The company Hewlett Packard, introducing the HP Pavilion G6 series laptops on the market, did not fight with competitors in any one category. She acted easier by taking a place in all price niches and providing the user with a choice of laptop according to their needs and capabilities. All HP Pavilion G6 series notebooks have different specifications, depending on the installed components. Choosing a G6 series laptop among the provided modifications reminds the designer - when the user decides which processor should be installed, which video card should work with it in pair, not forgetting the necessary amounts of RAM and a hard drive.
Assembly and appearance
The appearance remains unchanged for HP Pavilion G6 notebooks. Product specifications do not affect dimensions, connectors, and build quality. At the first acquaintance with a laptop, there is a feeling that the case is made of metal, but upon examination it turns out that it is plastic with the effect of “under the metal”. It looks great - it resembles high-level models, the rounded corners of the case, beveled sides and wide metal loops give a special chic. One thing is unclear what purpose HP pursued, releasing the G6 series with a chic look “like a businessman” in various color modifications, sometimes very bright and dynamic. The build quality is excellent - nothing creaks, does not hang out. The lid opens without much effort. However, a small crunch is heard when compressing a closed notebook.
Display quality
There are no complaints about the quality of the display matrix. Vertical and horizontal viewing angles are small, but they are enough to watch a movie with a small company. The color rendition is worthy of praise, a three-stage system for adjusting the brightness of the screen is pleasing - for work, text, films. We summed up the technical specifications of the screen resolution in the HP Pavilion G6 laptop - 1366x768 pixels is a very low indicator for viewing high-quality video in Full HD format. And when working on the Internet, because of the low resolution of the screen, you have to turn pages more often.
Keyboard and touchpad
As with all laptops of the manufacturer, in the HP Pavilion G6 technical specifications of the keyboard and touchpad are impeccable. In the likeness of external keyboards, all the keys of the laptop have a long stroke and tangible impact. The keyboard is full, all buttons are present. Depending on the modification, you may come across a keyboard without a numeric keypad. If you look closely, the keys have a slight bevel to the base, apparently to create a visual space between them. The touchpad of the laptop is the dream of any user. The surface at first seems abrasive, but after work it feels like it should be.
Buttons are pressed easily and inaudibly. The user will appreciate the presence of the touchpad disable button. A small depression in the upper left corner of the touchpad is a button. Switching on and off is done by a quick double-tap of the shutdown button, this action is comparable to double-clicking the mouse button.
The sound is worthy of praise
That's what really pleases the HP Pavilion G6 Notebook PC - the sound system specifications. The laptop has speakers from a very famous brand Altec Lansing. Together with the proprietary SRS Audio Control settings panel, the device is capable of producing sufficiently loud and high-quality sound. Due to the high quality of the plastic case of the laptop, even at maximum volume, the ear does not cut the nasty rattle that can often be heard on competitors' laptops. Fans of games and multimedia should forget about external speakers, as they will appreciate the great sound of the speaker system when watching movies and in games.
Great solution for interfaces and ports
For which developers would like to thank you so much for the fact that, unlike competitors, they thought of leaving the front and back panels of the laptop without interfaces and ports. This solution allows you to install the laptop close to the wall, or place it on other surfaces, freeing up more space. I am glad that HP has not abandoned the use of the obsolete DVD-RW drive - as practice shows, the optical drive is used by users to create archives with important documents and photographs. The drive, along with one USB port and a charging connector, occupies the right panel of the laptop case. The left panel contains video outputs, a power outlet, two audio ports and a memory card reader. On all HP Pavilion G6 Series notebook models, the specifications for the wireless interfaces remain unchanged. To the mandatory presence of a WiFi module that works according to various standards, including 802.11n, the manufacturer added Bluetooth 2.1.
Balancing between price and performance
The most important factor that significantly affects the price when buying a HP Pavilion G6 Notebook PC is specifications. The video card and processor are indicators of the purpose of the laptop in a laptop. For office work, you can choose a cheap version with a dual-core processor and an integrated video card. A multimedia laptop for entertainment and light games can be selected with processors from Intel and AMD, having two or four cores, and choose a more or less productive graphics card for them - the manufacturer did not exchange, providing the user with either an integrated graphics card from Intel or a discrete, but only from AMD. Respectively? choosing a productive processor and video card, you can choose a decent gaming laptop. What is more remarkable is the HP Pavilion G6 laptop - the characteristics of the amount of RAM and hard disk can also be selected. From two to eight gigabytes of RAM and from a quarter to one terabyte the volume of hard drives is for any needs.
Golden mean
The manufacturer’s decision to provide a ready-made solution for most customers is a praiseworthy laptop with optimal components for many tasks at a low price for the device itself. An example is the HP Pavilion G6 2165SR laptop, the technical characteristics of which are chosen by most users according to two criteria - to work quickly, the price was affordable. A processor with four cores from Intel, a discrete graphics card that can cope with simple games, 4GB of RAM with the ability to expand up to eight gigabytes, a hard drive from 500 GB to a terabyte. In all laptops with a discrete video adapter, it is possible with the help of a small utility to turn off the discrete and turn on the integrated video card. Such a shutdown significantly reduces the power consumption of the laptop, prolonging the battery life on the battery.
Design and cooling system
Thoughtful air circulation perfectly cools all the components of the laptop, so even the most powerful components that affect the HP Pavilion G6 are protected from overheating. The intelligent control system in the normal mode without loads turns off the fan, allowing you to enjoy silence during operation. If the system operates under load, for example, during games, the system itself changes the fan speed, not allowing the components to become very hot. A huge drawback in the design of the laptop is that if the cooling system becomes clogged with dust during a long period of operation, there is a lot of heat, which significantly reduces the performance of the HP Pavilion G6. The user will have a problem cleaning the laptop. To get to the cooling system, you need to completely disassemble the laptop - remove all the covers, turn off all the modules, disconnect the keyboard and screen, right up to the motherboard. Not every user will cope with this task, definitely there is no way to do without the services of a service center.
Work autonomy
If initially the goal of buying a laptop was mobility, now the device freely competes with a personal computer in ergonomics, which is why many users are not interested in the autonomy of a laptop, but it’s worth getting acquainted. Depending on the installed components, the HP Pavilion G6 laptop has low battery life characteristics - from three to four hours. Yes, this can not be called a good indicator, but enough to watch a couple of films on the road. By disabling wireless interfaces, a discrete video adapter, making the screen brightness optimal, ensuring good air circulation, you can significantly increase the battery life of the laptop in offline mode.