I just ordered the HP Pavilion x360 - 13z Touch (G3S52AV) with this processor in it. This seemed the most powerful tablet style I could find with Windows.
Does anyone know if it's overclockable or not? I have a PNY 240GB SSD lying around I may install in it. Is RAM upgradable in this thing? Can the CPU be upgraded either?
Does the keyboard get disabled when flipped in tablet mode? It seems like it would have to be or you'd be accidentally hitting keys.
Is this going to beat the HD 4400 in graphics performance? I was going to get the i5-4210U, but assumed the AMD graphics were superior, but from what I've been reading this may be wrong.
This is mostly for office type work, but I will also be playing a lot of my 3D-games on it. Civilization 5, Company of Heroes, Simcity 2013, Galactic Civilization, Beyond Earth, and others.
Is there a more powerful tablet type I can get with better graphics performance?
Thanks for any help.
-=Mark=-
I own this laptop for the same reasons you got it. It's the best hybrid for the price.
No you can't overclock it. HP is dumb and locks virtually everything in the BIOS. You can't even give the IGP more RAM.
Yes the RAM (2 slots) is upgradable, but in another genius decision, you literally have to take the whole laptop apart to get to the ram slots.
You take all the screw out, remove the keyboard, remove the fan and battery out, then have to take out the motherboard (unhook the speakers, screen, wifi etc and pull it out of the case) to get to the RAM underneath.
The HDD is easy to access (I did put an SSD (Samsung EVO 250GB) in there. I'm so sick of 5400 HDDs). As well as the fan which is nice for cleaning.
Yes the keyboard disables when it's flipped in tablet mode. Though I have had it bugged out once and stay enabled, I just have to flip it back to laptop, then back to tablet.
I don't know if it beats a 4400, but to get a hybrid with a 4400, it's going to cost 1000+.
I know the screen on this HP hybrid is not that good but, to get any better, you're going into the 1000+ range, with the best hybrid, the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro being $1300+.
I got this hybrid for $700 CAD after tax. It already had 8GB of RAM. (Canadian prices are a rip off, you can probably get it far cheaper in the US)
I don't know if you can play those games, but I was able to play Skyrim with some medium settings on at a decent frame rate even with the HD texture pack installed.
MMOs like Rift and Defiance struggled though, and Diablo 3 ran OKAY, but not great. Though I know MMOs run bad because they are CPU hungry more than GPU.
I was able to play Puzzle Agent smoothly though! lol
I however, have a question. I read on this board that this APU is dual channel. I got this HP Hybrid with 8GB, but soon found they used a single 8GB chip rather than 4GB x 2 putting the RAM in single channel.
My question, is if this APU really is dual channel. Would it be worth getting another 8GB chip to get my ram to put it dual channel to improve the performance?
Can computer companies like HP limit the RAM in the bios to be single channel?