for years Intel has gotten all the love from laptop manufacturers they get the
coolest designs the most prominent placement on the website and they get
all the marketing until today
hp sponsored this video for us to look at not one not two not
three but as is sort of becoming tradition
four of their 14-inch laptops that are aimed
squarely at everyone from home users all
the way to professionals who want something portable and powerful with AMD
at the heart of every single one of them
so let's take a look shall we
first thing i should probably cover is you are never ever to store laptops by
stacking them on top of each other like this that is a big uh-oh whoopsie no no
second we're gonna take a quick look at the elitebook 845
g7 so an elitebook is different from a pro book in that
this is designed around your corporate rollout so one of the big selling points
for hp of this puppy aside from having creature comforts that professionals
apparently like like the uh nub in style mouse in the middle of the keyboard is
serviceability so as part of this is very unusual as part of a sponsored
video they've actually told me yeah it's fine to whip out the tool kit and crack
this thing open first i want to fire it up though so let's have a look at our
external i o we got our two usb type cs
full size HDMI that is something i have really missed on my current daily driver
barrel plug although the type c's are apparently also good for charging which
is great then over on the other side two type a's another thing i have sorely
missed on my current laptop as well as a headphone microphone combo jack and is
that a smart card reader sweet is that a built-in oh
i think this one's got their built-in privacy screen i was like is that a tn
panel in 2020 no
no it's not that would have been pretty embarrassing
wouldn't it hey there it is now you do lose some of your
horizontal viewing angles for having that feature but
if privacy is a factor for you it's a lot better than having a film over the
top of it having it integrated into the screen like this that's sick hey so look
at that off axis boom blank screen
matte finish 1080p 60 hertz and a very nice keyboard
very soft too not too loud i did promise though that we're going to
take a look at the insides one of the first ways they've got to impress me is
by not having too many screws and not requiring any kinds of fancy security
bits extra credit
captive screws very nice hp one of my worst nightmares
when working on a laptop is popping off the bottom panel only to have all the
screws go you know because i accidentally left one
in or left them in on purpose thinking i'll just leave these in here and then
five screws that's it and they're all
stuck in there no way to lose them absolutely love it inside we're going to
find a ryzen 7 4750u so that's an 8 core
12 thread processor that runs at 1.7 gigahertz base and boosts up to 4.1
gigahertz so this is one responsive little machine that can also
you know run a video render if you're into that sort of thing as well it's got
16 gigs of RAM pre-installed so each of these is an 8 gig module and these are
of course easily replaceable whether by a tech or
by a user given that it's only five phillips head screws we're running a 256
gig NVMe SSD this particular one is from western digital but of course your
mileage can vary on those we've got now that's interesting we've got a second
card oh that's probably for like a 5g card or
something like that we've got our Intel ax wireless over here and of course
we've got a 53 watt hour battery so in a machine this size that is a very
respectable capacity everything in here is
really i mean very standard in terms of the layout
single heat pipe this cooler comes out with just it looks like
a couple of screws if you need to remove it for servicing or whatever the case
may be uh this little daughter board is attached by a ribbon over here
yeah this thing looks crazy simple to work on like battery
swap is like one two three four four screws
and then one cable it's freaking awesome
it's like the fastest teardown ever
oh uh oh please tell me it still works hello
from my angle i can't see it i thought i just broke the laptop while i was
i was supposed to be making a video about it okay in terms of performance we
scored 48.18 in pc mark now it doesn't have a crazy beefy cooler on it which
for an eight core processor you might think that's insane but AMD's ryzen 4000
series mobile chips are quite frankly
a marvel they perform great they run cool they run usually quiet but we're
about to find out how that worked out in the elitebook here
very reasonable to sub Windows hello too
sick fingerprint and Windows hello
real nice our next contestant is the pro book 635
aero g7 this puppy features a ryzen
4700u so we step down a little bit in terms of CPU but
very similar access to the bottom chassis and cut down but still very
reasonable i o so over on the right full sized HDMI usb type-c with charging or a
barrel plug if you prefer that and over on the left side two usb type a's as
well as a headphone microphone combo jack that is what i'd consider to be
basic but very flexible because at least you can use that type c with a dongle to go
okay you know there boom with one thing clicked in i've got another HDMI three
usb type a's a microsd sd reader and a
gigabit Ethernet jack our render is almost done on the elitebook so this has
been running for quite some time keyboard temperatures are still what i
would describe as warm-ish definitely not hot
and in terms of noise my microphone's actually right here guys
pretty darn quiet sorry i know i'm spending all the time on the elitebook
but this is the one that i feel like is more likely to end up in my backpack so
i'm just checking it out for me and for you so
i'm running the render again in the background here and it's not falling
under 2.8 2.84 gigahertz
that is way above base clock this is an all-core
load all right
with this machine the initial feel is actually very similar and you've still
got some professional features like Windows hello
fingerprint reader really nice feeling keyboard
but you do give up some things so you've
got no mouse nipple in the middle no smart card reader of course and no
built-in privacy filter so this is just your standard issue 400 nit 1080p
display the screen is also a little bit smaller at 13.3 inches instead of 14
and the specs get downgraded a touch as well so we're running a ryzen 4700u
instead of that 4750 in the other machine
in practical terms that performance difference is
difficult to measure though and you're more likely to notice something like the
difference between the speakers so the elitebook has banging all of some tuned
audio whereas the pro book does not it doesn't sound bad or anything
it's just not quite as as full sounding is the easiest way for me to describe it
one thing i did forget to mention though is that the pro book weighs just 0.999
kilograms or 2.2 pounds for our imperial friends so that's a benefit if you're
running around the office with it in your hands finally the battery is
smaller but it does have hp's fast charge feature just like
our next contestant the pro book 445 g7
so here we get a screen size upgrade we
maintain our good mix of i o so kensington lock usb type a we've got an
sd card reader this time over on the other side
two usb type a's HDMI oh yeah
wired Ethernet as well as usb type-c and
a barrel plug if you're into that sort of thing and we maintain our good
biometric security with fingerprint sensor as well as Windows
hello and gotta love that little slidey slide on the webcam so you can cover
that up if you're not into it now i'm having a little bit trouble finding power button there it is
yeah this one's got a pretty dim screen
resin on my hoodie damn you resin table
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we don't carry resin tables andy oh the hoodie that makes more sense yeah
lttstore.com thanks andy once again in spite of the ryzen 4700
rather than 4750 processor we still have
extremely similar performance but the screen's a touch larger than our last
one at 14 inches although it is not as
bright so watch out for that if you're planning to use your laptop outdoors for
example and one of the compelling features for this one is that it can be
easily upgraded with more storage with a two and a half inch device so this is
the first out of all three models that we've looked at that has a two and a
half inch bay like the other two it uses the Windows
precision drivers for the touch pad and has a nice soft touch keyboard but
that's pretty much all there is to say about this one it's a little bit thicker
a little bit heavier the 635 arrow was crazy light but still a nice feeling
machine bringing us finally to the pro book 435
x360 as you guys might put together
this one has a 360 degree hinge making it
now that i think about it probably the most solid contender for
my backpack because i forgot when i was looking at that first
one that i actually i do use my two in one capabilities a fair bit now we lose
Windows hello on this one but we've still got the fingerprint sensor and in
spite of downgrading all the way to a 4300 u so this is just a four thread
four core processor we're still putting up fairly respectable numbers in pc mark
another big plus for me is that even though it's a two in one it's still got
a usb type a port and then over here on the other side oh yeah
full size HDMI usb type a usb type c with charging again and a barrel plug as
well as a micro sd reader and headphone microphone combo jack the number of
times that in a work environment especially that you need to
whip out an HDMI cable and plug into a projector or something like that or
capture device you know sometimes capture software can be inconvenient
compared to just plugging into something external in my line of work anyway it
comes up a freaking lot i'd say the weakest points for this
machine are probably the 250 nit screen and single channel memory but like it's
pro book and elite book cousins that we've had a look at today
it's very easy to get access to so let's have a look at the internals of this one
no broken clips very nice
western digital NVMe is this a little pull tab for it
oh that's nice thanks hp why does it say
single channel memory in my specs that can't be right just as much cooling
in spite of the fact that we're only running four processor of course
sweet let's go ahead and fire Windows back up here and see if maybe something got
mis-transcribed hardware info
all right show me the dual channel money yeah the memory is totally running in
dual channels so it's 3 200 megahertz dual channel that's
freaking awesome for a value machine i guess that's kind of the theme when it
comes to AMD equipped laptops is more bang for
your buck so thanks to hp for sponsoring this video thanks to you guys for
watching it you can check out their elitebook and pro book lineup at the
link in the video description featuring AMD ryzen processors it's really like
look at how complete this lineup is so nice to see AMD treated treated properly
properly i'm gonna make a laptop tower
wait for it