HP Pavilion 15-cs0007NS

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Portátil avanzado 15,6": HP Pavilion 15-CS0007NS
Source: Putoinformatico ES→EN Archive.org version
Positive: Large screen; nice display; powerful processor; nice connectivity.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/09/2018

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Model: The HP Pavilion has always offered great laptops at low prices to those who prefer to own a decent budget laptop to spend a fortune on one. There are always new models every year which look almost identical to their predecessor but with better and more modern hardware configurations. And this year is no difference. The HP Pavilion 15-CS0007NS is the latest model in the series, and the budget laptop community may like what the new laptop has to offer. The new HP Pavilion 15-CS0007NS measures at 17.9 x 361.6 x 245.6 mm and weighs about 1.85 kilograms. Its near-lightweight size is indeed something that most mobile users will enjoy as it looks to be pretty easy to carry around. The HP Pavilion 15-CS0007NS is powered by the newest 4-core Intel Core i7-8550U. This latest 4-core CPU also comes with an 8 MB cache, and with the famed Turbo Boost technology. It has a 1.8 GHz base frequency and can run at a maximum speed of 4 GHz. Even though the HP Pavilion 15-CS0007NS is marketed as a mid-range laptop, users will also be able to run power-hungry software like video editing software on this laptop relatively well. It is also a pleasant surprise to see that the HP Pavilion 15-CS0007NS comes equipped with a graphics card, albeit just an entry-level card. The new laptop comes bundled with an Nvidia GeForce MX150 with dedicated 4 GB of DDR5 VRAM. The entry-level card will let the users enjoy low-spec games that may include older titles and also some newer indie games.

Hewlett-Packard also included another nice surprise for users, and that is the 256 GB of SSD storage. While it is a little disappointing to see that a 1 TB HDD was not included to complement the SSD drive, the price point of the HP Pavilion 15-CS0007NS justifies the decision of excluding a conventional HDD. Those who would like to expand their storage may try to do so with the multi-format SD-card reader that is also included in the laptop. The laptop also comes with two 4 GB DDR4 RAM sticks with an option to upgrade it to a total of 16 GB. There are only two slots for the memory though, and the user will have to sacrifice at least one of the installed memory sticks if they choose to upgrade. A downside to the HP Pavilion 15-CS0007NS is its lack of ports for connectivity. There are two USB 3.1 Type A ports, one USB 3.1 Type C port, one HDMI output and as mentioned before, one SD card reader. It has an Ethernet port and as per the norm with modern laptops, a dual-band WiFi and Bluetooth 4.2 combo adapter. As mentioned, the HP Pavilion is a low to mid-range series of laptops, but it is nice to see that the HP Pavilion 15-CS0007NS has a good hardware specification for its price point. For those who do not need fancy extra features on their laptop, this will prove to be a great purchase.

Hands-on article by Jagadisa Rajarathnam

NVIDIA GeForce MX150: Pascal GP108 based laptop graphics card and mobile version of the desktop GeForce GT 1030. Offers 384 shader cores and usually 2 GB GDDR5 with a 64 Bit memory bus. Manufactured in 14nm.

Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

i5-8550U: Kaby-Lake-Refresh based low power quad-core processor. The four cores are clocked between 1.8 and 4 GHz (Turbo Boost) and support HyperThreading. The integrated GPU is clocked between 300 and 1,150 MHz. The SoC is manufactured in a 14nm+ FinFET process.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

15.60":

15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.

The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.

HP: Founded in 1939, the US company is a major server and printer manufacturer and one of the leading IT companies in the world. Until 2015, the company was called Hewlett-Packard Company. After a split, the computer division was renamed HP Inc.

In 2023, HP had an approximate market share of 22% of global PC sales, making it number 2 after Lenovo.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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