I needed to replace my broken Pavillion. I really don't need everything this laptop offers but for a little extra I stepped up to this one. They do offer more powerful units, but this is more than enough for me now that I'm retired and just taking care of my day-to-day needs. If you have the means, I recommend this laptop.
The laptop is nicely designed and fast and efficient. I use it for music production so I don't mind the large bulky presence of it but if you're looking for something more size friendly, this isn't the device for you.
This is my 5th HP computer. '91 was a 386 SX-16 and then a few laptops over the years - the older laptop from '14 still works; that's impressive! The original battery is still alive...
What I don't like is the overly sensitive "rocker" as opposed to the older L/R buttons on the touch pad. Also there's something I've NEVER seen before...the up/down page ▲▼ buttons are wonky - some web pages scroll just fine and some "page up - page down", NOT scroll; that's a time eating pain.
It does boot fast though....wow! Windows 11 is NOT intuitive - 10 was easy to figure out in just a few hours..not HP's fault. Overall I'd buy another one.
Computer has frozen on me several times in it's first week just from using chrome. Feels heavier than my desktop computer but somehow very underpowered. Screen looks nice in a dark room but the glare is really bad. No help from HP support.