So you’re in the market for a detachable 2-in-1—a tablet you can use either by itself or with a keyboard and stylus? The Apple 10.9-inch iPad Air is a good choice—in fact, a PCMag Editors’ Choice winner—at $599. But if you’re willing to think different, HP’s 11-inch Chromebook x2 costs the same—including twice the memory as well as the keyboard and pen that Apple will charge you an extra $428 for. Tablet shoppers rarely consider Chromebooks, but the HP x2 favors the bold. It doesn’t perform as well as comparably priced Chromebook laptops (and we still consider our Editors’ Choice favorite, the Lenovo Chromebook Duet, a better value among Chromebook detachables), but it fills a nifty niche.
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We reviewed the first HP Chromebook x2—a 12.3-inch tablet with an Intel Core m3 chip—in September 2018. This year’s model has an 11-inch Gorilla Glass touch screen with a 3:2 aspect ratio (2,160-by-1,440-pixel resolution), backed by an eight-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c processor. At $599, our test unit is a Best Buy configuration with 8GB of RAM, 64GB of eMMC flash storage, and the snap-on keyboard and rechargeable pen. HP.com offers a $679.99 model without the pen ($48.99) but with 128GB of storage and 4G LTE mobile broadband.
The HP isn’t the only Chrome OS tablet-and-keyboard combo; we’ve given two thumbs up to the 10.1-inch Lenovo Chromebook Duet and one to the 10.5-inch Asus Chromebook Detachable CM3. Windows is another option; the Microsoft Surface Go 3 is a 10.5inch tablet that costs $399.99 with a Pentium Gold CPU or $629.99 with a Core i3, plus at least $166 for a keyboard and pen.
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