Been Using this laptop for 4 months now( this is updated review), and at this price range I can say this is the best you can get.
Ive installed Ubuntu and windows 7 and now original windows 10. Im using this for study and casual gaming. this is good if you dont play very high end graphic games but for rest it is excellent. Intel graphic card with i3 5th gen processor is enough to play even many recent games with low to medium setting and fewer with even high( I play an old expansion of world of warcraft MMORPG on warmane server and with ultra setting it gave me 40+ fps in raids)
Here are the pros and cons:
Pros:
- Cheap as hell, though it doesnt have windows installed but 5th gen i3 2ghz with intel HD graphics etc is really good.
2.Intel HD 5500 graphic with i3 gives a u an amazing combo. Great speed. uefi motherboard so faster boot
3, screen is good, brightnes is good.
Keypad is really well spaced.
comes with freedos so user has freedom to do partitions as he wish.( I know not a very big pro for most but it is for me, im lazy and dont want to change all the settings with preinstalled windows)
Touch pad is good( you should download the driver from hp site)
1TB HD many other at this price have 500gb. THis laptop is launched very recently.
windows 10 all drivers available
Cons:
1.Sound is ok!
- quality of the plastic around the monitor is bit bad.
3.( this issue is only for win 7 user) Biggest issue, its freedos so you have to go through a lot of pain to get drivers. HP support people are really good, but you need a fast internet connection, and get a friends laptop for a day. the biggest issue, especially with windows 7, is wifi wont work. therfore you need to get wifi driver from hp site. better call them( toll free) as many drivers werent available when I was searching on their site and the tech assistant had to mail me links. I knew I will face this problem but I had good net and another laptop so it was easy peasy, but for many of you guys it maybecome a nightmare. so choose wisely.
Apart from these, I found the heating wasnt much but when I played games for too long it started heating. I've used this laptop for continuous 8-10 hours still there was litle heating but while gaming for couple of hours it does starts heating.
There are no vent below the laptop so I guess its taking air through keyboard. Good thing about it is that you can put it on bed and dont worry about heating but never ever spill water on keyboard. better get a keyboard guard costs 100 bucks.
