The 16:9 screen is an immediate turn off for me. on a machine of this size that extra screen real estate you get with 16:10 or even 3:2 is important to me. Shame too, because this could be the perfect machine for me.
Not only is it 16:9, but it's only 1920x1080: no opportunity for 2x/4K which you need thesedays if you doing any kind of user-facing frontend work.
Yeah it's a bit of a joke at this point, especially for a device marketed to developers. To me it screams cost cutting. If Lenovo and Dell can start to go back to taller displays then HP certainly can too.