Display and Design
The HP Pavilion’s casing is completely made from plastic and even so, due to the high quality workmanship by HP, the unit feels quite sturdy. The laptop comes in a dual tone glossy finish, giving it a nice stylish look. It has a full sized keyboard and a textured multi-touch touchpad which results in accurate swipe feature to be used with the Windows 8 OS for navigation. And embedded into the glossy plastic body is the crisp 15.6-inch HD LED display with a resolution of 1,366x768 pixels.
Processor and OS
This workstation’s load is handled by the 2.6 Ghz Intel Core i5-3230M processor with Turbo Boost up to 3.2 GHz, ensuring that the system runs ever so smooth, even while you juggle between different tasks. And to give you the most out of the hardware this laptop comes installed with the latest Windows 8, with its free flowing navigation between tasks, making it quite user friendly.
Camera, Storage and Multimedia
The Pavilion 15, like all other HP laptop comes with the HP TrueVision webcam, giving you the best audio and video recording capabilities while you video chat. The massive 1TB hard drive enables the power user to save all the data on-board, right from important data sheets to massive HD video files. HP has equipped this laptop with the DTS sound technology which lets you enjoy watching Blu-ray movies and listening to songs.
Connectivity and Battery
The Pavilion 15 hosts a variety of connectivity options like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 1x USB (2.0), 2x USB (3.0), HDMI port and Multi card slot. A 6 cell Li-ion battery gives the user up to 3 hours of power backup.