UPDAT 3 WEEKS LATER: I'VE GOT A BOSE MINI SOUNDLINK FIRST GEN HOOKED UP TO IT AND IT CAN'T MAINTAIN A CONNECTION BUT THE LINK WORKS FINE WITH ALL OTHER DEVICES, SO THE BLUE TOOTH ON THIS MAY BE JUNK. BE WARNED OR IT'S THE SPEAKER NOT SURE WHICH IT IS FOR SURE. I FINALLY GAVE UP AND HARD WIRED THE SPEAKER TO IT. SO MUCH FOR BLUE TOOTH.
Ok I hope I'm not being premature in writing this. I wanted to use it for a while before I did the actual review. I didn't reinstall mine like many have done to get rid of all the advertising pop ups. So keep in mind they do annoy you at times but not overwhelmingly bad. I've only had it freeze once since I got it two weeks ago and I use it about eight hours a day so I'm very impressed with that. It was booting out of a Star Craft game that it froze when I chose to totally exit and log out of star craft. My old comp froze and over heated almost daily. This plays Star Craft beautifully and no lag or drops. I have streamed with it on You Tube HD videos without the constant stuttering of my old comp and it handles them and all I throw at it very well. I did notice a slight slow down in overall capabilities while I did my Diablo or World of Warcraft DL. But had no problem while it did my Star Craft DL so go figure. Overall it is working better than I could have dreamed at a good price. I have it paired with a Bose blue tooth speaker and HD You Tube videos and music are amazing and sound great. I had to move my blue tooth speaker to the left side of the table though it for some reason couldn't maintain a connection on the right side and the bose instructions said in trouble shooting that is might be too close to something transmitter of the comp, anyway so far since I put it left to my comp it hasn't lost a signal once. White is a bit hard to keep clean. Micro fiber towel and a bottle of windex will become you companion with this white honeycomb textured plating. Oh, when playing Star Craft it bellows heat out of the left vent, super hot heat, but the keyboard and palm area remain cool, so it seems to cool well, hope that lasts. Otherwise seems like the fan never turns on unless I'm gaming. This also it says has super fast wifi capabilities and seems to download from Blizzard in about a third the time my old comp took to download. So it seems really fast to me. Boots up fairly quick in under two minutes to password screen. I never shut it down. I just let it go to sleep and that's working out nicely for me. Just double tap the space bar and then enter my password and she's ready to go. My old comp couldn't handle sleep mode and would never wake from sleep mode. I'm just saying this comp seems to do everything it's supposed to. Oh except I tried Cortana voice commands and it started to act all funky and not work right and stuff would take forever to open and would pop up with stuff five minutes after I asked the question. Voice was the only thing that seemed to wreck this thing, otherwise after I turned her on and off and avoided the voice function, I've never had those weird problems again. Typing cortana questions works fine. But we all know windows ten isn't all it's cracked up to be. LoL enjoy this is a great comp for the money. Don't forget to update you Nvidea when you get it, it should prompt you in a few days if you forget to update otherwise, so no big concerns. Oh just remembered the diablo intro video and world of warcraft videos lagged and screen froze but voice stayed in syc but the star craft intro video played flawlessly. So make of that what you tech savvys will. I'm not smart enough to say much more than it's way better than my old hp ever was.
| Standing screen display size | 15.6 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 pixels |
| Max Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 Pixels |
| Processor | 2.3 GHz core_i5_6200u |
| RAM | 8 GB DDR3L SDRAM |
| Memory Speed | 2.8 GHz |
| Hard Drive | 1000 GB SATA |
| Graphics Coprocessor | NVIDIA 940M |
| Chipset Brand | NVIDIA |
| Card Description | Dedicated |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 4000 MB |
| Wireless Type | 802.11ac |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 2 |
| Average Battery Life (in hours) | 6 Hours |
