Keyboard



The keys of the chiclet keyboard have a crisp feedback and the surface feel while typing is rather smooth and flat. Fast and frequent writers will not have any problems with this keyboard, as the square keys have a short travel and a sufficient size with an edge length of 15 millimeters. The Pavilion's white backlight can be turned on and off via the F5 key, but no in-between levels are available. The silvery keys with letters backlit in white have a suboptimal readability under certain lighting conditions, but HP gave the design a higher priority in this case.



Touchpad

At 11.5 x 6 centimeters, the touchpad is wider than usual. It reacts well to inputs and movements, even in the corners and at the edges. The touchpad does not have any buttons on its own, instead functioning as a ClickPad in the lower area. The clicks performed this way are clean, but slightly less crisp than with the smaller 14-inch Pavilion.

