Pros
- Sturdy and rigid construction with good choice of materials
- Comfortable keyboard and touchpad
- Supports M.2 SATA SSD
- Good battery life for a 17-inch budget laptop
- No PWM across all brightness levels
Cons
- A Full HD resolution would have been appreciated
HP ProBook 470 G3 - Specs
- Intel Core i7-7500U 3.4%
- Intel Core i5-6200U
- Intel Core i3-8130U 2.4%
- Intel Core i5-7200U 2.2%
- AMD Radeon 530 (2GB GDDR5) 1.4%
- Intel UHD Graphics G1 1.3%
- AMD Radeon R7 M340 (2GB DDR3)
- AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo) 0.1%
- Intel UHD Graphics 0.4%
- Intel UHD Graphics 630 0.1%
Display
17.3”, Full HD (1920 x 1080), TN
HDD/SSD
256GB SSD + 500GB HDD
M.2 Slot
1x 2280 SATA III (B key)
DISPLAY: 17.3”, Full HD (1920 x 1080), TN
Name |
17.3”, Full HD (1920 x 1080), TN |
Diagonal |
17.3" |
Pixel density |
127.34 ppi |
Panel Type |
TN |
Resolution |
1920 x 1080 |
Becomes "Retina" from |
27 inches (69 cm) |
HP ProBook 470 G3 in-depth review
Spanning from 14-inch to 17-inch devices, HP's ProBook series should always be on the top of your list when looking for a budget business companion for a number of reasons. For starters, the ProBooks offer exceptional build quality, good battery life, excellent input devices, capable hardware at a reasonable price and M.2 SATA SSD support. The latter is pretty uncommon for entry-level notebooks. We know all of this because the ProBook 455/450 G3 and 440 G3 have already been reviewed here in our [...]
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CPU Performance: Intel Core i5-6200U
Results are from the Cinebench 15 CPU test (the higher the score, the better)
Results are from the Fritz chess benchmark (the higher the score, the better)
Results are from our Photoshop benchmark test (the lower the score, the better)
GPU Performance: AMD Radeon R7 M340 (2GB DDR3)
Results are for the 3DMark: Fire Strike (Graphics) benchmark (the higher the score, the better)
1770.00
+45.1% performance
Results are for the Unigine Heaven 4.0 benchmark (the higher the score, the better)
Results are for the Unigine Superposition benchmark (the higher the score, the better)
Results are for the Unigine Heaven 3.0 benchmark (the higher the score, the better)
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