Pros: ; – Solid, tank-like build quality ; – Premium styling and aesthetics ; – Solid performance chops ; – High-refresh rate display with great visuals ; – Generous selection of ports ; – One of the best webcams on a laptop

– Battery life could have been better, with faster charging ; – Misses out on a MicroSD Card slot ; – Keyboard takes some getting used

The HP Pavilion Plus 16 has a lot of things going for it. It has pretty solid performance chops, thanks to a powerful combo of the Core i7 and the RTX 3050, as underpowered as it may be. Whether you’re using the laptop for your office work, or to game...

Clean design ; Low weight and a thin profile for a 16-incher (1.89 kg / 17.7 mm) ; Impressively big cooling system for such a profile height ; Adequate CPU and GPU frequencies in long loads ; Wide viewing angles and a high max brightness of 414 nits...

Spongy lid ; So-so CPU clocks in short and medium loads ; Lacks a fingerprint reader ; Soldered memory and just one M.2 slot ; The SSD gets hot during benchmarking

Solid build quality ; High-refresh rate display ; Excellent webcam ; Ample array of ports ; Decent performance

Weak Speakers ; Keyboard can take some time to get used to ; No MicroSD Card Slot ; Could Have Better Battery Life ; Could Have Faster Charging

The HP Pavilion Plus 16 is a sleek and powerful laptop that offers a 16-inch screen, an Intel Core i7 processor, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 GPU. The laptop can handle various tasks smoothly, such as photo and video editing, office and school...

The HP Pavilion Plus 16, equipped with the RTX 3050 GPU, demonstrates a notable performance gap compared to the pricier Galaxy Book3 Ultra and Dell XPS 17 , which feature the more powerful RTX 4070 GPU. In benchmarks like TimeSpy and FireStrike, the...