hi I'm Dylan and Technology muncom the
HP Pavilion 15 is a 15.6 inch laptop
with a full HD IPS touchscreen a 512
gigabyte fast SSD horizon 5 3500 new
processor and 8 gigabytes of RAM there
are other models in the range this one
offers a good balance between
performance and price is currently
around 550 pounds or $600 but check the
links below for the latest prices it's
not the flashiest laptop is
predominantly plastic there's no 360
degree hinge and it's not super
lightweight but it's fast enough to run
pretty much anything I can even handle
some light gaming this integrated fader
8 graphics could this be the perfect
all-around laptop for most of us let's
find out inside the box you get the
laptop itself a 45 watt charger and a
Quick Start Guide you can download a
full user guide from HP our link to
below the left side of the laptop has a
full size HDMI port a Gigabit Ethernet
port with accompanying status LEDs a USB
type-c port the status LED for the SSD
drive and a combo headphone microphone
jack the right side has a memory card
reader a Kensington security slot 2
standard USB type a ports and the
charging port there's a company led USB
ports all USB 3.1 gen2 support a maximum
of five gigabits per second not the 10
gigabits per second and the more recent
Gen 2 that should still be plenty quick
enough for most accessories you'll plug
in for the time being the SD card slot
is useful but limited to slow USB 2.0
speed as seems to unfortunately be the
norm opening the lid reveals a chiclet
star keyboard with a number-pad
the keyboard isn't backlit like on some
models in the range the trackpad
measures 115 millimeters by 60
millimeters wider but narrower than most
the build quality of the laptop is
decent if nothing spectacular it looks
fairly premium but it's made almost
entirely of plastic the keyboard
surround and palm rest feel fairly firm
but creak ever so slightly the lid has
more Flex than I'd like to see which
apart from making a feel little flimsy
offers little protection to the LCD
panel behind it the base of the laptop
is more rigid with an air vent and four
rubber feet the laptop measures 361
millimeters live 246 millimeters and his
20 millimeters thick taking into account
his feet it's slightly beveled around
the sides and chiseled towards the front
making it look thinner
it's nicer than inspect at 1.7 kilograms
when you first power on the laptop
you'll need to finish off the windows 10
install as usual this goes fairly
quickly thanks to the SSD there's not
too much junk where I uninstalled McAfee
it's been a built-in free Windows
Defender take its place if you need
additional protection I usually install
malwarebytes there's also some HP
software I'm keeping for the time being
with its larger 15.6 inch display I was
pleased to see if thin 5 millimeter
bezel around the sides keeping its
overall size down the top bezel measures
11 millimeters but includes a 720p HD
webcam and dual microphones for noise
suppression the bottom bezel with the HP
logo measures 20 millimeters there is a
small amount of flex in the keyboard
towards the center and it does sound a
little classier there's a decent 1.5
millimeters of travel and I found typing
on it perfectly acceptable I do prefer a
full-size return or Enter key though the
multi-touch trackpad is nice and wide
but feels cramped in the vertical
direction the surface is a little rough
compared to some high-end track pads
I've used I still much prefer using this
laptop with a mouse but it's more than
adequate with nice positive clicks if
you choose clicks over the default tabs
and you can customize it through the
pre-installed elon click pad software
the 1920 by 1080 Full HD screen has an
IPS touchscreen panel that is one of the
highlights of the laptop there's no 360
degree hinge to really take advantage of
the touch display that would bump up the
price the hinge tilts back to just 130
degrees and the base of the lid then
becomes a large rift that for the laptop
tilting the keyboard slightly even
without a 360 degree hinge the touch
display can still be useful a casual
interaction with a laptop the IPS panel
looks crisp and has good viewing angles
but the glossy screen is very reflective
you still might need to adjust the tilt
of the screen to reduce any distracting
reflections personally I could probably
forego the touch screen or one of the
models with an anti glare panel using an
X right I one display pro monitor
calibrator
I measured a maximum brightness of 213
it's a little less than the quoted
Turner and 15 is it still bright enough
indoors but would struggle outside in
brighter conditions this is not a laptop
specifically aimed at photographers by
calibrating the screen again using the I
1 display pro to attend to get the most
accurate colors
possible from the screen there wasn't a
hugely noticeable difference to my way I
measured the color accuracy or delta REE
of the screen Delta is a metric for
understanding how the human eye
perceives color difference with a value
of less than one being not perceptible
to the human eye and a value between 1
and 2 being barely perceptible I
mentioned an average Delta e of 2.7 and
4 which is not too bad an improvement
over the 5.77 and got the full
calibration
only 59% in the sRGB color space was
covered the spectrum of colors that most
devices conform to from phones to TVs to
monitors this is a low result began for
general use that displays more than
adequate
and the variation in brightness across
the screen was minimal passing a final
uniformity test 41 watt our integrated
battery charges of the 45 watt 19.5 volt
2.3 amp AC adapter with a four and a
half millimeter pin I would much prefer
to see a standardized USBC charger apart
from being more convenient it's also
more robust
a full charge from completely empty with
a laptop turned off took exactly two
hours with the amber power status light
turning white the battery supports fast
charging and thirty minute charge again
from completely flat the laptop turned
off brought the battery status to 43
percent a little below the quoted 50
percent a 90 minute charge brought in to
96 percent higher than the quoted 90
percent battery life is quoted at nine
hours 30 minutes in mixed usage and
eight hours 45 minutes of video playback
HP don't specify exactly how they get
these figures and they seem optimistic
playing back a full HD YouTube video
fullscreen with brightness at maximum I
got around 4 hours of usage with a
battery slider at Best Performance
dropping the performance slide of the
best battery life and at 50 percent
screen brightness which is pretty dim on
this laptop this increased in just over
five hours these are still decent
results for a powerful laptop the 15.6
inch of Full HD screen
considering you'll get longer just using
the computer for web browsing or word
processing by default you won't see the
estimated battery remaining time only
the battery percentage you can turn this
feature on in the system BIOS turn the
laptop off and then power on holding
down the Escape key press the f10 key to
enter the BIOS setup use the arrow keys
to navigate to the system configuration
menu and enable battery remaining time
this model has an AMD Verizon 5 3 500
you with radian Bega 8 graphics it's a
quad core processor with 80 virtual
threads and has a 2.1 gigahertz butt
speed-boosting to 3.7 gigahertz it's
roughly equivalent to something like an
Intel i5 8250 you but it's integrated
graphics are better which I'll come back
to together with it's 8 gigabytes of
ddr4 Ram running at 3200 megahertz and
fast n dot 2 nvme 512 gigabyte SSD drive
this laptop feels pretty nippy in
general use using crystal diss month to
test the speed of the drive
I measured 1633 megabytes per second
read speed and 944 megabytes per second
write speed which is much faster than
even a standard SSD the laptop booted in
8 seconds to the login screen and woke
from sleep in around 3 seconds running
the Geekbench 5 benchmark gave a single
core score of 893 and a multi-core score
a 3020 which are both decent results you
can see how these results compared to
2012 MacBook Pro the Lenovo yoga 530 are
reviewed recently and my high-end
desktop PC the user benchmark test gave
the laptop a relatively high 74% desktop
score with the laptop integrated
graphics a fairly low gaming score 20%
in real use I was able to edit a fairly
complex sequence in Adobe Premiere Pro
with multiple layers without too much
trouble
these are 4k clips and a 1080p timeline
I created proxies or low resolution
substitute files as I do even on my
powerful video editing PC lowering the
playback and pause resolution I could
play and scrub the timeline without too
many drop frames which is quite a
challenging task unfortunately I
couldn't use the AMD Vega raid graphics
processor for exporting using Hardware
encoding for any sort of real-life
project at least even though it looked
like it was supported the integrated
graphics only has 2 gigabytes of
dedicated via RAM which may not be
enough perhaps if you were to increase
the system ram to 16 gigabytes that
might help
switching to software encoding that just
uses the CPU was slow taking almost 30
minutes to render a 2 minute section off
my 12 minute sequence using the standard
YouTube preferred h.264 codec this took
just over 10 minutes using software
encoding on my desktop PC with an i7 8
700 processor in less than a minute
using the hardware encoding of my Nvidia
RTX 2070 video card but at least it is
possible to use a laptop for some very
heavy duty tasks if need be although I
wouldn't buy a solely for that purpose
considering there isn't a dedicated
graphics card the integrated GPU handled
a few games I've tested quite well
you'll have to experiment the
in graphics quality but doom was quite
playable as was fortnight and several
other games I've tried the synthetic
heaven benchmark in basic mode gave a
score of 780 with a very acceptable
average frame rate of 31 frames per
second probably my biggest peeve with
this laptop is fan noise the fan comes
on far more often than you'd expect it
to even when you're not doing anything
particularly processor intensive I even
experimented turning off fan always-on
in the BIOS this made little difference
and disabling HP's cool sense didn't
help either
still for lighter use is only an
occasional distraction at least the
laptop doesn't get too hot you cannot
braid and replace components in this
laptop fairly easily
although the plastic base does take a
little coaxing to remove so you might
want some help if you're not done this
sort of thing before
HP helpfully provide a full maintenance
guide which I'll link to below it's easy
to upgrade the memory or nvme SSD or
replace the battery when it's no longer
holding its charge there's even space
for an additional 2.5 inch hard drive
although you'll need some additional
parts to hold it in place and connect it
to the motherboard if you wanted to use
a laptop for more intensive work I'll
start by replacing the 2 4 gigabyte RAM
modules for 8 you good light modules
taking the total memory to it 16
gigabytes maximum the 720p wide vision
HD webcam does a good job as to do the
dual microphone either side of it even
in low-light the webcam still manages to
capture an image albeit a very grainy
one this is a test of the laptops webcam
and microphones
there's a white indicator light to let
you know the camera is on the built-in
stereo speakers tuned by Bang & Olufsen
according to HP's marketing info still
sound light laptop speakers with very
little bass but they are pretty loud and
mid sound bright
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it's perfectly acceptable for video
chats but for anything else personally
I'd connect headphones or an external
speaker you could use the integrated
Bluetooth 4.2 for that if you wanted to
there isn't the latest Bluetooth 5.0
that's not anything I'd be too concerned
about
there's also 802 dot eleven AC Wi-Fi and
the connection was decent around the
house to the very average Sky Rooter I
didn't quite get the download speeds of
my iPhone 11 like a still stream YouTube
videos quite happily to the furthest
points in the house the HP Pavilion 15
is a very capable laptop I don't really
think you could ask for much better spec
for the price the build quality is
generally good and it looks quite
stylish there's more flex in the lid
than I'd like and together it's all
plastic build and lack of a 360 degree
hinge you'll have to take a little extra
care with it
the Rison processor and generously sized
fast nvme SSD really make the laptop
feel quick in both general use and more
intensive tasks if you wanted to use it
for heavy duty work regularly you have
the option of upgrading the memory 16
gigabytes
even handled like gaming thanks to the
integrated AMD vagary graphics as long
as you're willing to adjust resolution
and graphics quality I did find the fan
a little noisy and the screen is very
reflective it doesn't seem to be much
you can do about the fan noise you could
opt for a model with an anti-glare
screen at the expensive touch if you
think their reflections would bother you
it may not be the flashiest laptop
around but it could well be the perfect
laptop for a student going off to
university or anyone else who wants the
best date possible without breaking the
bank but I'd love to know your thoughts
does this that sort of appeal to you do
you think a touchscreen on a laptop
without a 360 degree hinge is useful if
there's another laptop you'd like me to
take a look at please let me know down
below and as always if you have any
questions please ask I read every
comment I'll do my best to respond I do
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