HP 14s-fq1971nd

Nice laptop. Fast and easy to use during my training.

So far, this laptop performs more than expected and required. I bought the laptop as a replacement for the old home laptop and we are not very heavy users ourselves, so no games or anything. We use for browsing, MS Office and streaming videos. It has more than enough specs for this use. On the other hand, we also used the previous laptop for 10 years, so thinking ahead is useful. I wonder if the laptop will continue to perform well after 1 or 2 years.

After much deliberation, I chose this HP 14-fs.... add the rest of the characters yourself. Good first impression, no crazy things and the laptop installed quickly and easily. Unlike other products in its price range, the laptop is made of plastic instead of metal, which is a shame. The keyboard feels a bit clunky as a result. I started using the laptop and soon noticed that the fan kept blowing for a long time. Why? No idea, according to task manager nothing was wrong. At the time of writing it is quiet so who knows... maybe it will stay quiet from now on. Laptop folded, pushed aside and the next day I wanted to continue. My old Lenovo animal (Yoga) would just go back to work after opening it, but with this HP the battery turned out to be empty. OK? Too bad, grab the adapter and charge it then. That charging is also quite fast. But the real idiocy was yet to come: I put an SD card in the slot. Fine, was recognized right away, everything went smoothly...until you want to take the card out. This sticks out about two millimeters from the laptop. And no, pressing it does nothing, there is no spring behind it. If you have long nails, you are lucky and you will probably get this card out. But alas, I had to grab a pair of tweezers to remove the card. Stunned, I tried two more times to remove the SD card in a different way. Result: end of nails, sore fingers, hello frustration. In between, the Wifi connection drops off once and the connection with my bluetooth mouse has already been broken twice. So you don't really want to continue working and that is quite annoying all round, especially when you are an independent entrepreneur and can therefore not borrow something from a colleague. So what do we have: a reasonably fast laptop that installs smoothly, has few unnecessary apps on board and is quickly ready for use. We also have a clattering keyboard, very mediocre speakers with a tinny sound and a fan just trying again to make the laptop take off from the table. We have major battery drain in standby mode and I hope I can post this review because the wifi (and bluetooth) drops now and then. In short: we have a device that does not function properly. Not recommended, do not buy.