HP 17-bs000 [17-BS019UR 2CP72EA]

Strict and reliable

HP 17-bs000 looks strict and minimalist, but not boring. The corrugated plastic cover of the laptop and the base with grinding imitating metal give a highlight to the appearance. Dimensions are 415x278x24.6 mm with a weight of 2.6 kg. This is the standard size for 17-inch laptops.

Working Four

The laptop received a screen with an SVA matrix with a resolution of 1600x900 pixels and an anti-reflective coating. The laptop is powered by a Pentium N3710 quad-core chip (maximum frequency 2.56 GHz), 4 GB of RAM (expandable up to 16 GB through an additional slot) and a 1000 GB hard drive.

The laptop shows a decent level of performance for its price and easily handles with any office tasks. An additional bonus is the presence of a discrete graphics card Radeon 520 with 2 GB of video memory. Of course, it won’t work to drive completely fresh shooters on it, but it’s quite possible to play at medium graphics settings in Battlefield 4 or The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

A little bit of everything

In addition to Wi-Fi, a standard set of connectors is provided for communication with the world: HDMI, a USB 2.0 port, a pair of USB 3.1, LAN and a card reader slot. Fans of video chats will be pleased with a high-quality HD webcam and rather powerful speakers, thanks to which even an interlocutor with a bad microphone can be clearly heard.

The main drawback of this brainchild of HP is the keyboard block. For a case of this size, it is too small with a tight key travel. But it has an excellent battery with a fast charge function that lasts up to 10 hours at an average screen brightness and a moderate load on the processor.

Windows 10 out of the box

In the case of inexpensive laptops, manufacturers try to optimize every little thing and either do not install the operating system, or limit themselves to fast, but unfamiliar versions of Linux for most. Some people like it, because the system can be installed and customized from scratch. But for the majority of buyers who have passed the happiness of reinstalling the OS in their lives, having a licensed Windows 10 out of the box will only be a plus. Turned on and work.