screen with Corning® Gorilla® Glass (3840 x 2160)
•16 GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM (2x8GB)
•1 TB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD
•Full-size island-style backlit keyboard with integrated numeric keypad (Dark Ash Silver)
•Intel® 802.11b/g/n/ac (2x2) Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® 4.2 Combo
•Windows 10 Home 64
•Security Software Trial
•Microsoft® Office 2016 Home and Business - Save $50 instantly
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Estimated ship: November 23, 2018
1 $1,859.97
Summary of savings
• Instant discounts:
• $320.00 Total Discounts
Subtotal: $1,859.97
Shipping & handling: Free
FL Tax: $130.20
Total: $1,990.17