1: Preamble
With the continuous improvement of hardware parameters, people tend to put performance first when choosing laptops, and pay more attention to their size and endurance. After all, for most white-collar workers and text workers, whether the laptops are thin enough and whether the endurance lasts has a decisive impact on their daily carrying and work efficiency, HP EliteBook As the benchmark series of its ultrabooks, it also launched its latest products- EliteBook 1030 G1 Can its performance meet people's expectations?
2: Product specification
Specifications EliteBook 1030 adopts Core M5-6Y57 and M7-6Y75 processors based on Intel's latest sixth generation Skylake architecture; In terms of memory, 8GB and 16GB are available; The screen is 13.3 inches and has two versions to choose from. It is a non touch full HD (1920 × 1080) screen and a touch enabled QHD+(3200 × 1800) screen, with a narrow frame design; The maximum capacity of hard disk is 512GB; The weight is 1.19 kg, and the thickness of the fuselage is about 15.7 mm; The official battery life is 13 hours.
3: Appearance introduction
The packing box is simple and crude. It is wrapped in kraft paper with HP's logo printed on it.
The configuration is relatively simple. There is no such thing as the power adapter and San Bao certificate.
The power adapter is a traditional model. Although it is small, it does not take much care of the line management. The output power is 65W.
The A side of HP EliteBook 1030 is made of metal and anodized, which makes it feel delicate. The middle of the A side is a mirror HP LOGO. The visual effect is very grand, and it also fits the business positioning.
From left to right on the left side of the notebook are security lock, HDMI interface, USB3.0 interface and type-c interface. As a new generation of notebook, the standard type-c interface is worth praising. After all, with the popularization of type-c interface, its use will be more and more.
From left to right on the right side of the notebook are 3.5mm headphone jack, USB3.0 interface, expansion dock interface and power interface.
The overall line of HP EliteBook is very beautiful, and the design of buttocks is also the finishing touch. With the design of narrowing in the front of the body, the EliteBook 1030 is not only thin, but also does not hurt the hand when being held.
The D side of the EliteBook 1030 is made of skin like material, which feels good, but it is really a fingerprint collector.
The maximum opening and closing angle of the notebook is displayed.
The shaft showed that it had a good damping and was quite firm. At that time, it was still not good to open and close with one hand, and the bottom would turn up at a certain angle.
For B-side display, the EliteBook 1030 adopts a narrow border design on the screen, which is very impressive in visual effect.
The top of the B side is MIC and camera, and the bottom is HP LOGO.
Side C and side A are both made of metal. The anodized surface and the large area of palm rest are very comfortable.
The power key is placed in the upper left corner of side B.
A loudspeaker hole is made on the top of side B, and the logo of B&O is marked on the right side.
The keyboard is designed as a chocolate floating island. The key stroke is good, but it is easy to grease by visual inspection as time goes by.
The touch control board is made of the same metal material, which has a fine feel and a standard area.
A scratch fingerprint identification module is integrated at the lower right of side B. Although it is a pity that no touch fingerprint identification module is used, it is still possible to unlock the system successfully after two actual measurements.
Keyboard light effect display.
4: Performance demonstration
HP EliteBook 1030 is pre installed with Windows 10 Home Edition, and this round of testing will also be conducted based on Windows 10 Home Edition.
HP EliteBook 1030 location-based business still has many practical customized applications pre installed. Users can quickly update, backup, reply and relational systems, greatly saving the trouble of being set by the system.
In terms of processors, HP EliteBook 1030 has two versions of Core M5-6Y57 and M7-6Y75 processors. This test model uses the Core M5-6Y57 processor, which can run at a maximum frequency of 2.8GHz, with a power consumption of only 4.5W, which can be said to be a processor with high energy consumption ratio.
The content does not use the latest DDR4 memory, which is a dual channel DDR3 1866 8GB.
The GPU is the HD515 built-in to the Core M5-6Y57 processor.
The hard disk is Samsung's MZNLN256HCHP-000H1 SSD, with a capacity of 256GB.
Solid state hard disk reading and writing performance test, with satisfactory results.
PCMark 8 Home conventional 3.0 scored 2540
PCMark 8 Creative conventional 3.0 scored 2406.
PCMark 8 Work conventional 3.0 scored 2786.
The score of 3DMark running Fire Strike: 759.
Score of 3DMark running Fire Strike Extreme: 357.
Score of 3DMark running Fire Strike Ultra: 172.
Cinebench R15 test results show that OpenGL is 37.68fps and CPU is 260cb.
In terms of endurance, we fixed the brightness of the screen to 50%, broadcast Youku online videos until 10% of the battery was left, and the test result was 6 hours and 48 minutes. The result was very excellent, which can be regarded as a big stone for business people.
5: Heat dissipation and noise
Since HP EliteBook 1030 is fan free, no noise test is conducted for the EliteBook 1030 in this test.
The standby temperature of the whole machine is about 37 ℃.
After 20 minutes of baking, the temperature of the full load is about 60 degrees, which is good.
After passing through the baking machine for 30 minutes, the maximum temperature of HP EliteBook 1030 surface C is finally measured as 40.1 ℃
The maximum temperature of plane D is 43.1 degrees. As a fan free design notebook, the temperature performance is very excellent.
6: Screen test
In terms of screen test, CalMAN 5 Home Theater is used for test, and all tests are conducted under 100 nits.
The color temperature of the screen is 7178K, which is cooler than the conventional 6500K.
The maximum brightness of the screen is 356.08 nits, and the contrast is 1127:1.
The color gamut of the screen is 83.8% sRGB and 71.4% Adobe RGB.
The EliteBook 1030 is excellent in terms of color accuracy, Avg deltaE：2.8，Max deltaE：5.2
7: Summary
Compared with performance, business people may pay more attention to its size and endurance. After all, no matter how fast it runs, it is useless to run without power. If it is too heavy, you have no courage to go out with it. If you add excellent appearance design and materials on the basis of frivolity, it will be even better. No doubt HP EliteBook 1030 is aimed at the pain points of business people, The simple but not simple appearance design, the metal body material, the narrow border display screen and so on make the EliteBook 1030 a little fresh meat in the Ultrabook, and the balanced hardware configuration, reliable endurance performance and only 1.19 kg of volume and weight make it a trusted partner of users. If you want to purchase an Ultrabook in the near future, HP EliteBook 1030 is believed to be a good choice. You can try it
