HP Delivers AMD-Based ProBook Laptops for Small Businesses

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• ben55124

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  24 January, 2019 - 9:07 am

  <p>1366 x 768. For the employee you wish would quit.</p>

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• SebastienJRM

  24 January, 2019 - 10:00 am

  <p>It baffles me that the 1366×768 resolution panel remains the standard option. I was stuck with one of these panels on a 2018 ProBook 640 G3. It was a non-issue with two 1080p external monitors via docking station while at my desk, but whenever on-the-go that low-res panel is just painful for any discernable level of productivity. Large corporations wanting to keep their laptop expenditures low won't even consider paying the negligible upgrade cost to the 1080p panel when it's not the standard option, and employees get shafted in the process.</p><p><br></p><p>Come on, HP. Ditch the low-res panel and make 1080p the standard option. Every major PC maker should do the same.</p>

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• waethorn

  24 January, 2019 - 1:01 pm

  <p>The way to read HP's business product numbers is this:</p><p><br></p><p>XYZ G#</p><p><br></p><p>X is the series.</p><p>200 series is their all-purpose budget business systems, generally with last year's processor models.</p><p>400 and 600 series are the Pro models, with pretty standard options, but don't expect high-end options like Thunderbolt in the 400's. 600 series will have docking station connectors and slightly better build quality (higher standards compliance for durability).</p><p>800 series are Elite models, which are going to have more aluminum in the chassis and higher-end options. These will be the premium enterprise systems with all the bells and whistles possible.</p><p>AFAIK 1000 series numbers are exclusively for certain model EliteOne all-in-ones with higher specs than comparable 800's.</p><p>And then there's the Z-models which are all workstation and high-end media production systems. Cream of the crop, but sometimes don't always offer the best mobility, in favour of performance. For instance, laptops will have options for desktop processors. Z models will have more ISV-certified pro graphics options (Radeon Pro &amp; Quadro).</p><p>SSD's are available in all series, but the specs of the SSD will get better as you go up. 200 series are often cheap 2.5" SATA SSD's with limited size options, whereas as you go up you'll get into M.2 SATA, and then M.2 NVMe PCIe, and usually a few speed grades in PCIe too. </p><p>This applies to laptops, as well as desktops.</p><p>The main take-away here is that a 2 is lower than a 4 is lower than a 6, and so on. Price will reflect that as well, so there's lots of options regardless of your budget.</p><p><br></p><p>Y is the screen size</p><p>0 for desktops (no screen, or all-in-one)</p><p>3 for ~13"</p><p>4 for ~14"</p><p>5 for ~15", etc.</p><p><br></p><p>Z is either 0 or 5. 0 for Intel, 5 for AMD.</p><p><br></p><p>They will usually have a G# for the generation. A 455 G4 is going to be a ProBook with lower specs than a comparable 655, both are 15", and AMD. A 455 G4 will be an older AMD processor than a 455 G5, but the rest of the spec updates will be only evolutionary.</p><p><br></p><p>There's probably some other details that I don't know about, but these are the basics.</p>

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• dontbe evil

  25 January, 2019 - 1:22 am

  <p>no technical details about cpu and gpu in this article … just a genric ryzen and vega without specify the model, version ecc…</p>

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• madthinus

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  25 January, 2019 - 1:35 pm

  <p>The true legacy of Windows 8: 1366 x768</p>

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