HP 14 Laptop, AMD Ryzen 5 5500U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD Storage, 14-inch Full HD Display, Windows 10 Home, Thin & Portable, Micro-edge & Anti-glare Screen, Long Battery Life (14-fq1021nr, 2021)

HP has done it yet again. Arrogant engineering is the phrase of the day.

DO NOT SPEND THE EXTRA $65 FOR THE WINDOWS 11 VERSION - IF YOU BUY THE WINDOWS 10 VERSION IT WILL GIVE YOU THE OPTION TO DOWNLOAD IT FOR FREE DURING THE SYSTEM SETUP.

Hands down the worst laptop Ive ever experienced using

LOVE this little laptop. It is light weight (less than 4 LBS), runs cool and sits ON my lap without heating up. The screen is awesome color and resolution. Powerful CPUs. Memory is just right with the 8 RAM & 255 Gig SSD storage. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections are efficient, fast and easy to connect. The touch pad works great too. It is very sensitive to the touch. I was able to turn off the option for a touch of the pad for left click and just press a lower the pad instead and works great.

I love the size of this laptop and it works great for me.

For those whose eyes are sensitive to blue light and bright lights on computer screens this product is a no go. They do not allow to adjust contrast on the screen. They do allow to adjust brightness, but the defualt high contrast of the screen still emits large amounts of blue light.

Works great, very fast. I added another stick of ram to increase potential. Charges fast and lasts a while.

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The wifi card works out of the box from linux kernel version 5.16 onwards. On older kernels, you wont have wifi during install, which since theres no ethernet port might sound like a pain, but you can just plug in a phone and use USB tethering to get internet that way. After installing, youll need to set up the rtw89 driver using dkms. (On Arch this is painless - just install rtw89-dkms-git. On other distros, the process may be a little more manual, but is well-documented.) I cant blame HP or the seller for this; the problem is Realtek for failing to get their driver upstreamed in a timely manner, as usual from Realtek. But I stress this problem will be solved in the near future with newer kernels.