HP EliteBook 840 G9 Review

Keɓance wuraren ayyukan wayar hannu na ZBook da layin Dragonfly mai haske, samfuran EliteBook 800 na HP sune kwamfyutocin kasuwanci mafi kyau na biyu na kamfani (tsakanin jerin 600 da 1000). EliteBook 840 G9 (yana farawa a $1,129; $1,609 kamar yadda aka gwada) yana zaune a cikin babban inci 14, littattafan rubutu na kamfani na clamshell. Wannan kwamfutar tafi-da-gidanka tana cike da abubuwan zamani kamar 16:10 mai tsayi kadan (maimakon 16:9) nunin rabo, Wi-Fi 6E, da 5G na wayar hannu. HP's 840 G9 ba ya haɓaka fasahar ThinkPad X1 Carbon na Lenovo azaman kwamfyutar kasuwanci da muka fi so, amma zaɓi ne mai ban sha'awa da ban sha'awa.

Shirye don Ofishin Kusurwa 

A kan HP.com, EliteBook 840 G9 mafi arha shine $1,129 tare da na'ura ta 12th Generation Intel Core i5 processor, 16GB na RAM, da 256GB NVMe mai ƙarfi-jihar. Zaɓuɓɓukan allo huɗu suna samuwa, duk bangarorin IPS tare da ƙudurin 1,920-by-1,200-pixel: rashin taɓawa ko taɓawa tare da madaidaiciyar nits 250 na haske, allon taɓawa 400-nit mara taɓawa, da ɗayan fa'idodin Tabbataccen Dubawa na HP. tare da hadedde sirrin tace. Abin takaici, ba za ku iya samun mafi kyawun nunin 4K ko OLED ba.

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Don $1,609, rukunin gwajin mu na Windows 11 Pro yana ɗaukar matakai har zuwa guntu na Core i7-1280P mai sauri (Cores Performance guda shida, Ingantattun cores guda takwas, zaren 20) tare da fasahar sarrafa Intel ta vPro IT, 512GB SSD, da Intel 5G Solution 5000 haɗin kai don lalata. wuraren da ba tare da rufe Wi-Fi ba. Ƙarin sun haɗa da ramin SmartCard da duka mai karanta yatsa da kyamarar yanar gizo mai gane fuska don tsallake buga kalmomin shiga tare da Windows Hello. Kwamfutar tafi-da-gidanka kuma tana da dam ɗin Tsaro na Wolf na HP, gami da BIOS da kariyar malware na tushen AI tare da Sure Click sandboxing na kan layi. apps da gidajen yanar gizo.

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Wannan EliteBook mai sanye da aluminium yana auna 0.76 ta 12.4 ta inci 8.8, kuma kawai yana share yankewar mu mai ɗaukar nauyi a fam 2.99. Daga cikin wasu tsarin kasuwanci na 14-inch tare da 16:10 yanayin yanayin allo, Lenovo's X1 Carbon shine kashi takwas na inch na bakin ciki da rabin fam mai nauyi (fam 2.48), yayin da Acer TravelMate P6 yana da wuta har yanzu yana kan fam 2.2.

Ƙananan bezels suna iyaka gefen allon, tare da sanduna masu kauri sama da ƙasa. Rufe mai zamewa yana rufe ruwan tabarau na kyamarar gidan yanar gizo lokacin da kake son sirri, kuma ana haɗa maɓallin bebe na makirufo a saman jere. Tashar jiragen ruwa sun haɗa da tashoshin USB4 guda biyu tare da tallafin Thunderbolt 4 a gefen hagu, tare da tashar jiragen ruwa na HDMI. Kwamfutar tafi da gidanka tana da tashar 5Gbps USB 3.2 Type-A a kowane gefe tare da jack audio, nano SIM Ramin, da madaidaicin kulle-kebul na tsaro a hannun dama. Adaftan AC na HP yana da haɗin USB-C.

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HP Yana Samun Maɓallin Maɓallin Dama 

Bayan madaidaitan girma na 1080p kwanan nan, kyamarar gidan yanar gizon HP tana ɗaukar har zuwa 2,560-by-1,440-pixel (16:9 al'amari rabo) ko 2,560-by-1,920-pixel (4:3) har yanzu, da kuma 1080p ko 1440p bidiyo. Hotunan da kyamarar ta kera suna da haske da kyau da launuka masu launi, tare da ƙaramin matsayi. Abubuwan haɓakawa na HP Presence mai amfani na myHP sun haɗa da hasken baya da ƙaramin haske, da kuma tsara kayan aikin kai, kai da kafadu, ko babban jikinka—ya danganta da nawa rigar ko rigar da kake son nunawa.

Da yake magana akan riguna, menene ya bayyana a cikin sharhi na fiye da yage jikin jikin da ke yi a cikin littattafan soyayya? Korafe-korafe game da kwamfyutocin HP suna tsara maɓallan kibiya mai siginar a cikin jere mara nauyi a maimakon madaidaicin inverted-T layout. Maɓallan kibiya na EliteBook suna da girman rabin-girma kawai amma an sanya su - abin ban mamaki - da kyau.

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Mafi kyawun maɓallan Gida, Ƙarshe, Shafi Up, da Maɓallan Shafi na ƙasa a cikin tsarin tsarin ThinkPad a saman dama na biyun farko da ƙasa dama na ƙarshen. Allon madannai na baya yana da ɗan ƙarami amma a hankali jin daɗin bugawa, kuma buga shi ana iya ji amma ba surutu ba. Girman kwamfutar tafi-da-gidanka da kyau, faifan taɓawa mara maɓalli yana yawo kuma yana dannawa a hankali.

Sauti daga masu lasifikan harbi na ƙasa ba daidai ba ne na ban dariya, amma yana da ƙarfi da ƙarfi isa ga kowane amfani na kasuwanci, da kuma jin daɗin fina-finai ko kiɗa. Waɗannan lasifikan suna samar da ƙananan bass don yin magana da su, amma sautin ba mai tsauri ba ne ko ƙarami ko da a babban ƙara, kuma yana da sauƙi a fitar da waƙoƙin da suka mamaye. HP Audio Control software yana ba da kiɗa, fina-finai, da yanayin murya, da kuma mai daidaitawa. A ƙarshe, mai magana da tushen AI da rage amo, da daidaita sauti don na'urorin kai masu goyan baya, ana samun su anan.

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Ina bakin ciki cewa EliteBook bai dace da yawancin abokan hamayya ba wajen tallafawa zaɓin allo mai girma, amma nunin 1,920-by-1,200 yana da kyau sosai kuma yana da haske sosai. Launuka suna da wadata kuma suna da kyau sosai, bambanci yana da kyau, kuma kusurwar kallo suna da faɗi. Farin bango yana da tsabta, yana taimakawa ta ikon karkatar da allon baya gwargwadon yadda kuke so, kuma ba zan iya ganin kowane pixelation a gefen gefuna na haruffa akan gidajen yanar gizo da imel ba.

Gwajin HP EliteBook 840 G9: Babban Ƙarshen Mainstream 

Don sigogin maƙasudin mu, muna kwatanta HP zuwa wasu kwamfyutocin slimline guda huɗu 14-inch, gami da ƙimar Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 (farawa daga $1,439; $2,249 kamar yadda aka gwada) da kuma mafi araha Acer TravelMate P6 (farawa a $1,299.99; $1,499.99 kamar yadda aka gwada). Dell Latitude 9430 2-in-1 (farawa daga $2,169; $2,994 kamar yadda aka gwada) kasuwanci ne mai canzawa, yayin da Lenovo Slim 9i (farawa a $1,249; $ 2,070 kamar yadda aka gwada) babban nunin mabukaci ne tare da nunin OLED 4K.

Gwaje-gwajen Yawan Sami 

Alamar aikin mu na farko, UL's PCMark 10, yana kwaikwayi nau'ikan samarwa na duniya iri-iri da ayyukan samar da abun ciki don auna aikin gabaɗaya don ayyuka na ɗabi'a na ofis kamar sarrafa kalmomi, maɓalli, binciken yanar gizo, da taron bidiyo. Har ila yau, muna gudanar da gwajin PCMark 10's Full System Drive don tantance lokacin ajiyar kwamfutar tafi-da-gidanka da kayan aiki.

Ƙarin alamomi guda uku suna mayar da hankali kan CPU, ta yin amfani da duk abin da ke akwai da kuma zaren zaren, don ƙididdige dacewa da PC don yawan aiki mai ƙarfi. Maxon's Cinebench R23 yana amfani da injin Cinema 4D na kamfanin don yin fa'ida mai rikitarwa, yayin da Primate Labs' Geekbench 5.4 Pro ke kwaikwayon shahararru. apps kama daga fassarar PDF da fahimtar magana zuwa koyon injin. A ƙarshe, muna amfani da buɗaɗɗen tushen bidiyo transcoder HandBrake 1.4 don canza shirin bidiyo na mintuna 12 daga ƙudurin 4K zuwa 1080p (ƙananan lokutan sun fi kyau). 

Gwajin aikin mu na ƙarshe shine Puget Systems'PugetBench don Photoshop, wanda ke amfani da Creative Cloud sigar 22 na sanannen editan hoto na Adobe don kimanta aikin PC don ƙirƙirar abun ciki da aikace-aikacen multimedia. Tsawaita ce ta atomatik wanda ke aiwatar da ayyuka na gaba ɗaya da GPU-gazazzafar ayyukan Photoshop da suka kama daga buɗewa, juyawa, sake girman hoto, da adana hoto zuwa amfani da abin rufe fuska, cika gradient, da masu tacewa.

EliteBook 840 G9 na HP ya ƙare na farko ko na biyu a kowane lamari, yana nuna isasshen iko na yau da kullun. apps (sake zira kwallaye rabin maki 4,000 a cikin PCMark 10 wanda ke nuna kyakkyawan aiki ga Microsoft 365 ko Google Workspace) har ma da isasshen tsoka don ƙirƙirar abun ciki mai sauƙi na dijital, kodayake ba har zuwa ma'anar CGI-aji ko kimiyyar bayanai ba. 

Gwajin Zane 

Don gwaji na gani, muna nuna alamun Windows PCs tare da simintin wasan kwaikwayo na DirectX 12 guda biyu daga UL's 3DMark, Night Raid (mafi girman kai, dacewa da kwamfyutocin kwamfyutoci tare da haɗe-haɗen zane) da Time Spy (mafi buƙata, dacewa da rigs na caca tare da GPUs masu hankali). 

Muna kuma gudanar da gwaje-gwaje guda biyu daga madaidaicin madaidaicin GPU na GFXBench 5, wanda ke jaddada ƙananan ayyukan yau da kullun kamar rubutu da babban matakin, ɗaukar hoto mai kama da wasa. Gwajin 1440p Aztec Ruins da 1080p Car Chase gwaje-gwaje, wanda aka yi a waje don ɗaukar ƙudurin nuni daban-daban, zane-zanen motsa jiki da ƙididdige inuwa ta amfani da ƙirar shirye-shiryen OpenGL da tessellation na hardware bi da bi. Yawancin firam ɗin a sakan daya (fps), mafi kyau.

Slim 9i kwamfutar tafi-da-gidanka na Lenovo yana jagorantar fakitin tare da HP kusa da baya, amma duk waɗannan littattafan rubutu 'Intel hadedde graphics sun faɗi ƙasa da aikin 3D da zaku gani daga keɓaɓɓen GPU na kwamfutar tafi-da-gidanka ko wurin aiki. Suna da kyau don wasan caca na yau da kullun da kafofin watsa labarai masu yawo, amma ba ana nufin don harbi-'em-ups mai sauri ko musamman ƙirƙirar abun ciki na gani mai nauyi ba. 

Gwajin Baturi da Nuni

Muna gwada rayuwar batirin kwamfyutocin ta hanyar kunna fayil ɗin bidiyo na 720p da aka adana a cikin gida (fim ɗin Blender mai buɗewa). Hawayen Karfe(Yana buɗewa a cikin sabuwar taga)) tare da hasken nuni a 50% da ƙarar sauti a 100%. Muna tabbatar da cikakken cajin baturi kafin gwajin, tare da kashe Wi-Fi da hasken baya na madannai. 

Don gwajin nuni, muna amfani da Datacolor SpyderX Elite Monitor calibration firikwensin da software na Windows don auna jikewar launi na kwamfutar tafi-da-gidanka. Wannan yana nufin wane kashi na sRGB, Adobe RGB, da DCI-P3 launi gamuts ko palettes nunin zai iya nunawa-da 50% da haske mafi girma a cikin nits (candelas a kowace murabba'in mita).

Babu korafe-korafe a nan, kamar yadda EliteBook ya nuna fiye da isashen ƙarfin aiki don cikakken aikin yini-da Netflix na maraice ko nishaɗin YouTube. Mafi kyawun Dell Latitude kawai a cikin wannan adadin gwajin, wannan ya sa EliteBook ya zama manufa ga ma'aikatan da ke tafiya akai-akai.

Abin baƙin ciki shine, wannan allon EliteBook ba zai iya dacewa da fitattun launuka na Slim 9i's OLED panel a cikin ɗaukar hoto ba. Koyaya, allon ya fi launi isa ga kasuwanci apps, kuma a zahiri ya fi haske fiye da kimar sa 400 nits-kuma, Dell Latitude kawai ya doke shi.

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Hukunci: Sleek Silver Slab don Kasuwanci 

Idan za ku iya rayuwa tare da allo mai kyau kawai maimakon nunin OLED ko nunin 4K, yana da wahala ku ɓata EliteBook 840 G9 na HP. Wannan kwamfutar tafi-da-gidanka ta kasuwanci ta ƙunshi komai daga 5G broadband na wayar hannu zuwa babbar kyamarar taro mai haɓaka AI, tare da gasa sosai da ƙarin tsaro. Tambaya guda ɗaya a cikin zukatanmu ita ce ta yaya HP za ta iya ɗauka tare da jerin EliteBook 1000 da za a yi, da ko zai iya samun lambar yabo ta Zaɓin Editan mu a gaba.