A dip in Alder Lake with an HP Elitebook is spoiled by avoidable mistakes
HP's Elitebook 1040 x360 g9 is an anonymously solid laptop that packs one of Intel's Alder Lake CPUs – but doesn't feel special as a result.
When I gave the machine my standard slightly nasty workload test – converting a five-minute 4K video to 1080p using Handbrake – it sailed through the chore in 3:41. That's faster than theThe HP, however, hated running Handbrake in an Ubuntu VM under VMware Workstation and crawled over the file conversion finish line after more than 30 minutes.
Little mistakes like that stand out, because there are some very thoughtful additions – such as four tiny silicon strips that stop the screen resting on the keyboard when the machine is closed. Other laptops I've used end up with noticeable marks on their displays and the HP looks built to beat that.
But then it lets you down again. The keyboard is poor. It's cramped, travel is short and unsatisfying. The Elitebook proves, once again, that Windows 10 tablet mode is useless. It changes too little of the WIMP interface to make it suitable for finger-or-stylus-driven operation. The absence of volume keys on the outside of the Elitebook only highlights how silly it is to expect users to revert to a mouse-driven UI to drive a device in tablet mode.
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