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HP EliteBook Folio 1020 Review
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May 30, 2025
Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the new ultralight HP EliteBook Folio 1020 and finds a very nice business computer with the external design of a MacBook Air, though there are some liabilities worth knowing about before you make your own purchased decision with the Folio 1020 series...
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hi Dave Taylor here and this time I want
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to talk about the Hewlett Packard elite
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book folio 1020 quite a mouthful but
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that's this guy and you look at this and
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you think wow look at that profile this
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is really like a MacBook Air but it's
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actually not it's it's an HP so it's
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running Windows and it's actually a
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business computer and here's what's kind
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of amazing about this really light this
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is under three pounds with its aluminum
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and magnesium boards and all this sort
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of stuff but what's amazing about this
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is this actually passes the mil standard
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let me get this right 8:1 0g which is a
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durability test for things like dropping
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and shock and vibrations
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now I haven't tossed this out the car
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but it's nice to know that when you're
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using a computer that it's actually
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fairly rugged the HP also features
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multiple USB 3.0 ports it has HDMI and
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here's another thing that's really nice
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and I'll zoom in close on that is that
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it has a micro SD card so that turns out
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to be really nice is that you can have
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stuff I mean I wish they were just
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regular SD cards because they're a
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little easier to work with but this
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gives you some ability to quickly
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transfer things around or grab data off
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of your phone if you like manipulating
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little tiny things and of course with
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the USB 3.0 it's perfect for flash
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drives now it also has let's turn this
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thing on and you can see this it has
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it's a fairly small it's a twelve point
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five inch display and it's not really
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super high res a lot of the computers
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that we look at here at ask Dave Taylor
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seem to be retina screens or ultra ultra
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high density screens and this one's not
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this is only running at 1920 by 1080
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which you'll recognizes 1080p dimensions
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but turns out that it actually works
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just fine and as you can see not only
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does it have a nice screen but let me
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run my finger over here has a
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fingerprint scanner super cool and
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actually turns out that the security
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behind these fingerprint scanners is
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interesting too
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whole article on my site that's just
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about that that I encourage you to check
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out so this is the folio 1020 and let's
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see it has an Intel Core i7 processor
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it's a completely fanless design so it's
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super quiet the keyboards backlit can't
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really see that unless we're in the dark
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and I'm just looking down my list of
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things here
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see micro SD HDMI out runs Windows 7
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Windows 8 or Windows 10 you can buy it
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with any of those operating systems
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running personally I'd encourage you to
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check out windows 10 i think microsoft's
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done a terrific job but that's up to you
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on the good news side at least it
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doesn't have an option of Windows XP
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surprisingly it also doesn't have an
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option of linux because HP does a lot in
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the linux and unix world but maybe
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that's a special configuration you can
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work out with them so the unit starts at
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about twelve hundred and fifty bucks at
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the HP store which you can get it stored
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at hp.com to say one thing is that i'm
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gonna give HP a lot of props for the
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design I think they've done a really
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nice job and I also want to say that I
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like that the underneath is nice a lot
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of PC computer manufacturers seem to
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forget that we actually might look at
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the underneath of a laptop and a lot of
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them which is really ugly so I really
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like to give them props for that and
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they're getting there with the power
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supply at least it's smaller than the
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sort of traditional paper book size
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paperback book size adapter that you get
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but still can't we do something better
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here HP isn't there some way to have
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this be a little more sleek and elegant
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when I'm buying such a beautiful piece
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of hardware so there is that but at
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least it's progress and as a business
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computer this is the lightest thinnest
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and really the most professional looking
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business computer I've seen on the
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windows side so this is Dave Taylor and
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catch you in my next video
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