1 00:00:00,140 --> 00:00:04,400 - You guys asked for it. Guess what? This laptop, it's under $1,000. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,810 Now, I don't know if I'd call it a budget laptop. 3 00:00:07,810 --> 00:00:13,270 It's maybe like a budget premium laptop or a very expensive budget laptop, either way. 4 00:00:13,270 --> 00:00:16,710 It's the HP Pavilion Aero 13, and I think it's gonna be pretty good. 5 00:00:16,710 --> 00:00:22,950 You can see right here, right off the bat. Not quite as fancy as other laptops. 6 00:00:22,950 --> 00:00:26,670 Not that it really matters. That's kind of spooky how it just stood up like that. 7 00:00:26,670 --> 00:00:29,393 So what do we get? Set up instructions, easy, 8 00:00:30,430 --> 00:00:34,100 a little power brick, this thing's tiny, actually, 45 Watts. 9 00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:37,750 So yeah, this is not a beast. You're not gaming on this. 10 00:00:37,750 --> 00:00:40,869 - [David] How about solitaire? - Oh, this thing would be a solitaire beast. 11 00:00:40,869 --> 00:00:45,550 - [David] Yes. - Here it is, the HP Pavilion Aero 13 and wow. 12 00:00:45,550 --> 00:00:49,870 That is light. So this is an all magnesium chassis, which is like, 13 00:00:49,870 --> 00:00:53,020 that's the first thing that's like, that's not a budget laptop kind of thing. 14 00:00:53,020 --> 00:00:56,200 You don't put magnesium into a budget laptop. 15 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:01,380 Although it feels really good. Like I think it's under a kilogram. 16 00:01:01,380 --> 00:01:06,010 So LG gram spec. Nice, and we get very solid bit of IO, 17 00:01:06,010 --> 00:01:10,500 especially given how small this is. So we have headphone right there, USB type C. 18 00:01:10,500 --> 00:01:14,560 It's not Thunderbolt. This is an AMD machine. So no Thunderbolt yet. 19 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:20,700 USB type A, full-size HTMI. Another type A port, and there's our power input. 20 00:01:20,700 --> 00:01:24,130 Yeah, that's everything that you need right there. Should we just get into it? - Yeah. 21 00:01:24,130 --> 00:01:28,170 - No, sponsor. - Ooh. - Thanks to Volta for sponsoring today's video, 22 00:01:28,170 --> 00:01:31,460 clean up your desk and declutter your workspace with the Volta Giga charger, 23 00:01:31,460 --> 00:01:36,560 which can charge four devices simultaneously. It comes in either 131 or 200 Watt configurations 24 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,690 and it's compatible with all fast charging capable devices. They have expressed worldwide shipping 25 00:01:40,690 --> 00:01:45,200 with a 30-day-money back guarantee. Learn more about the Volta charger at the link below. 26 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,220 Actually just before we get into it, this right here is the natural silver color. 27 00:01:49,220 --> 00:01:52,380 I think I'd go with the white one. It's a $20 addition, 28 00:01:52,380 --> 00:01:56,233 but the ceramic white one looks really sick. Anyway, let's do it. 29 00:01:57,370 --> 00:02:01,750 That's a laptop. We're gonna move this just so you know that it's not 30 00:02:01,750 --> 00:02:06,750 that flexing, but this is an extremely stiff feeling 31 00:02:07,670 --> 00:02:12,670 chassis, definitely not budget feeling, much more premium. 32 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:19,200 The only thing that would give away that you didn't spend over $1,000 on this are the bezels, it's just plastic. 33 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:25,180 And we also get a 16 by 10 display. Love to see that, love to see that it's making its way down. 34 00:02:25,180 --> 00:02:28,480 What should we look at first, David? what do you wanna see? - How's the screen? - How's the screen? 35 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:33,320 The screen looks pretty good. So it's a matte finish, 400 nits peak brightness. 36 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:38,217 There are two options. So you can either choose from 1,200P or 1,600P, 37 00:02:39,290 --> 00:02:43,400 1080P and 1440 except you know, taller. 38 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,400 So this is a 1920 by 1200 version. 39 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,420 I feel like you're gonna have a really hard time on a display of this size, 40 00:02:50,420 --> 00:02:55,030 noticing the difference between quad HD and just normal, full HD. 41 00:02:55,030 --> 00:03:01,540 I guess we're getting this close maybe. Let's just try the keyboard. (keyboard clicking) 42 00:03:01,540 --> 00:03:06,780 I can confidently say that this is an excellent keyboard. It feels basically identical to what you would find 43 00:03:06,780 --> 00:03:10,840 on HP's Envy lineup, which is awesome. Those are all A-plus keyboards. 44 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,780 So good job, HP. Actually, this whole thing just feels like an Envy. 45 00:03:14,780 --> 00:03:18,160 HP is really bad for doing this where they make like the Spectre lineup, and they're like, 46 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:23,890 oh, it's our new premium one. And they make the Envy. That's a lot cheaper, but pretty much just as good. 47 00:03:23,890 --> 00:03:27,070 And then you're like, okay, why the hell would you ever buy a Spectre? 48 00:03:27,070 --> 00:03:32,850 And now we have this Pavilion Aero that is basically a lighter Envy 13. 49 00:03:32,850 --> 00:03:37,500 And I don't know why, based off of my small amount of use of this 50 00:03:37,500 --> 00:03:41,240 you would spend the extra money for the Envy. Actually I can think of one. 51 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,830 This doesn't have a touch screen, but like getting eight-core AMD processor, 52 00:03:44,830 --> 00:03:49,300 AMD Ryzen 7, 5,800 U, eight-core 16 threads, wicked. 53 00:03:49,300 --> 00:03:54,360 That one is like $140 option, and when you're in a computer like this one, 54 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,110 do you wanna spend the extra amount? I'd probably stick with the Ryzen five one 55 00:03:58,110 --> 00:04:03,550 like six cores is going to be enough, but I would go for the 16 Gigabytes of memory. 56 00:04:03,550 --> 00:04:06,940 I find that I use up eight really fast these days. 57 00:04:06,940 --> 00:04:11,620 As for SSD it's 500 Gigabytes and AMD Radeon graphics, 58 00:04:11,620 --> 00:04:15,060 pretty solid overall, also the track pad's good, I've just been using it here. 59 00:04:15,060 --> 00:04:20,490 They've used basically all of the space that they have here. There's no speakers up top to move the keyboard down, 60 00:04:20,490 --> 00:04:23,880 and with the 16 by 10 display, there's just more space, 61 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:28,300 especially on a 13-inch-laptop, that gets you a lot more keyboard space, 62 00:04:28,300 --> 00:04:32,190 moving just that little bit of extra display on the bottom there. 63 00:04:32,190 --> 00:04:38,180 Just looking at it here, this is a very nice display. It does cover full SRGB. 64 00:04:38,180 --> 00:04:42,350 So, you know, unless you're a professional photo editor, it's gonna it. 65 00:04:42,350 --> 00:04:47,160 Speakers though. (upbeat electronic music) 66 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:52,740 Okay, that's pretty good. I would say that I'm impressed. It's going to get wrecked by the XPS 15, 67 00:04:52,740 --> 00:04:56,020 but like it's a much larger and much more expensive laptop. 68 00:04:56,020 --> 00:05:02,540 Like I don't know what to expect really for a 13 inch device, that's not obscenely expensive. 69 00:05:02,540 --> 00:05:08,913 That's very respectable. What even are they? Ah, they're down firing, cool. (upbeat electronic music) 70 00:05:12,890 --> 00:05:17,300 Yeah, it's not even close, but I wasn't expecting it to be, I'm not even going to bother looking at it, 71 00:05:17,300 --> 00:05:21,500 but the display on the XPS is a lot nicer. But then again, 72 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:24,940 the display on this XPS is a $400 addition, 73 00:05:24,940 --> 00:05:28,820 which is more than half of what this entire laptop costs. 74 00:05:28,820 --> 00:05:33,070 So like yeah, absolute beast. 75 00:05:33,070 --> 00:05:36,500 People have been speaking for a long time 76 00:05:36,500 --> 00:05:40,590 about how incredible the Aero 13 is at solitaire and they were right. 77 00:05:40,590 --> 00:05:45,800 One thing that we needed to check. So this one right here has a real tech Wi-Fi 6 card, 78 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,900 but there are two options. One's a two by two, and one's a one by two. 79 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:53,510 The additional cost to go to the two by two is not very much, 80 00:05:53,510 --> 00:05:58,610 but it'll make your Wi-Fi experience way better. So let's just hop into the configurator real quick, 81 00:05:58,610 --> 00:06:03,410 figure out what exactly you want to buy. 'Cause I think that's a lot more important on this guy 82 00:06:03,410 --> 00:06:07,360 than a lot of other laptops. 'Cause you can kind of screw yourself with a couple of these options. 83 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:12,030 So first of all right now it's on sale. $80 off makes a big difference in a laptop like this, 84 00:06:12,030 --> 00:06:15,370 669.99, very nice, yeah. 85 00:06:15,370 --> 00:06:19,580 First of all, ah, we won't bother changing the color, because like whatever. 86 00:06:19,580 --> 00:06:25,550 Now we get to choose between two different processors, the Ryzen 5 5,600 U and the 5,800 U, 87 00:06:25,550 --> 00:06:30,120 I would go for the 5,600 U. But the 16 Gigabyte version, 88 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:34,440 which adds $50, now have the full HD 89 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:38,826 versus 1440 P display, 30 bucks, do you think you'd go for it, David? 90 00:06:38,826 --> 00:06:42,020 - [David] For 30 bucks? - Yeah, I probably would as well, realistically. 91 00:06:42,020 --> 00:06:45,120 256 gigabytes, I feel like isn't enough right now. 92 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:50,070 Now this is the one that annoys me. What do you see that's wrong with this image, David? 93 00:06:50,070 --> 00:06:54,210 - [David] I don't know. - There's no keyboard backlight, terrible. 94 00:06:54,210 --> 00:06:59,650 It's a $20 option. - What? - And we come down here, two by two. 95 00:06:59,650 --> 00:07:05,250 You want to get that. So all in all this $669 laptop, 96 00:07:05,250 --> 00:07:08,100 one you have that's spec'd as you want is $830, 97 00:07:09,963 --> 00:07:14,140 800, if you got a 10 ADP, pretty respectable, like you're getting 16 gigabytes of RAM, 98 00:07:14,140 --> 00:07:17,280 half a Gigabyte storage, half a Terabyte of storage, I mean, 99 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:24,130 this is obviously better. If Dell is going to send me a like $2,500 laptop, 100 00:07:24,770 --> 00:07:28,030 I'm going to use it and be like, this is a good laptop. 101 00:07:28,030 --> 00:07:31,880 For the vast majority of what I do, I'd probably be happier with this laptop, 102 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:37,200 because it is so much lighter. Yeah, if you're looking for a budget premium laptop 103 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:42,210 or a very expensive budget laptop, that feels kind of like a premium laptop, 104 00:07:42,210 --> 00:07:47,963 but isn't quite as good looking, but in almost ignorable ways, 105 00:07:49,010 --> 00:07:53,950 the HP Pavilion Aero 13 is your best bet. Oh also it has a fingerprint reader right there. 106 00:07:53,950 --> 00:07:58,020 That'll probably be nice. It also has a webcam. Actually, let's see. 107 00:07:58,020 --> 00:08:02,080 This webcam had a little bit of trouble at first. Oh, it's having trouble again. 108 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:06,830 But like this isn't bad at all. It's only lightly blowing up my face, I'm like, 109 00:08:06,830 --> 00:08:10,630 there's no detail back here, but like whatever, this is a very challenging situation. 110 00:08:10,630 --> 00:08:15,830 So good job HP. I'll use the Dell briefly just so you guys know 111 00:08:15,830 --> 00:08:22,260 how terrible it is. Just complete butt on the side of the XPS, 112 00:08:22,260 --> 00:08:27,480 well, there you go, HP Pavilion Aero 13. If it's what you're looking for, I would say get it. 113 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:31,030 It seems pretty good to me. So anyway, hit like, get subscribed, 114 00:08:31,030 --> 00:08:37,160 and just have a great day. Especially you, David. - Aw, you too, Alex. 115 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:38,360 - Give your dog a treat.