Display and Design
The HP Pavilion M4-1003TX poses a 14-inch HD LED backlit Brightview display with a resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels which makes texts look crisp and readable. Its reflective and slightly less rich display can ask you to keep the brightness high.
The casing comes with a slim form factor with 24.5mm thickness and is lighter than its counterparts. With the shiny midnight black finish, the laptop is bound to stand out in a crowd but deserves heavy maintenance as it can catch scratches, fingerprints, dust and nicks easily. However, the brushed metal designed lid has a matte finish. The taut hinge prevents the display from shaking even when you type hard. It has extra vents on all sides to keep the laptop cool.
CPU and OS
The laptop sports the Intel Core i5-3230M processor with a clock speed of 2.6GHz and upgradable up to 3GHz via the Turbo Boost technology. And the main USP of the device is the mighty 8GB RAM to ensure world class performance. The HP Pavilion M4-1003TX even promises to run gaming efficiently with a strong 2GB NVIDIA GeForce 730M GPU. It runs on 64 bit Windows 8 OS.
Camera, Storage and Multimedia
The HP TrueVision snapper promises to provide super clear video calling experience as it can shoot 1080p FHD videos. To handle the storage needs, it has a 1TB SATA hard disk. You can also use the SuperMulti DVD Drive to store info on disks.
While the rich graphics processor gives appealing visual experience, the perfect ambience for playing games and watching movies is created by the dual speakers delivering HD Audio. The glossy island style keyboard with properly spaced keys makes typing a breeze. It has a gesture supported touchpad as well.
Battery and Connectivity
The HP Pavilion M4-1003TX has a 4 cell Li-ion battery that can run efficiently up to 3 hours. Connectivity options are sufficient and include Ethernet Gigabit LAN, WLAN, Bluetooth v4.0, 1 USB 2.0 port, 2 USB 3.0 ports, HDMI out, digital media reader and VGA port.