wow that is a strong magnet
in case you didn't know my name is Linus yep hp sponsored
today's video and part of the requirements are that i need to introduce myself so
hi not for the much less awkward part hp's
got a new two-in-one laptop tablet hybrid that looks absolutely fantastic
if you've been looking to replace your at-home device with something a little
more versatile
short battery life got you down well this
could be the solution we've got a power cable
power adapter with a nice sort of fabric style braided cable and perhaps most
importantly a really interesting trick
up the sleeve of the hp elite folio
let's take a look at what makes it stand out from the crowd
we've been seeing more and more ARM-based Windows devices recently and
even more are on the way as the software support improves and this guy here is no
exception now your configuration may vary depending on where you get yours
from and what options you choose but we've got a qualcomm snapdragon 8cx gen
2 processor running between 1.8 and 3.15
gigahertz 16 gigs of RAM and a 256 gig
and uni SSD for rapid boot times it's a
bit deer costing a little under two grand but like i said before this video
is sponsored by hp so obviously we're going to get to the part where we
justify the cost later first gaming
performance now obviously this was designed more for
video conferencing making annotations to
documents and designs i mean particularly the fact that it has
built-in stylus with an actual place to freaking store it i mean how crazy does
it make you when you see a product with a stylus and it's like
yeah you're just gonna have to keep the stylus in the i don't know the backpack
that you now also have to carry around with you instead of just having a
convenient place to tuck it that's built right into the product magnetically
that's freaking awesome it's great for browsing the web or getting work done at
home or on the go but you know guys were minus tech tips so obviously we were
gonna try to game on it rocket league yeah that didn't launch at all and
that's going to be the case with most hardcore games but we did manage to get
some lighter titles like stardew valley and graveyard keeper running and i'm
going to try graveyard keeper right now
this is awesome this is like actually working yeah co-figure right on a mobile
GPU effectively i mean obviously this is not like the world's
most graphically intensive game or anything like that but the story here is
that like it works right so when you
honor you're on a plane and you finally run out of like emails to reply to or
whatever you can go pick some peat moss by the way make
sure you're subscribed so you don't miss out on our upcoming video about graphics
options in games because you don't have to worry about them here but those max
settings are why do they even exist again we're going to get into that now
pivoting though to ideal workloads for the elite folio it's a much more
compelling story one of our writers actually ended up taking one of our two
units home to use for a couple of weeks doing everything from browsing reddit
before bed and tablet mode to using the pull forward design for displaying
recipes in the kitchen to holding scripts in the traditional laptop layout
during a shoot and so that i can read off of it i remember that and everything
in between and it never got overly warm the vegan leather is super soft to the
touch and get this it's wipe resistant
can we try that yeah oh
oh oh this is awful i'm sorry everyone wow
that is a lot of ketchup um i guess what i would probably do if i was trying to
clean something is first i'd get the you know the main
goops off right so now it's uh yeah it's been wiped i can't say i i can't say i
completely understand what that means
so i did actually get all the ketchup out
of the track pad so that's good and it
resisted being wiped i suppose so if you gotta you know grab a snack right you're
sitting at the coffee shop you pour ketchup all over your laptop
unfortunately you can wipe it okay seriously though
back a little bit more on topic ARM on Windows
is not perfect yet but given that most of our work here at Linus media group
runs in either g suite or office 365.
sorry editors that's work too but i'm talking more about like the writing team
stuff the compatibility issues that might affect someone like a video editor or a
gamer they don't really show up the kind of
thing you would notice would be the keyboard and it actually feels
great to type on it's really quiet i
really like i mean hp has been making great notebook laptops for a long time
okay well apparently that's it i typed 90 words per minute yeah there's
a bunch of points that uh the writer ploof put in here about how it's well
laid out even though this is a super compact device and the point is
while you're on a conference call it's super quiet really comfortable to type on and
manages to be like a soft bottom out but without completely lacking a tactile
feel that's absolutely critical for a business machine like this and definitely holds
its own against similarly priced laptops the chassis is magnesium and super thin
uh the trackpad feels good smells like ketchup
your mileage may vary on that one and two and one hinge designs have clearly
come a long way from when the first convertible showed up like i absolutely
love the super strong magnetism of this
hinge it's never something that you're gonna feel like gonna accidentally turn
floppy doodly over time remember when they called them convertibles like back
when they first started marketing these things two-in-one is definitely um a better
name for it just like that like any like any two in one as soon as you
uh flip it into tablet mode it goes ahead and you know enables auto rotate
and fancy stuff like that for i o you've got a three and a half millimeter
headphone jack and two usb type-c ports one on either side that does mean you'll
need a hub if you're using a wired mouse for example but thankfully there's no
special ARM compatible hubs or anything like that you just use a normal one and
the type-c ports are for charging as well that is when the battery eventually
dies it's rated for a whopping 25 hours
of video playback on a single charge which is three normal workdays or two
super long ones which is absolutely perfect for when business travel becomes
a thing again on that note it's also got a sim card
slot hidden away next to the stylus that we totally didn't talk about yet but
that'll allow you to stay connected just about anywhere by a 4g lte 5g or wi-fi
6. all of these features battery life cellular connectivity and of course the
fanless design traced back to the qualcomm snapdragon compute chipset and
oh right this is where i was supposed to talk about the stylus but i ended up talking about it earlier because it's so
cool i mean you know business right signed documents or whatever in terms of
the speakers they're made by hp but tuned by bang and olufsen
i mean obviously we're not expecting a ton of bass on a device this size
but i'd say given the size bengals and did a
bang-up job of tuning it
yeah that's like super respectable
it's not room filling by any stretch of the imagination but i don't expect it to
be and what it does have is excellent clarity
i wouldn't say the webcam is the best i've ever seen but i'll let you guys be
the judge in terms of how you feel it looks and since we're already talking
about things that are not all sunshine and rainbows i already mentioned the lack of legacy
usb a ports but like other soc based notebooks there is functionally zero
upgradeability and it is a little on the heavy side
especially if you're using it as a tablet at roughly three pounds the flip
side of that though get it the flip side of that you get
is at least it feels you know reassuringly
hefty speaking of assurance you can get an optional hp sure view reflect screen
to prevent unwanted helpers from glancing over at your screen allowing
you to work on whatever you want wherever you want we've actually tried
that out before and it is super cool and
another feature that i talked about briefly but i haven't actually shown you
guys yet becoming a staple on privacy oriented devices is a physical shutter
for the included webcam so you don't have to worry about uh someone getting
access to your device and peeping on you unless you're
an exhibitionist like that and you just don't care
so what do you guys think are we finally moving towards ARM on Windows now that
truly triple-a devices like this exist without
Intel or AMD cpus do you need a new tablet or laptop and
can't decide what to get let us know in the comments and make sure to check out
our latest build stream by the way it's called i was bored so i built a computer
it was a lot of fun as always