HP Elitebook 9470M Business Class Ultrabook Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look of the elite book
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9470m from HP this is a demo unit as
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part of their AA hpq demo program so
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they sent this to me to have a look at and I'm pretty excited about it so this
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is an elite book which makes it a business class product but it is also an
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Ultra Book so this Ultra Book right here is actually less than 75 in thick and uh
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I'm sorry I have to do the unboxing like this but slick is just sort of taking
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his sweet time over there with some benchmarking that needs to be done so let's get these seals opened up and
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we'll be back in a moment all right so I guilted slick into coming over here and
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actually helping me which is his job so he's pointing the camera at stuff he's
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all like o my ARM's injured cuz I got in a bicycle
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accident as if that's an excuse actually
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his ARM's really badly injured if you watch sorry it's not funny but if you
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watched the live stream last week you can see it was in like a sling and stuff
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and now I've just got him like holding the camera it's only been like 4
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days um so we're finding some pretty cool stuff in here look at that very
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slim very small uh power adapter very
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nice I mean it's one thing when you have an Ultrabook notebook uh but it's a
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whole other thing when it comes with like a big brick old stupid power supply
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that's like big and stupid a brick so
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here's the included battery which is good for up to 9 hours of battery
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life it's swappable which is pretty leap
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if you want to sort of consider what's different about this from another Ultra
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Book it also has an optional what's
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called a slice battery which will give
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the notebook up to 19 hours of battery
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life should you choose to install that so check out how thin this battery is
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very cool stuff see there's the the old iPhone size comparison very very small
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and it's just it's phenomenally cool to me that you can just totally swap the
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battery out no big deal I mean most Ultra books you can't do that love that
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industry Trend started by the one and only Apple computer because they're
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awesome um that way and oh check this
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out very cool so again business class product so it has some different options
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that we're not used to seeing on consumer products it comes pre-installed
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with Windows 7 Pro however it also comes
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with a Windows 8 Pro DVD and license so
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what you can do is you can only install one of them at a time but you can
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uninstall Windows 7 Pro then install Windows 8 Pro and you can choose which
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of those two operating systems you want to use on your notebook and then you can
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even just uninstall Windows 8 and put Windows 7 back on it should you so
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desire which is very very cool so so the process of installing the battery is
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what we're going to do next not a lot included in terms of accessories however
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there's lots of optional accessories that you can get to go with it which
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again makes it kind of business class because the assumption is that unlike a
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consumer product it doesn't need to come with everything and that business users
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won't necessarily mind forking out for additional accessories so it is dock
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ready which means you can install it into DOC for additional IO and for the
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convenience of not having to plug and unplug your peripherals As you move
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around from the office to home or wherever else you need to go it also
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has yeah that was apparently not how to do it there now we're in place yep we're
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good it also has awesome IO so you've got three usb3 super speed ports two on
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this side DisplayPort and VGA VGA is still a huge Boon to business users
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because of the fact that as you're traveling lots of boardrooms lots of
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presentation rooms are still using older VGA projectors and if you show up with a
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notebook that doesn't have an analog output you're not going to be able to give your presentation
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so this guy will figure out in a moment full-sized Ethernet connector no sort of
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little connector hoo-ha doad thing going on here so it should be very durable
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you've also got an SD card reader right there hiding and on the back you have
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nothing except a look you Packard uh no
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no you're not looking at that it's okay finally we've got power in Kensington
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lock exhaust that other USB 3 super speed Port that I talked about as well
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as an integrated headphone microphone Jack wouldn't have minded seeing Two
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Jacks there if they' been able to get away with that sorry I messed that up
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before guys this right here is the connector for the optional extended
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battery that gives you up to 19 hours of battery life on this thing and this guy
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right here is actually the dot connector so I don't really use business model
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notebooks that much and I wasn't familiar with that thing so I'm quite
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sorry about that this guy over here is a smart card reader and that was where we
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left off and I think I'm caught up now so we can move around to the front where
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we have wireless power charging and disc activity LEDs let's go
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ahead and open this bad boy up where we find a matte screen again business
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options proper matte screen no glossy stuff going on in here we've also got a
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hardware button for turning the wireless on and off as well as a hardware mute
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button this is a really cool indicator right here this is to tell you if your
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touchpad is on or off so you can use the
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touchpad on or off hotkey in order to turn it on and off and then you'll
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actually know whether it's on and off you can see it's got a very business-like layout to the inside as
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well nice big touchpad and then you've got the option of either using buttons
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here or using the mouse nipple which is in the middle of the keyboard here to
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navigate and then using these two buttons here for your left and right
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click the keyboard is Led backlit you can see it's quite bright because even
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though I've got my studio lights on here it's uh very clearly illuminated I'm
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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
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so looks just um oh hold on they went
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away give it a sec let's wait till the machine boots up and then we'll be we'll
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be good to show that off okay so I figured it out it turns off as a power
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saving feature so you guys can see what it looks like normally aha see I wasn't
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crazy the LED backlight was on so it shines through the letters oh you can
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see the red light on the camera that's no good so it shines through the letters
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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
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utmost Darkness so you got a fingerprint reader here which is Handy for your
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biometric logins and all that and whatnots and HOAs and in terms of the
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overall layout of the keyboard it looks very strong so you got a long Enter key
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long backspace key long shift long shift
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and no cardinal sins committed in terms of the overall layout oh man that
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thing's solid I love Elite books um like
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there's there's sorry sorry for the noise guys but there's no flex
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whatsoever to this machine it is incredibly solidly built in spite of the
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fact it doesn't use that unibody design that was popular popularized by uh by
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our friends over at Apple just a sec which quite frankly isn't a very
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environmentally friendly way to manufacture laptops so it's uh it's just
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as well that hp's found a way to make a laptop not be manufactured that way and
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still be very very solid So speaking of our friends at Apple I'm going to go
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ahead and do the obligatory thickness comparison with the iPhone 4 this is a
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14-in notebook so the Ultrabook standard allows it to be a little bit thicker
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than Ultra books that are not 14 in um
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it has a 1366 X 768 display and it is hold on let's have
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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
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love nonn panels I mean that's the thing you get with Elite books is you get that
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slightly higher build quality versus the consumer grade stuff it has the trusted
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platform module chip embedded which gives you more security again this is a
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very corporate or oriented feature and what's cool about this touchpad is it
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will never ever wear out because it is chemically etched glass unlike most
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trackpads which you're using like a plastic or some kind of composite
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surface so it doesn't feel like glass but it's a little bit cold to the touch
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and it will never ever ever ever wear out which is very very very cool as well
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it has optional LTE support although that's not built into this particular
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model that I'm checking out let's see how the hinge feels we'll give it the
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old hinge abuse ah
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feels good actually feels quite solid and even the screen itself doesn't have
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that much Flex either check this out so it's very very thin see there's the old
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iPhone comparison very thin however see how
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much Flex there is there's a little bit but there's no getting away from that
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and really not that much very very nice
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let's see if there's any look at that you don't even get any discoloration on
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the screen when you do that that's outstanding very very nice all right so
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