

The HP Pavilion dm4 is certainly styled for its target market - basically the sort of people who rejoice in the public display of Beats Audio headphones - and it's a decent workhorse of a device.ĭon't get one if you plan on doing some intense gaming, but it will get most jobs done without complaint, and without spending a whole lot. The battery held up well enough, delivering a little over four hours - fine, but not exceptional. The rebranded Pavilion laptops continue with Beats Audio branded speakers and. That said, it converted our standard 11-minute movie for iTunes in a blistering two mins and 38 secs. compare HP ENVY 13 vs HP Pavilion - 15 specs, features.

It delivered a PCMark performance benchmark rating of 1,702, which puts it behind the HP Envy Spectre, Samsung Series 5 and Asus Zenbook.

Just loading games took longer than expected, and while playing Portal on default settings, it only managed to deliver frame rates around the 100fps mark (Samsung's Series 9 for instance, delivered closer to 140).
