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Laptop Mag Verdict

Even for a budget laptop, the HP Notebook xv-ba009dx's inexpensive build quality, bland brandish and short battery life make it impossible to recommend.

Pros

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Decent speakers for the price

Cons

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Feels cheap;
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Dim, bland display;
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Very short battery life;
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Apartment keyboard;
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No AC Wi-Fi;
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Blurry webcam;

Wait, I don't expect a ton from a notebook that's less than $300. To make something at that price, yous take to cutting corners somewhere. But the $259.99 HP Notebook 15-ba009dx cuts corners nigh everywhere, from the cheap build quality to the subpar display to the battery life that's less than half the length of its nearest competitors. Sure, its speakers audio OK, but you tin get a laptop that cuts fewer corners elsewhere, and I recommend that you practice.

Design

It shouldn't come as a surprise that this cheap laptop feels really, well, inexpensive. It'south made of black plastic, and the ribbed hat with HP's logo has a lot of flex when you press downwards. Lifting the lid reveals the fifteen.half dozen-inch, 1366 ten 768 brandish; an island-style keyboard with a number pad; and a blackness deck with some racing stripes. The black plastic edges around the deck are sharper than I expected, which caused me some trouble while typing (see below).

At 4.6 pounds and 15.1 x 10 x 1 inches, it's an average size for a budget 15-incher. The $349, Acer Aspire Eastward xv E5-575-33BM is five pounds and 15 ten ten.2 x i.2 inches. The $159, 14-inch Dell Inspiron xiv 3000 is iii.5 pounds and 13.6 x 9.half dozen x 0.9 inches while the $209 Asus L402SA is just 3.3 pounds and 13.3 10 9.3 x 0.ix inches.

The left side of the laptop features an Ethernet jack, an HDMI output, a headphone jack and a pair of USB 2.0 ports. On the right are a USB iii.0 port, an SD card reader and a DVD drive.

Display

Dim and dull is the name of the game with the HP Notebook fifteen's 15.6-inch, 1366 10 768 display. When I watched a trailer for The Big Ill in 1080p, I couldn't make out nigh of the characters' facial features in a dark room, and a scene in a hospital was blown out by light coming in from the windows. The people's bluish and red shirts were all muted.

The HP Notebook covered just 70 percentage of the sRGB colour gamut, which is far brusk of the 94 percent average for mainstream notebooks. The Inspiron and Aspire were both more vivid at 81 pct and 159 percent, respectively.

It has a Delta-Due east score of 1.iii (0 is platonic), so its colors are more accurate than some competitors. The average is 2.1, while the Inspiron (3.4) and Aspire E (6.two) were way less precise.

The HP laptop's display is dim at just 174 nits, but information technology'due south brighter than the 135-nit disappointment on the Inspiron. The Asus L402SA and Acer E 15 measured 206 and 215 nits respectively.

Keyboard and Touchpad

I typed at my usual 107 words per minute on the HP Notebook xv'southward keyboard, but it wasn't enjoyable. The keys are shallow with just 1.ii millimeters of travel and 71 grams of forcefulness required to press, and the cheap plastic gave them a hollow feel. The edge of the palm rest is abrupt and digs into your arms if you aren't careful.

The touchpad feels plasticky and inexpensive, but information technology suffices. I used it to navigate Windows x without any issues, though some multitouch gestures, like activating Cortana with three fingers, took a few tries.

Sound

For a inexpensive notebook, HP's speakers were actually pretty decent. When I listened to "Waving Through a Window," from the soundtrack to "Dear Evan Hansen," Ben Platt'southward vocals were articulate and loud enough to fill up our pocket-size conference room.

While the violins were also clear, the bass and the balance of the orchestra were quite soft. In the DTS Sound Control app, there are options to focus on vox or flick playback, just I was perfectly happy leaving it lonely in the default music way.

Operation

With its 2-GHz AMD A6-7310 CPU, Radeon R4 Graphics, 4GB of RAM and 500GB, 5,400-rpm HDD, the Notebook fifteen isn't exactly the working person's computer. In my testing, information technology occasionally stuttered but trying to open the file manager, and it couldn't consistently continue up with my typing on the 10fastfingers.com typing examination. I had 10 tabs open up in Google Chrome when I started seeing lag when switching between them.

Information technology also doesn't apply 802.11ac, the latest Wi-Fi standard, so y'all won't become the fastest net speeds.

The Notebook notched a score of 3,291 on the Geekbench iv overall performance test, which beat out the Inspiron (i,807, Intel Celeron N3060) and L402SA (1,934) but was not as expert equally the Aspire (5,408, Intel Core i3-7100U).

Information technology took the figurer 2 minutes and vii seconds to copy 4.97GB of mixed-media files, a rate of xl.1MBps. The Inspiron (27.9MBps) and the Aspire (36.6MBps) were both a little slower. The L402SA, which has eMMC memory instead of a hard bulldoze, was style backside at 14 MBps.

It took a whopping eleven minutes and forty seconds for HP's laptop to pair 20,000 names and addresses in our OpenOffice spreadsheet macro. The Inspiron (13:33) and L402SA (xiii:15) were even slower, only the Aspire took just 5:fourteen.

Battery Life

Keep the Notebook xv near a charger at all times. It lasted for only three hours and 36 minutes on the Laptop Mag Battery Test, which continuously browses the web over Wi-Fi. The Asus L402SA endured for a much-stronger half dozen hours and 9 minutes. While the Inspiron (9:01) and Aspire (viii:16) both lasted long enough to get through a work day.

Webcam

What a mess. The 640 ten 360 webcam takes blurry, pixelated images that aren't even suitable for Skyping with a friend. In a shot I took at my desk, I appeared and then blurry and pixelated that I had to make certain that there was no Cling Wrap over the camera. The lights behind me were all diddled out, and colors weren't nearly equally vivid as they appeared in real life.

Rut

Whether on your desk or in your lap, the Notebook 15 will go along cool. In our testing, the laptop never passed our 95-degree comfort threshold after streaming 15 minutes of Hd video from YouTube. The bottom measured 88 degrees Fahrenheit, the keyboard betwixt the G and H keys measured 87 degrees and the touchpad was a cool 81 degrees.

Software and Warranty

Unfortunately, you'll spend a scrap of time if yous desire to uninstall all the prepackaged bloatware on the Notebook 15. The junk includes McAfee LiveSafe, WildTangent Games, Uncomplicated Mahjong and short cuts for Amazon.com and Priceline.com, amongst others. That's on top of stuff all Windows 10 machines make you deal with, such as Netflix, Twitter, Candy Vanquish: Soda Saga and Royal Revolt 2.

HP does include some useful utilities, though. Amateur videographers may appreciate the CyberLink suite of video-editing tools, while HP Orbit pairs your laptop and smartphone for file sharing. The pre-loaded Dropbox app gives you 25GB of space for a year if you sign in on the laptop.

HP Sells the Notebook 15-ba009dx with a one-year warranty. See how the visitor did on our Best and Worst Brands ranking and tech back up showdown.

Bottom Line

I don't expect upkeep notebooks to deliver top-notch performance, displays or fifty-fifty blueprint, but the HP Notebook xv-ba009dx is subpar on just about every level. It lasts less than four hours on a charge, has a dim and bland display, a apartment keyboard and a plastic case with significant give in the lid. It doesn't even support the latest Wi-Fi standard.

If you can stretch your budget another $ninety, the $350 Acer Aspire Eastward 15 E5-575-33BM gives you a 1080p display, bigger hard drive, Ac Wi-Fi and an Intel Core i3 CPU. It lasts over 8 hours on a charge, also. Information technology'due south not perfect, but the differences are impressive.

If you tin can't spend more than the Notebook xv costs, you tin still get a lot more for your money. The $209 Asus L402SA sports a comfortable keyboard, colorful display and much better build quality than HP's laptop. The $230 Dell Inspiron 14 3000 has far less storage (simply 32GB), but if you don't proceed documents, photos, music or video on your laptop, at least it will last you 9 hours on a accuse.

Credit: Shaun Lucas/ Laptop Mag

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HP Notebook 15-ba009dx Specs

Brand	HP
CPU	2Ghz AMD A6-7310 APU
Card Slots	SD memory reader
Company Website	hp.com
Display Size	15.6
Graphics Card	AMD Radeon R4 (integrated)
Difficult Drive Size	500GB
Hard Drive Speed	5,400rpm
Difficult Drive Blazon	HDD
Highest Available Resolution	1366 x 768
Native Resolution	1366x768
Operating System	Windows 10 Dwelling house
Optical Drive	Super-Multi DVD
Ports (excluding USB)	HDMI-out, Headphone/Mic, USB 2.0, USB iii.0, Ethernet
RAM	4GB
Size	15.i 10 10 x 0.96
Touchpad Size	4.half-dozen x 2.2 inches
USB Ports	3
Warranty/Support	i year
Weight	4.6 pounds
Wi-Fi	802.11 b/one thousand/n/ac
Wi-Fi Model	802.11b/yard/n (1x1)