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日本HP EliteBook 840 G9 – Top 5 Pros and Cons
The EliteBooks are pretty popular business machines, which also cost a fair chunk of change, so they really have to bring a complete package, in order to warrant their price tag.
Today we have the EliteBook 840 G9, which has a wide variety of hardware, with both the Alder Lake P-series and U-series, which you can pick depending on what work you’d need to do. However, HP doesn’t really allow you to access the full power of the hardware, as it tries to make the laptops quieter and cooler. Does the EliteBook 840 G9 share the same fate, or will it be one of the better-performing business devices that the brand has to offer?
Today we present you with LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the HP EliteBook 840 G9.
HP EliteBook 840 G9: Full Specs / In-depth Review
4 reasons to BUY the HP EliteBook 840 G9
1. Input devices
The keyboard of the EliteBook turns out to be a pretty good unit, offering long key travel, clicky feedback, spill resistance, and a backlight, which pretty much covers everything. Due to the smaller 14-inch form factor, a NumPad is lacking, however, you have to make sacrifices with smaller devices. The touchpad is well-sized, with a glass surface, which provides smooth gliding, while the tracking is accurate and responsive.
2. Battery life
The laptop carries two battery options, with either a 38Wh or a 51Wh battery pack. We tested the latter, which lasts for 14 hours and 27 minutes of Web browsing, or 11 hours and 40 minutes of video playback, so a whole day of cordless work is definitely in the picture. Now, we conduct the battery tests with the Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits, and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with.
3. Upgradeability
Despite using a smaller chassis, the EliteBook comes with two SODIMM slots for DDR5 memory that work in dual-channel mode and can fit up to 64GB. Storage-wise, there’s one M.2 slot for PCIe Gen 4 drives.
Here is our detailed teardown video, which shows how to access both the RAM and SSD slots of the EliteBook 840 G9.
4. Display quality
At the front, we’re greeted by an FHD+ IPS display with a 16:10 aspect ratio, which is taking over the productivity laptop world. The panel has excellent viewing angles, a peak brightness of 422 nits, and a contrast ratio of 1560:1. It covers 97% of the sRGB gamut.
The panel makes great gains with our Design and Gaming profile, lowering its dE value from 5.0 to 1.4. Here are the test results with the stock settings (left) and with our profile applied (right).
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Office Work
Office Work should be used mostly by users who spend most of the time looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.
Design and Gaming
This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Design and Gaming takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate as possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Web and HDTV, at white point D65.
Health-Guard
Health-Guard eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and body. Since it’s custom tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate. Health-Guard simulates paper so the pressure on the eyes is greatly reduced.
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1 reason NOT to buy the HP EliteBook 840 G9
1. Prolonged performance
It turns out the apple doesn’t fall far away from the tree, as the EliteBook 840 G9’s log-run performance is about the same as any other HP business notebook. For cooling, the laptop relies on one heat pipe and one fan, along with a heat sink at the rear.
Max CPU load
| Intel Core i5-1235U (15W TDP) | 0:02 – 0:10 sec | 0:15 – 0:30 sec | 10:00 – 15:00 min |
|---|---|---|---|
| HP EliteBook 840 G9 | 3.09 GHz @ 2.75 GHz @ 83°C @ 46W | 2.73 GHz @ 2.46 GHz @ 89°C @ 37W | 1.58 GHz @ 1.67 GHz @ 61°C @ 17W |
We see low clock speeds, paired with low wattage and temperatures at the 15-minute mark, while the cooling can certainly take a lot more.
Comfort during full load
Thanks to the hindering of the chip, the laptop is very comfortable, being quiet and cool on the outside, with a hotspot of only 37°C.
