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i'm dan ackerman and we're here taking a look at the HP pavilion 11 this is in a way a spiritual successor to one of our favorite laptops from a couple of years ago that was an 11 inch HP called the DM onesie and we love that one back then because for about three or four hundred dollars you got an 11 inch ultra portable laptop that didn't weigh a ton worked fairly well was a big step up from the netbooks that were still popular around then this new version the pavilion 11 obviously aunty quite a bit by adding a touch screen which you really do need for windows 8 and of course it's got that Windows a tile interface which works well on a smaller 11 inch screen like this of course there are a couple of trade-offs because this guy starts at 399 now we have a 429 upgraded slightly bigger hard drive you're dealing with an AMD processor which just is not going to be as speedy as a basic intel core i3 processor course only have four gigs of ram and you don't have a lot of the fancy extras like an SSD hard drive or even bluetooth which you can get as an add-on here in the base model i would normally say that 399 or even 450 for something like this like you know it's it's three point four pounds it's not super light it's not super slim but you consider it cost less than an ipad you know it's actually a pretty sharp design with some nice metal accents on it and a pretty solid keyboard I'd say that's a pretty good deal unfortunately this system ran afoul of one of my pet peeves I found that web surfing and on a smaller screen with a lower resolution you have to do a lot of that two finger scrolling to go up and down a web page a kind of a sluggish at times and that's really what you spend a lot of your time doing and I personally blame that lower power AMD cpu here I found that to be pretty annoying i'd be willing to spend a little bit more to trade up to a faster cpu either an intel one or you can actually throw 50 bucks on top of this andrew up to the next level of AMD cpus the a6 instead of the a4 now for about four hundred dollars you still get a pretty finish lightish well-constructed design and a touchscreen which is pretty tough to find in this price range but I'm not sure this is the go everywhere everyday laptop for me I'm Dan akron identity HP pavilion 11