HP 17 inch Laptop computer, Microsoft Workplace 2024 Lifetime License & Home windows 11 Professional, AMD Ryzen 5 7430U Processor, 64 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 17.3″ FHD Show, AMD Radeon Graphics, Lengthy Battery Life, Anti-Glare

Great laptop for the price!
Perfect computer for General household use. My wife and I shared this and are both extremely pleased with the performance, connectivity and mobility that only a laptop gives. Hold its charge very well and has a super crisp screen ideal for graphics work. Highly recommend!

Could be better for price, but isn’t bad.
(Be sure to check if this review is for the model you used. This listing contains many very different HP laptops. I got the model with 8 GB DDR4 RAM and 256 GB storage.)I’ve had this laptop for about a year now, and there have been no major issues besides ones that come from Windows itself or custom hardware upgrades (I upgraded the RAM and SSD, and had issues properly cloning the drive, but that was ultimately my fault). You’re getting the performance of a very nice ~$500 laptop, so make sure you get this while it’s on sale (which seems to be most of the time… $450 as of this review, $60 dollars less than I bought it at).For casual use:Great! The IPS screen looks great for videos and movies, and the CPU is more than capable enough to run Office tools and whatever other software you may need. It never really seems sluggish, and the battery has a reasonable amount of juice. The keycaps are a bit jiggly, and there’s no backlight for usage in the dark, and the power button is just…. really thin, but it’s otherwise fairly comfortable to use. No issues with the touchpad, although I wish they’d bring back separate click buttons… Good amount of ports, too.For gaming:Although I was expecting its performance to fall short, it’s honestly better than I expected. Minecraft, Roblox, and other various lightweight games run well. The great IPS screen makes gaming feasible as well. If I ever decide to game while I’m not at my PC, I have options. Don’t go expecting to play Fortnite or basically any other resource-intensive game on this, though.Technical stuff:This laptop came with 2 sticks of 4 GB DDR4 3200 MHz RAM, filling both slots available. I’m… really not sure why they did it this way instead of putting 1 stick of 8. That makes upgrading so much easier…It also came with a Kioxia 256 GB TLC (I assume based on their other listings) M.2 SSD with decent read/write speed. To replace those parts, you need to pry the rubber feet off the bottom to expose the screws holding the backplate on… that’s really the worst part of the process though.If you’re using it casually, you likely won’t need to upgrade the RAM or storage, but it’s getting cheaper and cheaper to do so by the day. I got a 16 GB RAM replacement (one stick; I put it alongside one of the 4 GB sticks for 20 GB total, I don’t care about dual channel) and 2 TB storage replacement for under $100 total.

Excellent For The Price
When judging this laptop, always keep the price in mind.First, the cons:Is it a gaming computer? No; the graphics adapter isn’t intended for that purpose. Is the housing suitable for those (e.g., children) who toss around electronics without regard for their durability? No; it is cheap plastic. Don’t buy it if you expect to use it for those purposes. The matte screen isn’t the brightest. The sound quality isn’t immersive. There is no optical drive.Now, the pros:The price. This is a 15″ laptop with Windows 11. Even though the laptop isn’t for gaming, I have used Adobe cs6 software with no issues— Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Audition. Rendering video isn’t super speedy, but it isn’t unreasonable. I was extremely doubtful it could run those programs, and didn’t buy it for that purpose, as I have another computer for it, but it was definitely a great and welcome surprise.Who should buy this laptop? Anyone who wants a light-weight computer for school, travel, or home, on which they can use email, stream video, take notes, browse the internet, or even edit photos and short videos in Photoshop and Premiere Pro.[As a sidenote, I suspect this laptop would have no issues with the beautiful and ubiquitous memory hog, Google Chrome, but I have not installed it. If you do a lot of browsing— and who doesn’t?— then I would suggest looking at other browsers, such as Vivaldi. I offer that advise no matter which computer you might be using, so it is not specific to this laptop.]