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First ever post so don't murder me if I feck something up😅. Was eyeing this model a couple of weeks ago for a uni laptop and it's finally come to a reasonable price.
500gb version of this boxing day deal returns for ~$50 more. 1tb version available for $30 more but has been OOS for a few weeks.
Similar to the current Lenovo ThinkPad deal. The notable differences are the higher resolution OLED screen and the larger battery capacity on the HP. The biggest tradeoff is only having 16gb ram as opposed to 32gb.
Currently using this version of the laptop. I don't have many other laptops to compare to but here are my thoughts after using it for like a week. From my experience, the body is cheap feeling but has surprisingly little chassis flex even being plastic. My model's screen has quite a bit of flex however the Ryzen model uses aluminium. My battery lasts about 8 hours with uni tasks with a smaller 51wh battery and using an i5 - 1335u. The trackpad is a decent size but isn't anything to write home about. The keyboard is solid feeling with no flex and is decent to type on even with massive hands. The speakers are downward facing so the bass gets washed out however they can get pretty loud. Don't have any notes on the camera or the facial recognition.
Additionally, I got the code AUWELCOME10 for 10% off my first order however it seems that it doesn't work on sale items.
Notable Specs:
• AMD Ryzen™ 7 7840U (up to 5.1 GHz max boost clock, 16 MB L3 cache, 8 cores, 16 threads)
• 16 GB LPDDR5x-6400 MHz RAM (onboard), Transfer rates up to 6400 MT/s.
• 35.6 cm (14") diagonal, 2.8K (2880 x 1800), OLED, 48-120 Hz, UWVA, micro-edge, BrightView, Low Blue Light, SDR 400 nits, HDR 500 nits, 100% DCI-P3
• AMD Radeon™ 780M Graphics
• 2 USB Type-C® 10Gbps signaling rate (USB Power Delivery, DisplayPort™ 1.4, HP Sleep and Charge); 1 USB Type-A 10Gbps signaling rate; 1 USB Type-A 5Gbps signaling rate; 1 HDMI-out 2.1; 1 headphone/microphone combo
* Audio by B&O; DTS:X® Ultra; Dual speakers; HP Audio Boost
* HP Wide Vision 5MP IR camera with temporal noise reduction and integrated dual array digital microphones
• MediaTek Wi-Fi 6 MT7921 (2x2) and Bluetooth® 5.3 wireless card
• 65 W USB Type-C® power adapter
• 4-cell, 68 Wh Li-ion polymer
• Up to 13 hours and 15 minutes of Battery Life Video Playback
• 1.38 kg
• Natural silver aluminium
Shame it's onboard/soldered RAM. The Radeonâ„¢ 780M onboard graphics will allow for some reasonable budget gaming - as long as the system and iGPU have enough ram to share.