A:AnswerI bought this exact model from Best Buy and immediately cracked it open to install more RAM. It has an empty bay and connectors for a 2.5" SATA SSD.
A:AnswerThe HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-ec1073dx has an AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with a 3.0 GHz base clock, up to 4.0 GHz max boost clock. It has two slots for RAM supporting a maximum of 32 GB.
A:AnswerThe main memory is a NVMe SSD card. You would have to buy an enclosure and clone the existing memory before swapping out. There is am additional connection for you to add a 2.5 SDD.
A:AnswerIt's a standard LED LCD, not IPS. It has some limited viewing angles and the colors can appear washed out, but it is a fine display given the price of the computer.
A:AnswerWindows 10 Home. Windows 10 S computers allow for free upgrades to Windows 10 Home but the caveat is that you can't downgrade back to Windows 10 S.
Windows 10 S usually ships with budget laptops using a Ryzen 3 or I3 processor if you are looking specifically for that OS.
A:AnswerNo, there is no software to control the fans. This laptop has an "Acid Green" backlit keyboard. You cannot change the keyboard backlight color.
A:AnswerThe discrete graphics card has an Nvidia GTX1650 processor soldered in, so there's no way to replace it. You'd need to replace the whole graphics card and because they're designed for a particular model computer, I don't think there's a higher capacity card that could be installed.
A:AnswerMaybe, who knows. I know Best Buy has extended their return time till January I think, so if it goes on sale you can do a price match.
I paid 699.00 for mine, it went on sale 2 days later and I contacted Best Buy and they gave me a 106.00 refund.
A:AnswerI just opened it up last night. Under a piece of plastic that you need to peel back, you will find that there are two slots and only one has a 8 GB card and the other is open. You can Youtube how to open the Pavilion. The chip is a Samsung M471A1K43DB1-CWE running at 3200 Mhz. You need that exact chip because AMD CPU's don't handle differences in RAM as well as Intel (according to my IT friend who helped me out last night). You can also easily add another SSD drive while you're in there.
