HP Pavilion 15-ck094nd

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60% HP Pavilion 15-ck094nd - Reviews
Source: Tweakers NL→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 06/19/2018
Rating: Total score: 60%

80% HP Pavilion 15-ck094nd Review
Source: Tweakers NL→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 12/16/2017
Rating: Total score: 80%

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Model: Hewlett Packard offers a multitude of laptops in the most different price and performance categories for home use within its Pavilion 15 lineup. The brand new Pavilion laptop has a modern, sleek design and offers the perfect balance between performance and style. From editing photos and videos to doing tax affairs and playing a light game, the 15.6-inch HP Pavilion 15-ck094nd is in every market.  The Pavilion's basic casing design has not changed compared with its precursors. Differences are found in details. The casing of this laptop is also completely made of plastic.  Users can easily take this thin, light PC with them, indoors and outside. This laptop is light (1.9 kg) and thin (1.9 cm), making it easy to take this laptop to lectures or discussions. HP installs a matte 15.6-inch screen in its Pavilion. It has a native resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. This model features a screen with a narrow edge has a maximized screen surface to give the best view in a smaller, more elegant design. This revolutionary screen with an ultra-thin, barely visible edge has a beautiful, efficient design with the larger screen placed in a smaller frame. HP installs the Intel Core i7-8550U processor (Broadwell) in the Pavilion. It is one of the strongest models among the frugal ULV processors. It has more than enough computing power for everyday use and should satisfy most users. In addition, the laptop features 8 GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM (2 x 4 GB), 1 TB 5400 rpm SATA and NVIDIA GeForce MX150 (dedicated 2 GB GDDR5 VRAM) graphics processor.

With a battery life of up to 10 hours and 15 minutes and 90 % charging in 90 minutes, a user will still have power after their working day. The battery also supports fast charge. If the battery of the laptop is almost empty, users do not want to wait for hours until it is recharged. With this laptop, a user can turn off the device and charge it from 0 to 90 % in about 90 minutes. Thanks to two HP speakers, HP Audio Boost and tuning by the experts at B & O PLAY, users can enjoy a rich, authentic sound. For convenience in video calling, HP includes an HP Wide Vision HD camera with integrated dual array digital microphone. The Pavilion has the diversity of interfaces in common with its precursor. HP only installs one video-out (HDMI). Two of the three USB ports support the USB 3.0 standard. The interface positioning has been improved. They are now mostly in the rear area of both sides, which leaves the areas beside the wrist rest free of cables. HP relies on a Wi-Fi module from Realtek. It supports the 802.1 b/g/n Wi-Fi standards and also provides Bluetooth 4.0 functionality. The Pavilion 15-ck094nd is a higher-end laptop for heavy users and to run demanding software.

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.

70%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.

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

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