User Review HP Pavilion 14 with Intel Core i5 1135G7 Tiger Lake CPU and Iris Xe iGPU

Product page: https://store.hp.com/in-en/default/...s/hp-pavilion-laptop-14-dv0054tu-2n1l0pa.html (link might expire eventually)

Main Specs:

CPU: Intel Core i5 11th gen model 1135G7 with integrated Irix Xe iGPU
RAM: 16 GB (2x8) dual channel 3200 mhz. (not sure if it's soldered/upgradeable)
SSD: 512 GB NVMe m.2 PCIe 3.0 (not sure if it's x2 or x4)
Display: 14 inch LED IPS 250 nits 45% NTSC spec Full HD 1080p
Wifi: Intel AX201 with BT 5.1 chipset
OS: Windows 10 Home edition (single language)

Quick review notes:

  • Body/shell is supposed to be plastic but feels like aluminium, good enough build quality.
  • Display is not bad for 250 nits 45% NTSC - even bright enough outdoors in bright sunlight (not direct sunlight though). Hardly any backlight bleed on my unit.
  • Keyboard is US layout - does not have the India Rupee symbol - but that is OK as you can just select English-India keyboard layout in Windows/Linux.
  • Display bezels are pretty narrow - this 14 inch model is about the same size as my previous 2015 model HP Envy 13 inch laptop.
  • Fingerprint reader is very good - fast logins every time.
  • Bootup speed to operating system login screen is also fast - around 5-7 seconds with Windows 10 fast startup enabled - around 8-10 seconds with it disabled.
  • Linux works well (latest releases) on this laptop which was my major concern since this is the latest CPU platform out there.
This is probably not much of a review, so if you have any specific information you want to know, let me know and I will post it in this thread.



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For battery life (it's rated 3 cell 48 Wh Li-ion) I can't give a good idea. By default the OS only reports percentage and there is a setting in the BIOS to enable reporting remaining time as well. Windows shows around 8 hours remaining for light to moderate workloads, Linux reports around 4 hours remaining.

Based on my guesstimate I would say you will get around 7-8 hours with light usage and 3-4 hours with bit heavier usage like if you are running a lot of programs and doing OS updates etc.

If you fully load the CPU with all threads then I guess you will get about 2 hours only, though I haven't done this myself, this is based on what I've seen other reviewers typically get with a few other laptops from HP and other brands.

Linux installation experience:

When I got the laptop the first thing I wanted to do was install Linux on it. I powered it up for the first time to get the Windows 10 setup/configuration steps - went through that just to see how it was. It had that nifty Cortana voice activate setup process. Once completed and booted into the OS user desktop it started downloading and installing a lot of updates which was taking time, so aborted it and started the process of installing Linux.

Went into the BIOS looking to do two things - disable secure boot option and also switch the disk to AHCI mode because sometimes by default it uses the Intel RST (rapid storage technology) mode which causes issues with Linux. Now here is where my heart stopped because the BIOS only displayed the RST mode with no setting to switch to AHCI. I almost wept thinking I would have to try to return the laptop if possible or sell it at a loss. But eventually realised this was a red herring, the BIOS only displayed RST mode and for some reason the Win10 20H2 installer ISO required the Intel RST addon driver module to detect the SSD and the Linux installers detected the disk just fine - perhaps the BIOS detects the OS and auto switched the disk mode between RST and AHCI?

Anyways, clean installed Win10 first (to avoid the HP bloatware) and set it up and updated it online - the product key for Home edition is hard coded in the BIOS like most laptops that come preconfigured with Win10.

Then booted up various Linux distros and while older versions appeared to boot they would not detect things like sound and trackpad and not have full GPU support. Latest versions of Ubuntu (20.04.2 LTS and 20.10) and Fedora 34 beta installed and worked well out of the box.

Let me know if you want any further info and I will post it here.


CPU thermal performance:

Ran the CPU-z stress test for a few minutes on battery and observed some numbers in the HWinfo64 tool.

Idling CPU power was under 1 watt, as low as 0.7w and at load was 15w with Windows power setting to "better battery" and 18w with it set to "best performance". Did not try while connected to AC power so far, maybe later to see if the CPU goes up to the rated 28w limit.

Clocks were around 800 mhz to 1.5 ghz at low to light load and around 3 ghz at full load.

Temperatures hovered around 40-45 C at low to light load and around 70-75 C at full load. The surface and bottom of the laptop got very mildly warm to the touch, not like the scorching levels of my old HP Envy with the Intel Core i5 6200U skylake dual core 15w CPU while running single thread loads!

The fans hardly spun up (or I didn't hear much sound) for the few minutes that I loaded the CPU.

Oh I should mention for single core load it briefly boosted to 4.2 ghz and settled at 4 ghz while running the CPU-z bench run.
 
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Just wanted to post here (so it might appear for others searching online) that I was facing an issue in Linux with the keyboard sometimes not responding for a few seconds (slow delay) after booting and after some searching online found that setting the kernel boot parameter "i8042.nopnp" appears to work around the problem on this HP Pavilion 14 model dv0054tu laptop with Intel Core i5 1135G7 Tiger Lake CPU.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1916314/comments/27
 
Just wanted to post here (so it might appear for others searching online) that I was facing an issue in Linux with the keyboard sometimes not responding for a few seconds (slow delay) after booting and after some searching online found that setting the kernel boot parameter "i8042.nopnp" appears to work around the problem on this HP Pavilion 14 model dv0054tu laptop with Intel Core i5 1135G7 Tiger Lake CPU.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1916314/comments/27
Charging the laptop with USB-C port is possible?
 
Thanks to the user review, have purchased the same model.

I am able to charge using USB-C port using the 33W fast charger we get with MI Phones.

Good to know!

Does it charge at a decent rate with a 33w input?

What do you use the laptop for?
 
Its not as fast as the laptop charger but decent.

Laptop gets used for office coding work via VDI. It gets used daily on weekdays for 10 hours. For my usage it works well.
 
@tech.monk I think the tiger lake igpu got good reviews about its performance so the hype may be a little justified haha.

In any case I don't do gaming or other stuff that stresses the igpu so I can't give first hand impressions in that area.

Best bet is to look up online reviews...
 
Revisiting this thread (since I'm now selling) just to post that the wifi easily handles 1 gbps speeds, at least with my TPLink X60 and XE75 mesh units and while in the same room.
 
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