The combination of the components is measured by the price / performance ratio really quite good. I have the device as part of a Christmas campaign for EUR 870, - can buy, but even the original price and the Amazon price of just EUR 1,000, - would be measured against the performance of the installed components to be described as quite fair.
Visually, the notebook also makes a bad impression. Stylistically, it is certainly inspired by the Apple Macbooks, which is certainly not too bad. Nevertheless, it is for a modern notebook of the 15-inch class relatively thick and heavy, especially when you consider that HP classifies this notebook as a "Ultrabook". More of a notebook for the home, one can possibly take occasional times. The weight and the size makes it compared to "real" Ultrabooks but surely no great pleasure to carry this notebook regularly by the world.
Now off to the advantages and disadvantages of this notebook:
+ Good price considering the installed components
+ Visually quite appealing
+ MSATA slot, which makes it possible to extend the existing disk with a mSATA SSD
+ Quite good sound through the überdurschnittliche for a notebook good speaker system (incl. Subwoofer on the bottom of the notebook)
+ Keyboard has a good stop with beautiful keyboard illumination, but ....
- Expresses itself the keyboard clearly in the left half through
- The notebook warms up greatly
- The display is only moderately illuminated and reflected strong EXTREME (!). Outside or in bright rooms the work is downright exhausting. However, the colors and Brilanz of Full HD displays are quite good (assuming you're sitting in the dark
- The slow 1TB hard drive with 5400 revolutions unfortunately slows down the remaining components of the notebook pretty strong, so that it comes only 8 performance benchmark in 6 out of 10 points in Windows (due to the hard disk). This can, however, replace it with a 2.5-inch SSD hard drive or expand by a mSATA SSD hard drive!
Now, however, the two main disadvantages of the notebook, which have meant that I have returned the notebook:
- The notebook is incredibly loud! Already at the start and during normal operation under Windows 8, the fans are quite audible and unpleasant. Louder than any other notebook, which I have already used both in business (IBM / Lenovo) and multimedia (Acer, Asus, Samsung, Fujitsu-Siemens). If the notebook is actually taken time to complete, the fans are incredibly loud, louder than any I know of gaming notebook. I have tested it with Assasins Creed 4, and Company of Heroes 2 and the fans were so incredibly loud that I could not understand the voice of the Games! For a multimedia notebook truly a miserable cooling and ventilation system. This is any entertainment in this notebook a torment.
- HP has apparently failed to deliver the notebook to a usable state with functioning drivers. After the first start and set up Windows 8 I was once looking for the appropriate driver for hours in order to stabilize the system. Among other things, the wireless connection broke every 5-10 minutes from permanent because the installed driver for the Intel wireless module is problematic. The same applies to other drivers.
All in all no useful "multimedia notebook," as it applies HP, despite the very good built-in hardware components. Too Bad.
