And the HP’s scores on our media editing and encoding tests were off-the-chart bad. For example, the Latitude earned a PCMark 7 Productivity score of 932, versus the Pavilion’s mark of 348. The Pavilion TouchSmart’s pitiful Notebook WorldBench 8.1 score of 64 matches that of the $539 Dell Latitude 3330, but its scores on most of the other benchmarks are significantly worse than the Dell’s. Our Notebook WorldBench 8.1 suite includes a broad array of benchmarks for evaluating a notebook’s performance.
There is no SSD option available, and the only optical drive option is external. Our review model came with a 500GB hard-drive upgrade (the stock machine packs a 320GB hard drive), but both drives spin their platters at an unhurried 5400 rpm. But since the machine has only one DIMM slot, you’ll need to toss the existing 4GB DIMM to do so (unless you buy the 8GB version at the outset). This is paired with 4GB of DDR3/1333 memory, which HP says is upgradeable to 8GB. Speaking of media, the Pavilion has surprisingly good speakers, augmented by DTS Sound+ audio-processing software.Įgad, is this computer ever slow! Much of the blame can be laid at the 1GHz AMD A4-1250 processor that runs the show. The Fn keys have common tasks (such as volume and media player control) assigned to them by default, so you don’t have to hold down a second key to use them for those purposes. Rather than laying them out in the familiar inverted T formation, HP made the right and left keys oversize, and the up and down keys half-size-and bookended by the other two. The laptop is too small to accommodate a numeric keypad, too-and I loathe its arrow keys’ design. The keys are only slightly smaller than average, but the difference drove me crazy during touch-typing sessions. If you have large fingers, you won’t like the reduced size of the Pavilion’s non-backlit keyboard. Although this laptop was one of the lightest we considered for our roundup, its 3.4-pound heft is not especially impressive for its overall size.Īs you might expect, the most powerful notebooks also had the shortest battery life. Though its case is composed almost entirely of plastic, the finishes on the lid and chassis are dead ringers for brushed aluminum, and the computer feels very sturdy despite being just 0.86 inch thick. HP The HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11z-e000 is a very inexpensive touchscreen laptop.Īpart from its small size, the Pavilion doesn’t look like a cheap PC.
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