HP Pavilion 15 series laptop launched recently in India. After the Pandemic, the Indian market has seen a massive increase in laptop and tablet sales probably due to work from home and online classes. Its Price starts from INR 69,999 and is available on HP official website and Amazon. The Pavilion 15 series have 3 laptops respectively with different colors but the same specifications. We have already reviewed HP Pavilion 13 and HP Pavilion 14 laptops.
PROS & CONS
PROS
- Good design.
- Speakers with good bass.
- All major ports are present.
- Supports Fast-charging.
- Slim and ultra-portable laptop.
- A fingerprint sensor is present.
CONS
- Display brightness is low.
- The touchpad size is small.
- The fans become active even at low task work.
- Tradition camera funtionality.
- Only 45% NTSC.
DESIGN
HP Pavilion 15 series laptop uses aluminium as an exterior chassis material, which makes it light and ultra-durable. The laptop is available in three different color options of Natural Silver, Ceramic White, and Fog Blue. The full size backlit keyboard is present which gives it a premium look.
The TouchPad supports multitouch gesture and besides that it is more precise and accurate but it is recommended to use mouse for playing games. HP Pavilion 15 eg0104tx weighs around 1.75 Kg or more which does not fits in the category of ultra-portable but seeing the specifications of the laptop weight can be tolerated.
MODEL: HP Pavilion 15 eg0104tx
BRAND: HP
SUITABLE FOR: Businessman, Students, Gamers
WEIGHT: 1.75 Kg
DIMENSION: 360.2× 234× 179 mm
FINGERPRINT SENSOR: Yes
BACKLIT KEYBOARD: Yes
DISPLAY
HP Pavilion 15 series laptops have a 15.6-inch of large screen which provides an ideal display for gaming. The laptop has an IPS LCD display with an anti-glare coating to protect our eyes from harmful ultraviolet rays. The screen’s maximum brightness is around 250 nits which is not very ideal for outdoor usage, HP must have given 300 nits of brightness at least.
Side bezels of the screen are quite thin but as usual bottom and upper chins of the laptop is thick but it’s not a very big issue as it is normal in nowadays laptop. HP Pavilion comes with the support of only 45% of the NTSC color gamut but seeing the price range the laptop deserves 72% of color gamut at least.
SCREEN SIZE: 15.6″ (39.6 cm)
SCREEN RESOLUTION: 1920× 1080 Pixels
SCREEN TYPE: IPS LCD
DISPLAY TYPE: Backlit LED
ANTI-GLARE SCREEN: Yes
BRIGHTNESS: 250 nits
COLOR GAMUT: 45% NTSC
PIXEL DENSITY: 157 ppi
SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE
HP Pavilion 15 eg0104tx model laptop supports Dedicated Graphics Card making the laptop gaming compatible. Even high-end games can be played with great ease on this laptop. Talking about the processor then this laptop has an Intel i5 11th Generation processor which is a 10 nm-based chipset with 4 cores and 8 threads.
The laptop base clock speed is around 2.4 GHz which can be boosted upto 4.2 GHz. HP Pavilion 15 series laptop supports 512GB SSD storage along with 16GB of RAM and both can be increased as per the user convenience. The 8GB of cache memory decreases the laptop’s booting and app opening time.
PROCESSOR: Intel i5 11th gen processor
GPU: Dedicated Nvidia GeForce MX450
SYSTEM ARCHITECT: 64 bit
ROM: 512GB
CACHE: 8MB L3 Cache
OPTICAL DRIVE: No
CLOCK SPEED: 2.4GHz (Normal), 4.2 GHz (Top)
CAMERA & AUDIO
Just like most of the laptop, HP Pavilion 15 series laptop has also 720P WebCam support. The WebCam quality is average but is good enough so that children can attain their online classes and office men can do their video-conferencing without any hesitation. The laptop has dual microphone support for more clear voice.
If we talk about the speakers, it is integrated with dual speakers of B&O whose sound quality is good but the sound pitch is not so high.
WEBCAM: Yes
VIDEO-RECORDING: 720P
SPEAKERS: Dual-Speakers by B&O
BATTERY
HP Pavilion 15 laptop comes with 3 cells battery which supply the power of 43Wh. The battery can give the backup of 6-8 hours in normal usage and comes with 65W power brick which supports fast-charging and can charge 50% of the laptop in just half an hour. Also, we can charge it with the given USB Type-C charger of the regular smartphone.
BATTERY: 41Wh
BATTERY BACKUP: 6-8 hours under normal usage
CHARGER: 65W
NO. OF CELLS: 3
CONNECTIVITIES, PORTS & PERIPHERALS
The laptop has almost no issues with connectivity as it is packed with the latest, fastest and most decent connectivities. The laptop comes with the latest Wi-Fi 6 support which is said to be 3× more times faster than Wi-Fi 5. Also, the latest Bluetooth version comes with Gigabit File Transfer for fast and secure file transfer.
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