HP EliteBook Folio 13.5-3G2L2EA

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Reviews for the HP EliteBook Folio 13.5-3G2L2EA

80% HP Elite Folio review: A groundbreaking 2-in-1
Source: Expert Reviews
The Elite Folio is a stylish, super-light convertible ideal for anyone who needs to run basic productivity and communication applications while on the go and is buying on the company tab or has deep pockets. With the 5G model with a 512GB SSD costing nearly £2,500, it’s hardly the most affordable option. The design is very clever and well executed and the build quality is impressive. The 16:10 display doesn’t let the side down, nor does the fine speaker system, while the cleverly housed stylus is a real bonus. And then there’s that battery life. I’ll forgive all the compromises of Windows-on-ARM for a 17-and-a-half-hour run time.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 12/07/2021
Rating: Total score: 80%

80% HP Elite Folio review: Get a BIG Cyber Monday saving on this ground breaking 2-in-1
Source: Expert Reviews
The Elite Folio is a stylish, super-light convertible ideal for anyone who needs to run basic productivity and communication applications while on the go and is buying on the company tab or has deep pockets. With the 5G model with a 512GB SSD costing nearly £2,500, it’s hardly the most affordable option. The design is very clever and well executed and the build quality is impressive. The 16:10 display doesn’t let the side down, nor does the fine speaker system, while the cleverly housed stylus is a real bonus. And then there’s that battery life. I’ll forgive all the compromises of Windows-on-ARM for a 17-and-a-half-hour run time.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 11/29/2021
Rating: Total score: 80%

60% HP Elite Folio Review
Source: Trusted Reviews
The HP Elite range is usually home to HP’s most business-focused laptops, but the Elite Folio is more of a lifestyle statement piece. It has a synthetic leather outer, an inner pen slot and a designer-style hybrid hinge. For low-key work needs it fits the bill, and ultra-long battery life is dreamy for frequent travellers. However, the HP Elite Folio’s app support is much more limited than that of an Intel or AMD CPU laptop. And while a lot of the key packages are supported, including Photoshop, its performance with intensive image editing, layer-based digital artwork or video editing isn’t really good enough to justify the cost.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 11/22/2021
Rating: Total score: 60%

80% HP Elite Folio review: Funky foldaway screen redefines the convertible
Source: Expert Reviews
The Elite Folio is a stylish, super-light convertible ideal for anyone who needs to run basic productivity and communication applications while on the go and is buying on the company tab or has deep pockets. With the 5G model with a 512GB SSD costing nearly £2,500, it’s hardly the most affordable option. The design is very clever and well executed and the build quality is impressive. The 16:10 display doesn’t let the side down, nor does the fine speaker system, while the cleverly housed stylus is a real bonus. And then there’s that battery life. I’ll forgive all the compromises of Windows-on-ARM for a 17-and-a-half-hour run time.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/22/2021
Rating: Total score: 80%

75% HP Elite Folio Review: Style Over Substance
Source: The Verge
That doesn’t mean the Elite Folio is a bad laptop. It could be a great choice for people with light day-to-day tasks who are mostly working in a few tabs at a time, or who do a lot of drawing and note-taking on the move and would use the easel form. Folks who value style and presentation over other characteristics should also give it a look. It’s a gorgeous product to hold and play around with. If I got it for free, I’d bring it everywhere I went. But if you’re considering buying the Folio, you should try the device yourself if you can or (and I know I’m biased here) read a bunch of reviews before you do so. Just make sure you won’t be caught off-guard by the slower performance, and that any apps you use can work as you need them to. Otherwise, you’re looking at a lot of wasted money.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/12/2021
Rating: Total score: 75%

70% HP Elite Folio review: Extreme mobility for a price
Source: PC World
The HP Elite Folio’s remaining sticking point is its price. Say what you will about Microsoft’s Surface Pro X—it uses a slightly slower chip, and the battery life wasn’t nearly what we hoped for. But, depending upon the configuration, it costs half as much as the HP Elite Folio. Even a 14-inch laptop like the $1,400 LG Gram is cheaper, lighter, and faster, though battery life suffers a bit. Our current champion of the thin-and-light category is the HP Spectre x360 14 1Q881AV, a $1,200-$1,400 alternative that folds back into tablet mode for inking.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/05/2021
Rating: Total score: 70%

HP Elite Folio review: Extreme mobility for a price
Source: Good Gear Guide
The HP Elite Folio’s remaining sticking point is its price. Say what you will about Microsoft’s Surface Pro X—it uses a slightly slower chip, and the battery life wasn’t nearly what we hoped for. But, depending upon the configuration, it costs half as much as the HP Elite Folio. Even a 14-inch laptop like the US$1,400 LG Gram is cheaper, lighter, and faster, though battery life suffers a bit. Our current champion of the thin-and-light category is the HP Spectre x360 14 1Q881AV, a US$1,200-$1,400 alternative that folds back into tablet mode for inking. All-day battery life and connectivity? If the latter factors are your priority, the superb Dell Latitude 9510 offers both 4G/5G options and true 24-hour battery life for US$1,599 at press time, though it also weighs a pound more. Our current pick for the best Windows tablet, the Microsoft Surface Pro 7+, may be priced extravagantly as well—about US$1,650 at press time—but it’s vastly faster than the Elite Folio.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/05/2021

HP Elite Folio review: A costly hodgepodge of mobile-centric features
Source: Engadget
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/21/2021

72% HP Elite Folio review: A costly hodgepodge of mobile-centric features
Source: Engadget
There’s a lot to like about the Elite Folio — its unique design, handy stylus, good battery life and cellular connectivity are great. But I cannot, in good conscience, tell you to shell out $1,889 for a Windows on ARM machine until Microsoft improves the system. Sure, HP isn’t exactly targeting the average consumer since this falls under its "Elite" line of commercial notebooks but in this case that mostly just means the Folio has IT deployment friendly software and security. It’s still too much money for a laptop that starts out with a messy OS, and the Elite Folio doesn’t do enough to overcome that disadvantage.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/21/2021
Rating: Total score: 72%

HP Elite Folio Review- Vegan Leather-Clad Snapdragon Laptop with 5G
Source: Mobile Tech Review
The Elite Folio is the business version of the HP Spectre Folio and it features a vegan leather clad magnesium alloy chassis, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 CPU and 4G and 5G WWAN options, up to 16GB RAM and an NVMe SSD. HP offers 400 nit and 1,000 nit Privacy screen options, both with 3:2 aspect ratio. It has a very good white backlit keyboard, Wi-Fi 6, a webcam privacy shutter and can be used as a tablet or a laptop in addition to easel mode.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/10/2021

80% HP Elite Folio review: The battery life will shock you
Source: Laptop Mag
The quintessential Elite Folio user is an on-the-go busy bee with light day-to-day tasks such as emailing, web browsing and hosting Zoom calls. They get a kick out of all the “oohs and aahs” they get while using the pull-forward feature. On their off days, they enjoy doodling and sketching while the HP device is in easel mode. They love that their pleather-bound laptop, which looks like a large, fancy journal, can hide in plain sight. Most importantly, they don’t have to worry about being tethered to an outlet because the Elite Folio can last for more than 16 hours on a charge.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/22/2021
Rating: Total score: 80%

Foreign Reviews

80% Ein Leder-Laptop mit Smartphone-CPUEin Leder-Laptop mit Smartphone-CPU
Source: Netzwelt DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/26/2021
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 70% features: 70% display: 70% ergonomy: 90%

74% HP Elite Folio 13,5”
Source: PC Guia PT→EN
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/25/2021
Rating: Total score: 74% price: 80%

80% HP Elite Folio review: Luxe convertible met ARM-cpu
Source: PCM NL→EN
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 11/22/2021
Rating: Total score: 80%

80% HP Elite Folio – Stijlvol werken voor een prijs
Source: Computer Totaal NL→EN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/13/2021
Rating: Total score: 80%

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Qualcomm Adreno 680: Integrated graphics card in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx SoC for Windows laptops. According to Qualcomm 2x faster than the previous Adreno 630 in the Snapdragon 850 for Windows PCs with a 60% improved efficiency (thanks to the 7nm process).

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.

SD 8cx Gen 2 5G: ARM based SoC for Windows laptops that is manufactured in 7 nm LPP at Samsung. Integrates 4x Kryo 495 Gold cores (Cortex-A76) for performance and 4x Kryo 495 Silver (Cortex-A55) for efficiency. Technically a higher clocked Snapdragon 8cx with integrated 5G Modem and now Wi-Fi 6 support.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

13.50":

Above all, this display size is used for subnotebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles. For all three types, this size is quite large. The biggest variety of subnotebooks is represented with this size.

Large display-sizes allow higher resolutions. So, details like letters are bigger. On the other hand, the power consumption is lower with small screen diagonals and the devices are smaller, more lightweight and cheaper.

1.32 kg:

This weight is typical for big tablets, small subnotebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles with a 10-11 inch display-diagonal.

HP: The Hewlett-Packard Company, founded 1935, commonly referred to as HP, is a technology corporation headquartered in California, United States. HP specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, storage, and networking hardware, software and services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices, as well as a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. Other product lines, including electronic test equipment and systems, medical electronic equipment, solid state components and instrumentation for chemical analysis. HP posted US $91.7 billion in annual revenue in 2006, making it the world's largest technology vendor in terms of sales. In 2007 the revenue was $104 billion, making HP the first IT company in history to report revenues exceeding $100 billion. 

Up to 2015, the company was named Hewlett Packard Company. After a split, the computer range was renamed to HP Inc.

In the laptop segment, HP was the world's largest manufacturer from 2014 to 2016 with a market share of 20-21% from 2014 to 2016, but they only exceed Lenovo by a small margin as of recently. HP is not present in the smartphone sector (as of 2016).

76.54%: This rating is not convincing. The laptop is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.

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