HP ProBook 4 Series

HP ProBook 4 G1a 14

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Average Score: 70% - average

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60% HP ProBook 4 G1a review: A no-frills business machine for the average office
Source: It Pro
This is a no-frills laptop, with a lot of its appeal tied up in being durable, reliable, and affordable. The AI capabilities are low, the battery is merely OK, and the display is not worth mentioning. But it does look good, runs smoothly, and does offer a decent typing experience. If you have an office full of people needing affordable machines that don't scratch easily, have all the juice their workloads need, the ProBook 4 is a great option. It's not exactly fun, but it is a serious business machine.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 11/28/2025
Rating: Total score: 60%

80% Reviewing the HP ProBook 4 G1a, I discovered that it's a punchy platform at an attractive price for corporations, but it's not for power users
Source: Techradar
While I wasn’t a massive fan of the touchpad on this machine, the rest of this design is fine for the majority of laptop users. The only other caveat to its specification is the lack of USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, which is a deliberate choice made by HP. What I liked was that the memory modules allow for upgrades, which could extend the working life of this hardware if it isn’t destroyed in other ways.There is only one M.2 slot, meaning that to transition to more storage will require a USB caddy to transfer the OS, but you could put 4TB in here reasonably easily.A year or two back, the performance on this machine would have been remarkable, but the advent of Intel Ultra 200 series and the AMD Ryzen AI 300 chips relegate it somewhat.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/13/2025
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 80% features: 80% workmanship: 80%

HP ProBook 4 G1i 16

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Đánh giá HP Probook 4 G1i 16 Ultra 5 225U: Một sự lựa chọn đáng cân nhắc cho doanh nghiệp
Source: Vat Vo Studio VN→EN
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 11/30/2025

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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.

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

AMD Radeon 780M: Integrated graphics card in the Ryzen 7040 mobile series APUs based on the RDNA3 architecture with 12 CUs (= 768 shaders) and a clock speed of up to 3 GHz.

Intel Graphics 4-Core iGPU (Arrow Lake): Integrated graphics card based on the Xe LPG architecture (similar to the dedicated Arc GPUs, but with a focus on efficiency). Provides 4 Xe cores (64 Xe vector engines) and 4 ray tracing units.

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

AMD Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c):

R7 250: A powerful laptop processor (APU) of the Hawk Point family. This isn't an entirely new APU; instead, the R7 250 is an R7 8840U in disguise. Its eight Zen 4 cores run at 3.3 GHz to 5.1 GHz and are SMT-enabled for a total of 16 processing threads.

Intel Arrow Lake:

Ultra 5 225U: High-end mobile processor based on the Meteor Lake architecture. Offers 2 performance cores with up to 4.8 GHz (incl. SMT) and 8+2 efficiency cores with up to 3.8 GHz and can therefore process 14 threads simultaneously. Similar to the Core Ultra 5 135U, however, the Compute-Tile is manufactured in the new Intel 3 process and offers higher clocked CPU cores.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

14.00:

14 inch display size represents a middle ground between the small subnotebook formats and the screens of the standard 15 inch laptops.

The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, provides good resolutions with usable detail sizes, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact. 

In the past, 14-inch devices were very rare, but now they are the standard for laptops after the 15-inchers. 

16.00:

This range for display formats was and is a rarity. It is larger than the general standard of 15 inches, but not yet in the range of large workstations. One usually has higher screen resolutions available, but portability suffers from that.

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

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70%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.

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

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