HP Pavilion 14 (14-dv0000) review – getting the Pavilion series on the right track

Unsurprisingly, we found the Pavilion 14 (14-dv0000) in the “laptops for school” section on HP’s Web page. However, this notebook can be used in a wide variety of scenarios with the most popular one being as an everyday device. It packs the punch thanks to the Tiger Lake processors of Intel, which may actually mean that you can not only use it for work and projects, but also for entertainment, including some mild gaming.

Yes, the integrated graphics in the high-end CPUs are good enough on paper, but you can also configure it with up to the GeForce MX450 – NVIDIA’s current top-tier energy-efficient GPU.

In addition to that, you can expect the usual suspects in the face of Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5. And on top of that, there is the 1080p IPS panel. Allegedly, there should be a 4K IPS option in some regions, but unfortunately, HP is still keen on selling 768p TN panels. Keep an eye for the latter, as you would want to avoid it at any cost.

You can check the prices and configurations in our Specs System: https://laptopmedia.com/series/hp-pavilion-14-2020/

Contents


Specs Sheet

HP Pavilion 14 (14-dv0000, dv1000) - Specifiche

  • CMN14FF
  • Precisione del colore  6.5  3.7
  • HDD/SSD
  • fino a 2000GB SSD
  • RAM
  • up to 64GB
  • OS
  • Windows 11 Home, Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Pro, Windows 11 Pro
  • Batteria
  • 43Wh, 3-cell, 41Wh, 3-cell, 45Wh, 3-cell
  • Materiale del corpo
  • Plastic / Polycarbonate, Aluminum
  • Dimensioni
  • 325.1 x 216.6 x 17 mm (12.80" x 8.53" x 0.67")
  • Peso
  • 1.41 kg (3.1 lbs)
  • Porte e connettività
  • 2x USB Type-A
  • 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps)
  • 1x USB Type-C
  • 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps), Power Delivery (PD), DisplayPort, Sleep and Charge
  • HDMI
  • 1.4b
  • Lettore di schede
  • MicroSD
  • Ethernet LAN
  • Wi-Fi
  • 802.11ax
  • Bluetooth
  • 5.0
  • Jack audio
  • 3.5 Combo Jack
  • Caratteristiche
  • Lettore di impronte digitali
  • optional
  • Telecamera web
  • HD
  • Tastiera retroilluminata
  • Microfono
  • Dual Array Digital Microphone
  • Altoparlanti
  • Speakers by Bang & Olufsen
  • Unità ottica
  • Fessura del blocco di sicurezza

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What’s in the box?

Once you open the box, you will see the laptop, itself, protected by some cardboard. Then, there are the mandatory paper manuals, as well as a 65W power brick.


Design and construction

From what we can see, the lid of this notebook is made out of aluminum, while the rest of the device is built out of plastic. By the way, we couldn’t find any specific information on this, but the base actually feels cold to the touch, which indicates at aluminum used for that part as well. This results in a body that weighs 1.54 kg, with a profile of 17mm. Not bad at all for a 14-incher. Unfortunately, the chassis flexes, when you bend or twist it, but on the bright side, the lid remains pretty solid.

Once you open it, which happens with a single hand up to about 80° after which you need to hold the base with your other hand, you will see the anti-glare display, that has relatively narrow bezels around it. Thankfully, you can also rely on an unpretentious 720p 30fps camera for video conversations.

Moving to the base we see the keyboard. The keycaps are quite large, with the font being particularly big and easy to read. Similarly to last year’s Envy laptops, the Power button is located in very close proximity to the Delete and Backspace keys, but HP was smart enough to know that you will accidentally click it, so a one-click does nothing.

Other than that, the key travel is quite long, with the feedback being satisfying enough to result in a comfortable user experience. Also, some units (like ours) have a two-stage backlight. The only downside we see here is the small size of the “Up” and “Down” arrow keys.

Interestingly, there is a rather big touchpad, that doesn’t have the smoothest surface, but offers pretty accurate tracking. And to the right, you will see the fingerprint reader, as well as the Bang & Olufsen branding, which reveals the company tuning the speakers here.

Last but not least, turn the laptop upside down, and you will find the speaker cutouts and a pretty sizeable ventilation grill. The hot air here is blown away from the chassis through some wholes in between the base and the lid.

Ports

The I/O here consists of an audio jack and a USB Type-A 3.2 (Gen. 1) port on the left, and the power plug, an HDMI 2.0connector, another USB Type-A 3.2 (Gen. 1) port, a USB Type-C 3.2 (Gen. 2) (DisplayPort and Power Delivery supported) port and a MicroSD card reader on the right.


Disassembly, upgrade options and maintenance

To access this notebook’s internals, you first have to remove the two rubber feet. Then, undo the six Phillips-head screws you see. After that, pry the bottom panel with a plastic tool, starting from the back.

Before you move on, unplug the 43.3Wh battery pack.

Thankfully, there are two RAM SODIMM slots, which work in dual-channel mode. Although HP states that the maximum capacity this laptop supports is 16GB, we are pretty confident, it will also run 32GB. As for the storage, there is one M.2 NVMe slot.

Last, but not least, the cooling solution comprises a single heat pipe, and a very long heat spreader, which will hopefully provide a big-enough cooling capacity.


Display quality

HP Pavilion 14 (14-dv0000) has a Full HD IPS display, model number Innolux CMN14FF. Its diagonal is 14″ (35.56 cm), and the resolution – 1920 х 1080. Additionally, the screen ratio is 16:9, the pixel density – 157 ppi, their pitch – 0.161 x 0.161 mm. The screen can be considered Retina when viewed from at least 56 cm (from this distance, the average human eye can’t see the individual pixels).

Its viewing angles are excellent. We have provided images at 45 degrees to evaluate quality.

The maximum measured brightness is 266 nits (cd/m2) in the middle of the screen and 254 nits (cd/m2) average across the surface with a maximum deviation of 14%. The Correlated Color Temperature on a white screen and at maximum brightness is 6960K (average) – slightly colder than the 6500K optimum for sRGB.
In the illustration below you can see how the display performs from a uniformity perspective. The illustration below shows how matters are for operational brightness levels (approximately 140 nits) – in this particular case at 69% Brightness (White level = 140 cd/m2, Black level = 0.10 cd/m2).
Values of dE2000 over 4.0 should not occur, and this parameter is one of the first you should check if you intend to use the laptop for color-sensitive work (a maximum tolerance of 2.0 ). The contrast ratio is good – 1420:1.

To make sure we are on the same page, we would like to give you a little introduction to the sRGB color gamut and the Adobe RGB. To start, there’s the CIE 1976 Uniform Chromaticity Diagram that represents the visible specter of colors by the human eye, giving you a better perception of the color gamut coverage and the color accuracy.

Inside the black triangle, you will see the standard color gamut (sRGB) that is being used by millions of people on HDTV and on the web. As for the Adobe RGB, this is used in professional cameras, monitors, etc for printing. Colors inside the black triangle are used by everyone and this is an essential part of the color quality and color accuracy of a mainstream notebook.

Still, we’ve included other color spaces like the famous DCI-P3 standard used by movie studios, as well as the digital UHD Rec.2020 standard. Rec.2020, however, is still a thing of the future and it’s difficult for today’s displays to cover that well. We’ve also included the so-called Michael Pointer gamut, or Pointer’s gamut, which represents the colors that naturally occur around us every day.

The yellow dotted line shows HP Pavilion 14 (14-dv0000)’s color gamut coverage.

Its display covers just 54% of the sRGB/ITU-R BT.709 (web/HDTV standard) in CIE1976.

Our “Design and Gaming” profile delivers optimal color temperature (6500K) at 140 cd/m2 luminance and sRGB gamma mode.

We tested the accuracy of the display with 24 commonly used colors like light and dark human skin, blue sky, green grass, orange, etc. You can check out the results at factory condition and also, with the “Design and Gaming” profile.

Below you can compare the scores of HP Pavilion 14 (14-dv0000) with the default settings (left), and with the “Gaming and Web design” profile (right).

The next figure shows how well the display is able to reproduce really dark parts of an image, which is essential when watching movies or playing games in low ambient light.

The left side of the image represents the display with stock settings, while the right one is with the “Gaming and Web Design” profile activated. On the horizontal axis, you will find the grayscale, and on the vertical axis – the luminance of the display. On the two graphs below you can easily check for yourself how your display handles the darkest nuances but keep in mind that this also depends on the settings of your current display, the calibration, the viewing angle, and the surrounding light conditions.

Response time (Gaming capabilities)

We test the reaction time of the pixels with the usual “black-to-white” and “white-to-black” method from 10% to 90% and vice versa.

We recorded Fall Time + Rise Time = 22 ms

After that, we test the reaction time of the pixels with the usual “Gray-to-Gray” method from 50% White to 80% White and vice versa between 10% and 90% of the amplitude.


Health impact – PWM / Blue Light

PWM (Screen flickering)

Pulse-width modulation (PWM) is an easy way to control monitor brightness. When you lower the brightness, the light intensity of the backlight is not lowered, but instead turned off and on by the electronics with a frequency indistinguishable to the human eye. In these light impulses, the light/no-light time ratio varies, while brightness remains unchanged, which is harmful to your eyes. You can read more about that in our dedicated article on PWM.

HP Pavilion 14 (14-dv0000)’s display doesn’t use PWM for brightness adjustment at any level. This makes it safe for your eyes even after long exposure.

Blue light emissions

Installing our Health-Guard profile not only eliminates PWM but also reduces the harmful Blue Light emissions while keeping the colors of the screen perceptually accurate. If you’re not familiar with the Blue light, the TL;DR version is – emissions that negatively affect your eyes, skin, and your whole body. You can find more information about that in our dedicated article on Blue Light.

Conclusions

HP Pavilion 14 (14-dv0000)’s IPS panel has a Full HD resolution, comfortable viewing angles, good contrast ratio, and its backlight doesn’t flicker at any brightness level. Unfortunately, it covers only 54% of the sRGB color gamut.

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Sound

HP Pavilion 14 (14-dv0000)’s speakers produce a sound with decent quality, but relatively low maximum volume. Thankfully, the low, mid, and high tones are clear of deviations.


Drivers

All of the drivers and utilities for this notebook can be downloaded from here: https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-pavilion-laptop-pc-14-dv0000/35719372

Battery

Now, we conduct the battery tests with 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. This notebook’s 43.3Wh battery pack lasts for 7 hours of Web browsing and 8 hours and 38 minutes of video playback.


CPU options

This laptop comes with a choice of four CPUs. You can choose from the Pentium Gold 7505, Core i3-1115G4, Core i5-1135G7, and Core i7-1165G7.


GPU options

In addition to the integrated solutions, you can get the device with the GeForce MX350, or the GeForce MX450 dedicated GPUs.


Gaming tests

cs-go-benchmarks

CS:GOHD 1080p, Low (Check settings)HD 1080p, Medium (Check settings)HD 1080p, MAX (Check settings)
Average FPS106 fps79 fps37 fps

DOTA 2HD 1080p, Low (Check settings)HD 1080p, Normal (Check settings)HD 1080p, High (Check settings)
Average FPS98 fps60 fps41 fps

Temperatures and comfort

Max CPU load

In this test we use 100% on the CPU cores, monitoring their frequencies and chip temperature. The first column shows a computer’s reaction to a short load (2-10 seconds), the second column simulates a serious task (between 15 and 30 seconds), and the third column is a good indicator of how good the laptop is for long loads such as video rendering.

Average core frequency (base frequency + X); CPU temp.

Intel Core i7-1165G7 (15W TDP)0:02 – 0:10 sec0:15 – 0:30 sec10:00 – 15:00 min
HP Pavilion 14 (14-dv0000)3.08 GHz (B+10%) @ 91°C @ 40W2.79 GHz @ 89°C @ 29W2.13 GHz @ 71°C @ 18W
Acer TravelMate P4 (TMP414-51)2.99 GHz (B+7%) @ 94°C @ 33W2.66 GHz @ 93°C @ 27W1.86 GHz @ 68°C @ 16W
Lenovo ThinkBook 15 Gen 23.63 GHz (B+32%) @ 94°C @ 45W3.32 GHz (B+19%) @ 94°C @ 38W2.87 GHz (B+3%) @ 80°C @ 28W
Dell Inspiron 13 7306 2-in-13.12 GHz (B+11%) @ 99°C @ 33W2.68 GHz @ 99°C @ 25W2.04 GHz @ 83°C @ 16W
ASUS ZenBook Flip S UX3713.48 GHz (B+24%) @ 90°C @ 43W2.79 GHz @ 90°C @ 27W1.95 GHz @ 69°C @ 14W
Acer Swift 3X (SF314-510G)3.74 GHz (B+34%) @ 95°C @ 45W3.45 GHz (B+23%) @ 95°C @ 37W3.09 GHz (B+10%) @ 85°C @ 28W
Acer Swift 3 (SF313-53)3.55 GHz (B+27%) @ 95°C @ 44W3.17 GHz (B+13%) @ 95°C @ 34W2.32 GHz @ 64°C @ 17W
Acer Swift 5 Pro (SF514-55GT)3.54 GHz (B+26%) @ 94°C @ 39W3.27 GHz (B+17%) @ 94°C @ 31W2.44 GHz @ 74°C @ 17W

As you can tell, the Pavilion 14 (14-dv0000) is not what we can call – a performance beast. Its cooling solution is not really struggling with this CPU, but the power limits in play here, are quite restrictive.

Comfort during full load

Thankfully, the outside temperature barely surpasses 40°C, and the noise coming from the fan is not that intrusive, even under extreme workloads.


Verdict

So, if we were to think of the best feature of the HP Pavilion 14 (14-dv0000), it would definitely be the keyboard. It is really comfortable, and in our case – there was a backlight. Actually, this notebook is pretty feature-packed, as there is Wi-Fi 6 support, as well as a fingerprint reader on board. Also, there is an HD camera, so using the device for school is effortless, but obviously, the camera quality is not great, so don’t expect miracles from the tiny sensor.

Another good thing here is the upgradability. You can rely on two RAM SODIMM slots, as well as one M.2 NVMe drive slot – more than enough for a 14-inch notebook these days. Now, the 43.3Wh battery pack doesn’t offer the best screen on time, as we only got 7 hours of very conservative Web browsing, and 8 hours and 38 minutes of video playback. Combining that with a heavier load will definitely reduce the battery life, and you will probably need the charger before the end of the workday, or the day at school.

HP Pavilion 14 (14-dv0000)’s IPS panel has a Full HD resolution, comfortable viewing angles, good contrast ratio, and its backlight doesn’t flicker at any brightness level. Unfortunately, it covers only 54% of the sRGB color gamut.

In terms of I/O, you get a pretty decent offering, but there is no Thunderbolt 4 support (having TH4 certification is definitely more expensive than a “regular” USB Type-C 3.2 (Gen. 2), so this is nothing surprising).

Unfortunately, the performance levels are not the best, both in terms of computational and graphics performance. Don’t get us wrong, the Core i7-1165G7 inside of our unit is a beast, but it is just not on the level of other laptops we’ve tested (the Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i (14) for example).

At the end of the day, the Pavilion 14 (14-dv0000) is a balanced all-rounder that will get the job done both for students, people working in an office (or from home), and just somebody that wants a daily driver. If you find a good deal don’t hesitate to consider this machine in your shortlist of desirable notebooks.

Pros

  • Doesn’t use PWM for brightness adjustment (AUO JM7T2-B133HAN)
  • Wi-Fi 6 support, fingerprint reader, and MicroSD card slot
  • Comfortable keyboard
  • Decent hardware options
  • 2x RAM SODIMM slots, 1x M.2 NVMe slot


Cons

  • Covers only 54% of sRGB colors (AUO JM7T2-B133HAN)
  • Lacks Thunderbolt connectivity
  • Not the best battery life in the class

You can check the prices and configurations in our Specs System: https://laptopmedia.com/series/hp-pavilion-14-2020/

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