Oct 07, 2016 11:01 PM
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HP 15-af114AU is a budget friendly laptop for us. It has the right configuration to perform all the day to day tasks smoothly. If you need a laptop for browsing the internet, running apps, and to play a few low-end graphics games then af114AU is a great buy. it has an AMD Quad-Core A8-7410 processor that gives almost the same performance like the low-end i3 processor, for instance, Intel Core i3-2367M. It runs at a clock frequency of 2.2ghz and has a 2MB cache size which is sufficient for handling everyday tasks such as surfing the internet, watching videos, and of course a little bit of gaming in low settings
4 GB DDR3L 1600MHZ RAM which is upgradable up to 8GB with discard. When taking the power of the processor into account, 4GB RAM should be more than enough for this laptop. Adding extra RAM to this laptop may not bring much improvement in the performance. In terms of storage, af114AU has 1 TB 5400 rpm SATA, this definitely gives plenty of space for storing files. 1TB has become a standard in most of the laptops today. As the industry is slowly moving towards SSD, they are willing to offer higher amounts of HDD storage to the laptop users.
In terms of I/O ports, we have 2 USB 2.0, 1 USB 3.0, 1 HDMI, 1 RJ-45 and 1 headphone/microphone jack combo. The inclusion of USB 3.0 in the laptop is a very useful thing. Also, you have the HDMI port which was usually included in the higher range laptops. For wireless connectivity, the laptop has Standard Wifi and Bluetooth 4.0. I tested the coverage area of the wifi and found that the laptop can catch signals within a radius of 3o meters which is again good. Overall, all the basic connectivity options are covered in this laptop.
The battery on this laptop offers a backup of 4 hours on browsing, watching videos etc. It might come down an hour up to 3 hours if low-end games are played on this.
