The HP Pavilion 15 is a fairly big laptop – measuring 361.6 x 241.6 x 17.9mm – with a full-sized keyboard, number pad, and the 15.6-inch display’s 5mm side bezels. Two speakers sit behind this triangular weave and, as with many HP laptops, the speakers have been tuned with help from high-end Danish audio brand Bang & Olufsen. On this particular laptop, the interlocking triangles create a slightly retro diamond/elongated Zelda rupee shape. The new HP Pavilion 15 is a fairly standard-looking Windows 10 laptop that features the micro-drilled, right-angled-triangles motif seen on other HP laptops such as the HP Envy 13 and the HP EliteBook 1050 G1. The HP Pavilion 15 is all right angles and silver surfaces HP Pavilion 15 design and features – Diamond geezer That said, the price here is quite attractive – £850 at the time of writing – and means it competes directly with the likes of the Acer Nitro 5, which occupies the same price bracket but features more modern 16 Series cards, the Razer Blade Stealth (2019) and not to mention HP’s own Envy 13. There might be a dedicated graphics card here, but a high-end gaming laptop the HP Pavilion 15 is not.

This means on paper you should have enough processing power to blast through basic PC tasks and enough GPU grunt to get in a bit of Fortnite, Overwatch and the like on the side – just don’t expect to to run these at a high clip with texture packs and settings cranked all the way up.

In the review unit I’ve been sent – the HP Pavilion 15-cs1506sa – there’s an Intel Core i7-8565U processor sitting under the hood, next to a Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti GPU. The HP Pavilion 15 is an affordable laptop that undercuts the majority of the competition, making it an ideal option for students and office workers to consider.

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