HP 15-inch Laptop, 11th G Is Good Or Bad, Decision Is All Yours !!!

Today we're having a look at the hp laptop it's just called the hp laptop 15 inch. We've got intel's latest 11th generation core i5 quad-core processor 8 gigabytes of DDR4 Ram intel's integrated Iris Xe graphics of course a rather spacious 500 Gb solid state drive. we also have the latest wi-fi, Bluetooth standards on board and this is a HD plus display meaning it's slightly above 720p. I have a pretty strong opinion and a pretty good review lined up for you guys. I think you seriously might want to watch it before buying this machine because there are a bunch of caveats to consider.  Let's get started, as you can see this is a 

pretty generic looking metallic silver color but we'll come back to that in a second beyond that of course you have a 45 watt charging adapter cable it is proprietary and no this laptop does not support usb charging unfortunately. You also have the wall outlet cable and of course your usual instruction manual quick charge guide warranty practice and best compliance information so you know the fun stuff coming back to the laptop design. Look guys I got to be pretty honest with you I've reviewed a number of mid-range laptops in 2021 now. I have to say of all the ones you reviewed this hp laptop is by far the least appealing to me at least in terms of design. The minute you hold this thing it feels cheap and flimsy it doesn't feel like it's high quality tpu rather it feels like it was literally mass manufactured as quickly as possible in a factory which of course is the case now. One good thing is because it's a full heart tpu build this only weighs 3.7 pounds if you are planning on carrying this laptop around for long periods of time it'll do just fine in that regards. Starting with the top side of the laptop right away you can see there's this nice metallic silver color it's a full hard tpu finish no textures. It's pretty smooth which I can appreciate also in between you have the hp logo which has a nice reflective mirror-like surface in between this is probably the most premium looking part of this laptop.

As we make our way to the side of the laptop you've got a decent amount of io ports they're more or less in line with industry standards for most mid-range laptops. On one side you've got the dc jack and two usb 3.0 ports as you make your way to the other side you have a HDMI port you have a usb c port you also have a headphone jack and a SD card reader which is good if you're going to be sharing a lot of media.

Now when we make our way to the bottom side it's pretty standard stuff you've got a hard tpu shell a large passive air intake vent and you do have rubber grips to make sure the laptop stays in place.

As we unfold the laptop I have to say the chassis has a nice metallic finish and a design that actually looks pleasant to the eyes. As far as palm rest space goes it's decent it's not the most I've seen on a 15-inch laptop but it's not bad either. The trackpad is where things get pretty interesting this kind of seems like an ultra wide trackpad. So what I mean is that it's super long in its length but it's pretty short in its width so depending on the task you're doing you may find this somewhat intrusive. Now as far as the trackpad quality goes hp really dropped the ball here the trackpad feels cheap and flimsy. If you click on any particular corner nearly half the trackpad literally lifts up. The surface is made of plastic which in itself is not a bad thing but just the overall position of the crack pad is really poorly done. Over here I hate to be the bearer bad news but it doesn't get much better when you make your way to the keyboard. Now while the keys are nice and large in terms of the surface area they again feel cheap flimsy and loose when you press on any particular key, it feels like it's really loosely in place while key travel is decent. There's little to no tactile feedback type fast enough and you feel like you're typing on a really bad quality rubber dome keyboard. On top of that is no backlighting which is shameful almost every mid-range laptop in this price range actually offers backlighting. This is the first laptop of some of the blonde in this price range where there is no backlighting. All the traditional media keys are integrated with the functional keys and yes you do have a dedicated power button beyond the keyboard itself. You can see you have a pretty large speaker grille which is a single tier hinge. I have to be honest it's not a bad hinge in terms of overall quality it does wobble a little bit but nothing too dramatic like a lot of laptops the way this hinge is designed. If you actually open the laptop from the corner of the lid you will put enormous drain on the hinge and you may potentially damage in the long term just be wary of that. As far as the display fitting is concerned I have to say that this is more or less in line with 2021 standard so you have a pretty thin chin on the bottom and you can see that the bezels on the side are pretty thin. Well more or less again like I said aligned with what competitors offer now you do have a 720p webcam that isn't anything impressive but it's not any worse than what you'll find in other laptops either.

Let's talk about the display look I really don't want to pick on hp any more than I already have in terms of this laptop. But this display is just a genuinely sad story for beginners hp only offers a Hd plus display over here resolution of 1366 by 768. It basically looks like a glorified Minecraft screen also you have a peak brightness of 250 nits. Now this isn't the worst I've seen on mid-range laptops it's gonna do fine as far as most indoor lighting scenarios goes. But you cannot use this thing in direct sunlight and you'll have a pretty hard time using it in any sort of indirect sunlight as well. So keep that in mind on top of that you only have a color rating of 45% NTSC. The screen looks washed out I would not recommend this display for any sort of color intensive activities like photo editing or color grading. In general the viewing angles are quite literally horrendous so if you're looking at this laptop from anything beyond let's say a couple of degrees from the center you start noticing the white fade out coming pretty quickly. Overall I have to say guys it's sad because there's competitors like the acer swift 3 that cost the exact same price as this laptop and they offer a decent quality 1080p display. Now I'm not expecting a top-notch display but a little nice to actually see a full Hd display. Considering that this is a mid-range laptop if there is one saving grace for this laptop it has to be its performance which is more or less in line with the competition. So that core i5 processor can definitely handle its own and that eight gigabytes of Ram is more than enough in most day-to-day scenarios. If you're doing daily tasks like web browsing watching some Netflix doing word processing or anything of that nature you'll generally find that this laptop will breeze right through it. If you're doing more moderately CPU intensive tasks you'll still find the laptop generally holds its ground with little to no performance drop. Now if you are doing something like video editing on here which i would not advise. Because of the display you'll find that anything higher than 1080p that eight gigabytes of Ram very quickly becomes a bottleneck and you start noticing performance drops pretty quickly. On the note of gaming this laptop isn't designed for gaming so it's unfair to hold it to that standards. Well the integrated Iris Xe chipset can definitely hold its ground playing games like Fortnite or Counter Strike on low to medium settings in some cases with 60 plus frames per second which is more than reasonable. If you dare run Cyberpunk on here look just don't. Let's talk about battery life it's like the closer eye to the competition in our test we basically found you can squeeze up to seven hours of battery life with light use on this laptop at around 50 brightness which is quite lackluster. If you compare it again to the gel Inspiron or the Acer swift or the Idea pad 5 which by the way all have high resolution screens than the one you find on this laptop now depending on what you're doing the battery life can vary. If you are doing anything more intensive like gaming for example it can very quickly drop to around the neighborhood of 1.5 to 2 hours. If you are using it on maximum brightness it can even drop beneath an hour in extreme use cases but overall the battery life is just not good. Let's talk about the sound quality on this thing despite the fact that Hd put a large speaker grill on here this is in fact a mono speaker it's not a stereo setup with that being said sound quality isn't bad this is a relatively loud laptop you can have a quick listen for yourself all right. 

So the moment of truth the final verdict look guys I got to be honest.

Price of 518 USD or up it's just genuinely hard to recommend this laptop compared to Acer swift is the exact same price it offers a better screen a far superior keyboard and a much better build quality with a metallic finish. 

Even if you compare all those things even to other laptops like the Lenovo's Idea pad series or even Dell's Inspiron 5000 series this laptop just falls short in nearly every category. The only thing it has going for it is decent performance which doesn't really exceed any of the competition it's more or less in line all in all I think unless or otherwise you find this laptop on a pretty good deal where it's at least a Hundred Dollars USD off.

I would not recommend this laptop just the fact that it doesn't excel anywhere in particular now with that being said one thing I will say is that this laptop  most likely will go on sale HP does a pretty good job of bringing up sales overall. I'll also say this that just because this laptop is bad doesn't mean that HP is a bad brand when it comes to laptop manufacturing they have some pretty good laptops with their Envy series and this is just one of those cases where it's not something I personally found to be particularly useful or good. 

All in all guys I hope you enjoyed this blog I hope you found it insightful and I hope it helps you make the right decision as far as purchasing goes.