HP Pavilion Plus 14: What Real Users Say About the OLED

Gets a solid review. Screen is excellent, battery life is good. Its not the thinnest or lightest, but its a budget OLED model with the top 7840u 16gb and true PCIE4 with 1tb storage. Need to be a costco member (price might justify buying membership).

Laptop deal of the year don't @ me. Was on sale for like $760-780 from hp directly like two weeks ago and that seemed decent.

This looks great for the price. However after 2 bad experiences with HP laptops, I've sworn to never get one again.

AMD supports USB4 (which supports Thunderbolt 3), which does 40Gbps. That said, it's possible HP didn't provide USB4 ports and their usb-c is running at only USB3.2. USB-c doesn't have a speed — it's merely a shape of a connector. AMD supports USB4, but it's up to HP to actually use a motherboard that supports USB4 and expose USB4 on the chassis.

Since 08 I've had issues with HP laptops — never again. Their motherboards never last.

Sucks that the RAM is soldered at 16 GB but for a daily driver laptop for business/work purposes this seems very nice, and reasonably priced. Certainly not a gaming powerhouse type of system. Zen 4 Ryzen 7 7840U CPU, 16 GB of soldered RAM, and 120 Hz 1800p OLED display for approximately $920 - there's some stiff competition in this price range but that's not bad.

Holy shit it's real. An actual zen 4 non-gaming laptop.

Yeah, it's frustrating. I'd much rather have the fingerprint sensor on the deck or power button than facial recognition.

Worth noting that the average is brought up because the 780M is also used on the 35W and 45W variants (7840H/HS). Different power profiles and therefore clockspeeds, but technically the same iGPU. It still trounces any other iGPU by a wide margin, including 13th Intel Iris Xe 96EU and the previous AMD iGPUs.

What is it with home laptops and the move away from fingerprint reader to face recognition, from my experience the face side is slower and more clunky.

Get the hp pavilion plus with the 7840u processor. The oled panel that they're using is super high quality and the brightness level is great for productivity. Most of my day consists of using mine to write documents. So I'm spending a lot of time in Microsoft Word excel and powerpoint. The resolution is really high so the text is crisp and super sharp. Movies and videos look great on the panel of course but I was actually really surprised about how nice text and documents look on it.

I brought this laptop (the version with AMD Ryzen 7840U and 1TB SSD with oled). I have Manjaro installed on it with KDE Plasma and it works 99.9%, I've been using Linux since I brought it. I did have Mint on it and I also tried Debian in the beginning but switched to Arch. Back then I was having glitchy screen issues and it took me a while to figure out the fix was to add amdgpu.sg_display=0 as a kernel parameter. The wireless, bluetooth, the screen resolution, keyboard backlighting all work.

Seems pretty good. Time will tell if it has things like hinge issues but pretty confidence inspiring from the start. Also worth noting that their cheapest line is actually not named anything, they're just called HP Laptop [model number].

I've had two HP laptops die on me. Same with ASUS and Dell. Figured out the issue was the pricetag, buy cheap get cheap. Soon as I started buying higher end models they started lasting way longer.

OLED is great, I have the 45W SKU of the P+ 14 (7840H). I highly recommend you go with OLED as it's good for the viewing experience and if you are paranoid you can use a screensaver. On OLEDs the first thing that always dies is the blue light, but if you have a screensaver it should be fine. Not sure why HP did not implement pixel shift.

It's questionable too. In fact I have a H series version of this, running at 54W full performance of the 7840 chip and it can fend off the 13700 very well. I think that the U series chips are a match too if not for the worse off cooling on some of these. Rest of the experience is amazing and it's much better considering how cheap 7840HS machines are.

I did buy that laptop for my spouse to read his email, do some searching, read the news, play solitaire, etc. So far so good. It seems to have perfectly OK build quality for home use, a very nice display (and if I recall, brighter than indicated in one comment), and great speed. Oh, and its WiFi works great where another laptop, and even our cell phones have trouble in our house. So I'm pleased.

A steal for that price.

Well for one I'm not afraid of the screen burning in. I know it 'can' happen but people online fear monger so much to the point that everyone had this sentiment that burn in will happen in the next year. Oled panels of the last 5 years are nothing like their predecessors from a decade ago. Another peace of mind thing is adjusting the screen settings in windows. Have the screen turn off when the laptop sits idle for 3 minutes. That alone will extend the panel's life so much.

Specs alone this thing looks awesome.

780M iGPU. Should have some very decent 1080p performance but as the review noted it's less performant than the average 780M. This should be able to be fixed by installing something like UXTU but then you're at the mercy of a wimpy-looking heatsink.

If you don't really care about USB 4 or eGPUs, then ABSOLUTELY worth it. I've been using a Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 14 rocking the same 8845HS, and I'm very much happy with its battery life. Lasting up to 7 hours in less intensive work.

I picked a few up from Costco recently, the top spec machine was on sale for $599!

I have a laptop with 300 nits brightness and it is near unusable. Its fine indoors. Anywhere near sunlight and you can't see anything.

Full charge with half screen brightness, wifi, and Bluetooth connected to my phone? I get a full 8 and a half hours on a charge. Not too bad but I definitely want more next upgrade.

Yea 10 hours is accurate on the 'best efficiency' windows power plan. The battery life is among the best I've ever had with a windows laptop. 10 hours of realistic usage is hard to beat at this price point and size.

I have this same laptop and I have been enjoying it. Though every now and again I toy around with the idea of installing Linux. Not sure which of the 1000 distros I'd use but I'd like something similar to windows. I wouldn't even be considering Linux if it wasn't for the fact that this model for some reason tops out at 16 gigs of ram.

In Manjaro it seems to hover around 6.5 hours of web browsing. Watching videos on youtube or streaming music reduces it to about 5 or so. I usually have the screen brightness around 10-20% (it's a super bright screen so you don't need much when used indoors).

Yes it would have a long battery life, and would be great for general use. Gaming is possible because it is an amd chip with the 780m integrated graphics, however it would be limited to fps games at lower settings. You could theoretically play some AAA games but you would need to use some heavy upscaling with fsr3.

You take steps to avoid burn-in: display timeout, hide taskbar, use darker backgrounds. I also move desktop icons occasionally. They should have built in pixel shift and pixel refresher also. I don't have an OLED laptop but used an OLED TV as main monitor for 3 years now, 12+ hrs a day, no residuals.

The version sold in the UK is a joke. 16gb RAM and 512GB HD? Considering memory is dirt cheap they should sell modern config, not something that was mainstream 3-4 years ago and pricing it at 1.1k£.

I just want hassle free experience. Pay and buy a modern laptop. Not sure why they try to shove old specs down people's throat.

For personal use probably ok, as for deploying these in an enterprise, there are no pros. Laptop gives a random TPM error. Called HP manufacturer like an error said to, they wanted to charge me for a service even when I'm still under warranty. That was last week. Today one end user couldn't power one on, I'm working on a brand new one that won't power on.

You should look at HP Elitebook series instead... much better chance of everything working in Linux.

Any Hinge Problem? You pick HP, you answered it by yourself. Stay away from the Pavilion, if you're an engineering student, go pick for a used ThinkPad P14 series, much better quality for much cheaper price.

It might not be that bad, but 4yrs is questionable. Those cheap models have very weak hinge structure and I have encountered some machines that have their hinges broken after 3 years. Seriously, go find a used or previous gen business grade laptop, such as Thinkpad P1, HP Elitebook, or Dell Latitude.

The Lenovo Ideapad 5 is still going to be a better purchase. 32GB RAM at 6400MT/s, 7840 processor with the 780M, and actually reasonable storage (a terabyte, not perfect but at least it's not the useless 512GB most standard laptops offer).

A great deal and it's the last model in the Pavilion line, sad day. HP announced yesterday that the Envy, spectre, and pavilion are being rebranded with their new ai lineup. Omni and elite books are here to stay. I'm very sad because I love the 2023-2024 amd pavilion 14 plus models.

Wifi and SSD are replaceable. Does not lay flat. Yes freesync I think when I glanced at the Adrenaline interface.

The higher Intel non-U CPU trims had USB4 just fine. So this laptop can do it, they just remove it when they feel like it.

It's a normal budget laptop. So don't expect amazing build quality, screen (200-250nits), sound and heatsink. But it's okay for the price. Spec wise it's alright and has enough ram and cpu for browsing, content consumption, and minor games (older games which can run on the igpu).