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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Good product
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Posted . Owned for 5 months when reviewed.
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The laptop was good and fast. I was able to download without stress. Will recommend it
Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
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This laptop is perfect and amazing for the price of $180. I got the rose gold color and it is even more beautiful in person. The display is amazing, the keyboard is very light and smooth to type on, it is an extremely fast laptop. I have no complaints.
I added photos of the rose gold laptop in a lit room and outside
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The Laptop was great when I first received it then the screen started to go blank and freeze at times. The battery life lasts a while & the screen quality is great.
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I am very unsatisfied with the fact that I purchased this device, only had 14 days to return if their were any issues and of course 14 days passed and the device just completely stopped powering on for me. I am under the impression that this device was damaged prior to my purchase.
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This laptop works great and offers everything a more expensive laptop would. Larger screen is a plus. This was a great investment for what I intend to use it for.
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nboxing - The laptop comes boxed with a slim AC adaptor and setup card. It’s easy to set up - Just plug it in to charge and hit power. Windows 11 will walk you through all of the initial options. I appreciate the the packaging is entirely recyclable.
First impressions - It’s a budget laptop, similar to a Chromebook. The build is mostly plastic but the chassis and screen do not have much flex in them. The screen feels adequately protected to be placed in a standard backpack or notebook case. The screen has accurate color and is quite bright. Once set up, I noted that the viewing angle sweet spot on the screen is quite narrow. This might present challenges if you have more than one person trying to watch a streaming service on the screen. The keyboard has quite a bit of flex in it but feels quite tough overall.
Battery Life - I did not check the official rating or expectation, I found I could play through three feature length films and have 20-35 percent battery left. I was able to surf and read for hours without significant or fast drain. A few hours of Netflix was also possible.
Connectivity - Wifi of course and also bluetooth. I was able to connect bluetooth mice, a headset and other devices without issue.
Overall performance - Quite good for such a “low spec” machine - It’s always fun to use a laptop like this for everyday tasks and
Have everything open quickly or play perfectly.
Windows S Mode ? - Windows “S” mode is enabled out of the box. This is effectively windows home edition with extra safeguards in place where apps can only be installed from the windows store. I tested this and it worked as expected but ultimately disabled it to
Install additional applications like visual studio code, openoffice and Blender3d. If I were setting this laptop up for pre-teen or inexperienced user - I would leave it in “S” mode. There is no cost to turn this mode off and windows becomes “Home edition”.
Windows Recovery - If you want to restore this laptop to out of the box condition, it can do so from a hidden image on the internal storage. It can also be backed up and restored to a 128GB or larger USB drive.
What I love !
Full size SD card slot to add storage
Performance fine for daily tasks
Great Battery Life - Plays through 3-4 movies !
Room for improvement -
A backlit keyboard would be appreciated
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HP has been a manufacturer I mostly trust when it comes to laptops. I mostly own higher-end models, but sometimes, all you need is a compact laptop that doesn't sound like a landing Boeing 747 and can handle simple tasks. No need to break the bank when all you do is shopping online or going through your emails. That is something that this HP laptop can do.
The first aspect I'm going to discuss is a technical one, the heart of any system: The CPU. Intel has been known to develop low-end processors for quite a while. Their most successful one was the Atom CPU, which you will find re-branded to Celeron (which used to be a different tier of CPU's) inside this machine. It's not meant for heavy loads but is relatively cheap to produce. This HP laptop contains a "Celeron" N4500 which probably doesn't tell you a whole lot. Suffice to say that its dual core setup won't allow you to play much else than solitaire.
The memory and storage follow the same path, with very limited resources to keep the price down. There are 4 gigs of RAM and 64 gigs of eMMC storage (a sluggish type of mass storage which is cheap to produce). Thankfully, instead of using a regular Windows 11 flavor, HP decided to go the more efficient route and use Windows 11 S, which is a stripped down version of Windows. Considering the available memory and storage, it was a good choice. I would argue that a Linux distribution would probably do a better job, but that also depends on which distribution you'd use. The biggest problem is the fact that Windows S does not allow you to install random software, as you must use the Microsoft Store to download what you need.
Surprisingly, this little laptop comes with a nice amount of ports, including a Type C and a HDMI, along with the classic USB A and headphone jack, and to polish it off, you even get a SD card reader. The power adapter - sadly - isn't going through the USB port. Not that it matters much but it's harder to find replacements if it burns out.
The screen is fine, nothing out of this world. The resolution is 720p which is pretty low and the colors and the contrast aren't great. The sound is what you would expect from a laptop of this caliber (even though it sounds alright using headphones).
The materials which make up this laptop seem solid, maybe a bit too rigid which in return tells me that it will break easily without a protecting case or sleeve. The trackpad is just mediocre and feels wobbly. It's also rather small. The design is sleek and simple, the hinges of the screen are nicely tight.
To wrap this up, let's just say that you get what you pay for, which in this case is a decent value for your buck. It's not built to run much else than office software, browse online or check the latest Youtube channels. That's pretty much it. So if you only need a compact laptop to do just that for a solid price, then go for it. It's a very good value.