HP Chromebook 14

For the most part Chromebooks are shown as small, portable, inexpensive, lightweight machine designed to be thrown into your bag when you head. To fit the mold of most devices with a 11.6in display. As Bob Dylan once crooned, though, the times they are a changin '. Some newer devices are beginning to appear to shrug off the diminutive stature of their brothers and instead proudly present themselves in a far grander fashion. The HP Chromebook 14 is one such animal, emblazoned with a 14in screen feel like a football field in comparison to the average fare Chromebook.


The extra space is great if you make use of Google Spreadsheet app, or indeed any web Microsoft Office suite, which can be partially bypass the smaller screen. Then there's the obvious advantage of having a larger aperture through which to explore the Internet itself, with all its goodness Youtube video present. It is something of a shame after screen of HP Chromebook 14 is really just average in terms of quality.

There are very few Chromebook, or cheap Windows laptop, which boasts decent display, mainly due to the fact that they raise the cost of a machine. So, like many others, the HP Chromebook 14 with TN panel with a very shallow angle viewing, dull colors, and a resolution of 1366x768. It's not shocking by any means, and it is perfectly acceptable for everyday tasks Chromebook intended, but feels like a missed opportunity when it was one of the main selling point of the device.

Another aberration from the norm is the Chromebook useful addition is a SIM card slot, which means you can use a 3G data plan covered when not in Wi-Fi. Indeed HP bundles a free two-year data plan to get you going; with only 250MB a month plus you do not want to be visiting any graphics heavy pages, but as something to keep you online in an emergency it is a handy little feature.

Most of the rest of the device is usually Chromebook territory; there is a 16GB SSD drive, a more liberal 4GB of RAM, and the whole show is run by a 1.4GHz Intel Celeron CPU based on Haswell technology. This combination has been tried and tested, which is why you can see it in some other rival models, and works well to make the HP Chromebook 14 Stewardess device that can cope with general browsing and documents based activities.

The capaciousness chassis also means that HP has managed to Cram two USB 3.0 ports, as well as additional USB 2.0 mouth, while keeping an SD card reader and HDMI port. A large battery is obviously seen in there somewhere, as the HP Chromebook 14 managed to take the best part of a very respectable eight hours to test.