Costco Wholesale has for their
Members: HP Pavilion Plus 14" OLED Laptop (14-ey0095cl) on sale for
$699.99. Shipping is $14.99.
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Specs:- AMD Ryzen 7 7840U Processor
- 14" 2880x1800 2.8K MicroEdge BrightView OLED 48-120Hz 500-Nits Display w/ HP Wide Vision 5MP IR Camera/Dual Array Digital Mic
- 1TB PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive SSD
- 16GB LPDDR5x Memory (6400MHz)
- AMD Radeon 780M Integrated Graphics
- WiFi 6E (2x2/160) Gig+ w/ Bluetooth 5.3
- B&O Dual Speakers Audio
- Full Size Backlit Keyboard w/ HP Imagepad
- 4-Cell Litium Polymer Battery (68Whr)
- Windows 11 Home (64-Bit)
- Inputs
- 2x USB Type-C (USB Power Delivery/Display Port 1.4)
- 1x USB Type-A (10Gbps Signaling Rate)
- 1x USB Type-A (5Gbps Signaling Rate)
- 1x HDMI 2.1
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And just to describe one bug I have to work around, the colors look beautiful except when the YouTube UI pops up which temporarily shifts everything until I can make the UI disappear.
Were I buying for someone else (e.g. - my sister, who loves OLED color) I'd likely default to buying a non-touch model (especially knowing that she's not a touchscreen fanatic as is the case with me). If I personally buy an OLED with touchscreen I'd likely skip the ASUS in favor of something like a premium HP Spectre or Envy model in the hopes that I might have access to all the necessary tweaks to manage issues specific to daily driving an OLED display. Another option for me personally would be sticking to a Samsung device... despite the many gripes about screen cracking. (Again, something I'd risk personally but wouldn't want to potentially curse anyone else)
In the meantime, I'm sticking to an older, non-OLED, 6th generation CPU Spectre hoping that before the Windows 10 updates run out a killer OLED-touch equipped replacement arrives that mitigates some of these issues.
Good luck!
Jon
The zenbook has a faster but power hungry CPU. However, the GPU is way behind this AMD one.
Depends on your needs but I suggest looking and feeling them in person. I think the Zenbook feels and looks more premium, the HP has a big forehead and chin bezel.
Samsungs.
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That aside, the port selection seems amazing. Two usb-c AND two usb-a on a bitty 14". Be wary this is smaller width wise compared to traditional 14" laptops, since it's 16:10, although this is the new normal now. Everything looks good, but I would still far prefer the zenbook 14x at $700 because that is premium build and glass OLED and you get a bigger 14.5" screen in the same size because the bezels on this pavilion are rather large. You will also get better speakers. The pavilion plastic body is budget and designed as such compared to the metal body of the zenbook.
That aside, the port selection seems amazing. Two usb-c AND two usb-a on a bitty 14". Be wary this is smaller width wise compared to traditional 14" laptops, since it's 16:10, although this is the new normal now. Everything looks good, but I would still far prefer the zenbook 14x at $700 because that is premium build and glass OLED and you get a bigger 14.5" screen in the same size because the bezels on this pavilion are rather large. You will also get better speakers. The pavilion plastic body is budget and designed as such compared to the metal body of the zenbook.
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I keep the fan profile to whisper setting & the fan runs quietly. It doesn't seem to get that warm, I feel it a bit from time to time but it being winter here, is a plus for now. Battery life is meh with light usage (multiple Firefox tabs & YouTube videos, excel & word). It's what's making me consider this HP with ryzen 7840.
What's really annoying me are the bottom firing speakers. Unless the laptop is on a flat surface to reflect sound off from, it sounds bass heavy, muddled, & lacking treble. Once it's on a flat surface, the speakers sound great. So sitting on the sofa with the laptop in lap, have to find a way to get the sound to reflect off... Sigh.
Have till January 13th to consider return...