HP Chromebook 11-v001na 11.5 Inch Laptop - (Silver) (Intel N3060, 4 GB RAM, 16 GB eMMC, 100 GB Cloud Storage with Google One (1 Year Subscription) Chrome OS)

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While they’re both pretty much the same size and equally rugged, you’ll save a little more room in your bag with the HP Chromebook 11, which is a tiny bit slimmer and a little lighter. Most offer at least 8 hours to get you through the workday, but the HP Chromebook 11 goes beyond that. Under heavy load the machine does get surprisingly warm, with the upper left region of the Chromebook 11 hitting 46C in my testing - a reminder of just how much power a pair of ARM Cortex A15 cores can draw under load.

I ran the tests multiple times, reinstalled the app, and did everything I could think of to get it to work — but no luck. That’s honestly my only complaint about the design though, the rest is extremely well executed down to Chrome color strip lit by the display’s backlight on the back of the machine. By default, the sensitivity settings are set right in the middle of the spectrum, which makes them slow and created a dragging sensation across the screen.The only time I can’t get online now is underground on the subway — and even that may not be true for long.

If Microsoft didn't build Windows RT the right way, to take advantage of legacy apps, I'm glad at least Chrome OS is ramping up competition for Intel in notebooks. HP Inc UK Limited registered office address: Earley West, 300 Thames Valley Park Drive, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 1PT, UK.As with the Dell Chromebook 11 3180, the display on the HP Chromebook 11 is muted and lacks overall brightness.

That’s why the biggest issue with all Chromebooks, including the Chromebook 11, is battery life — at between four and five hours of normal use, it’s solid, but it’s neither enough for a cross-country flight nor enough that I can leave it on my coffee table for weeks at a time, like I can with an iPad. We evaluate Chromebooks based off their design, build quality, battery life, and general ability to be an effective "daily driver" when it comes to web browsing, word processing, and other basic tasks. The Chromebook 11’s plastic feels cheap in places, and its construction occasionally appears haphazard. It yielded a great amount of light, didn’t have the overly grainy or foggy look of other webcams, and produced accurate colors and skin tones—though with a bit of an airbrushed effect. Performance and clock frequency will vary depending on application workload and your hardware and software configurations.If you’re interested in taking pictures and videos, though, the camera performs above average there.

Bass tones were richer with music and I didn’t need to turn the volume up as high to escape the far-away listening experience I noticed when I did not tune in with headphones. The Chromebook 11’s lid is empty save for the lit-up stripe of Google colors on the top, and the ultra-minimal look is pretty eye-catching.Generally, anything I watched or listened to—dialogue and music—sounded stifled or tinny without headphones.