Its an odd one with 12 gigs of ram and a sort of strange Intel cpu.
First thing I did was wipe windows and installed Fedora. Everything worked except the headphone jack which I didnt find out for a LONG time because I dont use it.
But Bluetooth, keyboard lighting, sleep, wireless, everything else worked flawlessly.
I ended up not returning it and continued to travel with it (for work) for several months. Its light weight, , thin enough, reasonably speedy for what it is, battery life is very good, and the keyboard is fine. I dont like the split up/down keys where each if half size. That is my only quibble.
When I got home I put in a cheap stick of ddr4 and replaced the one of the two sticks so now I have 24 gb ram. Which also was stupid simple. There is nothing that appears locked down, you can open it and do whatever you want.
Again I could never recommend HP. I am shocked they made something half decent. But here we are.
Well that didn’t help at all. What makes that “ergonomic”?
In any case I needed a cheap laptop for a trip last year. While I could never really recommend anything HP I ended up having to buy something so I got a new $300 laptop, this one here: https://icecat.biz/us/p/hp/9r8t2ua/laptops-0197961991864-14-ep1063cl-118102191.html
Its an odd one with 12 gigs of ram and a sort of strange Intel cpu.
First thing I did was wipe windows and installed Fedora. Everything worked except the headphone jack which I didnt find out for a LONG time because I dont use it.
But Bluetooth, keyboard lighting, sleep, wireless, everything else worked flawlessly.
I ended up not returning it and continued to travel with it (for work) for several months. Its light weight, , thin enough, reasonably speedy for what it is, battery life is very good, and the keyboard is fine. I dont like the split up/down keys where each if half size. That is my only quibble.
When I got home I put in a cheap stick of ddr4 and replaced the one of the two sticks so now I have 24 gb ram. Which also was stupid simple. There is nothing that appears locked down, you can open it and do whatever you want.
Again I could never recommend HP. I am shocked they made something half decent. But here we are.