HP 840 Elitebook is business class of laptops
which offers nice looking design, good processor
which will easily handle all office tasks
and long battery life for this type of device.
This video will review some of the good and
not so good features of this notebook.
Note that HP 840 has no DVI port, so if you want to use external monitor with DVi connector,
you will need display port to DVI adapter.
One of the best features of this laptop is
battery life.
HP CM03XL 3 cell battery offers in practice
5-7 hours of work with wi-fi on depending
on how intensive device is used in this period
of time.
Integrated web camera has a good 720p picture
and integrated mic sound quality is more than
enough for a conference or skype calls.
Keyboard has adjustable background lights
and the keys on the keyboard are probably
best laptop keys i ever tried.
Just a right amount of pressure is needed
and response from the keys is very good so
there is a little doubt was you input successfully
received or not.
Touchpad is sensitive and responds well even
on slight touch.
Top and bottom input buttons are easy to reach
and can be used as preffered by user.
Screen is not a FULL HD - actually it is 1600x900
resolution and brightness and viewing angles
are not very good.
HW specificaton of this laptop:
Intel i5-5300U 4 core processor
8 GB of RAM in single slot - so no dual channel
advantages unless additional memory is purchased
and installed.
Integrated intel 5500 graphic card
Samsung SSD drive with capacity of 256 GB
4G modem which you can use to connect to internet
via SIM card
Overall performance of the system when it
comes to the office work is very good.
Laptop works without any issues or staggerings,
office applications are starting fast and
8GB of RAM is more than enough to support
multiple applications running in the same
time without any issues.
When it comes to multimedia, HP 840 G2 is
borderline capable to play even 4K videos
without staggering.
We detected some small frame skipping when
4K video is played but in general even though
it was not completely smooth experience, it
was possible to view 4K video.
In next minutes i will perform some detailed
performance tests.
If you are not interested in details you can
skip to end of video for final conclusions.
CPU-z benchmark test shows that I5-5300U has
good single thread performances but multi-threading
is not even close to be good as on some desktop
rivals.
Next tests performed are done in PassMark
performance tests tool.
CPU mark is pretty good considering that this
CPU is made for mobile devices with power
saving in mind.
Memory mark is excellent and it would be even
better if second slot is installed and dual
channel is activated.
SSD offers good performance and even though
in this test it has average results, in practice
i am very happy with how fast this SSD performs.
It takes just above 1 minute to start W7 and
load first applications.
While 2D graphic results were surprisingly
good it needs to be pointed that this laptop
has integrated Intel 5500 graphic chip and
it is not made with gaming in mind.
This is obvious as well from 3D performance
test results.
If you plan to use laptop for gaming, integrated
intel graphic card is not a good choice and
you should select some of the models with
better Nvidia or AMD graphic cards.
Of course, you will be able to play some older
3D releases of the games but newer games will
probably be too much for HP 840 G2.
Last but not the least - BEER SPILL TEST!
What happens if you accidentally spill some
beer on this laptop?
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