8.5
HP Pavilion Plus 14
Like
Excellent overall performance
Gorgeous OLED display
All-metal chassis
Comfortable keyboard
1440p IR webcam with privacy shutter
Don’t like
Weak speakers
No Thunderbolt 4 support
We liked last year’s HP Pavilion Plus 14 for delivering an OLED display and an all-metal chassis at a mainstream price. Poor battery life, however, somewhat soured the deal. The same display and chassis return for this year’s update, but inside is a bigger, longer-lasting battery along with the requisite move to 13th-gen Intel Core and AMD Ryzen 7000 processors. With better battery life, this latest Pavilion Plus 14 is more well-rounded, making it one of our favorite laptops for 2023, even if its price has crept upward from last year’s model.
Our $1,220 HP Pavilion Plus 14 test model features a 14-inch, 2.8K OLED display powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 7840U CPU and a four-cell, 68-watt-hour battery. The larger battery combined with an efficient Ryzen 7 U-series chip results in greatly improved battery life over last year’s model, which featured a higher-powered Intel CPU and smaller battery. Despite the bigger battery, this year’s version is just as thin and light as last year’s, while also receiving smaller improvements to the webcam and keyboard. The Pavilion Plus 14 is an easy laptop to recommend for home, work or school.Â
Configuration as tested
Price as reviewed | $1,220 |
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Display size/resolution | 14-inch 2,880×1,800 120Hz OLED display |
CPU | 3.3GHz AMD Ryzen 7840U |
Memory | 16GB DDR5 6,400MHz RAM |
Graphics | 512MB AMD Radeon 780M graphics |
Storage | 1TB SSD |
Networking | Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 |
Operating system | Windows Home 11 22H2 |
The HP Pavilion Plus 14 starts at $850 for a model with an AMD Ryzen 5 CPU, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB solid-state drive and a full-HD IPS LCD display. Our…
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