are you looking for a screen that just so happens to have a laptop
attached to it well i've got a treat for you this right here
is the hp pavilion 14 plus and it's only eight hundred and fifty dollars which i
know i don't know that's that's not really budget but has a freaking OLED
display look at that it's beautiful we're not
starting with the display though we'll get to look at that later people always get mad when i describe laptops as
looking a lot like a laptop but this is another one of those
it's a laptop it does feel really good though it's all aluminum construction
it's stamped and also recycled aluminum is what they used so that you know the
gen z and millennial audience that ends up buying this or at least they want to
buy this it doesn't get too mad about it speaking of things i wouldn't get mad
about the i o so we have a mini sd card reader i do kind of wish it was a full
size over here but uh whatever also full size type a headphone microphone combo
jack and around the other side is where things get very fun so we have oh darn
they're not Thunderbolt or at least i don't believe there's a Thunderbolt but we do get two usb type cs
full-size HDMI i believe it's only 2.0
and also usb type a what else do we have here before we continue oh geez
we have floor power cord yours probably won't come on the floor
though it's a 90 watt charger and it is usb type c love to see it
well Windows is updating this is an excellent time to have a look at the
black levels because this is all we're getting at the moment as you can see
just exceptionally dark in
well now the display is just off there we go now you can see it
just pitch black everywhere that you know it's not illuminated oh
is it not touch touch screen denied i would be kind of
sad about that except that every single other spec about this display is just
freaking the best so it's 2.8 k
of all things 2880 by 1800p it is also
OLED and the absolute cherry on top is
that it's 90 hertz one very minor annoyance is that you can only plug in
your charger on one side do wish they had a type c over here but at the same
time we're really splitting hairs that's the
sort of thing we can complain about hmm
all right screw it we're not using quick sync we're just uh
we're just brute forcing this in code all right we're back now we had a small
issue there even though the processor and this is quite powerful it was not
very happy when we tried to do screen recording now that's a combination of
fairly high resolution display and not having a GPU it is possible to get a GPU
in this you can get a 20 50 for some
reason if you want to go down that route i would highly suggest
not getting this laptop there's many other options the nv14 comes to mind
where you could get like a 30 50 which is unsurprisingly much better than
buying a 2050 in 2022 anyway the raw
specs of what we have in here are very good for the processor we have the i7 12
700h that's a 14 core processor insane
that that's in a laptop like this now you do have to
remember that eight of those are efficiency cores they're not as good as
you know performance cores but you still get six performance cores it's damn impressive
in a laptop like this as well we have 16 gigabytes of RAM i'm going to be very
interested to see if you're able to upgrade it because that would help a lot
in this thing it is ddr4 though 3200 megahertz you also have a 256 Gigabyte
SSD real tech wi-fi six
interesting i don't know if that card's good or not but an upgrade that you
might want to do is upgrading that to an Intel Wi-Fi chip because those can be
just way better if you have weird like dropping out and stuff of your wi-fi
then maybe consider doing that and finally iris xe graphics so this will be
96 execution units in this one and as we just saw it's not good enough
to do screen recording on this the rest of the machine is pretty standard for hp
the chassis is just overall very well built especially for
something in this price range it's stamped aluminum it does have some macro
flexing like if i push here you can see that the whole thing kind of bends down
but at the same time like it's not cnc machine this isn't a
specter it's more than good enough it also is
quite a thin machine so if you have a look here
it's 16 and change in the front
18 and a little bit more change in the back that's it's pretty thin
it's not the thinnest or the lightest 3.09 pounds so yeah this
is a very easy laptop to sort of just live with from a weight and thickness
perspective i know that i've already said it like a bunch of times but the screen on this especially for the price
is just incredible and there's a bunch of other things that are great about this too like a couple years ago
an 850 dollar Windows laptop would come with a track pad that was just it would
make you buy a macbook air this one right here not so much it's nice and
large i don't believe it's glass topped click feels excellent general usability
feel awesome great trackpad keyboard
keyboard's awesome it feels the same as the ones that are on the envy line which
is awesome it's pretty snappy has nice long travel and if you look at the key
stabilization it's very good super easy to you know if
you hit the corner of a key it's going to actuate before
the flexiness gets below the chassis line there hp has been doing a great job
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speakers on this are not very good unless they happen to have some below
the keyboard it looks like they're going to be down firing yeah so there's a
speaker right there and right there and anytime that you
have to you know bounce sound off of the surface it's going to lose some clarity
my first impressions are that that's way better than i was expecting it's there's
no bass there's none at all like but at the same time who cares it's
fairly clear and louder than i expected now of course we can uh we've got the
main contender even though it's hardly fair given how much more
expensive this thing is all right let's see
here switching over to the xps
yep that's way better turns out that a 2400 laptop sounds better than what's
850. who would have guessed the more interesting thing though let me just
turn up the brightness of this xps here
let's have a look at the panels damn
what's super impressive here is that these look effectively the same
i'll just turn this around for you andy there i was shocked by how good the
display was on this xps and to see it in a laptop that costs this much money and
have it be effectively the same
that's crazy
yeah that's interesting because they both said that you know the hp actually
looked a little bit better than the xps 15 which makes sense because i actually
had to increase the black levels on the xps here it's uh kind of dumb but the
problem is just that youtube's compression is awful so if you have a
display that's really good at showing off intricate detail in like you know
very dark scenes on a lot of youtube videos that ends up
just meaning that you see a bunch of blockiness or something or like someone
does a very bad job of color grading so they're like pants that they're wearing
that are black are just like looking into the void as opposed to like when
they balance on an lcd display it probably looked much more reasonable so
yeah uh using OLED for most things that
you use a computer for is kind of dubious but that said this one looks
really good what else do we do game do you guys want to have a little game yeah yeah
first of all everyone's favorite game valham
i don't think it's gonna be able to run it not at like reasonable settings at
least yeah that's not ideal so we're currently getting 17 FPS foraging will
be very easy because there's no grass cover or vegetation at all um that's a
plus uh in fairness it doesn't feel as bad as
you know generally gaming at 18 FPS
would be just simply because you know we have a 90 hertz display and also OLED
has really good pixel response time so it's
not the worst the worst yeah i need to turn down the resolution but
there we go all right you just need 900p and then
you can get like 50 FPS on low yeah this
looks really bad um anyway you can't play valheim really
let's try rocket league this is more the sort of game that i would expect you to
play on a device like this and it might be fine it might not be but it's
probably fine okay do you think that we can get away with uh i was going to say can we get
away with native resolution but no
see 1920 by 1200 we might be able to do that medium settings
this is not enough FPS to be playing rocket league right now it's at around
30 FPS and that's at 1080p this is bad okay
let's uh let's try dropping it even lower what what do we need to do to make
this playable 1440x900
turn down the anti-aliasing just because i hate
smooth lines everything else is on quality-ish looking at 40 FPS now and
this is um this looks bad so i don't oh
wait what we probably have to do i wonder if there's some hp command center
crap performance mode will not help us out at all resume game
40 FPS well uh don't game on it that's uh what
we're saying here now that said though this is an incredibly powerful laptop if
you're looking just purely for CPU performance
we have cinebench on here we do beautiful so we're looking for what that yoga that
was a very similar size got like 13 000
and that was propped up we need to prop them all up
the ShortCircuit official test this painters tape performance mode
multi-core let's go or what do we think like i'm guessing 12
569 what do you think andy
okay how fast is the CPU running right now 2.16 gigahertz not as fast as i would
want it to be going at this moment i would be kind of hoping for like higher
than base clock at least oh damn 13 026
so that's still very impressive that goes to show
you that you know having 20 threads really helps in a multi-threaded
application like this so if what you're looking to do is get a laptop for like
photo editing or light video editing but particularly photo editing this thing
will be freaking incredible because like the display our last little bit here
before we open it up is the webcam and this looks great so here we get a 5
megapixel webcam and i do have to say it looks really good it is like it's not
the best looking camera ever because it's a webcam but at the same time it
looks fairly sharp and more impressively it's exposing perfectly and that's
something that hp has done a fantastic job of doing like if we're just right
here you know it doesn't really matter what i do it's
exposing to my face and it does an excellent job at that hp does really
know what they're doing as far as like a business laptop goes like video calls
keyboard mouse display they've got that pretty down at this point all right so
basically you have an incredible processor and an incredible screen which
means that this is going to be a powerhouse for photo editors but you
know what photo editing needs a lot of the RAM and if you can upgrade it that's
like incredible let's see here looks like only four screws
if that's the case that is fantastic we have to remove these rubber feet and
that will be a little bit unfortunate but in fairness to hp these rubber feet
are really good at just falling off on their own so uh that'll make access pretty easy in a while
super easy four screws you're in
no RAM upgrading damn yeah so we can see we have our little
RAM chips all right along here that's very unfortunate because it means that
you have to buy the amount of RAM that you need from the factory now the reason
that i say that is that this is more of a budget orientated device so there's a
good chance that you know the 8 gig model might go on sale
in a year and you might be able to get it for a really good deal and that would
be freaking wicked if you could just upgrade the RAM and be like yeah i have
a great machine now whereas instead you have to just well you don't buy it
because you don't buy a laptop with the gigs of RAM that you can't upgrade
that's just like a rule for me fortunately though you can easily
upgrade the SSD and we get a look at what gave us that 13 000 cinebench score
two big old fans right here and a heatsink that goes all the way across
the back you also have really easy access to the wi-fi card so if it turns
out that's crap you can't replace it with an Intel one this is really cheap
as well and finally the battery 51 watt
hours and uh it's not enough you'll get under good conditions about six hours of
battery life out of this according to hp that's because the OLED display just it
sucks a bunch of energy now you can probably do better by you know reducing
the brightness using dark mode and everything and so on but at the same
time six hours of battery life is like barely
acceptable on top of that i need to tell you about
Windows modern standby once again because it's my personal mission to
annoy enough people in oems that they get mad at microsoft and
then microsoft might actually do something Windows modern standby it's
terrible you put your laptop and your backpack and then you come back like i
did this morning and your stupid laptop's dead and you have to go and get
a freaking charger and you're late for your call Windows fix it please
Jake Windows modern standby
yeah don't even get me started bring back s3 sleeve or i'm going to hurt you
that is a threat i will tell everyone to go and buy apple products
yeah that's why Jake went to a macbook Windows modern standby it sucks balls hp
get mad at microsoft i've already had my dell reps say that they've used these
videos to get mad at microsoft you get mad at them too all right thank
you anyway hp pavilion plus 14. it's a
very good laptop especially if you're looking to like photo editing or
something i don't think there's a better display for the money just period if you
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