welcome to my unboxing and first look of the elite book
9470m from HP this is a demo unit as
part of their AA hpq demo program so
they sent this to me to have a look at and I'm pretty excited about it so this
is an elite book which makes it a business class product but it is also an
Ultra Book so this Ultra Book right here is actually less than 75 in thick and uh
I'm sorry I have to do the unboxing like this but slick is just sort of taking
his sweet time over there with some benchmarking that needs to be done so let's get these seals opened up and
we'll be back in a moment all right so I guilted slick into coming over here and
actually helping me which is his job so he's pointing the camera at stuff he's
all like o my ARM's injured cuz I got in a bicycle
accident as if that's an excuse actually
his ARM's really badly injured if you watch sorry it's not funny but if you
watched the live stream last week you can see it was in like a sling and stuff
and now I've just got him like holding the camera it's only been like 4
days um so we're finding some pretty cool stuff in here look at that very
slim very small uh power adapter very
nice I mean it's one thing when you have an Ultrabook notebook uh but it's a
whole other thing when it comes with like a big brick old stupid power supply
that's like big and stupid a brick so
here's the included battery which is good for up to 9 hours of battery
life it's swappable which is pretty leap
if you want to sort of consider what's different about this from another Ultra
Book it also has an optional what's
called a slice battery which will give
the notebook up to 19 hours of battery
life should you choose to install that so check out how thin this battery is
very cool stuff see there's the the old iPhone size comparison very very small
and it's just it's phenomenally cool to me that you can just totally swap the
battery out no big deal I mean most Ultra books you can't do that love that
industry Trend started by the one and only Apple computer because they're
awesome um that way and oh check this
out very cool so again business class product so it has some different options
that we're not used to seeing on consumer products it comes pre-installed
with Windows 7 Pro however it also comes
with a Windows 8 Pro DVD and license so
what you can do is you can only install one of them at a time but you can
uninstall Windows 7 Pro then install Windows 8 Pro and you can choose which
of those two operating systems you want to use on your notebook and then you can
even just uninstall Windows 8 and put Windows 7 back on it should you so
desire which is very very cool so so the process of installing the battery is
what we're going to do next not a lot included in terms of accessories however
there's lots of optional accessories that you can get to go with it which
again makes it kind of business class because the assumption is that unlike a
consumer product it doesn't need to come with everything and that business users
won't necessarily mind forking out for additional accessories so it is dock
ready which means you can install it into DOC for additional IO and for the
convenience of not having to plug and unplug your peripherals As you move
around from the office to home or wherever else you need to go it also
has yeah that was apparently not how to do it there now we're in place yep we're
good it also has awesome IO so you've got three usb3 super speed ports two on
this side DisplayPort and VGA VGA is still a huge Boon to business users
because of the fact that as you're traveling lots of boardrooms lots of
presentation rooms are still using older VGA projectors and if you show up with a
notebook that doesn't have an analog output you're not going to be able to give your presentation
so this guy will figure out in a moment full-sized Ethernet connector no sort of
little connector hoo-ha doad thing going on here so it should be very durable
you've also got an SD card reader right there hiding and on the back you have
nothing except a look you Packard uh no
no you're not looking at that it's okay finally we've got power in Kensington
lock exhaust that other USB 3 super speed Port that I talked about as well
as an integrated headphone microphone Jack wouldn't have minded seeing Two
Jacks there if they' been able to get away with that sorry I messed that up
before guys this right here is the connector for the optional extended
battery that gives you up to 19 hours of battery life on this thing and this guy
right here is actually the dot connector so I don't really use business model
notebooks that much and I wasn't familiar with that thing so I'm quite
sorry about that this guy over here is a smart card reader and that was where we
left off and I think I'm caught up now so we can move around to the front where
we have wireless power charging and disc activity LEDs let's go
ahead and open this bad boy up where we find a matte screen again business
options proper matte screen no glossy stuff going on in here we've also got a
hardware button for turning the wireless on and off as well as a hardware mute
button this is a really cool indicator right here this is to tell you if your
touchpad is on or off so you can use the
touchpad on or off hotkey in order to turn it on and off and then you'll
actually know whether it's on and off you can see it's got a very business-like layout to the inside as
well nice big touchpad and then you've got the option of either using buttons
here or using the mouse nipple which is in the middle of the keyboard here to
navigate and then using these two buttons here for your left and right
click the keyboard is Led backlit you can see it's quite bright because even
though I've got my studio lights on here it's uh very clearly illuminated I'm
going to go ahead and turn one off to give you guys an even better idea and I'll stand in the way of the other one
so looks just um oh hold on they went
away give it a sec let's wait till the machine boots up and then we'll be we'll
be good to show that off okay so I figured it out it turns off as a power
saving feature so you guys can see what it looks like normally aha see I wasn't
crazy the LED backlight was on so it shines through the letters oh you can
see the red light on the camera that's no good so it shines through the letters
as well as around the outsides of the letters so it should be very easy to find what you're working on even in the
utmost Darkness so you got a fingerprint reader here which is Handy for your
biometric logins and all that and whatnots and HOAs and in terms of the
overall layout of the keyboard it looks very strong so you got a long Enter key
long backspace key long shift long shift
and no cardinal sins committed in terms of the overall layout oh man that
thing's solid I love Elite books um like
there's there's sorry sorry for the noise guys but there's no flex
whatsoever to this machine it is incredibly solidly built in spite of the
fact it doesn't use that unibody design that was popular popularized by uh by
our friends over at Apple just a sec which quite frankly isn't a very
environmentally friendly way to manufacture laptops so it's uh it's just
as well that hp's found a way to make a laptop not be manufactured that way and
still be very very solid So speaking of our friends at Apple I'm going to go
ahead and do the obligatory thickness comparison with the iPhone 4 this is a
14-in notebook so the Ultrabook standard allows it to be a little bit thicker
than Ultra books that are not 14 in um
it has a 1366 X 768 display and it is hold on let's have
a look let's see what we think of that their display shouldn't be that hard to figure out and it is not a TN panel yay
love nonn panels I mean that's the thing you get with Elite books is you get that
slightly higher build quality versus the consumer grade stuff it has the trusted
platform module chip embedded which gives you more security again this is a
very corporate or oriented feature and what's cool about this touchpad is it
will never ever wear out because it is chemically etched glass unlike most
trackpads which you're using like a plastic or some kind of composite
surface so it doesn't feel like glass but it's a little bit cold to the touch
and it will never ever ever ever wear out which is very very very cool as well
it has optional LTE support although that's not built into this particular
model that I'm checking out let's see how the hinge feels we'll give it the
old hinge abuse ah
feels good actually feels quite solid and even the screen itself doesn't have
that much Flex either check this out so it's very very thin see there's the old
iPhone comparison very thin however see how
much Flex there is there's a little bit but there's no getting away from that
and really not that much very very nice
let's see if there's any look at that you don't even get any discoloration on
the screen when you do that that's outstanding very very nice all right so
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