In 2017, AMD saved the situation through Ryzen processor at one fell swoop. In the second half of the year, it integrated Vega to launch mobile processor APUs - Ryzen 5 2500U and Ryzen 7 2700U, making it a competitive product with Intel in the mobile field. Hewlett Packard also took this opportunity to launch the EliteBook 700 series, which focuses on high-end lightweight business notebooks. Can this new core of Ruilong support this task?
Classic business style
In a word, the appearance design of the EliteBook 700 series is a classic business model. The EliteBook 735 G5 adopts aviation aluminum alloy for CNC integrated molding, and the whole series is silver all metal body. On the A side, there are only four new straight logos of HP, which are very simple.
There is a fingerprint identification module at the bottom right of the C side keyboard area. With the development of the times, press fingerprint identification is used. Unfortunately, it is not integrated with the power key like smart phones.
As a business book, EliteBook understands user needs very well. There are independent left and right mouse buttons on the top of the touch pad, and there is also a pointer in the keyboard area. It would be better if it could be equipped with a middle button.
The EliteBook 735 is equipped with a splash proof keyboard as standard, with a water guide hole design, which can reduce the loss caused by accidental splash. This is the keyboard outlet on the D side, which can be said to highlight the business attributes.
Another outstanding business attribute is the privacy camera, which can physically shield the front camera (essentially a sliding paddle). At the same time, it is equipped with an infrared camera for unlocking Windows Hello.
The left side is mainly equipped with heat sink, USB 3.0 interface and SmartCard slot; On the right is the power interface USB Type-C、 Dedicated docking station interface, RJ45 network cable interface, HDMI, USB 3.0 interface, 3.5mm headset interface and SIM card slot. This interface configuration is really very commercial. It is worth mentioning that the USB Type-C interface can be used for fast charging, which can be said to be very conscientious.
The opening and closing angle of the shaft is about 140 degrees. Although it is not very wide, it is no problem to meet the general use needs.
Business should have a screen
One of the selling points of HP EliteBook 735 is the screen, which is advertised as "1080P wide angle fog screen, 100% sRGB color gamut, 400 nits". Can the actual performance meet the standard?
In the test, the default color temperature of the screen EliteBook 735 is 6656K, which is close to the standard 6500K, covering 95.4% sRGB color gamut, and basically consistent with the parameters publicized by the official. The contrast is 1146:1, and the maximum brightness reaches 450 nits, even exceeding the official level.
In terms of color calibration, the average DeltaE is 5 without calibration, and the maximum DeltaE is 12.2, which is an acceptable level in the notebook screen. If color calibration is possible, I believe this screen will perform better.
The advantages brought by the wide-angle fog screen are naturally the visual angle and the problem of anti reflection glare. This is more practical for business people who need to work on the move. The author did not have the glare problem of XPS when using it outside, which is very good. In general, this screen is qualified for business oriented notebooks. Compared with the shrinking of some manufacturers' screens, the EliteBook 735 has responded well.
Performance of Ruilong Core
The EliteBook 700 series uses a new AMD Reelung processor, and the APUs provided are Ryzen 5 2500U and Ryzen 7 2700U. The EliteBook 735 in this test is equipped with Ryzen 5 2500U. Perhaps it was frightened by the single channel memory provided by friends before. HP clearly said that the whole system is full of dual channel memory, and it will try its best to give full play to the strength of Reebok. So can AMD, the new APU, compete with Intel?
Before the actual test, let's take a look at the specifications of Ryzen 5 2500U. This APU is a 4-core, 8-thread, 14nm process, with a reference clock frequency of 2.0GHz, a maximum acceleration clock frequency of 3.6GHz, an integrated Vega 8 Graphics GPU, and a graphics card frequency of 1100MHz. The default TDP is 15W, and the memory supports a maximum of dual channel DDR4 2400MHz. HP said that the EliteBook 700 series is equipped with Ryzen Pro, and the maximum TDP is 30W higher than the normal version of 25W.
Under the new "Zen" core architecture, AMD has demonstrated its strength on desktop processors. Will its performance on mobile processors be affected by power consumption? In the test of Cinebench R15, the CPU performance of Ryzen 5 2500U exceeded 600cb, and its performance was no less than that of Intel's Core i5-8250U, and even close to that of i7-8550U. It can completely benchmark the competitive products at the same level.
In terms of graphics cards, 3DDraw scored more than 11000 points in the Cloud Gate test and 2077 in the Fire Strike test. Although it is slightly less than the current common MX150, it is a default TDP 15W integrated display! For a business notebook, such image processing capability can already meet the requirements. Even in the face of some large-scale 3D games, it is possible to play smoothly even if the picture quality is slightly reduced.
Experience with Blizzard's watch leader. Under the condition of setting 1080P resolution and high image quality, the frame number is basically kept at about 45 frames, and it will be reduced to about 38 frames during the group war. Ordinary play is no problem. If you are not satisfied with this performance, you can directly adjust it to medium quality, which can maintain 60 frames of operation throughout the whole process. As a business oriented product, this performance has been very good.
After half an hour of the game, the left heat sink heats up significantly, and the keyboard surface heats up slightly but does not affect the game or normal use. The heat dissipation is OK; When running at full speed, you can hear the noise of the fan, and the perception of the normal office environment is not obvious. The actual performance of AMD, the sharp dragon, is not inferior to that of Intel at the same level, which can be said to be quite surprising.
In terms of hard disk, HP said that it is equipped with enterprise class Turbo Drive PCIe hard disk, whose read and write performance is twice that of ordinary PCIe and six times that of SATA solid state disk. The actually measured 512GB version has a read/write speed of 2863MB/s and 1625MB/s. There is no need to worry about the performance. Notebooks at the same price are all first tier players.
Expandability and security
As HP's business book series, the EliteBook 700 is different from ordinary notebooks in standard. For example, it passed the MIL-STD-810G military level test standard of the US Department of Defense, providing better reliability. At the same time, facing the various needs of business people in different places, HP has also provided EliteBook with a dedicated slim expansion dock, so that users can expand and supplement according to their own needs to meet different business office environments.
An anti splash keyboard with a water guide hole is also set to reduce the loss caused by accidental splashing; Equipped with fingerprint identification and infrared camera, complete biometric technology; The front camera, which is physically hidden, can better protect privacy. These are some unique features of EliteBook.
summary
After HP EliteBook 700 series is replaced with AMD processor, it can have more space to equip with other hardware to strengthen its competitiveness under the condition that the guarantee can be used. For example, the screen with high color gamut, fingerprint identification and the addition of infrared cameras, while the hidden camera, splash proof keyboard and other special equipment also highlight the business attributes, which are the advantages of the EliteBook 700. As the product of AMD Reelong on the mobile platform, its competitiveness is not weak compared with that of the Intel camp, and it is considering that the business book is worth a try.
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