I was super excited to receive this and what I ended up getting was a super cheap feeling behemoth. Less and less features become available with each new model of HP. Plus no backlit keyboard? c’mon!
Navigating the function for screen lighting, clarity, and colors are difficult. Set up was not plug and play. I thought it was. I had to search the web for help fine tuning or working good. Many pre-sets for connecting to the web, changing the default for apps such as gmail were not easy to locate. Getting started with this new laptop was much more difficult and time consuming than it was my for my Slim HP with Intel COREi5. The quality of the video is better, it is faster, and easier to maneuver through settings. Not perfect but is much easier than my new laptop. Im sure someone with more computer skills than me could improve my experience. I like the look and size of the laptop. It is great. The price was very good. Power cord could be another foot longer. Way too many ads. Hard to delete them without going through a lot of delete features. I know that's not necessarily an HP problem but all these problems could be and should be placed into an easy to read and follow instruction guide.
As expected, this is a very nice laptop. Excellent screen and video camera. Quick boot-up, both cold and warm. But the forced requirement to have a Microsoft account in order to run Windows is ridiculous, and possibly illegal. There are known work-arounds for this, but HP should have an option to run without an MS account.
To date, I have been very pleased with the laptop. I realize that the two things I am about to mention in the review are both cosmetic but might be meaningful to some. The keys are not smooth. They each have the outline of whatever letter or number raised (think Braille). The second is the plastic the surrounds the keyboard. It is black but also is covered with lots of white specs. I keep wanting to wipe it off as it looks like it is covered with dust. Again, I realize this may be completely irrelevant to some.
I've been using this laptop for about two weeks and so far it's performing well. I especially like the large screen. However the battery seems to not last very long, even with Battery Saver enabled.