To start, I am not a gamer, do not do social media and I don't use this for movies or entertainment. This is for work and business use only.
Here are the good points:
Is not touch screen. It is getting harder and harder to find a laptop without touch screen. Tablets need touch screens, laptops do not.
Very thin but also built very well. No flex and hinges are tight with no play and yet easy to open/close.
Battery life is very good. My useage is most plugged in but I have yet to run out of battery when I take it with me and not run off outlet. I would estimate well over 10 hours of non movie watching use. Recharged extremely fast.
Screen is bright and easy to look at. I never use my laptops out in the sun so I can't say what it does outdoors, but my question is always why would I use it outside in the sun anyway?
The keyboard has a great tactile feel to it and the key spacing and height are just right for me. It also has a separate numeric keypad which is a feature I demand in a laptop.
With the SSD boot up and overall performance is lighting fast. This is my first laptop with SSD and I will be putting them in every other laptop I have.
Unlike other reviews I read, I have not felt a y excessive heat at any time no matter the task. It always cool and I can't remember ever hearing the fan come on. If it has it is so quiet it can't be heard.
The styling is the best I have had on any laptop I've owned. It simply looks and feels great.
Now for the bad points:
It is HP so that means 30 minutes of removing the bloatware and a little reconfiguring of certain features. I'm waiting for the day when I get a laptop from any company and when I turn it on is not branded with software I don't want or need, does not ask me every 3 seconds to sign up for some program or service I don't want, or asks me continuously to register. If I day no or decline, I mean it, not ask me later again and again. I want to turn the machine on, it has an operating system installed and that it all. I have my own software, I have my own subscription to office, and I don't want anyone telling me how to set my machine up. HP take notice. You make good hardware, but you seriously lack in the software department. Every piece of HP software I have used has caused major issues if it even works. Most of it is sales pitches to sign up for this or that. There is one major exception and that is the instant ink program for printers. That is the best thing since sliced bread. Never run out of ink, always ships I plenty of time and the cartridges are super capacity, I'd say 3x the retail version so they don't run low often or surprise you in the middle of a print job with an empty page. Shameless pitch for no charge.
I have not found any other negatives in use so far.
This laptop may not be at the top of the numbers heap in benchmarks but I always maintain that who cares? If the produce performs for me and does what I need it to do than it is a good product. This laptop does just that. It does everything well and without fanfare. It just works and that is the mark of good design.
| Standing screen display size | 15.6 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 pixels |
| Max Screen Resolution | 1920x1080 Pixels |
| Processor | 3.4 GHz core_i7_family |
| RAM | DDR4 |
| Hard Drive | 1 TB SSD |
| Graphics Coprocessor | Intel Iris |
| Chipset Brand | Intel |
| Card Description | Integrated |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 32 GB |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 2 |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 1 |
