HP Pavilion - 14-ce0029nl or HP 15-da0194nl

[SilvioLorenzon]

Hi, I'm undecided about the purchase between HP Pavilion 14 ce0029nl and HP 15-da0194nl, I ask you kindly advice considering that my use is strictly consumer, video, photo, email, office.
Thanks so much.
Best regards.

Silvio

[Huffer]

The 14-cexxx model hands down. Processors and memory are the same. But you have a 15 inch and a 14 inch model. I prefer 14 inch myself for mobility. The 15 inch has a DVD burner which will make it heavier but if you still use DVDs you need that. The 15 inch is a 1366 x 768 screen which is not very good to look at and work with. Images are much clearer and movies and such are better on the FHD IPS (1920 x 1080) on the 14 inch model. Lastly, the 14 inch model has a 512 gig NVME storage and the 15 inch has 256 NVME. Most people find 256 gigs to be too small pretty quickly. The NVME storage is the fastest type on the market so either machine will be an excellent performer. 

So unless you must have a DVD drive the 14 inch model is the clear winner here. 

[SilvioLorenzon]

Thank you very much for the advice, considering also the different graphics processors which computer do you recommend?

[Huffer]

The MX110 is the very lowest level dedicated memory video card you can get. Benchmarks show it is at best a tiny improvement over the Intel HD integrated video. 

https://tinyurl.com/yaokn6k4

People here are complaining the MX150 is very weak for gaming and the MX110 is even less powerful so neither of these is a gaming machine by any stretch of the imagination. 

And even if you want to game, games look really crummy on a 1366 x 768 screen. I always advise people to avoid them really for any purpose. 

[SilvioLorenzon]

Thanks, it's not my intention to use it to play but to do some photo editing, is it OK the HP Pavilion 14 ce0029nl?

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

My wife is a professional photographer and I am her IT guy so I have some experience with this. If you are using Photoshop and you want to batch edit large groups of high res images you cannot possibly have enough power. You get the fastest processor, the most memory and the biggest fastest storage and at least a mid-level dedicated video card. Having said that, the i5 8th gen with 8 gigs RAM and the 512 NVME disk with Intel 620 integrated video will support modest batches of photos and have no problems with editing even very high res single raw images. You will not be able to activate hardware video acceleration on Photoshop however. That is a drawback for serious photo editing at production or commercial levels. 

The 1366 x 768 screen would really be limiting for serious photo editing so the issue here is the 14-ce or do we advise you to spend a bit more money and get a workstation type computer? Depends on your workflow needs. 

[SilvioLorenzon]

Thank you very much for your valuable advice, my photo editing work is usually very light, I limit myself to the exposure or to the correct white balance.

A little curiosity: where are you writing from?

Silvio

[Huffer]

Indiana, USA out in the great Midwest. I assume you are in Italy?

[SilvioLorenzon]

Yes, of course, how did you understand that? I was careful to correctly use "Google Traslate" !! 😂

[Huffer]

Your name, Silvio. Grazi addio.