Most detailed review on Hewlett-Packard 15-bs100ur 15.6 inch

  • Display/Монитор SVA 1920x1080 px
  • CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-8250U (Kaby Lake R)
  • Memory: DDR4-2400 SDRAM, 8 Гбайт
  • Video: Intell UHD 620 and AMD Radeon™ 520 (2 Gb memory DDR3L)
  • HDD: Toshiba 1 Tb, 5400 rev/min SATAII
  • Web camera 720p
  • No-DVD, do not have space for DVD
  • Price: 520$ - 620$
  • Best segment to use: Work, Web development.
  • Recommended OS: Windows10
  • Direct link to YouTube Watch on Youtube




So basically we have very nice look (you can see on the pictures)

General specs

Display

  • SVA TN full HD display 1920x1080
  • SPS 798933-011

CPU

  • Intel® Core™ i5-8250U (Kaby Lake R)
  • Cores 4, Treads 8
  • Frq: 1,60 GHz, Turbo Boost: 3,40 GHz
  • Production date : Q3’17
  • Lithography : 14 nm
  • Recommended price : $297.00

Motherboard

  • HP CSL50 LS-E792P
  • Manufacture in China

Memory

  • HP
  • Capacity: 8192 Mb
  • D/C 7J1830
  • SPS 820570-005
  • CT RGVNH
  • Chips: 8AE75 D9VPP
  • Quantity of chips: 4x2

Hard drive

  • Toshiba 1TB 5200 rev/min
  • Buffer: 8 Mb
  • Quantity of heads: 4
  • Quantity blades: 2
  • Form factor: 2.5 inch (notebook)

Wlan

  • SPS 927230-855
  • Bt/Wlan combo
  • Chip: RTL 8723DE

Web camera

  • Unknown 720p
  • Average quality of shooting.

As you can see only CPU cost almost more than half of the notebook. So actually you not need expect some miracles, but overall quality and build is actually very good for this segment and for price.
Looks like you will not able to buy nothing with that specs for this price.

My experience

Windows

I am web dev, and for me use of Windows 10 actually is not required and most of my working tools works much more better under Linux.
Yes I am test this notebook on Windows 10 and unsupported Windows 7.
And looks like it still possible to use Windows 7, you will have headache during driver installation but it possible.
Windows 10 all works pretty fine, Windows 10 little bit heavy but works good.
Wifi works from the box and other drivers works just fine. The Radeon 520 heating notebook as hell.

Linux

If you are using just as me for coding - this notebook best what I had try. The problems exist:

  1. No support for Radeon 520 from linux distribution (You can download from Ati website)
  2. Wifi not works from the box, but I this fix for 10 seconds + 1 min to read manuals)

Modding

You need SSD really for this CPU you need SSD, throw away 1tb Toshiba HDD and install something faster.
Luck of lights on the keyboard, for me this is not very nice, yes I can live without it but back-light is handy.

Conclusion

It nice piece of hardware, and mostly I like how it works under Linux, if you had problems with Wifi go here

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https://github.com/smlinux/rtl8723de

Kernell lower 4.10

Read manuals but basicaly if you had kernel lower 4.10 you do this:

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sudo apt-get install git dkms
git clone https://github.com/smlinux/rtl8723de.git -b 4.10-down
sudo dkms add ./rtl8723de
sudo dkms install rtl8723de/5.1.1.8_21285.20171026_COEX20170111-1414
sudo depmod -a
reboot

Kernell 4.11 and upper

Read manuals but basicaly if you had kernel lower 4.10 you do this:

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sudo apt-get install git dkms
git clone https://github.com/smlinux/rtl8723de.git -b 4.11-up
sudo dkms add ./rtl8723de
sudo dkms install rtl8723de/5.1.1.8_21285.20171026_COEX20170111-1414
sudo depmod -a
reboot

Kernell lower 4.15 and upper

Read manuals but basicaly if you had kernel lower 4.10 you do this:

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sudo apt-get install git dkms
git clone https://github.com/smlinux/rtl8723de.git -b 4.15-up
sudo dkms add ./rtl8723de
sudo dkms install rtl8723de/5.1.1.8_21285.20171026_COEX20170111-1414
sudo depmod -a
reboot

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