HP EliteBook 1030 Comprehensive Evaluation

A combination of narrow borders and high-end metals

It can be said that narrow border design is a major breakthrough in notebook design in recent years, but the market really has narrow border design products are rare, the most important reason is the process and safety two aspects. In addition, more and more laptops began to use metal as the fuselage material, but the crude steel essence steel is the iron, the HP EliteBook series uses the high-end metal craft to bring the quality feeling is the general product incomparable. EliteBook 1030 G1 is the EliteBook series of new products, still used in the metal fuselage design, while adding to the popular narrow border design. Concrete performance we look down together.

The moment you get the machine, you can clearly feel its excellent quality, and this feeling is mostly conveyed from the metal material. The machine metal processing is very textured, the fuselage surface sand blasting treatment, the visual has a fine particle sense, the touch of delicate smooth slightly greasy feeling, accompanied by a very slight grit feeling, feel very good experience; C surface around the CNC cutting polishing processing, in the reflection of light is very beautiful, and sand sense surface contrast, its presence is stronger, is the body of the finishing touch of the pen. The whole machine takes in the hand solid reliable, has a kind of noble product temperament.

The machine has a very textured metal handle.

From the side observation, the entire fuselage gradually narrowed down from behind, this is also most of the metal machine design, the difference is that the rear did not use founder shape, but with the ground formed a certain angle, the top cover and the gap between the fuselage instead of a good sense of integration. Because of the design of the oblique section, the top cover screen side close to the shaft part of the concave treatment, to ensure that the opening will not occur when scraping. From this point alone you can see the degree of detail of the machine's workmanship.

The entire fuselage gradually narrowed from the rear.

The top cover screen side is close to the rotating shaft and the concave handle is still typical of HP style, around for the arc treatment, holding the time compared to the palm, metal material treatment of very quality, in the light will reflect the unique texture, logo is located in the middle, the bottom of the bright surface treatment, very atmosphere. The whole A-face design is very simple and smart, smooth and natural line coherent.

A surface feature C surface is different from a surface, the whole treatment is relatively simple, flat design for the operation provides a better platform for support. The top of the keyboard has a row of openings, the bottom is the use of B&o Technology sound unit. Careful observation will find that the opening is not symmetrical design, but "BAND & Olufsen" A good balance of the whole visual feeling, still very coordinated.

"BAND & Olufsen" logo The machine's metal fuselage design in the notebook field of the top position, whether it is material selection or detail processing, all show the HP high-end models of excellent workmanship and reliable quality.