HP Pavilion Plus 14 (2023) - How is this laptop only $729? 

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My favorite type of reviews, straight to the point and realistic.

Wow, seems like a great deal! Thanks for filling us on on these - I had no idea about the ZenBook 14X, and now this!

Having dedicated Home, End, PgUp, PgDn keys for any kind of heavy typing and text edition is a must feature. Period.

Great video! It's crazy how much more efficient AMD mobile chips are right now, not to mention the great integrated graphics. It should be interesting to see how the new Meteor Lake laptops from Intel preform. Hopefully, we can see some competition between them.

Thanks, Josh 😊💻👌🏽 I'm tempted to purchase this, but I'm wanting a larger screen size, plus the 10 key. What are your thoughts on the HP Pavilion Plus 16 inch? I also work from home, so I'm needing something that would be great for running multiple programs.

Really loving the reviews of these new units featuring zen 4

Well done video. Thank you for including things like screen flicker, keyboard feel, and track pad. This was basically perfect for what I needed.

Do a Video comparison for HP Pavilion 14 and Lenovo Yoga 7i and please conclude on which is best

Hi Josh, Do you know if this laptop speaker got upgraded compare to last year’s model?

How do you like this one vs the 16" version on huge sale? How about this one vs the zenbook 14x?

This Vs the Zenbook 14x is tough. Nice that good laptops are getting cheaper though

I'm curios if it is better than Dell Inspiron 14 Plus 13th Gen with RTX 4050 (not the 2in1), 32 gb RAM. I'm planning to buy it but there are no reviews about it yet.

Thanks Josh. Great video as usual. You are right...This is an amazing deal for this price range. Glad to see HP pushing the price to value envelope. Definitely a buy.

I love that home pgup, pgdn end column. Used them all the time, and happy that HP maybe the only one that still including them

For me the dedicated page keys especially home and end are a must. Just bought a new lenovo laptop and its going back because I constantly hit the metal rim

They no long offer the larger battery, is it still worth a look?

Looking cheap isn’t a bad thing in my use case, where theft is a real concern

Man I recently bought a ZenBook 14x w/i7 13700H for 700$ with 60$ tax. Waiting for it to be delivered to my country. Seeing that battery efficiency is shocking to me. But I have no regrets. Battery is something that is negligible for me

This might be the perfect laptop for me. 14" form factor, efficient Ryzen 7 with the newer RDNA GPU, decent build quality, 16gb DDR5, good inputs (with full size HDMI) - all at a good price. This configuration currently appears to be priced at $769.99. With the upcoming holiday sales, would you recommend waiting until closer to Black Friday sales for someone who is trying to get every penny of value out of their purchase?

Hi Josh, great review. I have a question. I don't have an issue at all using my phone that has an OLED screen. How similar are the screens between laptop and phone OLEDs? I shouldn't have an issue with the flickering of the OLED screen of the Pavilion Plus 14 right?

Awesome review as always Josh!!! I got one of these from the Costco deal. You have mentioned about PWM flickering, hence I wanted to know how I can test my laptop for sure to see if it has the issue & how do I know if it will affect me? FYI: I haven't used an OLED screen for computers/laptops before.

Thanks! Nice Review.

I really really hope more laptops start using these efficient processors. Having an actually acceptable battery life is the reason Apple is dominating the whole industry at the moment.

I’m late but what do you think about getting this laptop at a similar price but with an Intel i5 13500H processor instead along with a 51 Wh battery and Intel Iris Xe Graphics? Is it worth it?

Thanks for mentioning PWM in the review. I'm sensitive to flicker and it makes lots of devices virtually unusable for me (especially phones, which all seem to have OLED screens nowadays, except for some ultra-budget models)

This price is fantastic. Unfortunately the new one isn't available in my country. And Zenbooks are much more expensive here in Europe. Which one would you choose when you look for the quietest 14 inch laptop? Pavilion Plus, Zenbook 14 or Yoga Slim Pro 7?

Hi Josh. What are your thoughts about "ASUS - Zenbook 14" 120Hz OLED Touch Laptop - EVO Intel 13 Gen Core i9 with 32GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForece RTX 3050 - 1TB"? Is it worth it?

Got the HP Pavilion Plus 16 with the 13th Gen Intel i-7H, Intel’s Iris Xe graphics, 16GB of blazing DDR5 RAM (soldered), 512GB SSD, B&O sound and an awesome 16” 400 nit display just before christmas during a 12-hour online blitz sale from HP USA - for $770 with free shipping. Plus at the same sale I got my partner a (customised) HP Pavilion 15 with the 13th Gen Intel i-5U, Intel’s Iris Xe graphics, 16GB of pretty decent DDR4 RAM, 512GB SSD, B&O sound and a quite decent 15.6” 250 nit display + a cute HP mouse for $509 with free shipping. Backlit keyboards on both machines, and both are silver coloured. We’ve both used Dell laptops for the last decade and I’ve had a couple of IBM Lenovos, IBM Thinkpads and an Acer. All good laptops, but what HP has offered its customers these last few weeks is unbelievably good - so we made the switch!

Thanks Josh, I've find myself upgrading from one mid-range value pick to another every 3-4 years, so this kind of video is really helpful. Have been tempted by the battery life of Apple silicon, but looks like I'll stick with AMD.

Great review, Josh! I am checking the link now to check it out before I buy; however it is not working…?

Thank you for this video! I'm coming off a Surface Book 2 and I wanted to find a good working laptop that was in my price range, and actually found this laptop today on HP's website for a one day sale of $499.00! I went with this, and its my third "work/school laptop," first one being the Dell Inspiron. Think it will be a great upgrade. You're very informative and make researching laptops easy! Subscibed!

AMDs naming scheme is a mess. But I think it’s very important that you also mention not only is the 7730U running Zen3 and not Zen4 it has an ancient Vega iGPU compared to the RDNA iGPU on the 7840U. The difference between Zen3 and Zen4 is noticeable but the difference between Vega and RDNA is massive when it comes to light gaming and graphical applications.

Was thinking of getting this but ended up getting the yoga 7 pro 14 with the 7735hs and 3050. It was mainly due to the fact that even with a black friday and student discount it came out to £900 whereas the yoga was only £650

Great video Josh. Did you ever get around to considering a review for the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11? It's been released for some time but I recall a Gen 9 review and you spoke quite highly of it.

I will appreciate if you would be able to recommend similar laptop or the same but with discrete graphics card which is required by software used daily by me. Great video!

Josh .do a review of the new pavilion 16 plus if you can get it, please

Hello Josh, I am a technology student and looking for a latop for college and work purposes. But my affordability is 500 to 600 CAD. Please suggest

The 48Hz mode sounds like it's made for watching movies which are typically shot at 24 fps.

Josh this is a great video and I am considering this for a lightweight laptop.

Thanks Josh. What are your thoughts on the Lenovo Yoga Slim (Pro) 7 or 7i compared to this laptop?

Would it make sense to buy the basic configuration with Ryzen 5 and IPS display? I use the laptop only at home so 300 nits should be enough. And the PWM flickering will be gone right?

I like the dedicated up and down keys....

Can you please tell me if I should buy this or the Canadian available version of zenbook 14x. I got the zenbook 14x earlier but I had overheating issues and some bugs so I had to return it. Do you think I should get it again or?

Will you review some laptops with Intel 13th series? Like e.g. 1335U?

Is this exact model available in the UK?

which one should i buy if im a student whos going to study software engineer for 3 years, hp pavilion plus 14, asus zenbook 14 or asus zenbook 14x??? Also please give the reason why you would choose it.

You didn't mention it has no touch screen. That's a big deal to me after having used one for so long.

great review 😀😀 for a budget laptop

This is what I call "The One". I give one laptop this title every year (well actually I skip years if nothing meets the standard). The only person that should avoid this laptop is someone who intends to plug in an external GPU or use USB4. This laptop, outside of the C ports, has very up to date I/O, which is hilariously rare at this price point - and even the price point above it. HDMI 2.1 while well under $1000. Who would have thought?

The base configuration of this laptop is a good option for less than 550$? Is basically the only one I found with good battery life and a zen 4 cpu

👋what do you think about HP Pavilion x360 2-in-1 Laptop?

There's also lenovo thinkbook 14+, which is basically the same hardware-wise, but with a bit worse battery and display, but better build quality.

Waiting for the best 16 inch laptop comparison.

I have been using hp laptop provided by my company since last 10 years........and i absolutely love the dedicated up and down keys.....!!!

Yo, Costco has the 1TB/Wifi6E model of this on sale for $600 today.

a game I play lists the requirements as: [Support Shader Model 5.0 (Intel HD4000 Integrated, Geforce 400 Series, Radeon HD2000 Series)] and recommends: [AMD 290x or nVidia 970GTX or Better] for graphics and processor requirement: [Dual core] recommends: [Recent Intel i5/i7 or AMD 6 core or better] should it be able to run it well? my current laptop has gen 10 i7 and Intel Iris Plus graphics and it keeps freezing during loading screens and crashing sometimes in the middle of the game. I don't need a gaming laptop and that one is the only game I play on my laptop I have a ps4 for gaming

can you make a video how to enable cuda for machine learning/deep learning for windows

its quite good but i would consider the lenovo slim 5 as its keyboard is black color...

Is there any Windows laptop that doesnt have an air intake at the bottom?

Great review. Does the laptop slow down after extended use? I think another reviewer indicated HP is conservative with managing processor temperature and as a result clock speeds are reduced. Two points that would prevent me from seriously considering this laptop: 1) the lack of a 32GB memory option and 2) USB 4. At this point in time USB 4/TB 4 should be the standard for USB-C. And memory can be a huge bottleneck - 16GB may not be sufficient in a couple of years. 32GBs gives you the piece of mind to avoid memory bottlenecks and know the laptop will be relevant in a couple of years.

I can't find the ryzen version anywhere in the UK

I had some bad experiences with HP laptops many years ago which really soured my opinion of them. However, it appears that they've really upped their game.

does this have two ssd slots?

Need a 16 inch 16:10 at least 1600p value laptop for coding. Budget is 1200€ and should have a decent keyboard. Any ideas?

It apears the oled screen is only available with the Ryzen 7

were can we buy this laptop in Europe?

By the way have you ever considered doing shorts to shout out great deals on laptops. Sometimes they pop up quickly and then they are gone within a week. For example, Lenovo had some fantastic deals on some of their laptops. A quick YT short about a sale would be a nice high value add on for your viewers...especially around the holidays and drive more views. Production value wouldn't need to be high at all...could be done via your phone. Just an idea I thought I'd share.

Amen to the request not to have light colored keys on a backlit keyboard. What were they thinking?

Sadly this laptop is not available in my country :( I live in Spain so it's not really that far away...

Good for gaming, coding and editing?

Hello, appreciate the video! I have been eying this laptop for some time, but two things has made me tip toe before actually making the purchase... If anyone can help me answering some of my questions, I'll shower them with gold. First dilema is the screen, every review talks exclusively about the OLED display and dismisses the other options, specifically the IPS display. My problem is, that I expect to use this display pretty much exclusively for VS Code (for many hours every day), no gaming or watching content. I'm worried about the OLED burn-in, and I know that the new screens are better in preventing that, but from my understanding, it is still a factor and an issue from the long term point of view. My question is, won't the bigger resolution IPS display be better for my use case? I don't know if this laptop would still be considered "good buy" even with the IPS display. Like I said, I don't care about the colors or the blacks, when all I'll be looking at is the VS Code. Second question would be in regard to the connectivity. Since this is AMD laptop, it doesn't have Thunderbolt (nor USB4, as someone in the comments said). Is it realistic to have a USB C hub, which would support two external Full HD 60hz monitors plus ethernet connector? Or is it physically impossible, or maybe the USB C speeds are not enough for that? I could get away with connecting one monitor throught the HDMI, but since i have to have a cable internet connection, I'm missing one port. I need to have a power connection, two external monitors, and a ethernet connection. HP is selling one USB C hub, which would work just fine with it's connectivity, but I don't know, if the USB C ports can handle all the "traffic", for the lack of the better word. I apologize for bothering anybody with this, but I have failed at using Google, so I don't have a better alternative then to start asking people. I'll be extremely grateful to anyone who can direct me anywhere close to getting my answers. Cheers and I hope you have a nice day!

Macbook air 2020 is now £720. Still a very good buy.

This spec in Australia is over $2000 aud

bro when are you reviewing the new Microsoft surface studio ?

Again, you haven’t reviewed the E14 Thinkpad AMD series

Is the RAM upgradeable?

Do a review on pavilion Plus 14t-ew100

So from your video "Best Laptop for Programming in 2023 ULTIMATE GUIDE" would this fill in the check marks? Software Development, Data Science, or Data Analyst?

Great review as usual, and great laptop for the price! I live in France and this laptop is not commercialised (yet?) I contacted HP France and the answer was : "We do not yet have exact information of the release of this model on our site." 😢

In India it's going for about 1129usd (converted from inr). IMO that's way above the price of zenbooks with similar specs

Doesn't seem available in Denmark yet.

absolutely amazing video 😍

We enjoy the dedicated column of Navigation keys other than the arrow keys: (Long-Range Navigation keys:- Home, End, PgUp, PgDn). But HP's design department is so bad as they were with their keyboard keys colour. The End key should be below👇 the "Home" key so as to arrange the Home & End key close together. And PgUp, PgDn keys should be below them. This also makes the PgDn& PgUp keys easily approachable to the users' hands while they are browsing, reading Books, Code Editors. HP lags always behind lenovo & Asus in designing. (No innovation in laptop design by HP😬) *(Short-range/Precision Navigation keys:- Arrow Keys) *(Long-range Navigation keys:- already mentioned above)

Does anyone know if the USB C port can support a portable monitor with power and video over a single USB C cable? Or does that take thunderbolt/usb 4?

Appears to be one available in the US...

I love this one, but should i go with the i7-1355U for $1600 AUD, rather than the Ryzen 7 7840U at $2200 AUD (all specs the same)? What would i be missing out on

This thing is really, really good value in the US

glad to see oled going down in ranges. ive been wanting to replace my laptop but i find windows laptops to have either horrible screens or having to pay a fortune for professional laptops with niche features i dont need. i just wanna watch videos and check emails, but i dont want to fatigue my eyes. i dont need a killer gaming laptop, i want something average but with a gorgeous screen i can look at for 10 hours. it's already in the mail, let's hope it's the one ive been looking for!

Thank you.

It is a really good laptop and I had my eyes on it the moment I saw it on HP Website of my region. But now I think I will stick with my HP Omen 15 inch 2021 model with 16 GB, 1TB, R7 5800H, RTX3060, FHD anti glare 300 Nits 100% SRGB and lots of ports, fast charging, Intel WiFI card, great keyboard and great upgradability. The Disadvantages are 3 hours of battery life instead of 6 on this one and 1 kg more weight, and even more with that power brick. Nonetheless, the screen is sharp, flicker and reflection free, and performance is superior, like a Desktop. I don't play games but RTX 3060 will help with GPU intensive tasks like screenshot recording among other things. Really, if you are not a student or a teacher who has to carry his or her device and needs computing on the go then I believe HP Omen are better than these, the much higher performance is great and so are things like reparability, upgradability, and is good in everything else too except weight and battery life. So I believe I won't buy these thin and light ones. But I still have my judgement reserved on much anticipated Windows on ARM.

Hi sir can you please do a 13 inch laptops comparison plsss

there is option to choose the bigger battery at the page link you provided in the description

I will wait for the Zenbook 14X to come out with Ryzen 7 7840U cpu, probably next year. That will be the best of every worlds for me.

Thanks!!!!

Why is the frameworks 7840u so much more powerful than the HPs? Feeding it more power? Memory speed?

Which laptop would be better, Pavilion Plus 14 or Zenbook 14X? I'm going to use it for video editing and some gaming.

If that Zenbook 14X only has an AMD chip, it would be perfect. I find myself charging too often with the i7-13700H.

I managed to get an efficiency score in cinebench r23 of 560

How about Lenovo Ideapad slim 5 (ryze5 7530) , foes it overheat at browsing/youtube? or hp pavillion 14. Please advise me