1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,319
are you looking for a screen that just so happens to have a laptop

2
00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:11,840
attached to it well i've got a treat for you this right here

3
00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:14,719
is the hp pavilion 14 plus and it's only eight hundred and fifty dollars which i

4
00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:18,720
know i don't know that's that's not really budget but has a freaking OLED

5
00:00:17,359 --> 00:00:22,160
display look at that it's beautiful we're not

6
00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:27,439
starting with the display though we'll get to look at that later people always get mad when i describe laptops as

7
00:00:25,599 --> 00:00:31,599
looking a lot like a laptop but this is another one of those

8
00:00:29,039 --> 00:00:36,399
it's a laptop it does feel really good though it's all aluminum construction

9
00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:40,800
it's stamped and also recycled aluminum is what they used so that you know the

10
00:00:38,399 --> 00:00:45,440
gen z and millennial audience that ends up buying this or at least they want to

11
00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:49,039
buy this it doesn't get too mad about it speaking of things i wouldn't get mad

12
00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:52,399
about the i o so we have a mini sd card reader i do kind of wish it was a full

13
00:00:50,239 --> 00:00:57,039
size over here but uh whatever also full size type a headphone microphone combo

14
00:00:54,879 --> 00:01:02,079
jack and around the other side is where things get very fun so we have oh darn

15
00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:09,280
they're not Thunderbolt or at least i don't believe there's a Thunderbolt but we do get two usb type cs

16
00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:11,760
full-size HDMI i believe it's only 2.0

17
00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:15,600
and also usb type a what else do we have here before we continue oh geez

18
00:01:16,479 --> 00:01:22,080
we have floor power cord yours probably won't come on the floor

19
00:01:19,759 --> 00:01:27,119
though it's a 90 watt charger and it is usb type c love to see it

20
00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:31,040
well Windows is updating this is an excellent time to have a look at the

21
00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:33,640
black levels because this is all we're getting at the moment as you can see

22
00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:38,000
just exceptionally dark in

23
00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:43,920
well now the display is just off there we go now you can see it

24
00:01:41,439 --> 00:01:48,560
just pitch black everywhere that you know it's not illuminated oh

25
00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:53,200
is it not touch touch screen denied i would be kind of

26
00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:58,880
sad about that except that every single other spec about this display is just

27
00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:02,640
freaking the best so it's 2.8 k

28
00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:06,560
of all things 2880 by 1800p it is also

29
00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:08,720
OLED and the absolute cherry on top is

30
00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:12,800
that it's 90 hertz one very minor annoyance is that you can only plug in

31
00:02:10,640 --> 00:02:16,080
your charger on one side do wish they had a type c over here but at the same

32
00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:20,000
time we're really splitting hairs that's the

33
00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:23,040
sort of thing we can complain about hmm

34
00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:27,360
all right screw it we're not using quick sync we're just uh

35
00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:31,200
we're just brute forcing this in code all right we're back now we had a small

36
00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:35,599
issue there even though the processor and this is quite powerful it was not

37
00:02:33,519 --> 00:02:40,319
very happy when we tried to do screen recording now that's a combination of

38
00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:46,879
fairly high resolution display and not having a GPU it is possible to get a GPU

39
00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:48,959
in this you can get a 20 50 for some

40
00:02:46,879 --> 00:02:52,319
reason if you want to go down that route i would highly suggest

41
00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:57,200
not getting this laptop there's many other options the nv14 comes to mind

42
00:02:54,640 --> 00:03:02,720
where you could get like a 30 50 which is unsurprisingly much better than

43
00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:04,959
buying a 2050 in 2022 anyway the raw

44
00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:11,280
specs of what we have in here are very good for the processor we have the i7 12

45
00:03:07,599 --> 00:03:12,640
700h that's a 14 core processor insane

46
00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:15,920
that that's in a laptop like this now you do have to

47
00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:18,400
remember that eight of those are efficiency cores they're not as good as

48
00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:24,640
you know performance cores but you still get six performance cores it's damn impressive

49
00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:28,000
in a laptop like this as well we have 16 gigabytes of RAM i'm going to be very

50
00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:32,879
interested to see if you're able to upgrade it because that would help a lot

51
00:03:30,239 --> 00:03:39,760
in this thing it is ddr4 though 3200 megahertz you also have a 256 Gigabyte

52
00:03:36,159 --> 00:03:41,920
SSD real tech wi-fi six

53
00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:46,400
interesting i don't know if that card's good or not but an upgrade that you

54
00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:50,400
might want to do is upgrading that to an Intel Wi-Fi chip because those can be

55
00:03:48,319 --> 00:03:54,400
just way better if you have weird like dropping out and stuff of your wi-fi

56
00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:58,879
then maybe consider doing that and finally iris xe graphics so this will be

57
00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:02,799
96 execution units in this one and as we just saw it's not good enough

58
00:04:00,959 --> 00:04:07,760
to do screen recording on this the rest of the machine is pretty standard for hp

59
00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:12,000
the chassis is just overall very well built especially for

60
00:04:10,159 --> 00:04:15,840
something in this price range it's stamped aluminum it does have some macro

61
00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:20,079
flexing like if i push here you can see that the whole thing kind of bends down

62
00:04:18,079 --> 00:04:22,880
but at the same time like it's not cnc machine this isn't a

63
00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:27,600
specter it's more than good enough it also is

64
00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:29,520
quite a thin machine so if you have a look here

65
00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:34,080
it's 16 and change in the front

66
00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:38,560
18 and a little bit more change in the back that's it's pretty thin

67
00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:44,639
it's not the thinnest or the lightest 3.09 pounds so yeah this

68
00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:48,160
is a very easy laptop to sort of just live with from a weight and thickness

69
00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:53,280
perspective i know that i've already said it like a bunch of times but the screen on this especially for the price

70
00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:59,759
is just incredible and there's a bunch of other things that are great about this too like a couple years ago

71
00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:03,759
an 850 dollar Windows laptop would come with a track pad that was just it would

72
00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:07,680
make you buy a macbook air this one right here not so much it's nice and

73
00:05:05,759 --> 00:05:15,039
large i don't believe it's glass topped click feels excellent general usability

74
00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:15,039
feel awesome great trackpad keyboard

75
00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:21,520
keyboard's awesome it feels the same as the ones that are on the envy line which

76
00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:25,280
is awesome it's pretty snappy has nice long travel and if you look at the key

77
00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:29,680
stabilization it's very good super easy to you know if

78
00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:33,600
you hit the corner of a key it's going to actuate before

79
00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:38,400
the flexiness gets below the chassis line there hp has been doing a great job

80
00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:43,840
with their keyboards for just years oh what else do we have here grab

81
00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:47,039
rave okay of course oh jeez yeah i can't give you a crab

82
00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:51,520
rave without telling you about our sponsor enlisted thanks to our sponsor

83
00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:58,160
enlisted enlisted as a free-to-play world war ii multiplayer shooter

84
00:05:53,440 --> 00:06:00,400
available on pc ps5 ps4 xbox series x s

85
00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:03,680
and xbox one it has a focus on historical authenticity and gameplay

86
00:06:02,319 --> 00:06:08,960
that always keeps you in the middle of the action you'll be placed in large-scale combat alongside dozens of

87
00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:12,720
soldiers and vehicles directly in famous historical campaigns like the invasion

88
00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:16,960
of normandy head to the link below to start playing enlisted for free you also

89
00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:20,400
get free bonus just for signing up i am going to guess right now that the

90
00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,440
speakers on this are not very good unless they happen to have some below

91
00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:27,360
the keyboard it looks like they're going to be down firing yeah so there's a

92
00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:31,440
speaker right there and right there and anytime that you

93
00:06:30,319 --> 00:06:36,319
have to you know bounce sound off of the surface it's going to lose some clarity

94
00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:46,840
my first impressions are that that's way better than i was expecting it's there's

95
00:06:44,639 --> 00:06:52,000
no bass there's none at all like but at the same time who cares it's

96
00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:56,160
fairly clear and louder than i expected now of course we can uh we've got the

97
00:06:53,759 --> 00:06:59,680
main contender even though it's hardly fair given how much more

98
00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:04,000
expensive this thing is all right let's see

99
00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:08,479
here switching over to the xps

100
00:07:08,479 --> 00:07:14,000
yep that's way better turns out that a 2400 laptop sounds better than what's

101
00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:20,160
850. who would have guessed the more interesting thing though let me just

102
00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:22,560
turn up the brightness of this xps here

103
00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:26,400
let's have a look at the panels damn

104
00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:34,160
what's super impressive here is that these look effectively the same

105
00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:38,880
i'll just turn this around for you andy there i was shocked by how good the

106
00:07:35,919 --> 00:07:44,800
display was on this xps and to see it in a laptop that costs this much money and

107
00:07:41,759 --> 00:07:47,440
have it be effectively the same

108
00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,440
that's crazy

109
00:07:48,879 --> 00:07:54,319
yeah that's interesting because they both said that you know the hp actually

110
00:07:52,319 --> 00:07:58,960
looked a little bit better than the xps 15 which makes sense because i actually

111
00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:03,680
had to increase the black levels on the xps here it's uh kind of dumb but the

112
00:08:02,319 --> 00:08:07,680
problem is just that youtube's compression is awful so if you have a

113
00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:11,520
display that's really good at showing off intricate detail in like you know

114
00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:14,879
very dark scenes on a lot of youtube videos that ends up

115
00:08:13,599 --> 00:08:19,520
just meaning that you see a bunch of blockiness or something or like someone

116
00:08:16,639 --> 00:08:22,400
does a very bad job of color grading so they're like pants that they're wearing

117
00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:26,160
that are black are just like looking into the void as opposed to like when

118
00:08:24,479 --> 00:08:32,000
they balance on an lcd display it probably looked much more reasonable so

119
00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:33,360
yeah uh using OLED for most things that

120
00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:36,880
you use a computer for is kind of dubious but that said this one looks

121
00:08:35,519 --> 00:08:44,720
really good what else do we do game do you guys want to have a little game yeah yeah

122
00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:47,519
first of all everyone's favorite game valham

123
00:08:46,399 --> 00:08:52,480
i don't think it's gonna be able to run it not at like reasonable settings at

124
00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:57,600
least yeah that's not ideal so we're currently getting 17 FPS foraging will

125
00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:00,959
be very easy because there's no grass cover or vegetation at all um that's a

126
00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:06,959
plus uh in fairness it doesn't feel as bad as

127
00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:09,360
you know generally gaming at 18 FPS

128
00:09:06,959 --> 00:09:14,000
would be just simply because you know we have a 90 hertz display and also OLED

129
00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:16,000
has really good pixel response time so it's

130
00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:21,800
not the worst the worst yeah i need to turn down the resolution but

131
00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:30,080
there we go all right you just need 900p and then

132
00:09:26,959 --> 00:09:32,480
you can get like 50 FPS on low yeah this

133
00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:36,640
looks really bad um anyway you can't play valheim really

134
00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:39,680
let's try rocket league this is more the sort of game that i would expect you to

135
00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:43,440
play on a device like this and it might be fine it might not be but it's

136
00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:48,320
probably fine okay do you think that we can get away with uh i was going to say can we get

137
00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:52,720
away with native resolution but no

138
00:09:50,399 --> 00:09:57,839
see 1920 by 1200 we might be able to do that medium settings

139
00:09:55,200 --> 00:10:02,880
this is not enough FPS to be playing rocket league right now it's at around

140
00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:08,000
30 FPS and that's at 1080p this is bad okay

141
00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:11,480
let's uh let's try dropping it even lower what what do we need to do to make

142
00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:15,279
this playable 1440x900

143
00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:19,040
turn down the anti-aliasing just because i hate

144
00:10:16,959 --> 00:10:25,680
smooth lines everything else is on quality-ish looking at 40 FPS now and

145
00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:27,440
this is um this looks bad so i don't oh

146
00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:31,600
wait what we probably have to do i wonder if there's some hp command center

147
00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:36,160
crap performance mode will not help us out at all resume game

148
00:10:34,079 --> 00:10:40,800
40 FPS well uh don't game on it that's uh what

149
00:10:38,399 --> 00:10:45,600
we're saying here now that said though this is an incredibly powerful laptop if

150
00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:48,560
you're looking just purely for CPU performance

151
00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:55,360
we have cinebench on here we do beautiful so we're looking for what that yoga that

152
00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:56,800
was a very similar size got like 13 000

153
00:10:55,360 --> 00:11:00,120
and that was propped up we need to prop them all up

154
00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:06,560
the ShortCircuit official test this painters tape performance mode

155
00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:14,040
multi-core let's go or what do we think like i'm guessing 12

156
00:11:08,959 --> 00:11:14,040
569 what do you think andy

157
00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:22,480
okay how fast is the CPU running right now 2.16 gigahertz not as fast as i would

158
00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:29,600
want it to be going at this moment i would be kind of hoping for like higher

159
00:11:24,399 --> 00:11:30,880
than base clock at least oh damn 13 026

160
00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:35,279
so that's still very impressive that goes to show

161
00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:38,320
you that you know having 20 threads really helps in a multi-threaded

162
00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:43,200
application like this so if what you're looking to do is get a laptop for like

163
00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:47,839
photo editing or light video editing but particularly photo editing this thing

164
00:11:44,959 --> 00:11:52,240
will be freaking incredible because like the display our last little bit here

165
00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:57,200
before we open it up is the webcam and this looks great so here we get a 5

166
00:11:54,639 --> 00:12:01,279
megapixel webcam and i do have to say it looks really good it is like it's not

167
00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:06,480
the best looking camera ever because it's a webcam but at the same time it

168
00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:10,880
looks fairly sharp and more impressively it's exposing perfectly and that's

169
00:12:08,079 --> 00:12:14,160
something that hp has done a fantastic job of doing like if we're just right

170
00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:18,959
here you know it doesn't really matter what i do it's

171
00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:23,040
exposing to my face and it does an excellent job at that hp does really

172
00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:28,800
know what they're doing as far as like a business laptop goes like video calls

173
00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:32,480
keyboard mouse display they've got that pretty down at this point all right so

174
00:12:30,639 --> 00:12:36,399
basically you have an incredible processor and an incredible screen which

175
00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:41,680
means that this is going to be a powerhouse for photo editors but you

176
00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:46,079
know what photo editing needs a lot of the RAM and if you can upgrade it that's

177
00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:50,320
like incredible let's see here looks like only four screws

178
00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:54,160
if that's the case that is fantastic we have to remove these rubber feet and

179
00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:57,360
that will be a little bit unfortunate but in fairness to hp these rubber feet

180
00:12:56,079 --> 00:13:01,839
are really good at just falling off on their own so uh that'll make access pretty easy in a while

181
00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:09,120
super easy four screws you're in

182
00:13:06,959 --> 00:13:14,079
no RAM upgrading damn yeah so we can see we have our little

183
00:13:11,279 --> 00:13:17,760
RAM chips all right along here that's very unfortunate because it means that

184
00:13:15,839 --> 00:13:21,600
you have to buy the amount of RAM that you need from the factory now the reason

185
00:13:19,839 --> 00:13:26,000
that i say that is that this is more of a budget orientated device so there's a

186
00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:29,680
good chance that you know the 8 gig model might go on sale

187
00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:33,279
in a year and you might be able to get it for a really good deal and that would

188
00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:37,440
be freaking wicked if you could just upgrade the RAM and be like yeah i have

189
00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:40,959
a great machine now whereas instead you have to just well you don't buy it

190
00:13:39,199 --> 00:13:44,639
because you don't buy a laptop with the gigs of RAM that you can't upgrade

191
00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:48,800
that's just like a rule for me fortunately though you can easily

192
00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:52,880
upgrade the SSD and we get a look at what gave us that 13 000 cinebench score

193
00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:56,320
two big old fans right here and a heatsink that goes all the way across

194
00:13:54,720 --> 00:14:00,560
the back you also have really easy access to the wi-fi card so if it turns

195
00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:05,600
out that's crap you can't replace it with an Intel one this is really cheap

196
00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:08,240
as well and finally the battery 51 watt

197
00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:13,199
hours and uh it's not enough you'll get under good conditions about six hours of

198
00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:17,680
battery life out of this according to hp that's because the OLED display just it

199
00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:22,079
sucks a bunch of energy now you can probably do better by you know reducing

200
00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:25,360
the brightness using dark mode and everything and so on but at the same

201
00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:28,800
time six hours of battery life is like barely

202
00:14:27,519 --> 00:14:33,680
acceptable on top of that i need to tell you about

203
00:14:31,279 --> 00:14:38,240
Windows modern standby once again because it's my personal mission to

204
00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:42,079
annoy enough people in oems that they get mad at microsoft and

205
00:14:40,639 --> 00:14:46,720
then microsoft might actually do something Windows modern standby it's

206
00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:51,440
terrible you put your laptop and your backpack and then you come back like i

207
00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:55,600
did this morning and your stupid laptop's dead and you have to go and get

208
00:14:53,440 --> 00:15:01,920
a freaking charger and you're late for your call Windows fix it please

209
00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:03,440
Jake Windows modern standby

210
00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:10,160
yeah don't even get me started bring back s3 sleeve or i'm going to hurt you

211
00:15:07,199 --> 00:15:14,639
that is a threat i will tell everyone to go and buy apple products

212
00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:19,040
yeah that's why Jake went to a macbook Windows modern standby it sucks balls hp

213
00:15:17,199 --> 00:15:23,680
get mad at microsoft i've already had my dell reps say that they've used these

214
00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:29,199
videos to get mad at microsoft you get mad at them too all right thank

215
00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:31,600
you anyway hp pavilion plus 14. it's a

216
00:15:29,199 --> 00:15:34,639
very good laptop especially if you're looking to like photo editing or

217
00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:39,600
something i don't think there's a better display for the money just period if you

218
00:15:37,199 --> 00:15:44,000
like what you see hit subscribe like and just have a fantastic day

219
00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:44,000
see you later