Best Laptop 2022 HP Chromebook 14 Laptop Lightweight Computer

HP Chromebook 14 Laptop

14 a this is a new Chromebook from HP that's pretty reasonably priced and does everything a Chromebook can do that

includes doing all of your web browsing along with Android and Linux apps it's powered by an Intel processor as well we're gonna take a closer look at this

in just a second but I do want to let you know in the interest of full

disclosure that this came in on loan from HP so we're done with this it goes back to them all of the opinions you're about to hear are my own nobody is paying for this review nor is anyone reviewing or approving what you're about to see before it was uploaded so let's get into it now and see what this laptop

is all about now the price point on this one is two hundred and sixty nine dollars if you happen to see it selling for more than that keep looking because

it's likely a third party seller is

marking it up so 269 is the price point for what we're looking at here today so let's take a closer look now at the hardware we've got a 14 inch display on

this one but it's running at 1366 by 768 that is essentially a 720p display which means it's not a 1080p display so the

resolution on the display here is not as good as what you might see on more expensive laptops at around this size so

just be aware of that this is what they call an SVA display for me it looks closer to a Tien display that we typically see on lower price laptops so again not as good as a more premium

device but I think for the price point it's acceptable this has an Intel and 4000 processor it has four gigabytes of

RAM and 32 gigabytes of storage which is about what we typically see on low-end

Chromebooks these days the storage might be a little constraining if you're doing

a lot of Android and Linux applications on it but for general Chromebook use it should function pretty well there the keyboard

is very nice it's the usual Chrome OS layout what's nice about this keyboard though is that it is backlit so you can

see it in the dark which was nice to see on a low-price machine like this it's got these Bang & Olufsen speakers here

that are upward firing they sound pretty good again for the price point a nice stereo separation not the deepest base on them but it's a lot better than

some of the downward firing speakers that we often see on these laptops it has a nice big trackpad here that is

very responsive and feels to be working quite well for me so altogether the input options here are pretty good especially that backlit keyboard on the

side here you've got a couple of ports worth talking about we've got a headphone jack here which is helpful so if you want better quality audio pop in some headphones there you can use

Bluetooth as well what I really like about this is that it has USB type-c it's got one on the left side and another one on the right side and these are full service USB C ports so this is how you charge the laptop but it also allows you to use external displays in

addition to plugging in USB devices a little bit earlier I connected it up to a 4k monitor we were able to get that

monitor to run at 30 Hertz or 30 frames per second at 4k with the use of a USB C to DisplayPort dongle it looks like that's the max resolution it supports

but you can also get 1080p displays to work at 60 frames per second next to

that USB type-c port is an SD card slot a micro SD card slot so you could augment its onboard storage and put movies and media and that sort of thing

on there using one of those little cards and just be careful though because the SD card does stick out a little bit I would have liked to have seen it go flush to the side of the computer so

exercise caution if you're going to be leaving it in there on the other side we've got that other USB type-c port and

a full size USB 3 port now this is a completely fanless laptop so it's not going to make any noise when it's on pretty attractive as well it's made out of plastic but it doesn't feel like a cheap plastic to me it's got a nice rugged feel to it so altogether I think it's a pretty good machine here the

hinge is pretty sturdy on it as well nice and stiff and it will stay put when you drop the display into a certain spot so that was good you do have to hold

down the bottom here though when you open up the screen on it weight on this is three point two four pounds or one

point four six kilograms so a little on the heavier

I suppose but it's also a 14-inch device does though have a pretty big battery on here

HP is rating the battery life at around 13 hours I think you'll get close to that in real world usage we were testing out the battery life on here over the last couple of days if you're doing the

basics kind of keeping the display brightness down and mostly doing web browsing I think you'll definitely get

closer to the 13 hour mark probably getting between 11 and 12 hours but if you are running Android games or doing some high-end Linux tasks that are really taxing the processor that of course will reduce the overall battery life but I think again stick to the basics and you'll easily get through a workday on this one now the quality of the web camera isn't all that great on this one but it does have a nice wide angle lens on it so if you've got a

bunch of people that are gathering in front of your laptop for a family call or something you'll all appear on camera

without having to get to swish together so that was nice to see and overall it's not a bad laptop here for its low price-point feels pretty solid to me let's take a look now and see how it

performs so let's kick things off with some web browsing will pull up the Chrome browser here and head over to the home page like we usually do as you can see here things render in pretty quickly no problems there the lower resolution display will make things feel a little more constrained just because a lot of websites now are targeting higher resolution displays but as you can see here things are working pretty nicely now a little bit earlier we tested YouTube we ran a 1080p 60 video to see if we had any dropped frames now 

course that video is being down scaled essentially by the laptop to 720p but we had really no dropped frames on that

playback a few when things got started but once the video started playing all was smooth on here so I think for watching videos or browsing the web this is more than adequate and should perform right up there with other Chromebooks at its price point and on the browser bench dorg speedometer test we got a score of 75 point 6 on version 1.0 of that test and 46.7 on version 2.0 that puts it

pretty much exactly in line with what we saw on H pease x360 chromebook which is a smaller

12-inch version running with the same processor so altogether it's performing where this processor should be performing and all is good there I was

also surprised to see that the pixel book go that we reviewed recently that goodcosts a lot more that has a more powerful processor is actually running

at around the same performance as this lower-cost model does so altogether the performance is exactly where I expected it to be and it's performing quite well now one of the cool things about Chromebooks is that they can run Android apps and if you go down into the taskbar

here you'll see the Google Play Store is available to you and if you own apps on

your Android phone or tablet there's a good chance that those apps will also boot up on your Chromebook including the

ones that you've already purchased so that's pretty cool

I found the apps run pretty nicely for the most part if they are compatible you

will notice that some games and some other applications may not work with the Intel processor so if that's the case they may not appear in the store for you

to download because of that

compatibility but generally a good chunk of the Android library is here and functional and it should run just as well on this laptop as it does on your phone there are some exceptions to this I have run for example Call of Duty which is a really popular mobile game on the Android platform that will install

but it locks up a lot it doesn't really run all that great if at all so you're gonna probably find some issues with some of the more involved Android apps but the basics here work quite well especially things like Microsoft Office and some of the other social media applications and one thing I actually recommend you do is install the androids

versions of Netflix and Amazon Prime video and the reason is is that you can download things onto your device for offline viewing so if you were getting onto an airplane or something you can download a bunch of stuff to the laptop and be able to watch that offline just like you would on your mobile phone but

on a much larger screen but

unfortunately I was not able to get the SD card to work with Netflix Disney Plus or Amazon Prime video for offline viewing so you'll be squeezing those

videos into the limited 32 gigabytes of storage that you have here on the device

now as I mentioned you can also run Linux apps on Chromebooks and this one is Linux compatible as well so we installed the Linux beta through the chrome control panel a little bit earlier and once you get it installed a

command window will pop right up and you can get all of your text based applications to work on this here so it's great for coding and that sort of

thing you can also get graphical user interface apps to run as well so here is the which is a photo editor and I can load up a photo that I downloaded a

little bit earlier and we can edit this natively on the Chromebook without having to be online at all this is running like any native application would that's pretty cool everything seems to be working pretty well although

I did notice some weirdness here with the LibreOffice suite and its icons so there's a couple little glitchy things here and there that you might run into but this beta of the Linux functionality

is constantly getting developed and improved so I think you'll see

improvements with the performance and

how things run over time with this and because this is running with an Intel processor you can also install games from Steam that are compatible with Linux now there are some limitations here because this is not a very powerful Intel device but it can run some basic games let's take a look at shovelknight real quick so here is the Linux version of shovelknight and it seems to be

running at full speed no real issues here to speak of now remember we are running with a very low end Intel processor so this is the kind of game

that's going to run on here you're not going to get a lot of triple-a titles if any to run successfully on this very limited hardware but if the specs are right I think you'll have a pretty good experience here running Linux games

through your steam account and it's able to do this again because it is running with an Intel processor which does give

you a lot of options now one thing I did do is I enabled the GPU settings which

is a thing you have to jump into before you get steam installed

that enables us to run at the speed that it's running here and after that's done you're good to go I did notice some issues earlier with half-life 2 which

typically works pretty well on this

low-end chipset I was off on its colors and the controls weren't all there so some games are gonna work some are not

it's going to be very similar to what you might experience on the Android side but again because they are continually

developing this Linux functionality I think over time this is going to get a lot better now all Chromebooks will have

a date in which they no longer receive software updates

this one's day is June of 2026 after that date the laptop will still work it just won't get any additional security

patches bug fixes or feature updates and just bear in mind that the date is not set based on when you buy it it is based

on when the laptop is released so if three years from now a bunch of these get sold on clearance somewhere you

could be buying this brand new but you'll only have three years of support left on it before those updates cease but again it will still work after that

expiration date it just won't get any additional support or updates and that's common across all Chromebooks that you

might be looking for out there overall a very nice package here pretty reasonably priced well built for the price point I

wish I had a 1080p display maybe they'll release a version with that but beyond

that this is a solid affordable

Chromebook offering and I really love the value that Google keeps pumping into the Chrome OS platform you've got

Android you've got Linux and there's a lot of stuff that I'm sure will be getting better and better over the lifespan of this device and many other Chromebooks that we've been looking at

so a lot more to come on Chrome OS let me know what you thought down in the

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