Beautiful notebook with good price-performance ratio in terms of the inner. the look and feel and general build quality is good. Unfortunately, the screen, keyboard and touchpad at
Pros
- Price quality
- CPU/GPU
- tweakbaarheid
Cons
- Screen
- BIOS
- Keyboard
Final conclusion
Score: 3Per criterion
Mobility and battery life
Score: 3
InleidingMijn intention was just a short piece of writing about the pluses and minuses of this notebook, but that is what from the clutches walked. Remains that I have no volleert reviewer, so for the people who a fantastic piece of prose expect, which can better stop reading, because that will be disappointed. To do this you must Foritain & Co ;-). Also not fantastic graphs to my graph skills to show, because I only have a 4 year old Sony to him to compare, and that is a waste of effort. On the internet are sufficient equations to find these CPU/GPU/RAM composition, made by people with much more expertise and much more equipment. It will be a short list of things of which I expected to be a tweaker they find important when purchasing the notebook. In addition, some photos of the inside, the options to highlight and what tips on the disassemble. However, I will start with the choice for this notebook a bit to explain so that it is clear why certain things deeper to be exposed than others.Desiring notebook is for the better house, garden and kitchen tasks. It is a desktop replacement that is actually always on the table in the living room. He doesn’t need to be super energy efficient, because all 24/7 services are running on a green server. He especially has a lot of things at the same time as, word, excel, powerpoint, sometimes access, photoshop and movies from youtube. You have to have, of course, not as fast notebook need, only I am chronically impatient, so everything must yesterday already happening. I also find it important that the notebook not immediately rising from the CPU fan start as he is the first advertisement of tweakers is playing (yes I have the ads just because I that really fair, because I have no paid subscription). One of the most important aspects of a notebook, I find the screen. With all the computing power, memory and storage that’s in there, do you spend most of the time nothing, but that screen see you the whole time.
My current notebook is a 4 year old Sony Vaio VPC F13S0E (Core i7 Q740, 6GB RAM, 256GB SSD, NVIDIA Geforce GT425M, with a 16,4” FULLHD Matte TFT screen. This did meet most of the requirements, a few small issues, no bluetooth 4.0, baterylife, USB3.0 port sometimes does and does not do. But the biggest problem was the CPU-Cooler. At the smallest tax that already for me annoying amount of noise. (for reference, I always work in a quiet room without music) But in the meantime, I heard him all over the TV come out if he was a windows update on the install and he is standing on the table 5 feet behind me. I am very much of the old creature is attached, so totally disassembled. Fan clean. New coolpasta between the CPU, the GPU and the cooler. Even holes in the bottom drilled for easier fresh air on the fan to get. Clean install of windows. But nothing has significantly helped and there is no other way than to start to say goodbye to the old beast and a replacement to zoeken.De keuzeHet budget is about lwa 1200,- and also the SSD to be purchased which is at least 256GB. Notebooks in that price range do not usually have a 256GB SDD and a 1TB HD, so you need to get to work. This means that often, 256GB or 512 GB SSD as the primary HD and the HD of 1TB with the notebook is included in a caddy in place of the CDROM drive places (who uses those things??)
I had a short list made of possible candidates and there was the HP. Price vnom 1045,- so with an SSD and caddy in there you will come about on that lwa 1200,-. When, however, the VAT with days of the Media market along convert and the expense he is 5 days long, lwa 860,- . Of course, he was immediately sold out, but I could take him for that price betstellen and I have no time doubted and immediately the debit card is drawn.HP Pavilion 17 G130NDIk’m not going to list all connections that you are also in the specs section of tweakers can find, there is also no horny “unboxing experience ” by text”. Everything you expect is in the box and it is decently packed. Only thing is that Mediamarkt the packing slip directly on the HP box paste. This has 3 disadvantages. 1, less good protection. The HP box is made to provide protection in transport in pallets and in the shop and not against the rondgooien by pakketbezorgers. 2, In the case of return, you are now with a box with a bunch of stickers on it and also the parcel delivery company has, for convenience, with a marker written on them. 3, Everyone can see what is in the box and when I was at the postNL collection point at the AH came to pick up there was a nice HP 17” i7 Skylake waiting for me on the top of the cabinet in the shop. A separate box around it can prevent a lot of trouble.
Well, I will put my view the most important specs walk through:
-CPU: Intel Core i7-6500U Skylake, no brands. TDP of 25W with a reasonable to good performance on http://www.notebookcheck….enchmark-List.2436.0.html you can see how he does t.o.v. others CPU’s
-GPU: GeForce GT940M with 2GB dedicated RAM, rarely a story as a CPU what you see is what you get.
-Memory: 8GB DDR3 SODIMM. There is 1 strip of 8 GB placed so the expansion to 16 is simple and there is no way to be done. Personally I find it nice to always have two of the same in to do, but there was such a exclusive strip of Hynix in done that there is not to come. Remains my question, why DDR3 and not DDR4 inserted, with a skylake CPU
-HDD: A 1 TB 5400 rpm SATA SSHD with 8MB cashe. The speed feels reasonable, but if you have a SSD, where are remains disturbingly slow. Also is the disc in the HD is not the quietest. This brand is clear to you at startup if you have it replaced by a SSD. Then your system suddenly silent.
-Wireless: Intel 3165NGW m.2 has everything you could want, bluetooth 4.2 for energy-efficient communications and the 802.11 AC speeds of 433 Mbps to be achieved. If you want more than you can the depth of investment of lwa 22,- do, and the intel AC 7265 buy pricewatch: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265 Than you can speeds of up to 867Mbps reach.
-Screen: 17.3” FULL HD matte IPS screen. This was one of my arguments for the purchase of this notebook. Not all notebooks in this price segment are equipped with an IPS scherm.De experience.De notebook doesn’t feel overly heavy for a 17” also not with the battery in. The exterior is made of plastic with an aluminium look. Stay here hardly any fingerprints behind, so good to keep clean. If the HP is out, will there be a fancy dark aluminum forth. This feels pleasant. Finger prints are here to stay a bit behind. The touch of the keys is short, and the keys feel fragile. There were even crooked were and not get right.
Also, I wonder why that arrow-keys so dramatically are made. You make a 17”notebook, you have all the space and you come up with this…. That is only because the nice looks and not because it is pleasant to work with. If you move quickly through an excel file and things are adjusting, this is a drama. (for the observant viewer, this is idd not my keyboard but the same layout)
Also the touchpad is not pleasant. Respect, not very, because you will in 99% of cases just using a mouse, so it is not a show stopper, but it is sloppy. Sometimes it is the touchpad unresponsive and also the left click can is deeper than the right, and this feel like you’re with your vingerlangs the edge.
The installation goes quickly, but of course there has been a lot to a lot of extra software ge lwa installed. This is fairly easy to remove so no problem. Clones of the OS and 480GB Crusial BX200 SSD is fast and then can unscrew start. I had this step may have to skip because I have a product key of windows 8.1 pro and I would like to install it and then upgrade for free to win10 pro, but I take this step to see if all the new hardware works before I go through with the next step
.Unscrewing the notebookVoordat I begin working, I always look ff on youtube, or someone else has done, and tips and tricks has. You must learn from the mistakes of others, because you do not live long enough to make them allenmaal to make one yourself…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDAKRL86IjU
After seeing this horror video, I was the worst prepared. Release 6 flatkabels and the whole mobo out there. Apparently, HP has also figured out that this is not the most convenient, and although they are on the outside all the same have left, they have a number of things have changed so much that it open a lot easier.
CD tray eject. Everything screws. At the places where the green circles are sitting screws, so under the silver stickers and under the black cover pictures. The red circles are no screws. This sounds stupid to mention, but I have a afgepeuterd because they are there in the video. Also are all the screws the same length. So Kudo’s to HP for simplifying the disassembly process.
If you have the cap then pick up you will see that there is no single part is attached to the bottom plate and that all of the components on the mobo directly.
The placing of the additional memory and the SSD in put is 2 min. work. Also replace the wi-fi+bluetooth unit can be in a few minutes. It remains a pity that there is no M. 2 connector on the mobo to a SSD. The space is there for sure. But you have to make do with what you get.
8GB DDR3 and a 480GB SSD, and the quantity could close again. The first boot had the UEFI to get used to the SSD, but after that start he with secure boot on like a train and the notebook works like a beast. I can be very short, in terms of performance, this is exactly the notebook that I was looking for. Small thingy with the keyboard and the touchpad, but I can for the price that I have paid by looking around…. But…….EllendeBIOSHet install of windows 8.1 pro and then upgrade. I can be very short. That will not happen in a decent way. Of course, you can move on to “Legacy Support” in the UEFI and him in and then continues to run but you don’t want that. And the problem is that there is only a secureboot key is in the system and that is for the OEM windows 10 home version that HP with delivers. All the options below it are in the UEFI are not available.
So it’s using “Legacy Support” windows 10 prof. on a GPT formatted drive to install, then you can not boot with secure boot. After some searching on different forums I found out that this is a known problem at HP, and that their position is: “We deliver a good working system with a working windows version, can you of us don’t expect” The only option that you still have to be Professional to run the upgrade for lwa 150,- to buy, but I think that’s a bit exaggerated if you already have one.SchermMijn biggest disappointment, however, is the screen. It occurred to me during the installation if the screen was black with the HP logo already on the screen in the corners more backlight bleed than in the middle. If you have a colored background, you can see there is not a lot of, but if you’re in a dark room with a feature film in a night-time scene is very annoying. This phenomenon is also known as IPS Glow. As long as the uniform is, it is not a problem, but this was really not OK
As a reference here is a photo of my 4 year old Sony VAIO, under the same circumstances. A fair amount of backlight bleed, but it is at least a little bit more.
ConclusieAl in all it is a nice notebook for the price that I have paid more than meets the requirements, but it only fails on one of the points that I matter most and that is the screen.
P. S.
The review is a bit longer than I had initially expected. Language structure, formatting, etc. are not my strongest points so comments in a PM are welcome and will be processed in the review.
Used in combination with:
- Crucial BX200 480GB
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