27.05.2016 4:51

Review HP EliteBook 1030: full metal laptop

HP has always been famous for its solutions business. Just having come to the conference some bank owners or shareholders and you will find that there are few who sit with apple laptops. It’s all about reliability and comfort when using the device – if you are working with a laptop for many hours, you need to carry it to the meetings and permanently store important documents there, the show-off and a case design go by the wayside. The new HP EliteBook 1030 is an example of how to be a business-class laptop, and if you are thinking about buying something like that, you should pay attention on HP products. In addition, today we’ll talk in more detail about what is in the HP EliteBook 1030 notebook interesting and why it is so much like the online users. It seems nothing special in it, no raisins in the housing or stuffing. How could so much hype?

Review HP EliteBook 1030: full metal laptop

Specifications HP EliteBook 1030

The device is designed primarily to work with your mail client, office suite, and to communicate on Skype and surfing the Internet. That is, the manufacturer originally was not going to make a product for hard work with video or photos, because of what and stuffing here is pretty simple. Processor model Core m5-6Y54 act or Core m7-6Y75, relating to the number of Skylake of Intel. These processors have low performance if compared with i3-5-7 line, but the energy consumption is much lower, because of which the product has an increased autonomy and is not heated so much. Maintain HP EliteBook 1030 performance is RAM from 4 to 16 GB, which will allow you to decide precisely those tasks that are necessary in your area. Graphics, of course, built-in, and store personal content you will be able to drive 128, 256 or 512 GB. That’s enough for all workloads.

Review HP EliteBook 1030: full metal laptop

Design HP EliteBook 1030

Despite the fact that the work personally, I do not pay attention to the design of the case of products from HP decided that businessmen do not allow themselves to use the gadget with plastic housing. And, probably correctly decided – a device with a fully metal body we like much more unique with cheap materials. Around the display practically no frames – they have minimized for the sake of saving space. The keyboard built in the corporate style of the company, at the back of the gadget drawn the HP logo on the side faces are all the connectors for peripherals. We can not say that we have something to surprise, but it looks really cool.

Bonuses HP EliteBook 1030

With 13.3-inch diagonal HP EliteBook 1030 has two options for resolution – the standard Full HD and Quad HD +. You can select the type of display on the basis of personal needs and cost, because not all need to have such high-resolution images. The Matrix is ​​built on IPS technology, so that the colors are gorgeous here, as well as all other indicators. The duration of battery life is 13 hours, which is enough to run on the road and the weight of the gadget up to 1.18 kilograms. We should also note the presence of a fingerprint scanner – it allows you to protect your personal information from prying eyes.

Review HP EliteBook 1030: full metal laptop

Result HP EliteBook 1030

The minimum configuration cost of the laptop HP EliteBook 1030 is $ 1,250 and it is enough, that business segment bought it. For example – the new generation of the MacBook costs the same in the presence of a smaller set of chips and only one expansion port, and it is not the most popular. At the top of the range the price has not yet been called, but we have not much care.