WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:04.400 - You guys asked for it. Guess what? This laptop, it's under $1,000. 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:07.810 Now, I don't know if I'd call it a budget laptop. 00:00:07.810 --> 00:00:13.270 It's maybe like a budget premium laptop or a very expensive budget laptop, either way. 00:00:13.270 --> 00:00:16.710 It's the HP Pavilion Aero 13, and I think it's gonna be pretty good. 00:00:16.710 --> 00:00:22.950 You can see right here, right off the bat. Not quite as fancy as other laptops. 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. 00:00:26.670 --> 00:00:29.393 So what do we get? Set up instructions, easy, 00:00:30.430 --> 00:00:34.100 a little power brick, this thing's tiny, actually, 45 Watts. 00:00:34.100 --> 00:00:37.750 So yeah, this is not a beast. You're not gaming on this. 00:00:37.750 --> 00:00:40.869 - [David] How about solitaire? - Oh, this thing would be a solitaire beast. 00:00:40.869 --> 00:00:45.550 - [David] Yes. - Here it is, the HP Pavilion Aero 13 and wow. 00:00:45.550 --> 00:00:49.870 That is light. So this is an all magnesium chassis, which is like, 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. 00:00:53.020 --> 00:00:56.200 You don't put magnesium into a budget laptop. 00:00:56.200 --> 00:01:01.380 Although it feels really good. Like I think it's under a kilogram. 00:01:01.380 --> 00:01:06.010 So LG gram spec. Nice, and we get very solid bit of IO, 00:01:06.010 --> 00:01:10.500 especially given how small this is. So we have headphone right there, USB type C. 00:01:10.500 --> 00:01:14.560 It's not Thunderbolt. This is an AMD machine. So no Thunderbolt yet. 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:20.700 USB type A, full-size HTMI. Another type A port, and there's our power input. 00:01:20.700 --> 00:01:24.130 Yeah, that's everything that you need right there. Should we just get into it? - Yeah. 00:01:24.130 --> 00:01:28.170 - No, sponsor. - Ooh. - Thanks to Volta for sponsoring today's video, 00:01:28.170 --> 00:01:31.460 clean up your desk and declutter your workspace with the Volta Giga charger, 00:01:31.460 --> 00:01:36.560 which can charge four devices simultaneously. It comes in either 131 or 200 Watt configurations 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:40.690 and it's compatible with all fast charging capable devices. They have expressed worldwide shipping 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. 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:49.220 Actually just before we get into it, this right here is the natural silver color. 00:01:49.220 --> 00:01:52.380 I think I'd go with the white one. It's a $20 addition, 00:01:52.380 --> 00:01:56.233 but the ceramic white one looks really sick. Anyway, let's do it. 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 00:02:01.750 --> 00:02:06.750 that flexing, but this is an extremely stiff feeling 00:02:07.670 --> 00:02:12.670 chassis, definitely not budget feeling, much more premium. 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. 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. 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? 00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:33.320 The screen looks pretty good. So it's a matte finish, 400 nits peak brightness. 00:02:33.320 --> 00:02:38.217 There are two options. So you can either choose from 1,200P or 1,600P, 00:02:39.290 --> 00:02:43.400 1080P and 1440 except you know, taller. 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:46.400 So this is a 1920 by 1200 version. 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, 00:02:50.420 --> 00:02:55.030 noticing the difference between quad HD and just normal, full HD. 00:02:55.030 --> 00:03:01.540 I guess we're getting this close maybe. Let's just try the keyboard. (keyboard clicking) 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 00:03:06.780 --> 00:03:10.840 on HP's Envy lineup, which is awesome. Those are all A-plus keyboards. 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:14.780 So good job, HP. Actually, this whole thing just feels like an Envy. 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, 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. 00:03:23.890 --> 00:03:27.070 And then you're like, okay, why the hell would you ever buy a Spectre? 00:03:27.070 --> 00:03:32.850 And now we have this Pavilion Aero that is basically a lighter Envy 13. 00:03:32.850 --> 00:03:37.500 And I don't know why, based off of my small amount of use of this 00:03:37.500 --> 00:03:41.240 you would spend the extra money for the Envy. Actually I can think of one. 00:03:41.240 --> 00:03:44.830 This doesn't have a touch screen, but like getting eight-core AMD processor, 00:03:44.830 --> 00:03:49.300 AMD Ryzen 7, 5,800 U, eight-core 16 threads, wicked. 00:03:49.300 --> 00:03:54.360 That one is like $140 option, and when you're in a computer like this one, 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:58.110 do you wanna spend the extra amount? I'd probably stick with the Ryzen five one 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. 00:04:03.550 --> 00:04:06.940 I find that I use up eight really fast these days. 00:04:06.940 --> 00:04:11.620 As for SSD it's 500 Gigabytes and AMD Radeon graphics, 00:04:11.620 --> 00:04:15.060 pretty solid overall, also the track pad's good, I've just been using it here. 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, 00:04:20.490 --> 00:04:23.880 and with the 16 by 10 display, there's just more space, 00:04:23.880 --> 00:04:28.300 especially on a 13-inch-laptop, that gets you a lot more keyboard space, 00:04:28.300 --> 00:04:32.190 moving just that little bit of extra display on the bottom there. 00:04:32.190 --> 00:04:38.180 Just looking at it here, this is a very nice display. It does cover full SRGB. 00:04:38.180 --> 00:04:42.350 So, you know, unless you're a professional photo editor, it's gonna it. 00:04:42.350 --> 00:04:47.160 Speakers though. (upbeat electronic music) 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, 00:04:52.740 --> 00:04:56.020 but like it's a much larger and much more expensive laptop. 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. 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) 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, 00:05:17.300 --> 00:05:21.500 but the display on the XPS is a lot nicer. But then again, 00:05:21.500 --> 00:05:24.940 the display on this XPS is a $400 addition, 00:05:24.940 --> 00:05:28.820 which is more than half of what this entire laptop costs. 00:05:28.820 --> 00:05:33.070 So like yeah, absolute beast. 00:05:33.070 --> 00:05:36.500 People have been speaking for a long time 00:05:36.500 --> 00:05:40.590 about how incredible the Aero 13 is at solitaire and they were right. 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, 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. 00:05:49.900 --> 00:05:53.510 The additional cost to go to the two by two is not very much, 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, 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 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. 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, 00:06:12.030 --> 00:06:15.370 669.99, very nice, yeah. 00:06:15.370 --> 00:06:19.580 First of all, ah, we won't bother changing the color, because like whatever. 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, 00:06:25.550 --> 00:06:30.120 I would go for the 5,600 U. But the 16 Gigabyte version, 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:34.440 which adds $50, now have the full HD 00:06:34.440 --> 00:06:38.826 versus 1440 P display, 30 bucks, do you think you'd go for it, David? 00:06:38.826 --> 00:06:42.020 - [David] For 30 bucks? - Yeah, I probably would as well, realistically. 00:06:42.020 --> 00:06:45.120 256 gigabytes, I feel like isn't enough right now. 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? 00:06:50.070 --> 00:06:54.210 - [David] I don't know. - There's no keyboard backlight, terrible. 00:06:54.210 --> 00:06:59.650 It's a $20 option. - What? - And we come down here, two by two. 00:06:59.650 --> 00:07:05.250 You want to get that. So all in all this $669 laptop, 00:07:05.250 --> 00:07:08.100 one you have that's spec'd as you want is $830, 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, 00:07:14.140 --> 00:07:17.280 half a Gigabyte storage, half a Terabyte of storage, I mean, 00:07:17.280 --> 00:07:24.130 this is obviously better. If Dell is going to send me a like $2,500 laptop, 00:07:24.770 --> 00:07:28.030 I'm going to use it and be like, this is a good laptop. 00:07:28.030 --> 00:07:31.880 For the vast majority of what I do, I'd probably be happier with this laptop, 00:07:31.880 --> 00:07:37.200 because it is so much lighter. Yeah, if you're looking for a budget premium laptop 00:07:37.200 --> 00:07:42.210 or a very expensive budget laptop, that feels kind of like a premium laptop, 00:07:42.210 --> 00:07:47.963 but isn't quite as good looking, but in almost ignorable ways, 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. 00:07:53.950 --> 00:07:58.020 That'll probably be nice. It also has a webcam. Actually, let's see. 00:07:58.020 --> 00:08:02.080 This webcam had a little bit of trouble at first. Oh, it's having trouble again. 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, 00:08:06.830 --> 00:08:10.630 there's no detail back here, but like whatever, this is a very challenging situation. 00:08:10.630 --> 00:08:15.830 So good job HP. I'll use the Dell briefly just so you guys know 00:08:15.830 --> 00:08:22.260 how terrible it is. Just complete butt on the side of the XPS, 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. 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:31.030 It seems pretty good to me. So anyway, hit like, get subscribed, 00:08:31.030 --> 00:08:37.160 and just have a great day. Especially you, David. - Aw, you too, Alex. 00:08:37.160 --> 00:08:38.360 - Give your dog a treat.