HP EliteBook 850 G1-H5G44ET

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Reviews for the HP EliteBook 850 G1-H5G44ET

70% HP EliteBook 850 G1
Source: PC Mag Archive.org version
The HP EliteBook 850 G1 is an IT serviceable and user friendly business ultrabook. Easy access to the chassis for upgrades and servicing can make up for shortcomings, like the system's middling battery life, at least to the IT staff supporting your users. However, that's not nearly enough to trump our Editors' Choice for business ultrabooks, the Dell Latitude E7440 Touch, which is thinner and lighter, has a Windows 8-friendly touch screen, a higher-capacity SSD, an HDMI port, and delivers almost an hour more of battery life.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 06/12/2014
Rating: Total score: 70%

81% HP EliteBook 850 Review
Source: Notebookreview.com Archive.org version
The HP EliteBook 850 sets the benchmark for business Ultrabooks; it manages to incorporate state-of-the-art technology in a well-designed chassis that has respectable battery life and performance. Continuing our long list of likes for this model are its good backlit keyboard, excellent touchpad and high-end business features such as a Smartcard reader, Intel vPro technology, dedicated docking station connector, built-in mobile broadband and exceptional access to internal components via its tool-less bottom panel. Our major gripe with the EliteBook 850 is its lackluster display; it needs a contrast and saturation boost.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/06/2014
Rating: Total score: 81%

80% HP EliteBook 850 G1
Source: Laptop Mag Archive.org version
The $1,614 HP EliteBook 850 is one of the best 15-inch business notebooks money can buy. It offers robust security, long battery life and a luminous display for the price.Geared toward those who want control over their files, the notebook comes with a removable bottom for swapping out your hard drive and HP's Trust Circles encryption software to ensure only approved contacts see your confidential content.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/31/2014
Rating: Total score: 80%

Foreign Reviews

Recenze: HP EliteBook 850 - hi-end business po výrazném odtučnění
Source: Notebook.cz CZ→EN Archive.org version
Positive: Comfortable large touchpad; full equipment in a slim body; long battery life. Negative: Poor image quality of the display; speakers; hot under load.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/10/2013

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Model:

The HP EliteBook 850 G1-H5G44ET is the highest specification version of the HP EliteBook series. The laptop comes with an Intel Core i7-4600U, which is the one of the best processors in the market today. With 8 GB of RAM, performance on this machine is guaranteed to make your day. Even gamers will be satisfied with this machine with the secondary Radeon HD 8750M graphics card ensuring games can be played at ultra-high settings without any issue.

The 15 inch notebook has a resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels, providing full HD for the users. Also, the HP EliteBook 850 G1-H5G44ET uses SSD instead of HDD which makes the machine run faster as well. Sadly, because it has such high hardware, the battery life for this machine isn't impressive. It can last 9 hours at most, without any load. It has 4 USB 3.0 ports, a VGA port and the basic audio connections. However, there is no Ethernet port. WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 are support though.

All in all, the HP EliteBook 850 G1-H5G44ET is a great high-end machine for those who require the best of the best from their notebooks. However, the price of this model is steep.

AMD Radeon HD 8750M: Mid-range graphics card based on the GCN architecture.

Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

Intel Core i7: The Intel Core i7 for laptops is based on the LG1156 Core i5/i7 CPU for desktops. The base clock speed of the CPUs is relatively low, but because of a huge Turbo mode, the cores can dynamically overclock to up to 3.2 GHz (920XM). Therefore, the CPU can be as fast as high clocked dual-core CPUs (using single threaded applications) but still offer the advantage of 4 cores. Because of the large TDP of 45 W / 55 W, the CPU is only intended for large laptops.  

4600U:

A Haswell-based ULV dual-core processor clocked at 2.1 GHz with Turbo Boost support up to 3.3 GHz. Offers an integrated HD Graphics 4400 and a dual-channel DDR3 memory controller.

15.60":

15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.

The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.

HP: Founded in 1939, the US company is a major server and printer manufacturer and one of the leading IT companies in the world. Until 2015, the company was called Hewlett-Packard Company. After a split, the computer division was renamed HP Inc.

In 2023, HP had an approximate market share of 22% of global PC sales, making it number 2 after Lenovo.

78.75%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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