HP Pavilion Aero 13-bg
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Primary Camera: 5 MPix
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Reviews for the HP Pavilion Aero 13-bg
Source: CNet
With better battery life and performance that's more competitive with today's long-running laptops, the HP Pavilion Aero 13 might have kept the Editors' Choice award it received back in 2021. As it stands, however, this current version falls short of the award. It's still an excellent little laptop, especially at its low price. The Aero 13 offers a great mix of extreme portability and sleek looks with a high-resolution if slightly undersized display. Ultraporable shoppers on tight budgets -- particularly students looking for a lightweight laptop to tote across campus -- will find lots to like about the Aero 13.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 01/22/2025
Rating: Total score: 76%
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AMD Radeon 760M: Integrated graphics card in the Ryzen 7040 mobile series APUs based on the RDNA3 architecture with 8 of the 12 CUs (= 512 shaders) and a clock speed of up to 2.8 GHz.
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.
R5 8640U: A Hawk Point family processor that was unveiled in Q4 2023. This is not a new chip; instead, it's a rebadged Ryzen 5 7640U with higher clock speeds on the Ryzen AI NPU. Just like the 7640U, the 8640U has 6 SMT-enabled cores (12 threads) running at 3.5 GHz to 4.9 GHz. Those Zen 4 architecture cores are mated to the Radeon 760M integrated graphics adapter.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
13.30":
There are hardly any tablets in this display size range anymore. For subnotebooks, on the other hand, it is the standard format.
The advantage of subnotebooks is that the entire laptop can be small and therefore easily portable. The smaller display also has the advantage of requiring less power, which further improves battery life and thus mobility. The disadvantage is that reading texts is more strenuous on the eyes. High resolutions are more likely to be found in standard laptops.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.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.
76%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
