HP Pavilion Power 15-cb012ns

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¡Chollo! HP Pavilion Power 15-cb012ns. Portátil 15,6" con Intel Core i7-7700HQ y nVidia GTX 1050 muy económico (799 €)
Source: Ofertaman ES→EN Archive.org version
Positive: Large screen; nice display; good price; decent autonomy.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 01/21/2018

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Model: The HP Pavilion Power 15-cb012ns is the latest mid-to-high range of laptop from this American company. This latest notebook from Hewlett Packard is very similar to the HP Omen 15-CE but it offers a more sensible and professional design, and it is cheaper too. This new laptop from HP comes equipped with a 4-cores 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7-7700HQ, 8 GB of RAM, 1 TB of hard disk storage, and an NVIDIA GTX1050 graphics card. These powerful specs make this laptop best suited for professional users who intend to work with power-hungry photo editing and video programs and also gamers who prefer a laptop to the traditional desktop. This 15.6-inch laptop is 24.1 mm thick and weighs about 2.21 kilograms, not forgetting the power supply adapter that weighs about 431 grams. It is by no means an easy machine to lug around. For those who want to game on the go, the NVIDIA GTX1050 that came with this laptop has enough graphics power to play most modern AAA titles at max settings with frame rates in the 30 FPS range. Expecting a consistent 60 FPS out of this machine may just be asking too much of this laptop. The Full HD IPS also offers great wide viewing angles and excellent color reproduction. As with modern laptops, it comes with an HDMI output to allow connection to an external display.

It is a bit of a let-down that HP has only equipped this new laptop with a traditional 1 TB of HDD storage. A saving grace is that the HDD works at 7200 RPM instead of the slower 5400 RPM, and there is also the possibility of putting in an additional faster SSD drive. And, like most laptop these days, it doesn’t come with an optical drive. As mentioned, the HP Pavilion Power 15-cb012ns comes with a generous 8 GB of DDR4 RAM, and for those who are hungry for more power, it is also upgradable to a maximum of 16 GB of RAM. As per the norm, this HP Pavilion Power 15-cb012ns comes with Windows 10 Home 64-bits out of the box, and it is also adequately equipped with the usual suspects of connectivity ports: a USB 3.0 Type-C port, three USB 3.0 Type-A ports, a Gigabit network port, Bluetooth 4.2, dual band wifi adapter, SD card reader, one HDMI port, and a headphone and mic combo jack. Most users (or gamers) who fancy a sturdy laptop with an elegant design and a Full HD IPS screen will likely enjoy owning this laptop. Even though it is a little on the heavy side, the powerful CPU and GPU will more than make up for it.

Hands-on article by Jagadisa Rajarathnam

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile: Mainstream graphics card based on Nvidia's Pascal architecture and successor to the GeForce GTX 960M. Is manufactured in a 14nm process at Samsung and the technical specifications are very similar to the desktop version.

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.

i7-7700HQ: Quad-core notebook processor based on the Kaby Lake architecture. Besides four CPU cores (including Hyper Threading), the chips also integrates the HD Graphics 630 GPU and is manufactured in an improved 14 nm 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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