HP announces 14″ and 15.6″ Pavilion laptops with Kaby Lake chips

HP has announced a series of new laptops in its Pavilion lineup, including two x360 variants with flip-up touchscreens. The manufacturer equips the laptops with Kaby Lake processors from Intel, but the Pavilion 15 will also come with AMD chips.

HP only releases 14″ and 15.6″ versions of the laptops in the Benelux. The 11.6″ variant that does appear in the US does not appear here, while a 13.3″ model is strikingly not part of the line-up. The laptops come in a variety of configurations, including Kaby Lake-generation Core i3, i5, and i7 processors and Pentiums. The Pavilion 15 is the only model that is also equipped with AMD processors. This concerns the company’s seventh-generation processors.

As far as the video card is concerned, there will be models with AMD Radeon and Nvidia GeForce GPUs, Liliputing calls the GeForce 940 the Radeon 530. In addition, there are various storage options, of which the combination of a 512GB SSD with a 2TB HDD seems the most extensive. The wireless network card is a 2x2ac model from Intel. Some laptops will receive support for HP Fast Charge, which can charge them to 90 percent of their capacity in 90 minutes. Also optional is the presence of an IR camera that allows logging in with facial recognition via Windows Hello.

The touchscreen versions support stylus operation. The regular Pavilions are folded up slightly, for better cooling at the bottom. Previously, some Envy models had this. The HP Pavilion x360 14 and 15 and the Pavilion 14 and 15 without touchscreen will all be released in June in blue, gold, silver, mint and red in the Benelux. The prices are not yet known.