HP Pavilion Aero 13 review – an excellent budget ultrabook (AMD Ryzen)
Many years ago, Ultrabookreview.com started due to my loathing of the chunky and heavy notebooks mostly available around 2010, and while we cover laptops more broadly these days, it’s always a joy to me to test thin and lightweight ultrabooks once more. This here is the HP Pavilion Aero 13, an ultra-compact sub 1 kilo (2.2 lbs) laptop with a 13-inch 16:10 matte screen, uncompromised IO and inputs, snappy hardware, and a highly competitive price tag. In fact, all these combined are the reason I went ahead and bought this laptop for myself a few weeks ago, trying to figure out how it compares to the more premium ultraportables out there and whether this could be a worthy replacement for my travel buddy, my very old now XPS 13. Spoiler alert, this Pavilion Aero 13 is a very well-balanced ultrabook, and only shows its budget nature here and there, by implementing a rather small battery and lacking a few features that you will get with higher-tier models. Let’s get ...