HP Pavilion Gaming 16 review: Challenging the status quo

For a long time now, all gaming laptops have been governed by an unspoken rule that bigger is always better. A gaming laptop must look a certain way, feel a certain way, and cost a certain way. If it doesn’t live up to any of these standards, well, it’s everything but a gaming laptop. It’s a laptop that you can probably also game on some, but a gaming laptop it is most certainly not. HP’s new Pavilion Gaming 16 laptop is designed to challenge that status quo.

It is big, but not big enough. It can go up to 1 lakh but you can also get a well configured model with an AMD processor for as low as Rs 59,999, and with an Intel processor for Rs 70,999. Despite all this, the Pavilion Gaming 16 for all intents and purposes is a gaming laptop, and a good one at that.