Top 5 reasons to BUY or NOT to buy the HP Pavilion 15 (15-eg0000)

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Desde: Severin Kolakov 21 Abril 2021 / 01:55 0

HP is getting very aggressive with its pricing. Nowadays, their laptops offer some of the best value for money, when you consider the software goodies that you get paired with the quality and performance that HP is known for. The device that we will talk about today is the new HP Pavilion 15. It comes in two variants, with either AMD or Intel hardware. Our unit came with the Tiger Lake chips from Intel, which make it a dangerous weapon, in the hands of a proficient individual. This laptop isn’t only a great one for students and in general as a daily driver. The performance from Tiger Lake can be paired with up to an MX450, which gives the laptop some sweet gaming capabilities (as if the Iris Xe Graphics G7 weren’t powerful enough on their own).

Today we are presenting you with LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the HP Pavilion 15 (15-eg0000).

HP Pavilion 15 (15-eg0000): Full Specs / In-depth Review

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HP Pavilion 15

Procesador: Intel Core i5-1235U
Tarjeta de vídeo: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
RAM: 8GB RAM
ALMACENAMIENTO: 512GB SSD

Reseña detallada

€815^.44

HP Pavilion 15

Procesador: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Tarjeta de vídeo: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (R4000/5000, 15W)
RAM: 16GB RAM
ALMACENAMIENTO: 512GB SSD

Reseña detallada

€1156^.26

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3 reasons to BUY the HP Pavilion 15 (15-eg0000)

1. Design and build quality

There are some design choices, which we find amusing. First of all, the front-facing speaker grills that we had on the previous device are now gone, which gives us a better-looking base, but on the other hand, front-facing speakers are pretty great, so we would have liked to see them stick around. The body is made predominantly from aluminum, with both the lid and the base being made from it. However, this doesn’t provide the necessary structural integrity, as we witnessed some deck and lid flex, which was quite severe with even some pops being able to be heard. Fortunately, the laptop is portable enough with a weight of only 1.75 kg and is just 17.8mm.

The lid can’t be opened with a single hand, but to compensate, HP gives us slim bezels around the entirety of the display with the top one housing the HD webcam.

2. Upgradeability

You would be pleased to hear that both the RAM and storage are upgradeable on the HP Pavilion 15. There are two SODIMM slots that work in dual-channel mode and can house up to 32GB of memory. Storage-wise, you get two M.2 PCIe x4 drives.

In case it’s our first time upgrading the memory on your device, and you need some reassurance, we will leave our detailed teardown video, which shows how to safely get access to both the SODIMM and M.2 slots.

3. Performance

Our unit came powered by the Tiger Lake-based Core i5-1135G7, but you can get it with the more powerful Core i7-1165G7. In terms of graphics, we had the MX350, which showcased decent performance. Here are some CPU and GPU benchmark scores, which put last year’s Pavilion 15 against the new one.

CPU benchmarks

3D Rendering

Los resultados proceden de la prueba de CPU Cinebench R23 (cuanto mayor sea la puntuación, mejor)

Intel Core i5-1135G7 HP Pavilion 15 (15-eg0000)

Comprobar precio

5044

GPU benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy (G)

Los resultados son de 3DMark Time Spy (Graphics). Cuanto más alto, mejor.

NVIDIA GeForce MX350 (25W) HP Pavilion 15 (15-eg0000)

Comprobar precio

1389

3DMark Fire Strike (G)

Los resultados son de la prueba 3DMark Fire Strike (Graphics) (cuanto más alta la puntuación, mejor).

NVIDIA GeForce MX350 (25W) HP Pavilion 15 (15-eg0000)

Comprobar precio

4602

Unigine Superposition

Los resultados son de la prueba Unigine Superposition (cuanto más alta la puntuación, mejor)

NVIDIA GeForce MX350 (25W) HP Pavilion 15 (15-eg0000)

Comprobar precio

650

2 reasons NOT to buy the HP Pavilion 15 (15-eg0000)

1. Battery life

The laptop uses a 41Wh battery which is relatively small and doesn’t last for a long time, as the laptop only managed to endure through 7 hours and 58 minutes of Web browsing, and 7 hours and 43 minutes of video playback. As you know, we do our tests with the Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits, and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with.

Here is a comparison between the battery life results of the new and old Pavilion 15.

Reproducción de video

Brillo: 180 nits; Modo de pantalla: SDR
Tiempo hasta descarga completa: Cuanto más alto, mejor

HP Pavilion 15 (15-eg0000) 41Wh, 3-cell

Comprobar precio

7h 19m

HP Pavilion 15 (15-cs3000) 41Wh, 3-cell

Comprobar precio

5h 10m-29.4%

Para simular condiciones reales, utilizamos nuestro propio script para la navegación web automática a través de más de 70 sitios web.

HP Pavilion 15 (15-eg0000) 41Wh, 3-cell

Comprobar precio

7h 58m

HP Pavilion 15 (15-cs3000) 41Wh, 3-cell

Comprobar precio

6h 15m-21.5%

2. Display

There are a total of three display choices, all of which have a 15.6-inch diagonal. The first screen has a 768p resolution and uses a TN panel, which means that we generally wouldn’t recommend it. There is also a 4K IPS panel, which we wish we had and still would like to get our hands-on. Finally, the display which we actually reviewed was the Full HD IPS one and it had comfortable viewing angles and a max brightness of 311 nits, with a maximum deviation of 15%. The screen uses PWM below 80 nits of brightness, which can get nasty during the night. Thankfully, our Health-Guard profile completely fixes that issue.

Furthermore, the panel covers only 52% of the sRGB color gamut.

Color accuracy-wise, our Design and Gaming profile managed to bring down the dE value down to 3.7 from 6.0, which is significant. Here you can see the results from the test with both the factory settings (left) and with our Design and Gaming profile applied (right).

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Since our profiles are tailored for each individual display model, this article and its respective profile package are meant for HP Pavilion 15 (15-eg0000) configurations with 15.6″ NCP0040 (FHD, 1920 × 1080) IPS.

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Diseño y Juegos

Este perfil está dirigido a diseñadores que trabajan con colores profesionalmente, así como para juegos y películas. Design and Gaming lleva los paneles de visualización a sus límites, haciéndolos tan precisos como sea posible en el estándar sRGB IEC61966-2-1 para Web y HDTV, en el punto blanco D65.

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Health-Guard

Health-Guard elimina la dañina Modulación por Ancho de Pulsos (PWM) y reduce la Luz Azul negativa que afecta a nuestros ojos y cuerpo. Al estar hecho a medida para cada panel, consigue mantener los colores perceptualmente precisos. Health-Guard simula el papel, por lo que la presión sobre los ojos se reduce considerablemente.