Hewlett-Packard has priced its Envy x2 laptop-tablet hybrid at $849.99 — a small tablet-laptop hybrid that runs the full version of Windows 8.
That price may be high for consumers, but HP is pushing it as a high-quality, high-end “hybrid PC” that effectively straddles both the laptop and tablet paradigms. It comes with many of the ports found on a PC — USB, HDMI, SD card slot — a top-notch IPS display, a full-size keyboard with a large trackpad (what HP calls an Imagepad) for Windows 8 gestures, and a touch display that detaches to become a standalone 11.6-inch Windows 8 tablet.