HP 15 Business Laptop Computer, 15.6" Touchscreen FHD, 12th Gen Intel 10-Core i7-1255U, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB PCIe SSD, Bluetooth, Silver, 802.11AC WiFi, Windows 11 Home, Bundled with MousePad.

I purchased the HP Pavilion 15.6" Full HD Laptop a few weeks ago and am very pleased I did. The i7-8565U processor is more than SUPER-adequate for everything I do. Using the Task Manager "Performance tab" it shows the processor is sitting at near minimum % speed for all 4 processors most of the time. The fan has never come on or operates so slow I have not heard it yet. I have not felt the case even get warm like my old dual processor does. I was used to windows 7 purchased new with my last laptop and I am actually liking Windows 10 better because it is made to be easy to use for new Windows 10 users and it has so many choices when left or right clicking the Start menu or lower task bar menu. Two weeks is too short of a time to praise or criticize this new Windows 10 system but I am becoming more friendly with it every day and have not had any insurmountable problems. The Full HD1920 x 1080 screen is beautiful and has advantages over the lesser pixel quality 1080x765 screens. It is very clear and bright and even the smallest choice of character sizes are easily readable. High quality pictures are noticeably sharper than on my older 1080 screen laptop. The 512 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 Solid State Drive is faster than I could imagine with a less than 10 second boot from OFF. When I learned how to quickly type in my PIN I have gotten it to full screen from OFF in less than 5 seconds which is astronomically fast compared to any rotating hard drive. The boot up from the sleep mode is much faster. taping the 0 key on the key pad then my 4 digit PIN brings it up instantly. Google chrome is up in less than 2 seconds which is far superior to my rotating HD in my old laptop. I am finding that NOT turning the power supply off at night only has the HP drop a few percent in sleep mode or what ever it is called in this machine. When I forget and leave some traffic cameras over the Bay Bridge or here in Dover on when the HP goes to sleep it draws the power down maybe another 8% so. I have to remember to turn those Cameras off. The battery lasts all day with occasional use and intensive use combined. It will give me about 8 or more hours with all day constant usage typing or researching on the net. I am not a gamer but am on the internet researching things and working with spreadsheets and correspondence. It has an Intelligent backlit keyboard that surprised me. Let it sit for a few moments and the lighting dims then goes off to save the battery. Touching any key, it comes back on and it has two intensity settings. The 8 gig of memory is well managed running about 50% to 60% as shown by the Task Manager Performance tab. I don't remember it going over 70% so far with daily usage for over two weeks. The hard drive is probably being used as memory storage since it has a superior read and write speed. I have not had a problem using the multi functional mouse pad. I had to turn it off in my old computer because my palm would somehow highlight several paragraphs in blue and delete many minutes of typing in just a fraction of a second, but I haven't had one of these instances on this HP. I saw complaints about the WIFI turning itself off and also not connecting to the internet. I experienced this problem only when operating on battery and after a few minutes of it being not used. Clicking the WIFI icon on the bottom line tasked bar then clicking the WIFI blue square to turn it off then clicking the not blue square turned it blue again and I was again on the internet. It seemed to be a battery saver. My Cousin emailed me that it was a battery saver item and the automatic turn off can be itself turned off in a menu choice. I have not had that problem after I turned the WIFI battery saver program off. I cured this WIFI auto turn off problem by: Right Click on Windows 10 Start button and then click on Device Manager, click on Network Adapters, right-click on the WiFi Adapter, then click on Properties. Click on the Power Management Tab and then disable the option for “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power”. There is also a second turn off choice in my menu and I had to go back and turn it off as well to stop the WiFI Disconnect. Needless to say my battery life dropped because the WIFI is always on. Having second thoughts, I am going to turn these two WIFI battery savers back on and get another hour or so before having to plug the computer back in and go back to restarting the WIFI. The Intel UHD graphics GPU in the Task Manager Performance tab seems to be great, I do not game but I see it sits at near idle percentage all day long. I did not want or need a touchscreen but Sam's Club had this with a $999.00 price discounted to $699 last month so I purchased the HP with it. The few times I actually touched something on the screen rather than use the mouse and it worked. I have a smart phone and am familiar with using a touchscreen. Taking my hands off the Keyboard to touch the screen rather than use the mouse-pad and tap is, at least to me, unnecessary motion but I am certain it has a few advantages I have not recognized yet. The computer had a month free MS Office suite on it but I had been using Libre Office on my Dual Processor Dell and was so used to it being FREE to download and FREE to use with no expiration date. I installed it in no time on this HP and being the newest version of Libre Office 6.3 It worked like the older version and I was at home with it. The only problem with the HP is MS Office has a preload of Word and when I call up a document or spreadsheet on my memory stick to use it, MS Office comes up for me to register it. I have to cancel the MS Office to not register and start Libre Office then select the document or speadsheet from the memory stick and all work nicely. I save the documents in a .docx format to send to people that have MSOffice instead of the .odt format so MS Office being shoved into memory to work from day one pops up for me to register and use it. The Bluetooth 42 instantly hooked up to my smartphone and presented me with my calendar with all my appointments on it after I started the Google Calendar program in Chrome and pinned the tab. The WIFI is apparently defaulted to the "ON" position. If Bluetooth is not going to be used when on batteries, it can be toggled off for longer battery life like I do on my Smartphone. That extends my battery life on the smartphone. I am thinking the F12 Airplane Mode key will do this and also shut off the WIFI but that is research for another time. Ports: These two 3.1 USB ports are the first I have had a chance to work with (3.0 on my old Dell). I have a number of Sandisk Ultra 3.0 and 3.1 memory sticks. Using a program to see the speed of the sticks I have found that a few of the 3.0 sticks are faster than the 3.1 sticks depending on the size of the files testing the memory sticks. The 512 Gb SSD puts these sticks to absolute shame being light speed faster. Crystaldiskmk7 shows 1752MB/s read and 837MB/s Write on the SSD. 173MB/s and 66MB/s on my fastest Sandisk Ultra 3.0 memory stick transferring 1GiB files I have not had time to check out all the features of this fantastic machine compared to my older ones but at $300 off on sale because Sam's club people rarely go this high, wait and check in on occasioin to see the price drops on these upper mid end machines. The Newer 10th generation processors use less power and are faster with higher benchmark speeds for the same advertised speeds, 1.8 GHz base frequency, up to 4.6 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology on this hot rod. However the 10th generation my cousin purchased did not have a LAN plug. My house is WIFI and LAN so I opted for this 8th generation laptop. Specifications on this unit at Sam's Club: https://www.samsclub.com/p/hp-pavilion-fhd-touchscreen-laptop-intel-core-i7-8565u-8gb-512gb/prod22890293?xid=plp_product_1_6 I did not really need all this speed from the 8th generation processor, nor did I need an 8th generation processor, a 5th generation processor would have worked for me. Sam's had other less expensive models with very fast but slower processors but with the $300 off this laptop, I opted to splurge. I am not promoting Sam's Club but I always know what I am getting there. My window search engines always found this supposedly same exact laptop all over the net for cheaper prices but something was always different and not as good like a slower processor, a smaller SSD, no back lit keyboard so Buyer Beware. Yes I do recommend this product to a friend.