It’s nothing special, but it offers a generally decent typing experience, with the keys giving a nice, precise response and there not being too much flex and wobble as you type. This being a large laptop, there’s plenty of room for a full-size keyboard, including a numpad. The hard drive will be slow compared to the SSDs found in more premium laptops, but it’s all you can expect at this price and you get plenty of storage space – many SSD-equipped laptops only offer 128GB. This is all backed up by a perfectly adequate 8GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive. The Core i3-6100U isn’t the fastest around, but it should deliver good performance while using less power than previous generations, making for longer battery life. Ever more laptops are ditching optical disc drives these days, so if you still listen to CDs or watch DVDs, you’re in luck here.Ĭrucial to the appeal of this laptop is its CPU, which is of the latest generation of Intel Core i3 chips. What’s more, you get a DVD/RW drive, too.
Inside you also get the latest wireless technologies, with 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2. There’s definite flex in the body, but it doesn’t protest when picked up by just one corner, which is a classic point of failure for larger laptops like this.įor features, you get plenty of connectivity, with three USB ports (two USB 3.0, one USB 2.0), a full-size HDMI, Ethernet network port, an SD card reader and a combination headphone/microphone socket. If you make a little effort to give it a wipe down every once in a while, there’s no reason it shouldn’t remain looking nice for a fair while.īuild quality is OK for a machine of its calibre. White will show the dirt more readily than darker alternatives – especially when it comes to finger grime on that keyboard – but it’s a fact of life that a laptop is only ever as clean as its owner. However, the pearlescent white casing and the striped pattern on the inside look rather fetching, and they’re nicely contrasted by the chromed hinges and black screen surround. This being a cheap laptop, you don’t get anything too clever in terms of design – it’s not thin or light or made from premium materials. HP Pavilion 15-au072sa – Design and Features It’s not perfect, though the compromises made for a budget machine are clear from the outset. It could be the ideal back-to-school laptop for anyone heading off to university, or for those who simply want a cheap laptop that’ll last a good few hours away from a plug socket.
Specifically, you get a 15.6-inch display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, plus a DVD drive, a 1TB hard drive and a claimed 9 hours of battery life. At the time of writing it’s available for just £399.99, yet packs in the latest Intel processor technology and has plenty of features. What they got was a villain so good, so delicious to watch on screen, Marvel and Kevin Feige just had to bring him back almost 20 years later.This video was written by Siddhant Adlakha and edited by Justin Donaldson.If you’re after a large, no-frills laptop then the Pavilion 15-au072sa definitely fits the bill. But just how did the the Academy Award Nominated actor and a director with comedy horror roots make the Green Goblin so terrifying and, frankly, goofy? So let's take a look at how heroes and villains work together on screen and how one of the best performances on superhero celluloid came to be.For Tobey Maguire's first outing as Spider-Man, Sam Raimi and co needed a perfect thematic foil and found it in the post Y2K, post dot-com bubble tech infused counterpoint to a Peter Parker that's more organic, with his naturally produced web, a departure from the mechanical web shooters Tom Holland has in Homecoming, Far From Home, No Way Home and the rest of the MCU and with Andrew Garfield in The Amazing Spider-Man series. But in 2002, Willem Dafoe and Sam Raimi created a version of the character so iconic, that it's not a stretch to call it definitive. All the way back to the 1960s and the villains Silver Age origins. Spider-Man and Green Goblin go back a long way.