Review: HP Pavilion x2

By Kevin Lee

Introduction

Laptops have gotten cheap. A few years ago trying to buy a laptop for less than $500 (about £328, AU$703) pretty much limited your options to underpowered Netbooks with poor ergonomics and build quality. Fast forward to the present and the market of super-budget notebooks has exploded with Chromebooks, and more recently with Windows 10 Cloudbooks, well worth their small sticker prices.

Now, the HP Pavilion x2 has entered the scene as the most affordable 2-in-1 laptop that easily transforms between laptop and tablet modes by way of a detachable screen. For $299 (£249, AU$549), this 10-inch hybrid comes outfitted with a moderately powerful Intel Atom processor and a bundled year of Office 365 and OneDrive cloud storage to make up for the device’s modicum of memory and drive space. Not only is the HP Pavilion x2 a great deal for a basic Window machine, it’s a handy tablet for streaming media.

Design

The HP Pavilion x2 is a lopsided 2-in-1 machine. The tablet end of the device is more than twice as thick and heavy as the keyboard section. Thanks to its unbalanced chassis, the Pavilion is prone to tipping over backwards when you …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac