Contrast ratio, the bugbear of budget LCDs, was at a decent level of 610:1 with the screen at full brightness (295 cd/^2), and still 550:1 at a more usable ’75 percent’ brightness setting (136 cd/m^2).Ĭolour accuracy was superb, with an indicated Delta E average of just 1.19. In our lab tests, this display could cover 93 percent of the sRGB colour gamut, and 70 percent Adobe RGB. We also experimented with 150 percent scaling which worked well here too. That provides a decent pixel density of 157 ppi, and to make the interface more clearly legible HP sets the laptop’s Windows 7 Professional operating system with 125 percent scaling. It’s a 14.0-inch 16:9 panel, a common size for business portables, but with full-HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. The EliteBook Folio uses just such a display, and it’s one of the finest we’ve seen fitted to any laptop. Thanks to the onward march of smartphones and tablets, better quality displays – usually based on IPS technology – are now finally becoming more readily available in laptops, even if only at the high end of the market. HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G1 review: Display Yet even this is forged from sturdy yet lightweight magnesium alloy, with a thin polymer coat. Only the underside appears to be of the more usual plastic we find on Windows laptops, with a slightly soft surface which aids grip. This seems to be anodised to give a dark lustre, more like a gunmetal finish. Like very few others, it is made almost entirely from real metal, using an Apple-like unibody aluminium construction. ![]() It’s a 14-inch lightweight model based on the MacBook Air template, just 17 mm thick and weighing little over 1.5 kg. ![]() ![]() The HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G1 is just such a product, a premium-priced and beautifully constructed ultraportable that stands above almost every other Windows laptop in sheer quality. ( See also: Laptops that not only look the business but act it as well. The price is much higher than even the Retina-display 13-inch MacBook but if you must have a laptop built for Windows that can make a statement in build quality and top-class components, check out EliteBook Folio 1040 G1.Ĭheap laptops that pretend to look expensive. That’s why it makes a particularly refreshing change to find a Windows laptop that not just matches but surpasses Apple’s popular ultraportable in a key area like screen quality. Most ultraportables we test are dumbed-down MacBook Air clones with cheap construction and low-grade components.
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