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The HP Ryzen Laptops Are Here
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Aug 4, 2025
This video features a variety of HP's latest AMD Ryzen powered laptops. Including models from the ProBook and Elitebook lines. This video is sponsored by HP. Aero 635 G7 at the HP Store https://bit.ly/2ITlZce Elitebook 845 at the HP Store https://bit.ly/2UPfDwU Probook x360 at the HP Store https://bit.ly/331ckHO Probook 445 at B&H https://bit.ly/2ULhPFV FOLLOW ME IN THESE PLACES FOR UPDATES Twitter - http://twitter.com/unboxtherapy Facebook - http://facebook.com/lewis.hilsenteger Instagram - http://instagram.com/unboxtherapy
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So today we're going to be looking at a bunch of new laptops courtesy of HP
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They decided to sponsor a showcase of their latest ProBooks and EliteBooks
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It's quite a variety, many options to choose from, and that's why today I've got a stack
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It's a laptop stack. And there's four in here, three from the ProBooks series and one from the EliteBooks series
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and what's special here is we have AMD processors inside of portable thin and light laptops
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Believe it or not, I think this might be my first exposure to AMD laptops
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Now, from a styling standpoint, you can see the consistency through the lineup with this kind of brushed aluminum
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Now, they all do have slightly different feature sets and they're targeted at different users who are looking for different things
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This is the ProBook 635 Aero G7, under one kilogram a day's worth of battery life
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One thing I noticed straight away with this is how you can open it most of the way without actually using your second hand
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So you can get it up to about there and then open it the remainder. As you can see on the inside, you have the black keyboard, chiclet-style keyboard, some speakers facing upwards
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this one is featuring AMD Ryzen Pro 7 a large trackpad below there so let's go ahead and take
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a look around this device now under one kilogram obviously it's an ultra portable unit but you've
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got an array of ports still available to you actually over here on the side two USB type A
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ports there's a headphone jack over on the other side you're going to see a type C connector which
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you can also use to power the unit, charge the battery. There's a full-size HDMI port
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which is going to be convenient for output to either a monitor or a TV. And then there's also
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a dedicated barrel-style connector for charging the device as well. So you have a couple different
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options there for your charge. There's a couple of little rubber feet on the bottom to keep it
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planted on the table. So even though it is thin and light, it does feel robust. Another interesting
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thing here this all metal design has over 62 percent of the mechanical parts made from recycled
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materials here's another interesting feature that they outline apparently this device has been
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tested against continuous sanitation so you can do 1 000 cycles of disinfection with household wipes
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and sanitize with confidence that's an interesting little tidbit right there all right let's crack
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this open and check out the keyboard you guys know that i like laptops and i play around i mean i try
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out all the different laptops it's kind of what i do i'm into laptops i get most of my work done
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actually on laptops and this is where i'm going to primarily do my typing you know if i got to get
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back to a bunch of emails and stuff like that so one thing that strikes me right away with this
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keyboard i like the font on the keys and the large scale of it it just a little bit less eye strain
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looking down at the keyboard and yes I do pick and I pluck and I peck with the fingers the quick
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brown fox so it's no home row style I do look at the keys and it is chiclet style so it's not going
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to be a tremendous amount of travel but for a laptop it's actually pretty good so you can spec
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this one with the sure view privacy display which is kind of interesting it will turn the entire
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display copper when you're looking at it off access apparently it's a world's first type of
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implementation but that feature hasn't been selected on this particular unit however on the
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next one we're going to look at the elite book it showcases that tech and you can spec this one
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with that particular feature as well so moving on to the next one this is the elite book and as you
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can probably guess from the name targeted well it the elite level of the bunch and it does have a little bit more in terms of port versatility it is a little bit heavier it a little heavier and a little larger with a bigger display on the outside you see
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it has two usb type a ports headphone jack there's a lock port it even has a smart card slot which
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you don't see that very often over on the other side you have two usb type c ports these once
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again can be utilized for charging or you can use the barrel style connector and then once again
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there is a full-size hdmi port as well for output now this guy oh once again you see i look for that
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is the attention to detail there it's planted now sometimes you can go the whole way oh on the elite
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book you can go the whole way with one hand so we have a slightly different layout here on the
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speaker units comparatively you guys know i gotta pick my favorite at the end of the whole thing
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So a slightly different speaker layout. We have fingerprint scanners in the same location over here
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Once again, Ryzen power. So this unit on the left, not only Ryzen Pro 7, but also Vega graphics
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So again, a slightly different target user, a little bit heavier, a little more robust
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but a higher spec sheet as well on the EliteBook. Here, we have some extra controls also, including the little pointer nub, which some people love
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and choose or prefer to use compared to the trackpad. So that is there in the center of the keyboard
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And because of that, you've also got left and right mouse clicks
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in this location because of course, you're gonna reach down if you choose the mouse this way and click like that
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That's missed over here on the original ProBook model that I detailed
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Now, as mentioned, this EliteBook does have that privacy screen feature, which seems pretty cool
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So I'm gonna go ahead and just... Oh, that is so strange
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That is actually quite cool. So I'm gonna go ahead one more time
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and we're gonna go off access ever so slightly. So you see it's a Google page over here
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You hit the button, bye bye. Bye bye, privacy. So once you've activated that SureView privacy feature
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you can then use the brightness keys in order to determine how much of it you'd like to have
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up to 100. We go slightly off access and we hit the button
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And you can see it gets dimmed substantially. And of course, anybody who's sitting beside you
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they're going to lose your display completely. And it's this cool kind of reflective bronze thing
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that they would see. It's not completely blacked out. But believe it or not, if I look straight on
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I can see that image. And from Kirk's camera, you see absolutely nothing
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So that is a really cool feature to have built in there. Now, as far as the keyboard is concerned
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it looks to be fairly similar. Ooh. I'm quick brown foxing here
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The quick brown fox. The quick brown. So similar style. Maybe slightly more satisfying
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No, they're both good, to be honest. So I think you could go with either here
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The keyboards are somewhat interchangeable and they maintain some styling. Now I do see the Bang & Olufsen logo on the EliteBook
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so maybe I should play some audio to see how that sounds
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Stuff going on. Yeah. People have seen the, you know, pictures. We have stuff going on
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So we haven't been in this studio as frequently. However, we're not going to let this lapse
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We got to come back. I mean, stuff is happening. Yeah. Yeah, so that's a fairly rich audio on there
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And it's, believe it or not, it's kind of hit and miss on a lot of laptops. Sometimes you get something really tinny
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but there's actually a little bit of low end in there, So that's kind of nice to see
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So some other cool things about the EliteBook 805 specifically, they claim up to 26 hours of battery life
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and a 50 fast charge in just 30 minutes And another thing I should mention is how quiet the keyboard is So sometimes if you have a chiclet style keyboard on a laptop it can be kind of annoying
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especially if you're working in a quiet environment or late at night. And it's true, it is quite, there's a bit of a thud
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but there's definitely no click or clack. I wouldn't call it that
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All right, so next up we have the ProBook X360 435. 3.5 in some of these categories there are other models within the same heading so you can go and
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check and custom configure or pick a pre-configuration if you choose to but this is just
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giving you an idea of the variety of laptops currently available in the pro book elite book
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lineup so as you probably guess with the 360 moniker this model is all about flipping it all
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the way around like this into well i mean there's obviously many different modes at this point you
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could have a tent mode there's a tablet mode when you go all the way around and sort of hold it like
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this and there's a presentation mode as well as you've seen on many other laptops we can bring
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that closer to you this also works for just getting the screen closer to you on a tabletop
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maybe you want to be eating the breakfast cereal i've talked about this in the past you just watch
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your content of course you also have a touch screen so that's fine to do now on the inside
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it's very similar to the other ProBook the first model that I showcased off the top as you might
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imagine you're seeing the same keyboard which of course is not a bad thing now the speaker unit on
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the other hand moves to the top side of the device and you see you have these little padding sections
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here for the fold down of the display when it's closed up one interesting touch here is this little
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band across the top I presume that may have something to do with the communications antennas
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i'm guessing all right over here on this side you'll see a micro sd card slot a headphone jack
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an hdmi port a usb type a port a usb type c port and a barrel style connector for recharge over on
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the other side you get one more usb type a port this one has the same fast charge functionality
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as the elite book 50 charge in only 30 minutes it's nice to finally see some of the quick charge
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stuff you talk about in smartphones trickle down into the laptop universe you can configure this
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one with amd ryzen 4000 quad 6 or 8 core processors so obviously the advantage with the convertible
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setup with the 360 is the fact that well when it comes to multimedia content you have a couch mode
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you have a table mode you can just do a little bit more with it so obviously it's going to be a
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a selection, a consideration for people who watch a lot of content on their laptop or convertible in
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this case. And also for those that appreciate pen input, there is the HP Pro Pen that you can utilize
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with this unit for sketching, taking notes and so forth. So yes, pen input is also an option
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on the 360 model. There's some other cool little privacy features as well. If you look up here at
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the front facing camera, you have this tiny little switch that just blends in
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It doesn't it doesn't even look like a dedicated switch, but when you slide it over, you see
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these zebra lines pop up on top and that just tells you that your camera has been closed
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off and now you have privacy. Privacy is a big component of all of these laptops
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They consider them to be pro models or elite models. And so there's all these kinds of little privacy touches in each of them
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This is the last one, the ProBook 445. This, I believe, is the biggest of the bunch
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It passes 19 mil standard 810G test, certified durability, including a drop test
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So they say, yes, it's lightweight, but it's also durable. That's the package they're going for here
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As we look around the device, you're gonna see a USB type A port on this side, as well as a full size SD card slot We flip around to the other side and yes this is the most diverse array of ports It is the biggest laptop in a bunch We have a barrel style connector for power USB type C
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connector. There is a full size ethernet jack. I love these little ports where you have a thin
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laptop but then this piece comes down like this so you can fit your ethernet cable in there
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Sometimes there's no substitute for a wired connection. We were just running speed tests
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on the wired connection we just got put in in the new space today and you still can't touch it with
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the wireless in most cases depending of course on your environment we have a full-size hdmi port
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two usb type a ports and a headphone jack there as well the styling once again very similar to the
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other models now this is a bigger laptop but it is still portable enough and lightweight so this
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This one apparently has a 180 degree hinge. So check this out
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You can for presentations and so on. You've seen this in the past, but it isn't on all laptops
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And funny enough, I actually find myself not using that for presentations as much as just sometimes I'm working
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maybe lying in bed or something. And the typical range of motion for a hinge on a laptop
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won't go as far as I'd like it. And so I do actually surprisingly find myself using
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this extended range in certain circumstances. Keyboard layout actually looks different. This is a slightly different font
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from what I would say is probably my preferred scale and font, which was on the other ProBook
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So that's a slight difference here. At least the model that I happen to have in front of me
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Otherwise, fairly similar fingerprint scanner. You have your track pad in this location over here
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Once again, privacy settings to close off, Maybe not as cool as the Zebra privacy on the 360 model
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but the important part here is you can close off the camera when you don't want to use it
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So the way this lineup breaks down, your Pro books are a little bit more entry in terms of price
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They start around 700 bucks. The Elite books, on the other hand, sort of fit in over a thousand up to
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well, you can spec them kind of crazy if you choose to with the dedicated graphics and all the rest of it
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It's up to you. One thing I like here is that no matter what your budget
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The styling still puts you in the premium space. In other words, if you've got an entry-level Pro Book
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or a super high-end Elite Book, you're still kind of appearing very similar
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You're not gonna feel left out like you have some subpar product or component
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because they've maintained the styling from the entry all the way up
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For me, it's pretty obvious. I would go for the Elite Book of the bunch
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I think there's a couple of little styling options on here, Those styling extras that I like, especially on those speaker grills with the little triangles that they've put in there
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Also, believe it or not, sometimes I like to use these extra mouse click buttons from time to time
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Also, you can spec this one. I've been looking on the website. You can spec this one with a high-knit display, high-brightness display for outdoor viewing
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I would probably do something like that myself if I was going to do my very own spec
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That said, I'm also a little bit partial to the initial one that I showed off
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This is the ProBook 635 Aero G7. And what's nice about this one is just how lightweight it is
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It's crazy under a kilogram, as I mentioned before. But you've also got decent battery life baked into there too
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So, I mean, it's a lot of different options for you if you're in the market for a new laptop
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Hopefully, this helped to illuminate some of the differences, at least within the HP lineup
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You let me know down in the comments which one of these you would personally go for and I will just close out this video
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making a very beautiful Laptop sandwich as I open the video because there is nothing like a stack of technology if that doesn't get you going
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I don't know what will
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