The aluminium keyboard frame ensures that the keyboard is solid and stable while you're typing, with the added benefit that it adds an air of sophisticated professionalism that Microsoft's colourful keyboards sometimes lack. it's effectively the same keyboard that we saw in HP's Elitebook Folio 1020, and it's no less impressive here. The Elite X2's folio keyboard is an absolute delight to use. You'd be forgiven for thinking that HP would struggle to match up to the exceptionally high standards set by Microsoft's TypeCover keyboards, but you'd be wrong. However, given that we've yet to see an anti-glare coating combined with Corning's excellent Gorilla Glass, we're happy to make a minor compromise on convenience for the sake of strength and stability. This feature has been cropping up on more and more laptops, and it makes working under tricky lighting conditions much more manageable.
If there's one fault with the screen, it's that it doesn't feature any form of matte anti-glare coating. It's made from Gorilla Glass 4 too, so you can be confident that it won't shatter easily. The colour accuracy was very good indeed, covering a whopping 91.5% of the sRGB colour spectrum, and the maximum brightness of 388cd/m x 1824 display resolution are similarly hard to fault.
Unsurprisingly, the Elite X2's 12.3in screen is another high point HP generally has a good reputation with regards to its display technology, and that reputation is upheld here. It's much cheaper to have simple component changes done by your in-house IT team if your corporate devices support it. This is a real selling-point for businesses that will be issuing large numbers of devices many manufacturers don't make it easy to access the internal workings of their hardware, and if you need to send a machine back to the manufacturer every time an individual component fails, that can quickly become expensive. Pop out a couple of screws and you can get at the internal hardware, allowing you to replace components like the RAM, storage and screen. HP does have an ace up its sleeve, though, and that's user upgradeability.
While this could be slightly more versatile than the Surface Pro, we'd worry that it doesn't offer the same stability and structural integrity as a full plate version, and that it'd break more easily. The biggest aesthetic difference between the Elite X2 and the Surface Pro is that the X2 uses a cut-out frame for its kickstand, rather than the full plate version used by Microsoft.
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