The 3.9 x 2.3-inch touchpad is just big enough. The EliteBook's battery will squeeze you through a day of work, but it won't necessarily last into overtime. On the typing test, I reached 107 words per minute (which is average for me) with my standard 2 percent error rate, and that was with a Band-Aid on my left index finger.Īdditionally, the keyboard has a bunch of business-specific shortcuts on the function row, such as options to pick up and hang up calls and to share screens in Skype. While the EliteBook's keys have just 1.2 millimeters of travel, they require 80 grams of actuation to press, so they pop back up as soon as you push them down, creating a surprisingly tactile experience. If you're going to have a low-travel keyboard, it'd better be punchy. With the screen off, it measured 315 nits and covered 113 percent of the sRGB color gamut. One we tested measured 632 nits, but it didn't look that bright - I suspect that the coating used for the privacy screen affected our readings.
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You can also get the EliteBook x360 1020 G2 with HP's SureView privacy screen. It reproduced 125 percent of the sRGB color gamut, which is higher than the average (103 percent), as well as the scores from the ThinkPad X270 (88 percent), the Latitude (116 percent) and the MacBook (117 percent).
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It's bright and produces vivid colors.īut nothing was as vivid as the EliteBook.
#HP ELITEBOOK 850 G2 REVIEW 1080P#
The 12.5-inch 1080p display on the EliteBook x360 1020 G2 is great. Only the MacBook was more luminous, at 340 nits. On our light meter, the panel measured an average of 335 nits, easily brighter than the ultraportable average (285 nits), the Lenovo ThinkPad X270 (298 nits) and the Dell Latitude 7389 2-in-1 (308 nits).