Hp Pavilion X360 Core I5 10th Gen Review

The HP Pavilion x360 Convertible xiv (dw0097nr) is a competent convertible laptop for handling the mean solar day-to-day workload of a work-from-home or distance-learning experience. It also offers some unique features, including a rare cellular option and a full-sized SD menu slot. The USB-C and HDMI ports allow for two boosted displays, including 4K support. While these attributes piece of work in the Pavilion x360's favor, its middling performance and underwhelming battery life make other laptops we've tested in its price range seem like a better bargain.

This review is part of our ongoing roundup of the best laptops. Go there for information on competing products and how we tested them.

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Equally a convertible, HP's Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 rotates hands into tent mode. The hinge is engineered well, preventing the laptop from sagging, even as it approaches a 180-degree angle.

HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 basic features

HP'south Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 hasn't been on the market for long, but you may find that you'll have a difficult time buying i—bear witness of the buying spree brought on by the need to work/study from home during the pandemic. The laptop is currently available for $700 on HP.com, but in the grade of the review it was sometimes sold out.

In case you lot can't find it, HP representatives recommended some almost identical alternatives. The $650 HP Pavilion x360 Laptop 14t-dw000Remove non-product link lacks the Optane retentiveness choice and LTE WWAN. The $586.95 HP Pavilion x360 14t-dh200Remove non-production link is even more like, though it likewise lacks WWAN options and y'all'll need to pay a scrap more than for the 1080p display option. Both the 14t-dw000 and 14t-dh200 were in stock at press time, however, and should offer comparable performance.

Keep in heed that in all these machines, the processor's "G1" suffix denotes the minimal amount of graphics adequacy provided. Higher-end members of Intel's tenth-gen Ice Lake family offer more visual horsepower.

Hither are the specs for the unit of measurement we tested:

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• Display: 14-inch (1920×1080, WLED) multitouch, 250 nits (rated)
• Processor:Intel Core i5-1035G1
• Graphics: UHD 620
• Memory:  8GB DDR4-3200 SDRAM (one x 8 GB)
• Storage: 256GB SSD+16GB Optane
• Ports: 1 USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps, charging, display), 2 USB-A three.2 Gen i (formerly USB 3.ane, 5Gbps), ane HDMI 2.0, SD bill of fare slot, 3.5mm jack, SIM slot (as reviewed)
• Photographic camera:720p (user-facing)
• Battery: 41.3Wh (reported), 43Wh (rated)
• Wireless: WiFi 6 (Intel Wireless-AC 9461 802.11ac) and Bluetooth 5, with Connected Mod Standby; Intel LTE (XMM 7360) SIM slot (as reviewed)
• Operating system: Windows 10 Dwelling
• Dimensions (inches): 12.76 x 8.lxx ten 0.74 inches
• Weight: three.55 pounds
• Color: Natural Silver (Exterior)/ Ash Silver (Interior)
• Price:  $700 at HP.comRemove not-product link

Overall build quality and brandish

HP'south Pavilion x360 14 emerges from its box a chip on the heavy side, though that'd simply be an outcome if you really traveled with it. Our review unit boasts the rather generic Natural Silverish exterior. A narrow band of silver runs effectually the border of the Dark Ash Silver keyboard deck.

Considering the Pavilion is a 360-degree convertible, it flips smoothly from clamshell back into tent mode, supporting its own weight. During a year when nosotros've been stuck within most of the time, I've grown to appreciate laptops that tin serve as portable entertainment centers during off hours.

Higher up the keyboard lies an unobtrusive grille from which the Pavilion x360 14 vents its warm air. The laptop puts out a steady whoosh of fan noise, even occasionally during routine tasks such every bit typing this review. It's both soft and adequately constant plenty, however, to fade into the groundwork as white noise.

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Air is pulled in from a wide grille underneath the laptop through a second grille on its left side.

HP's display is passable, a common quality level amidst lower-priced laptops. Its backlight has a height brightness of about 250 nits, the blank minimum for what we consider to be sufficient for indoor work. My downstairs part gets minimal exterior light, and I found the display to be just slightly on the dim side. Color fidelity seemed adequate, however, with sufficient viewing angles from either side. Just don't expect to apply it outdoors.

At this price betoken, a laptop's aesthetics should be a bonus, not office and parcel of the experience. No i tin help merely observe, though, the broad lower display bezel of about an inch and a half. Though the side (quarter-inch) and the top (three-eights of an inch) bezels are slimmer, the overall result is that the display feels a fleck cramped.

Fortunately, the bachelor ports adorning the HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 make information technology like shooting fish in a barrel to expand beyond the congenital-in brandish. HP includes both an HDMI 2.0 as well as SuperSpeed 10Gbps (formerly known as USB-C three.2 Gen ii).

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The right side of the HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 (dw0097nr) includes a port for the barrel charger, HDMI 2.0, USB-A, standard USB-C (not Thunderbolt), a full-sized SD card slot, and the SIM card slot.

Unfortunately, though the HDMI two.0 cable supports a single 4K monitor at upwards to 60Hz, the Core i5-1035G1 couldn't manage to push my external 4K display beyond 30Hz. For those with sensitive optics, the slow refresh rate tin look jarring. Anything with motion—video, for example—can look jerky and, over fourth dimension, tin fatigue your eyes. Even typing on an otherwise static screen can be wearing. This problem, all the same, completely goes away if you have an external 1080p monitor, which the Pavilion x360 14 powers at a comfy 60Hz.

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Another USB-A port sits on the left side of the HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14, along with a grille to vent the laptop's thermal exhaust.

HP supplies a 45W power supply within of the box, which uses a round "barrel" connector to accuse the laptop. Alternatively, y'all can use a third-political party charger to charge the laptop via the USB-C port.

Typing, audio and camera

I tend to adopt keyboards with more pronounced key travel, so the shallow keyboard on the HP Pavilion x360 Convertible fourteen wasn't especially comfortable over prolonged apply. I virtually always write a laptop review on the keyboard of the device that I'thou reviewing, and I'll be happy to get dorsum to something which allows my fingers more flexibility.

My only other complaint is that the individual keys aren't especially large. Otherwise, the Pavilion's keyboard provides a comfortable typing experience. Its only other quirk is the column of Home, Pg Up, and related keys that runs along the correct side of the keyboard, rather than the lower right-hand corner (as is more mutual).

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The keyboard of the HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 (dw0097nr).

Laptop sound is rarely good, and the Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 failed to convince u.s.a. otherwise. Its speakers are thin, tinny, and more often than not unpleasant for listening to music or other audio, maybe because of the lack of depression-cease boost. Mid- to high-pitched music, like Molly Sandén's "Husavik (My Hometown)," for instance, sounded pretty good.

Normally, audio enhancement technologies help somewhat. Blindside & Olufsen tuned the speakers and provided an audio utility conveniently designed with an blaster and racket cancellation for the available microphone. But even headphones can't really help; your best bet is to boost the bass as much as possible.

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HP's convertible Pavilion is tuned by B&O, but it doesn't really assist.

The same utility manages the microphone's noise cancellation, which I institute to exist somewhat hit-and-miss. The B&O utility tin exist configured to filter out everything just your voice. It did a superb chore at filtering out the dorsum-and-forth of baseball announcers calling the game while I recorded my voice. One upshot, though, is that my voice'southward book levels fluctuated unexpectedly, which would exist noticeable on a Zoom call. Using a headset should bypass all these limitations.

The HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 uses a 720p camera (as most laptops do), and I was pleased with its color fidelity. Unfortunately, at that place's no Windows How-do-you-do capability at all—no depth camera, and no fingerprint reader either.

You may notice that this laptop includes an SSD plus Intel'due south Optane Memory technology, which Intel designed equally a sort of cache to improve app loading times. In general, the quick admission to information that any SSD offers, relative to an old laptop with a spinning hard drive, will exist noticeable. Don't buy this laptop for the boosted Optane capabilities, however, as information technology doesn't make a meaningful deviation.

A mix of bloatware and useful utilities

HP's consumer laptops tend to transport with a hefty serving of bloatware, actress apps that HP preloads in hopes you'll endeavor them. HP JumpStarts, an app that lives on the Taskbar, serves as a gateway to the HP Support Assistant plus other offers: a 1-month trial of Microsoft 365 for new customers, free games from WildTangent, and more than. Amazon and Dropbox have shortcuts in the Taskbar. Separate apps in the Beginning card offer 25GB of Dropbox storage gratuitous for a year, and there are shortcuts to ExpressVPN, Spotify, Netflix, and more. The Pavilion also ships with a 3-month subscription to McAfee Personal Security.

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HP's utility software is useful and comprehensive, just it's difficult to navigate through.

HP offers a wealth of its own utility software, near of which serves a useful purpose—only there's only and then darn many of them! The HP Support Assistant, for example, includes useful driver updates for diverse components within the organization, but information technology'due south split from Windows Update, andthat'southwardsingled-out from the app-specific Microsoft Shop. Dig though and you'll be rewarded, as there's a terrific amount of data and diagnostics bachelor.

Nosotros didn't test one attribute of the HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14: its cellular capabilities. I unremarkably plug in a SIM and bulldoze around my Bay Area town, testing throughput and coverage. Unfortunately, wildfire smoke levels were at unhealthy to toxic levels during my testing period, making drive tests inadvisable. I live at the periphery of a cell-phone tower'due south range, which also wouldn't exist a fair test of the Pavilion x360's abilities.

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The SIM carte du jour slot of the HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 (dw0097nr) is leap-loaded, popping out at a touch.

Performance is just average

Our performance assessments takes into account repeatable benchmarks too equally direct experience. As part of the review procedure, I used the HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 for about a week, running information technology with dozens of Edge tabs open, alongside apps like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. With fifty or so tabs open up, including streaming video from a MLB playoff game, I noticed a fleck of input lag in how the Pavilion responded. Under the same weather condition, but with an additional Zoom call running, I noticed that the laptop'southward display fuzzed slightly, and briefly, as if the GPU couldn't quite handle the load. That's my everyday, work-at-home environment, though, and overall the Pavilion handled it very well. Streamed videos from YouTube and Netflix worked fine on the Pavilion'south ain display.

Attaching an external 4K monitor created a few hiccups, and not just with YouTube streaming (where downsampling and upsampling resolutions sometimes resulted in choppy video). The Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 really crashed twice when I was playing back YouTube videos in Edge, switching playback resolutions, and dragging videos back and forth to an external monitor. The problems wasn't completely repeatable, but I also experienced it while highlighting fields in Excel, later I had updated the graphics commuter. HP didn't have whatsoever advice for usa past press time, only to be fair, secondary displays can innovate complexities.

What follows are results from our suite of synthetic and real-earth benchmarks. We compared the HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 to its competition inside the budget and mid-range laptop PC category. Its results are highlighted in red, below.

PCMark 8 Work/Creative: Everyday tasks

UL's PCMark 8 Work test measures how well the laptop handles office tasks, from spreadsheets, word processing, and VoIP calls. Near laptops perform competently hither, and whatsoever score over 2,000 is a good thing.

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We've put both the PCMark Work and Creative test into the aforementioned graphic, highlighting HP'south Pavilion x360 in cerise. As our real-world feel confirms, this laptop does fine in office work and web browsing.

The PCMark viii Creative criterion assesses the laptop's ability to perform more intensive tasks similar video editing and photo manipulation, leaning more heavily on the integrated GPU for some low-cal gaming. You shouldn't expect to practise much of the latter with the Pavilion x360 Convertible 14, though we'll look at this more closely with the 3DMark exam a bit afterwards.

Cinebench: CPU performance

We apply Maxon's Cinebench test to look at the raw output of the CPU. The R15 examination is older, pregnant nosotros have a broader base of operations of laptops for comparison. It'southward also a fast test, providing a snapshot of how the PC manages a "sprint" of processing need. Nosotros utilize the multi-thread benchmark to evaluate how well the laptop does with all cores enabled. The unmarried-threaded test, while applicable to most mainstream tasks, tends to yield pretty much the same result regardless of CPU.

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While HP'due south convertible doesn't experience peculiarly poky, information technology lags behind others in its class.

The Core i5-1035G1 inside is a quad-core processor, with eight processing threads. While its score is acceptable, it's the slowest of all the compared laptops with the same CPU.

HandBrake: Sustained CPU workload

Where Cinebench is a dart, HandBrake is a prolonged CPU test, where nosotros transcode a movie into a format advisable for an Android tablet. Information technology's useful as a measure of how well the laptop is thermally managed: An overheated laptop volition take to clock downward to avert exceeding its thermal limits. Conversely, a well-cooled laptop volition be able to run in an elevated turbo way for longer, completing the job faster. It's hither that a well-designed laptop with a slower CPU can compete with a faster processor in a poorly-designed notebook PC. The Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 again posted a lower score against the competition.

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Again, HP'due south Pavilion convertible falls well downwardly the listing of its competitors.

3DMark Heaven Diver: Graphics performance

The 3DMark Sky Diver test is where we can examine the laptop for its gaming abilities. Let's exist clear: The "G1" designation is Intel's signal that its graphics capabilities represent the least of Intel's  Ice Lake offerings, so we're not expecting too much here. This is clearly non a gaming PC, and its mediocre score attests to that.

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From a graphics perspective, the HP Pavilion x360 14 is somewhat boilerplate, though you can do better.

Battery life (video rundown test)

We stop with battery life, an normally critical attribute of a laptop that doesn't hateful quite as much with a global pandemic keeping us shut to domicile. Nevertheless, information technology'due south good to know whether you'd have the battery life to piece of work outside, stop at a sidewalk buffet, or just crash on the couch for a alter of scenery.

The Pavilion x360 Convertible 14'due south 43Wh battery is on the modest side for a laptop of its size, and that hurts information technology hither. The laptop's lackluster seven-plus hours of life might have been par for the course 18 months ago, simply many laptops we see nowadays easily exceed ten or more than hours.

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Just over seven hours of bombardment life really isn't too bad for dwelling house use. Simply if this aspect is important to you, expect elsewhere.

Determination: Good simply not great

The HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14 should suffice for working or learning from home. In our real-world use, information technology never felt especially poky. However, the numbers don't prevarication: You lot tin can practice ameliorate. From a performance standpoint, this is really the moment for AMD-powered laptops, such as the $655 Acer Swift 3. Acer'south recent $650 Spin 3 also compares favorably. If operation isn't your priority, you might however have regrets about the battery life or the dim brandish.

There are always going to be merchandise-offs in low-priced laptops. The HP Pavilion x360 Convertible fourteen just toes that line betwixt acceptable and unacceptable compromise.

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