What's up guys Matthew Monis here and last week I was in New York for the HP event
This event was showcasing all the HP's latest and greatest laptops that are coming out on the market
There was tons of stuff to talk about but the one that stood out to me was a brand new product
By HP called the Elite Book 1050
G1. This is very special because it's it's in the exact same category as the Dell XPS 15 and
The ASUS Zen Book Pro you see this category is a special category because it offers laptops that are very powerful
With good GPUs, but yet maintain a very small and portable form factor
The reason why these are special is because they use the brand new six core CPUs from Intel up until now
We've been using 'U' series CPUs
These are great for battery life
But they just don't have the power that the newer
CPUs have .Now The elite book is pretty much the exact same size as the Dell XPS 15. It doesn't look as refined
But it is made out of CNC machined aluminum, which means it's a lot more durable and as it should be since it's a business
Laptop, you kind of get the same amount of ports
You get two USB 3.0 ports instead of only having one
USB type-c port like you do on the XPS 15 you get two of them instead
They're all Thunderbolt three, which means you have four PCIe lanes
So if whatever reason down the road you want to hook up a more powerful
GPU you have the option to do so now I couldn't take it apart, which is unfortunate
That would have been great to see the insides of it
You're gonna have to wait for the review for that
But you can put up to two SSDs inside so you can have your main drive pop in a second one
You'll have to worry about carrying an external drive sound is hard to tell I didn't get a chance to listen to it
But you do get Forward facing speakers
They're fine-tuned by Bang & Olufsen
But the craziest thing is that you get a third microphone on the back of the laptop
This microphone does two things that are important. The first one is it blocks out noise from your surroundings
So imagine you're at a coffee shop, you're talking to a very important client and that coffee shop itself is very loud
The microphone will block that out
but let's say you're in a conference room and you have your
Associates behind you and they're talking and you want the person on the other end
To hear them you can enable the microphone to amplify that sound and hear them clearly
the display is gonna be 15 inches just like the XPS 15 you can buy it with a full HD or a
4k display in terms of brightness
It gets pretty bright at 400 nits of brightness, but there is a 700 nit option which gets really bright. There's not too many
700 nits laptops on the market like the most
Brightness, I've seen at a laptop recently is on the huawei mate book X Pro that gets around 500 nits of brightness
So very good for outdoors
now some of you are gonna say Matt those bezels are thick compared to the XPS 15 and quite frankly they are but they're not
Thick to the point where it's unbearable to look at they're still fairly thin and to be quite honest
I'd rather have a webcam place on top of the laptop then below staring at my nose
Performance should be great
You're getting the new six core CPUs from Intel than have higher clock speeds in the U series
The only downfall is you do get a little bit less battery life
You can spec with an i5 8300 H all the way up to an i7
8850 H now in terms of GPU you can buy it without one or if you want you get with the GTX
1050 I kind of wish you'd go with a 10 60 or at least a 1050 Ti
But I do understand why there's only a 1050 inside when you get this thin you want to keep thermals pretty low
So that pretty much wraps up my hands-on in first impressions of the EliteBook 1050 g1
I'm very curious how this performs compared to the Dell XPS 15 based on what I see is it slightly?
weaker than the XPS 15
But you get more security features and is gonna start at 1899, which is a little bit expensive, but it's expected
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