HP, which is the abbreviation of Hewlett-Packard, is one of the world’s major IT companies. It is headquartered at Palo Alto, California. HP is widely known for a variety of products encompassing both hardware and software.
HP, as a company has a rich history in computer technology. Although the company as born in 1939, it wasn’t until much later in the 60s that the company actually started to delve into manufacturing minicomputers. Laptops came a lot later and the first was the HP-110 in 1984. More products followed in this lineup after this.
HP, at present, offers two major laptop series. These are the Pavilion and Envy series notebooks. The Pavilion lineup was introduced in 2004, with the Envy lineup coming almost 5 years later.
When it comes to India, HP does have a huge presence in the country. The company easily ranks within the top five PC brands that are available in India. There is a huge network of retail stores and even company showrooms where products are available. Even popular ecommerce platforms offer discounts and offers for HP laptops.
Most students and professionals prefer HP, mainly because of its reputation as a brand and also the quality of products offered. Many of the laptops models are also reasonably priced, which means that they are largely affordable to many buyers.
HP offers some of the best laptops models and their design really stands out among the crowd. The Envy series laptops are more elegant than the Pavilion series. This is also because they are a tad bit expensive.
Most of the construction is polycarbonate or metal alloys. This ensures that devices are light in weight, but also strong enough to stand permissible shocks. You can expect the weight to up to 3 kilograms at most. Ultrabooks tend to be a lot lighter though.
HP’s laptops have screen sizes from 11 to 17 inches. The technology used in screen construction is IPS LED. They are also mostly HD/FHD in terms of resolution, thus offering clear viewing and graphics. Many of the devices also offer touchscreen functionality.
The keypad is a full sized one and offers a good typing experience. For devices that are priced highly, the keyboard is often a backlit one and makes typing easier. Besides, a touchpad that offers gesture based controls is also very good to have. Many of the laptops can also be operated in various modes, i.e. hybrid models.
HP’s laptops come in various different color options, although black, red, white and silver are the more commonly seen models.
Laptops from the house of HP are known to offer many different features. To start with, HP models come with both AMD and Intel processors. The Intel range largely consists of Core i3/i5/i7 at present times, along with Celeron and Pentium Dual Core ones. AMD processors of the FX series are the other option. Most models have inbuilt GPU or rely on discrete units from Nvidia or AMD Radeon.
For memory, the laptops are equipped with 2 to 8GB of RAM. Storage capacities are also pretty high and range between 500GB and 1.5TB.
A host of other options can be found in these laptops. Most of the devices are provided with Bang and Olufsen or Dolby audio. A HD web camera can also be found on all of the devices.
All laptops have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity. Along with these, you can get USB ports, HDMI port, Ethernet port and a 3.5mm universal headphone jack. The models also come with DVD writers.
The battery backup from HP laptops is largely favorable.
HP has recently launched the EliteBook 1020 G1. The device is pretty familiar to the MacBook and also made of aluminum and magnesium alloys.