FEBRUARY 2020 PCWorld 53dual-core Intel Core i3 systems up to 10th-gen
Core i7 quad-core Comet Lake CPUs. Here’s
what’s under the hood of our middle-of-the-
road 14-inch Pavilion x360 14m-dh0003dx):
CPU: Quad-core Intel Core i5-8265U
RAM: 8GB DDR4
GPU: Integrated Intel UHD Graphics 620
Display: 14-inch 1920 x 1080 IPS
touchscreen
Storage: 128GB SSD
At first blush, we’ve got the makings of a
solid productivity workhorse here, with a
quad-core Core i5 Whiskey Lake CPU that
should be able to breeze through most daily
computing and Office tasks and tackle some
CPU-intensive tasks, such as video
processing and database work. The 8GB of
RAM, typical for a laptop in this price range,
should help smooth out multitasking kinks
(although 16GB of RAM would be even
better), and the full-HD IPS touchscreen
should offer reasonably sharp resolution with
solid viewing angles.
The 128GB solid-state
drive is on the small side,
however, leaving you with
only about 90GB of
storage once Windows,
Office, and other
miscellaneous apps and
utilities are accounted for.
Given the cramped SSD,
you’d probably want to
lean on cloud storage or
an external drive.
A similar Pavilion x360 14 is officially $900
on HP.com (go.pcworld.com/14dh) with
12GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD, but only
$590 with discounts as of press time.DESIGN
HP has been adding more and more snazzy
design elements to its Pavilion x360 series.
This particular 2-in-1 bears many of those
hallmarks, particularly the “hourglass” edges
that allow you to open the Pavilion from the
front, left, or right sides, as well as the shiny
aluminum trim and the matte lid stamped with
the HP logo.
The 14-inch, 16:9 “micro-edge” display
does indeed have reasonably thin bezels
along the top and sides, although the bottom
bezel is pretty chunky. Below the hinges sits
an attractive, diamond-cut grille for the Bang
& Olufsen speakers (more on them in a
moment), along with the silver-colored palm
rest and keyboard. An understated PavilionThe HP Pavilion x360 boasts a sleek profile and a nifty “hourglass” edge.