HP Pavilion Plus 14 (2025) Review: Affordable OLED Laptop With a Fatal Flaw

7.3 / 10 SCORE HP Pavilion Plus 14t-ew100 $1,000 at HP Pros Excellent OLED display is only $60 upgrade Sturdy, all-metal design Comfy keyboard 1440p webcam and Enchanced Lighting app are great Cons Terrible touchpad Lousy speakers Heavier than other 14-inch laptops Battery life is hours shorter than that of Copilot Plus PCs HP is shuttering the Pavilion brand in favor of the OmniBook name for its consumer laptops, but it's going to be a slow transition. HP is still updating a few Pavilion lines as it fills out the new OmniBook series. Following a refreshed HP Pavilion Aero 13 I reviewed earlier this year is the slightly larger Pavilion Plus 14. In both cases, these laptops feature older CPUs; for the Pavilion Plus 14, it's from Intel's late 2023 Meteor Lake family and not the latest Lunar Lake line from last September. With a Core Ultra 5 125H, the Pavilion Plus 14 competed well with laptops with newer CPUs on our application and graphics benchmarks. However, you see its defic ... Read full article.