HP has been doing some great work in its premium HP Spectre line lately, but it hasn’t forgotten the little people. The budget-friendly Pavilion line has just received an across-the-board refresh. Most notably, the x360 convertibles now have pen support and ship with a stylus in the box. HP has also added an optional IR camera that works with Windows Hello.

The x360 line now comes in 11.6-inch, 14-inch, and 15.6-inch flavors — the 13.3-inch version has been discontinued. The $399 low-end 11.6-inch version now has an Intel Pentium N4200 in the base configuration, which should be a major improvement over last year’s Celeron N3060. The new processor has quad cores and an astonishingly low base clock speed, but the chip still trounces the…

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