Courage to change. The bulky EliteBooks from the past are gone – HP's business-series now primarily uses thin cases and efficient ULV hardware. We review the entry-level configuration of the new EliteBook 850 G1 for around 1,000 Euros.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-HP-EliteBook-850-G1-H5G34ET-Notebook.112439.0.html
Bad keyboards and screens seem to be somewhat of a HP trademark. I just can't fathom how little effort and resources are spnt to raise the bare minimum standard of these essential input/output devices. Worthless viewing angles is intolerable and should mean a 20% deduction from the score, imo.
The keyboard of the zbook 15 is great but I'm so happy that HP is starting to see the light and it dumped the number pad in the 850 g1, which however seems to have a worse keyboard. The number pad shifts everyting to the left and I have to shift the laptop to the right to keep the spacebar and the touchpad in front of me. So I'm placing more windows to the left than on the right. Number pads on laptops should die quickly.Thank you.
Totally agree with previous commenter, the numberpads (that are contr-productive and make typing non comfortable because of the shift to the left and because the keys became smaller with numberpad) must die.
Hi I just have a question, The review is on a i5 core processor...if it was reviewed with an i7 would the game performance be better then the score that was given? And secondly would it handle Rome 2 at a better fps? Thanks.
Well, the performance would be only sligthly better. The GPU on i5/i7 ULV is almost identical, only the max. clock differs slightly. If a game doesn't run fluently on the i5, it won't on the i7, too.