Great computer, battery life questionable. Fast setup!
on September 29, 2022
Posted by: Dan WW
from Florida
Verified Purchase:Yes
Setup was a breeze. Minor update issues, but fully functional. Touchpad is EXTREMELY sensitive, working on settings, zips all over the place opening windows, like it's trying to impress me with speed! Big issue, battery is not going to last long. Fully charged, one update took almost 50% of the battery. I am not happy with battery life at all. Very fast! Excellent sound card after installing graphic equalizer that for some reason is not installed. Wish they had offered a deliverable machine with a larger SSD. About 1/3 full. Going to check battery life, down to 10% from full. Don't see 7 hours of use possible.
Generally great laptop with some small annoyances.
on August 15, 2022
Posted by: Evox81
from Indianapolis, IN
Verified Purchase:Yes
As the headline says, this laptop is generally great. It's thin, light, the screen is bright enough and sharp. The keyboard is nice to type on and the trackpad is smooth and responsive. There is a decent selection of ports for a laptop of this class in 2022.
There are some annoyances however:
The power button is absolutely the most annoying thing on this laptop. It's hard to press and when you do press it there is absolutely no way to know if you pressed it successfully until the screen does or doesn't come on after a few seconds.
One other area of concern is power management on the processor. It seems to be overly aggressive. The processor will almost never reach its max-turbo state due to this power limit, and when it does, it is for a very short amount of time. And you won't see it hit that speed again for a LONG time.
That's not to say the laptop is slow. It's actually quite powerful for its size and price point. I use it to DJ from time to time and it handles it with ease. However, knowing the processor is capable of even more performance, feels like HP is leaving performance on the table in the name of posting a bigger battery life number on the box (or cheaping out on heatsink design).
The laptop is well made and has a lot of good features. The only negative is all the popups that come up for extending the term of the McAfee software.