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The HP 14 Essential is a budget 14-inch laptop built around an AMD Ryzen 3 3250U, a 2-core/4-thread chip from 2020. This configuration pairs it with 12GB of DDR4 RAM and a 512GB NVMe SSD, upgrades over the usual base setup, plus a 1080p IPS screen, USB-C, HDMI and a wired Ethernet port. It suits light everyday work: browsing, email, documents and video. Against newer budget rivals it trails on processor age, Wi-Fi 5 and a dim 250-nit display, but the memory and SSD capacity are generous for its class.
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Owners of the HP 14 Essential line generally call it a solid, no-frills laptop for the basics, and praise the screen and light weight for the class. The common complaints are a slow processor under heavy multitasking and short battery life.
This HP 14-inch laptop has a 14-inch diagonal Full HD (1920 x 1080) IPS display with a micro-edge design, a BrightView finish and LED backlighting. The screen is rated at 250 nits and 45% NTSC. It is not a touchscreen.
It is powered by an AMD Ryzen 3 3250U processor with AMD Radeon Graphics. The processor has 2 cores and 4 threads, a 2.6 GHz base frequency, speeds up to 3.5 GHz and 4 MB of L3 cache. Memory is 12GB of DDR4 SDRAM at 3200 MHz, and storage is a 512GB NVMe M.2 SSD.
It has a full-size keyboard and a 720p HD camera. It runs Windows 11 Home and connects over Wi-Fi 5, Bluetooth 4.2 or a wired Gigabit LAN port.
