HP SlateBook 14-p010nr Pro Reviews

The HP SlateBook 14-p010nr is a $429 Nvidia Tegra 4-equipped Android OS laptop. But when $300 will get you a fully functional Chromebook, and $450 is a prime price for a Windows notebook, we're not sure there's a real need for it.

From a construction and style standpoint, the SlateBook 14 is a respectable laptop for the money—as long as you don’t mind all that bright-yellow plastic. It’s thin, relatively light, and easy to hold on to with one hand while you navigate the Internet with the other. If you like Android well enough to use it on your laptop day-in and day-out, you’ll want to do so on a computer equipped for the task, like this one, with Android-specific keyboard shortcuts and a touch screen. If nothing else, the SlateBook 14 is a nice piece of budget hardware, very competent for watching videos and other media consumption, and some limited Android gaming. Plus, all types of music—rock ‘n’ roll, classical, country—sounded great on this laptop’s four-speaker sound system.