In recent years, the HP EliteBook high-end business line has been well-known for its stylish appearance, superior performance, proven technology, and high-end positioning. As early as the end of 2011, Hewlett-Packard took the lead to respond positively to the demand for ultrabooks in the business sector. The then-produced Folio 13 had a lightweight, slim body, superior battery life, and strong security performance. The elite brings a portable and efficient all-round mobile office experience.
Over the past five years, HP has continuously innovated its technology, pursued design, improved performance, and created a user-friendly business product for generations. On April 7, 2016, Hewlett-Packard held a new HP Asia Pacific conference in the Macau Special Administrative Region of China, and once again introduced the HP EliteBook series of new personal system innovation devices. Today's Xiaobian review is HP's newly released HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3. Business Edition, let us now take a look at its specific evaluation performance!
In the past, many PC makers developed their business books too often in pursuit of business performance, but they downplayed the design of the business book. This has led many users to create a “business is ugly†mentality. However, in this day when the user is more and more individualized, high face value has undoubtedly become one of the important factors that drive consumer growth. In terms of design, the HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3 is very decent, adhering to HP's silver fashion look: whether it is business people, or company white-collar workers, bring the 1040 G3, will not lose their identity.
Portability is an important consideration for consumers to purchase business. The HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3 is only 15.8mm thick and weighs 1.43Kg. The 14-15 inch body size fits easily into the bag and is lightweight. Whether it's traveling on a plane, high-speed rail, or commuting to commute buses, subways, or going out to work, you can easily get in and out, which is quite convenient and easy to use.
Overall, the HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3's silver color looks very temperament. Its all-metal body uses CNC diamond cutting technology, as if it is an eye-catching artwork. At the same time, the design is simple and stylish, the only HP LOGO on the top cover also retains its silver classic, simple but not monotonous. In addition, the sleek bezel design makes it look less sharp and softer.
Open the top cover we can see a 14-inch 1080P full HD display, which uses LED backlight anti-vertigo technology, when changing the perspective, the reflected light does not have too much reduction, consumers can watch movies and other video content more clearly.
The 720 HD camera just above the B-side screen and the white HP LOGO right below are common design styles for HP notebooks.
C-surface keyboard, HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3 uses an island-style keyboard design, and joined the splash-proof design, which can effectively avoid accidental equipment loss. Because of the size of the body, there is no full keyboard design, but at the same time it also brings a larger keycap key. From the actual use of the feeling, the key path is shorter but very powerful, and the use of hand is still very Nice. In addition, the keycap has a DuraKeys coating, so that the font does not fall off, and the keycap is not easy to wear.
Just above the C-surface keyboard, the HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3 retains the design of the previous EliteBook series with an entire speaker opening, which means that with HP noise reduction software and Bang & Olufsen audio devices will have a good sound performance for consumption The player brought a sound effect.
Keyboard switch button in the upper left corner
The two buttons in the upper right corner of the keyboard are the wireless network switch and the independent mute button. "Simple and crude", one button is set, and the consumers will not be rushed by the hurry to close the voice.
The HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3 touchpad is a one-piece design, with a large area and a very good touch, but it is limited to a slightly smaller part of the body, but I believe it will not affect the user's use. After all, most notebook users will use an external mouse. The touchpad is just for the occasion.
The position of the palm rest on the left side of the C plane we can see a small logo of the EliteBook, which is the common logo design position for the HP EliteBook business series products.
In addition to our common Intel logo, the right side of the right side of the C surface has a bar-shaped small mouth. This is a fingerprint identification device that has recently appeared in Hewlett-Packard products. The presence of fingerprint locks provides more secure protection for user information. Imagine a person who is away from home and on a business trip. Sometimes personal office computers contain business secrets. Fingerprint locks are one of the best ways to help protect your business data.
At the bottom of the HP EliteBook 1040 Folio G3, we can see some conventional cooling vents. The upper right corner is the main cooling opening. The machine uses an air-cooled cooling system that can effectively maintain the low temperature of the computer. In addition, the D-plane bottom shell aluminum-magnesium alloy The material can also be more thermally conductive to the outside to reduce the heat inside the fuselage.
Overall, the design of the HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3 Business Ultrabook is remarkable, and there is no shortage of business fashion. In addition, the ultra-thin body also brings consumers a more portable experience.
Interface: Sparrow is small, fully-equipped
Often thin and light products will cast some interfaces, but HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3 is not the case, under the thin body, the interface is relatively rich, fully meet the needs of the user's daily business office, the following together to see it!
In addition to the cooling window on the left side of the fuselage, it also includes a USB 3.0 port, a headphone microphone combo jack, and a Smart Card slot. The Smart Card can be customized to be more common in security and professional fields.
The right side of the fuselage is equipped with a power jack, a USB 3.0 interface, a Type C USB 3.1 interface, and an HDMI interface. Among them, the maximum transmission speed of the USB Type-C interface is twice that of the current USB 3.0, and it supports the "positive and negative insertion" function. In addition, HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3 also supports HP ultra-thin side docking station, VGA + dual DisplayPort interface, can easily expand the display on three screens.
Benchmark performance test:
As a small-size ultrabook product, the performance profile of the HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3 is still very interesting. One of the biggest highlights is that it is equipped with the latest 6th generation Core Duo processor on the current mobile platform. This machine is equipped with an Intel Core i5-6200U processor, and the performance is still very good.
i5-6200U processor adopts Skylake architecture, 14-nanometer technology, 2 cores and 4 threads, clocked at 2.3GHz, and supports up to 16GB DDR4 memory. DDR4 matches the sixth-generation Core processor with higher frequency and the same core frequency. The theoretical speed is twice as fast as DDR3, with a larger bandwidth, lower power consumption, and more energy efficiency.
AIDA64 as an authoritative system detection software, it can display detailed information on every aspect of the PC. The software's own GPU benchmark evaluation mainly evaluates the general computing power of the CPU and GPU.
The software's own Memory Latency evaluation can directly show the performance of the memory subsystem by evaluating the memory latency.
Here we test the CPU with CINEBENCH:
CineBench R15 can support up to 256 logic cores compared to up to 16 cores in CineBench R11.5. In addition, the investigation of shaders, anti-aliasing, shadows, lights, and reflection blur was strengthened, and the detection of CPU performance was more accurate.
Fritz Chess Benchmark is often used to test the scientific computing capabilities of computers.
Single-core chess and multi-core chess
Here we use PCmark7 to test the use of the whole machine:
From the PCMark7 test, the aircraft received a high score of 5026. This score reflects the cooperation of the aircraft in all aspects.
Then we tested the machine with PCmark 8-point environment.
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The HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3 is not equipped with a discrete graphics card here, but this does not mean that the graphics performance of the aircraft is very poor. Here we test the graphics performance of this machine with the new 3DMark.
In addition to the test scores, the new 3DMark will also give a real-time graph during each test period, recording the frame rate, CPU temperature, GPU temperature, and CPU power consumption. The new version of 3Dmark is also the first choice for graphics card running points.
The scores of the new 3Dmark can be seen to be good, and regular games are fully capable.
The 3D Mark 11's running score can objectively evaluate the performance level of the graphics card and can test the 3D performance of the machine from different levels. The P's score is 1499.
The HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3 uses a 256G solid-state drive, which isn't big, but it's enough for business use. Let's take a look at the performance of this SSD. Here we use HD tune software, which is a very easy-to-use hard disk utility software, its main functions are hard disk transmission rate detection, health detection, temperature detection and disk surface scanning.
In HD tune test of the hard disk, we can see that this hard drive's minimum transfer speed is 80.5MB/sec, the maximum is 377.0MB/sec, and its average speed is also 349.3MB/sec. It can be said that the performance is very good.
Finally, we used PCMark 8 to test the aircraft's battery life.
From the perspective of endurance, the HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3's life time of approximately 7 hours or more is definitely a good result for the Business Edition. Of course, it depends on the specific usage.
The total number of HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3 from the results of running points to see its overall performance is still very balanced, as a flagship business ultrabook, this performance is still very satisfactory.
Evaluation summary:
The HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3 is part of the HP EliteBook series of business notebooks, inheriting the exceptional quality of the series. The appearance of fashionable business with a portable body is very suitable for traveling on business trips. The long battery life lays the foundation for mobile office. The fingerprint identification system also ensures the security of user information. In terms of performance, the combination of Intel's sixth-generation Core i5 processor i5-6200U, 8G DDR4 high-speed memory, and 256G solid-state drive is sufficient for any day-to-day business and office environment. If you are interested in purchasing a new machine recently, you may wish to consider this new business book!