deal [hp.com]
click configure and add the following:
- + Intel® Core™ i7-1065G7 (1.3 GHz, up to 3.9 GHz, 8 MB cache, 4 cores)+Intel® Iris® Plus Graphics $170
- +15.6" diagonal FHD SVA anti-glare micro-edge WLED-backlit (1920 x 1080) $60
- +256 GB Intel® SSD + 16 GB Intel® Optane™ memory FREE
- Realtek Wi-Fi 5 (2x2) and Bluetooth® 5 Combo (MU-MIMO supported) +10
$670 + free s/h
I would prefer to upgrade to wifi 6, but cheaper to buy it and swap yourself.
backlit keyboard is an optional upgrade as well for $30
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This laptop was on a crazy sale on Black Friday.
Oh, I might add because it's customized it takes them forever to ship it. I received mine a week ago even though I ordered it three months ago. (First time it arrived it was damaged so I had to return it.)
- You're paying a premium for 10th-gen "Ice Lake," but it's really not that much faster than an 8th-gen CPU: https://cpu.userbenchma
- The display is TN. Full HD, but still terrible. Spending almost $700 for a laptop with a TN panel is nuts, IMHO.
- Realtek wifi. These are notoriously unreliable, lots of dropouts. Only seem to ever see them on cheap HP laptops. Want the better Intel wifi chip? That's another $35.
- Mediocre build quality. This is the lowest rung in HP's consumer laptop lineup - not even a Pavilion brand. (From this you go up to Pavilion, then Envy, then Spectre.) Plastic everywhere, and rather cheap feeling. Generally I find that Lenovo and Acer make better budget laptops.
- Puny 41WHr battery guarantees poor battery life, esp. with a 15.6-in screen.
I'd be much happier with a $400-$500 laptop with an older/slower processor but IPS display. Even if they were the same price, I'd rather have the Acer Aspire 5 with Ryzen 3 from Amazon, which actually costs $350 and leaves you a lot of money for upgrades (which are also easy to do, unlike most HP laptops).
- You're paying a premium for 10th-gen "Ice Lake," but it's really not that much faster than an 8th-gen CPU: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Com...7vsm920409 [userbenchmark.com]. This is 10-15% faster - and that's CPU performance alone. For most uses you'll never notice a difference even side-by-side. This does have better graphics performance, but not enough for any serious gaming.
- The display is TN. Full HD, but still terrible. Spending almost $700 for a laptop with a TN panel is nuts, IMHO.
- Realtek wifi. These are notoriously unreliable, lots of dropouts. Only seem to ever see them on cheap HP laptops. Want the better Intel wifi chip? That's another $35.
- Mediocre build quality. This is the lowest rung in HP's consumer laptop lineup - not even a Pavilion brand. (From this you go up to Pavilion, then Envy, then Spectre.) Plastic everywhere, and rather cheap feeling. Generally I find that Lenovo and Acer make better budget laptops.
- Puny 41WHr battery guarantees poor battery life, esp. with a 15.6-in screen.
I'd be much happier with a $400-$500 laptop with an older/slower processor but IPS display. Even if they were the same price, I'd rather have the Acer Aspire 5 with Ryzen 3 from Amazon, which actually costs $350 and leaves you a lot of money for upgrades (which are also easy to do, unlike most HP laptops).
There's a version with a 10th-gen dual-core Intel Core i3 CPU for $400, but again with 4GB RAM, which I'd want to upgrade to 8GB: https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Displ...07XPLHL
Or for around $550, quad-core Core i5 with twice the RAM and SSD storage: https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Displ...07XPLKZ
And you can save $50 on Amazon if you have an Amex card that earns Membership Rewards points.
If you don't absolutely need a laptop right away, it may be worth waiting a month or two to see what we get in Ryzen 4000 laptops. The early reviews say the Ryzen 4000 gaming chips beat Intel by a mile, but it remains to be seen how the U-series chips that go in more mainstream/ultraportable laptops perform. ETA: The Aspire 5 linked above will be available with Ryzen 5000 CPUs in June: https://www.theverge.co