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I've an acronym we are here taking a look at the HP Pavilion sleek book touch smart 15 Z you can juggle all those different terms around any way you want it basically tells you that this is a member of hp's pavilion line which is their kind of mainstream to budget line it's also a flake book which means it's thin kind of like what you hear about being called an ultrabook except for this is an AMD system not an intel one and of course Intel owns that Ultrabook name so when you have something that's kind of like an ultrabook people come up with their own terms for it in this case it's sleek book which is a little bit awkward also called a touch smart because it has two not a touchscreen and the 15z because it's a 15-inch laptop and z because it has a thin z-axis i suppose you put all that together and you actually get something that is more impressive than these some of its many names you get a fairly thin fairly usable touchscreen 15 inch laptop that starts at 650 dollars now we've seen some inexpensive touchscreen Windows 8 laptops already for about that price they tend to be a little thicker a little chunkier this guy is actually really envy ibly thin I like that a lot and unlike a lot of those other systems that use Intel CPUs that have Intel's built in HD 4000 graphics and D combines a CPU and a basic slightly better than discrete GPU to to form kind of one hole so you get slightly better graphics for playing games than you would from a comparable Intel powered budget system now how much better I ran one game test on here and on an HD 4000 system it got about 10 frames per second which is not great I'm here it got 15 frames per second this is all the native resolution of 1366 by 768 which is again not great but it's 50% better so if you turn down the you know the settings and you play some older games then you can actually do a little bit of gaming on this guy which is not something you can usually do on a $600 laptop now of course you have to keep in mind that price does have some consequences this is made of plastic and kind of glossy plans to get which something fancy looking laptop out their budget laptops always have kind of some flex in the middle of the keyboard which I'm not a big fan of and a touchpad which is not a sensitive as it should be probably the biggest drawback here is the battery only lasted about three and a half hours which is certainly less than you would expect from a thin a highly portable Ultrabook style 15 inch because you really want to take this with you all day long ah but if you keep in mind that it is $650 for a touchscreen Windows 8 laptop that is going to pretty much do anything you want to do in terms of web surfing and social media and email in a thinner package than pretty much anybody else has at this price then it is definitely worth a look I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the HP Pavilion touch smart sleek book 15 Z I think that's all