Sunday, December 23, 2012

HP EliteBook 2170p Evaluation Rugged Life

Recently, slim Win 8 mixing equipment and the super has attracted a lot of media attention, but many business users only want a powerful, lightweight, ultra-portable device. The 11.6-inch  hp 484170-001 battery EliteBook 2170p is a such a device, it offers strong performance and reliable life, durable, and weighs only 3.2 pounds (1.45 kg). The price of $ 1,099 (equivalent to about 6850 yuan), the EliteBook 2170p's competitors, including the Lenovo ThinkPad X230 and the Dell XPS 12. Well, EliteBook 2170p is not your best choice?

Design

EliteBook 2170p has a sturdy magnesium alloy case looks shatterproof beaten look. HP said it after the durability test of 115,000 hours, including thermal test and drop test. Reach military standards, but 2170p than the average consumer notebook durable much.

Like other recent Elitebook, this notebook is simply decorated with the HP logo, to executives like soft appearance. Open the top cover, you may feel the shaft a little stiff. Matt matte black plastic frame inlaid with a 11.6-inch display with a camera on top of it.

The magnesium alloy keyboard base is made of silver tone with top cover, 3.7 x 1.5-inch touch panel under have a dedicated button. The EliteBook series keyboard left and right sides about half an inch each space, fingerprint reader just below the arrow keys.

EliteBook 2170p power button on the right side of the fuselage is a slider. At the bottom has a docking station port, made of matte black plastic.

EliteBook measurements of 11.5 × 7.6 × 1.0 inches (29.2 × 19.3 × 2.5 cm), weighs 3.2 pounds, it is shorter, thinner and lighter than the Lenovo ThinkPad X230 (3.4 pounds) and Dell XPS 12 (3.4 pounds).

Life time

Our hp Pavilion DV7 series Battery test (the display brightness set to 40% continued to use Wi-Fi Internet), the device 48 wHr battery adhere to 6 hours and 44 minutes, 25 minutes more than the class average of 6:19. than XPS 12 5 hours 46 minutes, much longer, only more than the X230 6 hours 56 minutes 12 minutes shorter.

Unfortunately, HP does not offer a larger capacity hp HSTNN-DB75 battery. In contrast, Lenovo provides X230 a 9-cell battery, can persist in 12 hours and 17 minutes, also provides battery plate, can extend the battery life to 20 hours and 46 minutes.

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