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 nubin 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
[Laughter]
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 4818 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 himdes 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
warmish 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 4 700 u
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 bang and all of some tuned
audio
whereas the pro book does not it doesn't
sound bad or anything
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it's just not quite as as full sounding
as
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 uh
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 oh that's really bad buy a new one
from my
ltp store.com 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 knit 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 it's 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
elite book 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