![]() It’s a bit shallow and plasticy, but still fast and responsive. ![]() The Escape and Delete keys are small, but the keyboard’s typing feel is great. (And, I’m tempted to say, it loses more points for the inclusion of an emoji key along with the brightness and volume controls on the top row.) It loses points for HP’s trademark arrangement of said cursor keys in an inverted row instead of the proper inverted T, which consists of half-sized, hard-to-hit up and down arrows instead of full-sized left and right arrows. The backlit keyboard wins you points for having the actual Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down keys instead of adding the Fn key and cursor arrows for those functions. On the plus side, it blows away the usual 720p junk with a sharp 5-megapixel resolution (capturing 2,592-by-1,944-pixel 4:3 images or 2,560-by-1,440 16:9 shots or video) and well Gives light and colorful images without noise or static. Since you can sign into Windows Hello with a fingerprint, we don’t mind that the webcam lacks face recognition technology, though we’re disappointed that it doesn’t have a privacy shutter. (credit: Molly Flores) some luxury amenities Another USB-A port, a microSD card slot, and an audio jack are on the left. There are two 10Gbps USB 3.2 Type-C ports on the right, along with a 5Gbps USB Type-A port and an HDMI video output (either accommodates an AC adapter for charging the laptop’s battery). We love seeing Thunderbolt 4 ports on laptops under $1,000 and up The Pavilion Plus doesn’t have any, but since it starts at $1,000, we can’t complain too loudly. The screen bezels are thin (the company says the screen-to-body ratio is 87%) and the Palm Rest houses a fingerprint reader for password-free login. There’s some flex if you grasp the corners of the screen or mash the keyboard, but the laptop feels fairly sturdy overall. HP claims the Plus has a recycled aluminum lid, keyboard deck, and bottom, as well as recycled plastic keycaps. Though it’s not a burden in a briefcase, the HP is the heaviest of the three at 3.09 pounds, Lenovo’s 2.42 pounds and Acer’s 2.71 pounds. The Acer Swift 3, a 14-inch ultraportable with a traditional 16:9 screen aspect ratio, measures 0.63 by 12.7 by 8.4 inches. The Pavilion Plus 14 measures 0.72 by 12.3 by 8.8 inches (HWD), which is slightly heavier than the Slim 7 Carbon (0.59 by 12.3 by 8.5 inches). Various models have Wi-Fi 5, our system’s Wi-Fi 6, or Wi-Fi 6e, as well as Bluetooth for wireless connectivity. Gamers can juggle the Core i7-1255U with rarely-seen GeForce RTX 2050 graphics. Our $1,279.99 review The unit matches it, except with a 1TB SSD instead of Home and Windows 11 Pro. The $999.99 model steps up to the Core i7-12700H (six performance cores, eight efficient cores, 20 threads) with Intel Iris XE integrated graphics and a 2,880-by-1,800-pixel OLED panel. Prices may be lower, though, so it might be worth waiting for a sale like the $549.99 deal we saw at Staples, which ended just before review deployment of. Pixel resolution supported by a GeForce MX550 GPU. Right now the cheapest model is the $729.99 HP.com configuration with a Core i5-1235U processor, 16GB of RAM, a 256GB NVMe solid-state drive, and a 14-inch display with 16:10 aspect ratio and 2,240-by-1,400. He is exceptionally flexible Which you choose will depend on your lust for performance versus battery life. It can be ordered with either Intel integrated or Nvidia discrete graphics, and 12th-generation processors from Intel’s 15-watt U, 28-watt P, or 45-watt H series. Lots of configurations to choose fromĪmerican buyers are limited to natural silver instead of the many colors offered to foreign buyers, but otherwise the Pavilion Plus 14 is a dream for those who like to pay attention to configuration details. The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7 earns an Editors’ Choice approval, replacing the Carbon, plus a midrange ultraportable that also offers OLED and is lighter, but costs more and has fewer ports. Last summer’s Pavilion Aero was fast, well-equipped, and weighed a featherweight 2.2 pounds, and the new Pavilion Plus 14 (starts at $729.99 $1,279.99 as tested) is a sleek aluminum ultraportable laptop with an attractive OLED display. HP’s Pavilion-the company’s bread-and-butter laptop-has been earning money lately from sophisticated shoppers, who may have swung to the once more premium Envy and Specter series.
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