HP ProBook 440 G9 – Top 5 Pros and Cons

LaptopMedia.com Highlights HP ProBook 440 G9 - Top 5 Pros and Cons

From: Severin Kolakov 15 January 2023 / 17:30 | 0

The ProBook series from HP is one of the better value-oriented business offerings on the market, always having the latest hardware and good security, while not charging an arm and a leg. The 14-inch ProBook 440 G9 is by far the most popular of the bunch, as 140nches seems to be the sweet spot between portability and still having enough space on the screen to do a fair bit of work.

Today we’re presenting you with LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the HP ProBook 440 G9.

HP ProBook 440 G9: Full Specs / In-depth Review

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HP ProBook 440 G9

Processor: Intel Core i5-1235U
VideoCard: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
RAM: 16GB RAM
STORAGE: 256GB SSD

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$600^.24

HP ProBook 440 G9

Processor: Intel Core i5-1235U
VideoCard: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
RAM: 16GB RAM
STORAGE: 512GB SSD

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$798^.00

HP ProBook 440 G9

Processor: Intel Core i5-1235U
VideoCard: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
RAM: 32GB RAM
STORAGE: 1000GB SSD

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$849^.00

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4 reasons to BUY the HP ProBook 440 G9

1. Design and build quality

The ProBook exudes quality, with a fully aluminum chassis that has the essential cool-to-the-touch feeling. It shows a bit of flex from the lid and base, however, it’s nothing that we’d qualify as worrying. The design is fairly standard, with sharp edges, rounded corners, and a classic HP logo on the lid. In terms of portability, the ProBook is kept lightweight, weighing only 1.39 kg and having a profile of 19.9 mm. With the larger battery, the weight jumps to 1.43 kg.

The lid opens with one hand, revealing a large horizontal speaker grill and a smaller keyboard. While it doesn’t have a NumPad, due to size constraints, the key travel is long and the feedback is clicky, which ensures comfort during long typing sessions. The touchpad could be bigger, however, it’s still very smooth and accurate, so we have nothing negative to say about it.

2. Upgradeability

Despite having a 14-inch chassis, the ProBook offers two SODIMM slots for up to 32GB of DDR4 memory. There are also two M.2 slots for SSDs, but if you have an LTE card installed, you won’t be able to access the one on the left.

Here is our detailed teardown video, which shows how to access both the RAM and storage slots inside the machine.

3. Battery life

Here we have the bigger 51.3 Wh battery pack, which lasts for 13 hours and 3 minutes of Web browsing, or 8 hours and 54 minutes of video playback. 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.

4. Performance

With the Core i5-1235U, you get 10 cores and 12 threads. In 3D Rendering, the ThinkPad E14 Gen 4, the Aspire Vero, and MSI Modern 14 do perform better, however, scores in Photoshop are pretty equal. Overall, you’d have no problem with most types of office work on the laptop.

3D Rendering

Results are from the Cinebench R23 CPU test (the higher the score, the better)

Intel Core i5-1235U HP ProBook 440 G9

7478

Intel Core i5-1235U Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 4

8795

Intel Core i5-1235U Acer Aspire Vero

8226

Intel Core i5-1235U MSI Modern 14

8747

1 reason NOT to buy the HP ProBook 440 G9

1. Display

Lastly, the 14-inch Full HD IPS panel is great for general use, with comfortable viewing angles, and a decent max brightness of 295 nits. However, if you want to do anything color-related, we’d have to disappoint you, as there’s only 51% sRGB coverage.

The color accuracy also doesn’t improve significantly, even with our Design and Gaming profile, which lowers the dE value to 4.0, whereas we consider a panel accurate with a value of 2 or below. Here are the results of our tests 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.

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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.

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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.