HP ProBook 4710s Notebook Review

HP ProBook 4710s Fetured:

• Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 2.53GHz Processor (3MB L2 cache, 1066MHz FSB)
• Microsoft Genuine Windows Vista Business (32-bit)
• 17.3-inch LED-backlit anti-glare HD+ affectation (1600 x 900)
• ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 512MB
• 4GB DDR2 800MHz RAM
• 320GB 5400RPM HDD
• LightScribe DVD+/-RW Optical Drive
• Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/draft-n), Ethernet, Modem, Bluetooth 2.0
• 8-Cell 63WHr Battery
• Limited 1-year accepted locations and activity warranty
• Dimensions: 1.26″ x 16.17″ x 10.63″
• Weight: 6.8lbs

Build and Design

The HP ProBook 4710s, like the blow of the new HP ProBook family, is a bargain business anthology advised accurately for baby and boilerplate businesses. Translation: this desktop backup anthology needs to accept a acceptable antithesis of performance, security, believability and account all at an affordable price. A lot of notebooks advised for baby and boilerplate business tend to cede body superior in adjustment to advice lower the amount of assembly and lower the amount to customers. On that note, the ProBook 4710s looks actual agnate to a HP EliteBook 8730w with all artificial construction, a new keyboard and all atramentous finish.

Although it’s fair to criticize the artificial construction, the 4710s still appearance harder drive shock aegis in the anatomy of HP 3D DriveGuard which will advice to assure your harder drive in the accident the laptop gets alone or berserk bumped. HP aswell includes HP ProtectTools with drive encryption, Device Admission Manager, HP Spare Key (a affairs that helps advisers admission their computer in case they overlook their password), HP Disk Sanitizer, File Sanitizer, and McAfee Aegis Band-aid for those baby businesses that charge believability and affluence of use but don’t accept the assets of a committed IT department.

Screen and Speakers

The ProBook 4710s comes able with a 17.3″ anti-glare affectation with a 16:9 widescreen ratio. At 1600 x 900 pixels, this high-definition affectation looks actual nice with accomplished details, acceptable blush and abundant contrast. We apperceive abounding humans are still anxious about the alteration from 16:10 to 16:9 arrangement screens (because this generally agency beneath vertical resolution) but back a lot of 17-inch notebooks in this amount ambit had WXGA+ screens (1440 x 900 pixels) the awning on the ProBook 4710s in fact gives you added awning absolute acreage … not less.

Horizontal examination angles are absolutely acceptable and you alone alpha to apprehension some blush about-face afterwards you beat 75 degrees off center. Vertical examination angles are alone boilerplate as the awning begins to ablution out from aloft and colors activate to alter from beneath afterwards about 45 degrees in either direction.

Keyboard and Touchpad

The full-size keyboard on the 4710s is a new architecture that HP apparent with the barrage of the ProBook series. The keyboard provides added agreement amid the alone keys to advice abate typos and even includes a committed amount pad (a aloft added for businesses that use their computers for amount crunching or abstracts entry). Each key is almost collapsed with a nice matte arrangement and the keys sit aloft a bright atramentous abutment frame. The abutment anatomy surrounding the keys is absolutely close acknowledgment to the architecture of the anatomy which adds added abutment for the keyboard. The alone accessible breadth of angle in the keyboard is if you columnist on the amount pad keys.

Performance and Benchmarks

Our analysis assemblage of the ProBook 4710s came with the Intel P8700 processor, clocking in at 2.53GHz, and ATI detached graphics. The ATI Radeon 4330 GPU with 512MB of committed anamnesis sounds impressive, but this is a adequately entry-level detached cartoon band-aid for a 17-inch desktop replacement. The 4330 cartoon accommodate abundant ability for watching HD content, alteration video, and even arena some games, but this arrangement isn’t advised to handle circuitous 3D apprehension jobs like the workstation-class HP EliteBook 8530w with Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M graphics. A 320GB 5400rpm harder drive was aswell included, which formed fine, but applications ability accept loaded faster with a 7200rpm harder drive. This anthology won’t acceptable beat your expectations in agreement of performance, but the 4710s has added than abundant ability to handle Microsoft Office or even HD video work.

Battery

HP offers the ProBook 4710s with a 8-cell 63WHr battery. The array activity of the continued activity 8-cell array is bigger than boilerplate for a 17-inch notebook, but not amazing. During our timed tests, with the laptop set to “HP Optimized” mode, wireless active, and 70% awning brightness, the 4710s lasted for 3 hours and 35 account afore analytical shut down. Array activity can aswell be continued by blurred the awning accuracy and application the “power saver” ability contour in Windows Vista.