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HP EliteBook 840 G9 review: Solid in all the right ways

HP's EliteBook 840 is the company's mainstream business laptop, but it's as reliable as it gets.

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Mainstream business laptops are never the sexiest, but they do get the job done. After all, HP's EliteBook 800 series is its best-selling business lineup. So while it's not as slim, light, and premium as the 1000 series, the HP EliteBook 840 G9 checks the right boxes, from performance to reliability.

Coming in an all-aluminum chassis, the one that HP sent me is pretty specced out. It's got a 28W Intel Core i7, 16GB DDR5 memory, a 512GB SSD, and even 5G connectivity. Indeed, this is the laptop I took to CES this year, a show that had over 100,000 attendees. When my colleagues complained about the hotel Wi-Fi, I just had to take their word for it.

What I'm getting at is just how good this thing is when it comes to features that matter. Aside from connectivity, reliability is key as well. The laptop needs to work when you need it to, and being a business laptop, it needs to be secure.

Not only does the HP EliteBook 840 G9 nail all of those things, but I'd argue that for the majority of people, this is the right laptop for them when compared to more premium options like an HP Dragonfly or a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon.

About this review: HP sent us the EliteBook 840 G9 for review. It had no input on the contents of this article.

HP EliteBook 840 G9

The HP EliteBook 840 G9 is a 14-inch laptop powered by Intel P-series processors and featuring a sleek subdued design.

• The HP EliteBook 840 G9 is available now, and it starts at $1,362.14

Any HP product with the word 'Elite' in the name is a business product, and that means pricing is a little bit tricky. Right now, it starts at $1,362.14 on HP's website, but that fluctuates. Also, being a business product that many companies will buy in bulk, you can also get it through various sales channels.

That base model comes with a Core i5-1240P, 16GB DDR5 memory, and a 256GB SSD. The specs of the unit HP sent me are higher than that, with a better processor, more storage, and 5G, so it comes in at $1,943.70.

• HP boasts an aluminum build when other companies use materials like carbon fiber, plastic, and magnesium
• It has two Thunderbolt 4 ports, two USB Type-A ports, and HDMI

The main competitors for the HP EliteBook 840 G9 are the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 or T14s, and the Dell Latitude 7400 series. In the reviewer's workshop that HP held, it referred to competitors A and B using materials like carbon fiber, plastic, and magnesium, so to be clear, that's who those two competitors are.

HP uses all aluminum for the EliteBook 800 series, and it comes in any color you want, as long as it's Natural Silver. This isn't new. Every EliteBook I've ever reviewed has come in silver, and if you want something sexier, you'd look toward a consumer laptop like a Spectre x360. Being a business laptop, you're not looking for sexy. You're looking for a standard laptop that you can pass out to a team, and one that's easy to maintain. Of course, HP started to experiment more with design when it started doing the Dragonfly series, but that's at the very premium end.

The design might not be exciting, but the EliteBook 840 G9 makes up for that in reliability and more.

It comes in at 2.99 pounds, and it's about three-quarters-of-an-inch thick, so it's not the thinnest or the lightest. For comparison, the HP EliteBook 1040 G10 weighs about 2.6 pounds and it's about 0.71 inches thick. Still, that seems to be the key difference between the mainstream and the premium model.

It's got plenty of ports too. On the left side, there are two Thunderbolt 4 ports, a USB Type-A 5Gbps port, and HDMI 2.0.

On the right side, there's a headphone jack, another USB Type-A port, and that's also where you'll find the nano-SIM slot if you get the cellular model.

This is a key difference between business and consumer laptops. Consumer laptops are moving away from USB Type-A, as they should. Business users have a lot more legacy peripherals to plug in. Honestly, I don't think I used the USB Type-A ports the entire time I've had this laptop.

As far as the overall design goes, it's fine. It's perfect for what it's supposed to be.

• The 14-inch display is 1,920x1,200 with 250-nit brightness
• The keyboard, as always, is best-in-class

While HP specced out the rest of the laptop, it used the base model display. This is fairly common in review units because as reviewers, we do battery life testing. The screen is 14 inches, as the '840' name implies, and it's 16:10 now, meaning it's taller than the older 16:9 EliteBook 800 series models. The screen size is measured diagonally, so while it's still 14 inches, the new aspect ratio means that it's actually bigger.

For this configuration, the resolution is 1,920x1,200, and the brightness is 250 nits, which is somewhat disappointing. The resolution is the same across all configurations, but there's a separate 400-nit option that's worth looking at. There's also an option with HP's Sure View privacy display, something that always comes in handy.

The HP EliteBook 840 G9 supports 100% sRGB, 71% NTSC, 76% Adobe RGB, and 76% P3, which is fine for a matte anti-glare display that you'd find on a business laptop. If you need a super-wide color gamut for photo or video editing, you can look for something with an OLED display .

In my testing, the contrast ratio was 1,560:1 with the brightness maxed out, so that was pretty good. Brightness was right around where it should be at 252.9 nits. Again, a brighter display is better, and at 250 nits, you'll find yourself using this machine at max brightness most of the time. The good news is that the matte display makes it a bit easier to use outside in daylight.

Oftentimes, the mainstream EliteBook 800 series is just about bringing premium features down to the next lower tier, but HP didn't quite do that with webcams over the past year. When it debuted its 5MP sensor, it pretty much did so across the board, and in the age of working from home, the company managed to own laptop webcam quality.

So yes, this does have one of the best laptop webcams around, but there's more. Since you only need 2.1MP for FHD video, it can crop the frame to focus on you, and since the camera actually has a larger field of view, it can follow you around if you move. HP is also promising better low-light performance, which is definitely true over the old HD sensors, and it has better AI noise reduction.

The keyboard is best-in-class, something I often say about HP laptops, especially business ones. The company has really put a lot of effort into making its products comfortable and accurate to type on, after years and years of Lenovo ThinkPads getting the reputation of having the best keyboards in the game.

Once again, HP has the best keyboard.

It's also got a giant touchpad, something I love to see. Bigger touchpads are better, and this one makes use of the available real estate on the deck.

• Performance with Intel's P-series is solid, but as always, the higher wattage affects battery life
• 5G connectivity is a game changer

The unit that HP sent me includes an Intel Core i7-1280P CPU, 16GB DDR5 memory, and a 512GB SSD. The performance is fine, although I'm generally against using P-series processors. We're talking productivity performance here, and I never heard anyone talk about the 15W chips that we've seen in previous years. The issue is that the 28W power uses more battery life, and the extra performance doesn't really seem useful. After all, the integrated graphics are nearly identical.

The real benefit for me was 5G. Like with most Intel PCs these days, it uses a MediaTek 5G modem (for some reason, I don't see many Snapdragon 5G models in Intel PCs anymore), which is branded as Intel 5G. It supports sub-6GHz bands, which is fine.

It's just really nice and useful to just be connected to the internet wherever you are. I know that some people think it's not valuable, because yes, you can use your phone as a hot spot. But that's a pain point, as is public Wi-Fi. Public Wi-Fi isn't secure either, whereas 5G is.

Cellular connectivity in a laptop isn't just more convenient, it's more secure too.

Like I said, I took this laptop to CES, and it was the only laptop in my bag. That means I trusted it to have the performance I needed for anything I did throughout the day, whether it's writing an article in a browser or editing photos in Adobe Lightroom Classic while I'm sitting in the back of an Uber. And I trusted it to keep me connected, whether that was in a crowded convention center or a hotel that literally had 1Mbps Wi-Fi.

I ran my usual performance benchmarks, and the EliteBook 840 G9 actually tests quite well, although that shouldn't be a surprise since it did so well in everyday usage.

Battery life, on average, was about four hours and two minutes. The power slider was set to balanced and the screen brightness was set to near 100%, since it's a 250-nit panel. The best I got was four hours and 42 minutes. As usual, I tested by using the device until the battery ran out, and I used Windows 11 's battery reports to keep track.

The result is on the lower side of average. With any Intel-based ultrabook, I expect to see between four and six hours of battery life. As I mentioned, though, these new P-series processors use more power, and while you're seeing more ultrabooks and convertibles shipping with 72WHr and 80WHr batteries to compensate, this one still has a 51WHr battery.

My biggest issue isn't just the tax on battery life but the lack of a benefit to make up for it. This is a productivity machine. No one is asking for battery life to take a hit so that Google Chrome can be a little bit snappier. I've reviewed many, many laptops with 12th-gen processors, and all of my best experiences have been with U-series CPUs.

You should buy the HP EliteBook 840 G9 if:

• You want a great productivity laptop that's reliable
• You work on the go and would benefit from cellular connectivity
• You want value for your money

You should NOT buy the HP EliteBook 840 G9 if:

• You require a wide color gamut for something like photo editing
• You require enough power for something like video editing or gaming
• You want the thinnest, lightest, or sexiest laptop

I absolutely love the HP EliteBook 840 G9. That's why I brought it with me to CES. But it's not perfect; if it was, HP would only make one laptop. If you need a great display for creative work, take a look at HP's Dragonfly series, which has OLED options. The same thing goes for if you want the thinnest and the lightest. If you need more power, take a look at something with dedicated graphics.

HP Elitebook 840 G9 review: more power, speed... and height?

With the elitebook 840 g9, hp brings a great upgrade to a capable laptop..

Our Verdict

The HP Elitebook 840 G9 follows in the high-performing footsteps of the 840 G8, and this new upgrade brings a taller, brighter screen to the table, great for content creators, and the battery life is great for workers on the go. With the more powerful Intel Core i7 processor, our recommended option for this pro notebook, it also handles all general creative tasks with ease and even though it's no gaming powerhouse, you can still get plenty of casual gaming joy out of it.

• Bright, tall screen
• Great battery life
• Powerful i7 processor option
• Speakers are serviceable at best

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• Design and build
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• Should you buy it?

Processors available: 12th-gen Intel Core i5-1235U, i5-1240P, i7-1255U,  i7-1260P, i5-1245U, i5-1250P, i7-1265U, i7-1270P, i7-1280P RAM: 8-64GB Storage: 256GB-2TB SSD Display: 14-inch, 250-1000 nits depending on power options Graphics: Intel Iris Xe graphics Ports and connectors: 1 HDMI 2.0; 2 Thunderbolt 4 with USB4 Type-C 40Gbps signaling rate (USB Power Delivery, DisplayPort™ 1.4); 2 SuperSpeed USB Type-A 5Gbps signaling rate (1 charging) ; (HDMI cable sold separately.); Optional Ports: 1 Smartcard reader (optional); 1 External Nano SIM slot for WWAN Camera: 5MP Windows Hello-compatible Dimensions: 31.56 x 22.4 x 1.92cm Weight: 1.36kg

The HP Elitebook 840 G9 supersedes the well-liked and very capable Elitebook 840 G8, and comes with a few upgrades over its predecessor too. 

With more powerful processors for both Intel Core i5 and i7 options, and following the current industry trend for taller notebook screens, the G9 moves from the widescreen 16:9 ratio to a 16:10 option, while keeping the screen resolution crisp enough for all general work and most creative tasks at 162 PPI. 

I got a review unit in for testing and living with for a couple of months. The sample I had sported the Intel Core i7-1255U, 10-core, 12-thread 2.62GHz processor, 16GB of RAM and the 512GB SSD, so was keen to see how it performed not just with reaching its advertised benchmarks, but also how it felt living and working with it. I used it for general office work, video conferencing, and creative work, along with watching films and TV and testing out how it performed when gaming, and how it stacks up against the best laptops for writers . Also, would it claim a place among the best laptops for battery life ? 

HP Elitebook 840 G9 review: design and build

The HP Elitebook 840 G9, like most recent HP laptops, looks both incredibly sleek and sturdy. Clad in matte silver with the stylish lowercase 'hp' logo emblazoned on the lid, the corners are rounded for a sleeker appearance.

The 14-inch screen has a 16:10 aspect ratio, which has the added effect, so the keyboard area and the screen sizes match up, of giving you a larger trackpad than usual, along with a keyboard that doesn't feel too compact for prolonged use. 

The keyboard is backlit, but the backlight will helpfully turn itself off when not in active use, which is especially convenient when watching video, as well as for a marginal power saving.

The screen bezels aren't ultra-thin, but are still unintrusive. The bottom bezels features a simple silver 'hp' logo, while the top has more action going on, featuring a 5MP webcam with a physical privacy slider to block the lens when it's not in use.

HP Elitebook 840 G9 review: features

The headline features stack this laptop up well against other pro-level notebooks in the £1,000-1,500/$1,600-2,500 range. With the test model, we had 16GB of RAM, and a 512 GB SSD running on the Intel Core i7-1255U processor. The 14-inch screen has a max resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels which, while lagging behind the resolution of similarly priced laptops such as the Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 and 5, is still enough to offer a pixel density of 162 PPI, which is more than enough for regular photo-editing and digital artworking. 

On the right-hand side of the trackpad is a small non-descript square, which turns out is a fingerprint sensor, and forms part of HP's host of security features. Aiming at professionals who need to keep their work safe and secure, the Elitebook 840 G9 is protected by HP's own Wolf Security business-spec security software, which claims to "reduce the addressable attack surface and enables remote recovery from firmware attacks". For me, it was unintrusive in use, didn't bog down the performance to any noticeable degree and was updated regularly throughout my use of the notebook.

The fingerprint sensor and the Windows Hello-enabled webcam add extra layers of protection when either logging into the computer or performing specific commands, and having it included with the laptop is extra convenient.

The webcam is a 5MP proposition, and while it offers decent resolution, it lags behind many external webcams you can get, and isn't quite sharp enough for anything much above regular video-conferencing. 

Finally, I'm happy to report that the Elitebook 840 G9 comes with ports, lots of ports. 

HP Elitebook 840 G9 review: performance

Some outlets have reported that the Intel Core i5 processor option on the HP Elitebook 840 G9 feels decidedly underpowered amid the laptop maker's often-reported downtuning of its processors (reportedly to increase battery life). 

But I didn't notice any particular throttling of the 10-core, 12-thread i7 processor in my review sample. It performed to expectation in all our benchmarking tests, ranking above some other Intel Core i7 processors like the 2.81Ghz 11th-gen i7-1165 processor scores and slightly below Xeon processors like the CPU X5650 in our Cinebench R23 test. The Multi-Core test score was only slightly below the recently reviewed Huawei MateBook X Pro, which is a more expensive machine, so we'd say it's acquitted itself well here.

Cinebench R23: Multi-core: 5649 Single-core: 1574 MP ratio: 3.58x

Geekbench 5: Multi-core: 7291 Single-core: 1396

The Geekbench 5 scores were even more impressive, with a multi-core score of 7291, which puts it in the vicinity of processors like the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G and only slightly below the 8-core Intel Core i7-10700, which is used in many gaming laptops.

I'm usually not a fan of native keyboards, but the one here was pleasant to use, if not quite at the level of the Microsoft Surface Laptop 4, which is a dream for writers. There is a little bit of travel in the keyboard, but obviously won't match a fully mechanical one for a fully involved typing experience. The large trackpad tended to get in the way a little for me at times, but seemed to not be too reactive towards accidental contact, which was a relief.

I was able to use Photoshop with ease when performing photo-editing tasks, and watching video was very pleasant, where the screen's brightness and good contrast felt like a real strength. The sound experience couldn't quite match up to the rest, though, even with HP collaborating with Bang & Olufsen for the speaker tech on their current lineup of laptops. 

Sound carries well enough, but with the speakers placed underneath the laptop, it needs to be sat on a hard, sound-reflecting surface if you don't want it to sound hollow and a little tinny. Bass is pedestrian at best and while the depth is fine for TV or video-conferencing, you feel the lack of it when listening to music and watching action films. 

Thankfully, there's an audio-out jack on the laptop so you can easily plug in your favourite headphones or external speakers to make the most of the capable software inside with a better audio experience.

This is not marketed as a gaming laptop, so we didn't run gaming benchmarks on it, but I could play some of my go-to winding-down games with ease, such as Civilization and a couple of racing and sports games. It won't run AAA games at max settings, but that won't be why you buy this laptop anyway. Casual gaming fun can be had, and that's all you should need out of it.

The HDR screen lights up to 1000 nits, which is brilliant in both emotive and literal ways. The contrast alongside the brightness elevates video-viewing experience far above what you'd expect from such a compact screen, meaning it's a great laptop for streaming, even without 4K.

HP Elitebook 840 G9 review: Battery life

One of HP's go-to selling points is their laptops' renowned battery life. Running our streaming video test on it, we got a hair over 12 hours of life, which gets you through about a season of The Simpsons before needing to find an outlet. That's not bad at all, and in line with HP's claims. Full marks there.

HP Elitebook 840 G9 review: Price

The HP Elitebook 840 G9 comes with a host of processor options, but the main two are an Intel Core i5-1235U option that retails on HP's own store for just over £1,100/$1,600 at the time of writing, and the one we tested, the Intel Core i7-1255U processor, which will set you back almost £1,500/$1,800 at full price.

These are certainly not cheap laptops, and you will be able to get more focused creator machines with bigger 16-inch screens for a similar price, but if what you need is an all-rounder that remains very portable due to the light construction and 14-inch screen, this Elitebook will do a very good job indeed and by all indications last you for a long time too.

Should you buy the HP Elitebook 840 G9?

The HP Elitebook 840 G9 is certainly very capable. As it should be, for the amount of money you have to cough up for it. Even with the considerable extra outlet, the more powerful option is definitely the one to aim for if you are going for one, as the more powerful processor, bigger RAM (which is extendable to 64GB) and much brighter screen justifies its price tag and then some. Some might not immediately take to HP's unique Windows interface, but I find it intuitive and clear to navigate, and it's supported by regular automatic updates. 

The security features are also a great boon for any professional user, as you can add several different layers of security and privacy to your work on this laptop. HP claims its Wolf Security makes its laptops the 'world's most secure', and although we can't verify that claim conclusively, the suite of security features here is really impressive.

Plus, it just looks so darn good.

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Erlingur is the Tech Reviews Editor on Creative Bloq. Having worked on magazines devoted to Photoshop, films, history, and science for over 15 years, as well as working on Digital Camera World and Top Ten Reviews in more recent times, Erlingur has developed a passion for finding tech that helps people do their job, whatever it may be. He loves putting things to the test and seeing if they're all hyped up to be, to make sure people are getting what they're promised. Still can't get his wifi-only printer to connect to his computer. 

HP EliteBook 840 G9 Review

• Paul Thurrott
• Jan 31, 2023

Despite a few downsides, the HP EliteBook 840 G9 has emerged as my favorite business-class portable PC. It’s my go-to now for just about everything, and my only regret is that I’ve not been able to fly with it yet.

Note: I make a point of not reading other reviews when I’m evaluating laptops, but I am a Wirecutter subscriber and couldn’t help but notice that this publication recently awarded the HP EliteBook 840 G9 as its pick for the best business laptop . I’m not surprised. –Paul

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Like most other business-class laptops, the EliteBook 840 is utilitarian, not flashy, and it comes in exactly one color, plain gray. The body is aluminum all around.

For the G9, HP rounded corners and softened edges as part of a lineup-wide step back from the hard angular edges of the past, and I’m all for it. The new design looks fresh and a bit less cold.

It’s also tough, with HP reporting that the EliteBook 840 has passed 19 MIL-STD 810H tests over 120,000 hours.

Most HP laptops offer several display panel choices, and the EliteBook 840 G9 is no different, though each uses IPS technology and is 14-inches on the diagonal with a WUXGA (1920 x 1200) resolution and a 16:10 aspect ratio, so there are no 4K+ display options. Beyond that, you can choose between IPS panels with 250 nits of brightness and anti-glare, 400 nits of brightness and low power, and 1000 nits of brightness and HP’s Sure View Reflect integrate privacy screen technology.

The display panel in the review unit is non-touch, which I prefer, and low-power with 400 nits of brightness. I found it to be ideal for my work from around the home, and it should perform well even outdoors.

The bezels aren’t particularly small, but HP has made the upper and lower bezels match, which I like. In the past, the lower bezel was an inch-high span of wasted space. The upper bezel, of course, houses the webcam, plus the microphones and antennas.

The display doesn’t quite lay flat.

Internal components

The EliteBook 840 G9 can be had with your choice of various 12th Gen Intel Core i5 and i7 processors with hybrid designs featuring 10 to 14 cores and Intel Iris Xe graphics. Three of the models feature power-sipping U-series processors, while the others offer more powerful P-series processors and less battery life. The system can be configured with 16 to 64 GB of DDR5-4800 RAM and 256 GB to 2 TB of SSD storage; on most models, that’s fast PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2-based storage.

The review unit is a relatively high-end configuration that includes a Core i7-1280P processor with 14 total cores—6 Performance and 8 Efficient—16 GB  of RAM, and 512 GB of storage. As I expected, performance was excellent across the standard range of productivity apps that I use every day—Microsoft Word, Brave, Notion, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Teams, and so on—as well as with software development tools like Visual Studio.

Perhaps more notably, the EliteBook remained quiet and cool, no matter the workload: I never noted any undue fan noise or warmth.

Connectivity

Connectivity is modern, of course, with Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and NFC. And you can optionally add 5G cellular connectivity with both nano-SIM and eSIM options as well. The review does include cellular connectivity, but I wasn’t able to test it.

Ports and expansion

As one should expect from a business-class laptop, the EliteBook 840 G9 is outfitted with a nice array of modern and legacy ports.

You will find one HDMI 2.0, port, one full-sized USB-A (5 Gbps) port, and two Thunderbolt 4/USB4/Type-C (40 Gbps with Power Delivery and DisplayPort1.4) ports on the left. A smart card reader is optional.

And on the right, there is a combo headphone/microphone port, a second USB-A (5 Gbps) port, a nano lock slot, and, optionally, a nano-SIM slot.

Audio and video

The EliteBook 840 provides terrific stereo speakers with discrete amplifiers and it performs well for meetings, music, and videos. And though there are no Dolby enhancements for entertainment, I was quite happy with the quality during movie playback: there was no distortion, even at the loudest volumes. This laptop cranks.

Hybrid meetings are also aided by dual microphones with AI-based noise suppression and dynamic voice leveling capabilities. And like HP’s other recent business-class offerings, the EliteBook 840 G9 offers a 5 MP webcam, a nice step up from the HD units of the past that offers better image quality, improved low-light performance, and even auto-framing.

Most of the AV features are configured using HP’s Audio Control app, which provides an Auto preset so you don’t have to switch manually between music, movies, and voice modes. The only exception is the webcam, which is configured with the myHP app.

The keyboard has a dedicated microphone mute key, which I like, but the webcam privacy shutter is manual: I’d rather see a dedicated key for that as well.

Keyboard, touchpad, and pen

The keyboard is mostly terrific, which wasn’t surprising since the firm’s EliteBook lineup has consistently good keyboards. It has quick, punchy keys with just the right amount of travel.

And while this latest version dispenses with the dual-pointing system used by previous generation models, a feature most probably found superfluous, the new key layout around the arrow keys was particularly problematic and frustrating: the Left arrow and Right arrow key are now half-height, with PgUp and PgDn buttons occupying the rest of that space, and I never stopping hitting those keys by mistake, sending whatever I was working on at the time off into some other part of the document. It almost ruined the typing experience for me. Almost.

The large glass touchpad was likewise quite reliable. I never needed to disable three- and four-finger gestures, which is the easiest way for me to tell when a touchpad is working properly.

HP now includes its Wolf Security suite with all of its business-class laptops, providing customers with a wide range of protection that extends beyond Windows to include protections that runs while the PC is offline, preventing firmware hacks and other tampering. I’m not usually a fan of third-party security software, but Wolf Security isn’t any noisier than Windows Security, though it flags potentially dangerous software a bit more often.

Beyond that, the EliteBook includes a fast and reliable fingerprint reader in its wrist rest and the webcam has IR capabilities for Windows Hello facial recognition too. This is an ideal configuration for fast and secure sign-in.

Sustainability

This PC is quite sustainable, with at least 50 percent recycled stamped aluminum in the cover, 75 percent post-consumer recycled plastic in the bezels, 50 percent post-consumer recycled DVDs/CDs in the keycaps, and 5 percent ocean-bound plastic in the speaker enclosure. And the outer box it arrives in is 100 percent sustainably sourced.

The EliteBook is also the answer to your sustainability, repairability, and upgradeability dreams: it can be easily taken apart using five self-capturing Phillips head screws, and the RAM, storage, wireless card, and battery can all be replaced.

Portability

At 2.99 pounds, the EliteBook 840 G9 is nicely portable for a 14-inch laptop, and I had no issues carrying it around in my small backpack, as I did for a day trip to Philadelphia and a long weekend in Boston.

But the P-series processor in the review unit was a letdown in the battery life department: I saw just over 4 hours of battery life in normal day-to-day use, which isn’t great. Curious about this, I checked out the bundled HP Power Manager app, which was configured to let HP—as opposed to Windows—manage the health of the battery but not how power management works. The system was configured to use the normal Balanced power management mode.

I do wonder if I could have eked out a bit more battery life on a flight with a few fewer apps running.

The EliteBook ships with Windows 11 Pro and no additional crapware at all, just about a dozen HP utilities, three Intel utilities, and the Tile app. This is ideal.

Pricing and configurations

The HP EliteBook 840 G9 ostensibly starts north of $2000, but an entry-level model with a Core i5-1240P processor, 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB of storage, and a 400-nit non-touch display has been on sale for over two months at about $1100 on HP.com , and this PC is a steal at that price. But there are lots of upgraded models in the $1500 to $2000 range (normally $1600 to $3600), and most of those are reasonably priced as well.

Recommendations and conclusions

The HP EliteBook 840 G9 is a workhorse for the hybrid work age and a terrific choice for those who split their time between a home office and another work location. It offers excellent performance with little fan noise or heat, terrific expansion and connectivity options, and good display choices unless you need 4K. Battery life was poor, which won’t be an issue for those regularly near power, and I’m not a fan of the arrow keys/PgUp/PgDn key layout, which mars an otherwise perfect typing experience.

The HP EliteBook 840 G9 is highly recommended: this is a laptop I’d buy with my own money and happily use for years to come.

At-a-glance

• Excellent performance
• Upgradeable and easily repairable
• Great prices for this much capability
• Excellent expansion
• Terrific connectivity
• Nice 16:10 display options, assuming you don’t need 4K
• Crapware-free
• Lackluster battery life
• PgUp/PgDn keys are too easy to hit my mistake

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HP EliteBook 840 G9

A strong, state-of-the-art business laptop in a tough, tough field.

Bottom Line

• Impressive performance, battery life, and security
• Trim design with a decent array of ports
• Available 4G or 5G mobile broadband
• Smart 5-megapixel webcam
• A tad heavier than competitors
• No high-res or OLED screen options

Setting aside its ZBook mobile workstations and ultralight Dragonfly line, HP's EliteBook 800 models are the firm's second-best business laptops (between the 600 and 1000 series). The EliteBook 840 G9 (starts at $1,129; $1,609 as tested) sits smack in the mainstream of 14-inch, clamshell corporate notebooks. This laptop is packed with up-to-date features like a slightly taller 16:10 (instead of 16:9) aspect ratio display, Wi-Fi 6E , and 5G mobile broadband. HP's 840 G9 doesn't upstage Lenovo's legendary ThinkPad X1 Carbon as our favorite business laptop, but it's a trim and terrific enterprise option.

Ready for the Corner Office 

On HP.com, the cheapest EliteBook 840 G9 is $1,129 with a 12th Generation Intel Core i5 processor , 16GB of RAM, and a 256GB NVMe solid-state drive. Four screen choices are available, all IPS panels with 1,920-by-1,200-pixel resolution: non-touch or touch with a modest 250 nits of brightness, a sunnier 400-nit non-touch screen, and one of HP's Sure View Reflect panels with an integrated privacy filter. Disappointingly, you can't get a sharper 4K or OLED display.

For $1,609, our Windows 11 Pro test unit steps up to a faster Core i7-1280P chip (six Performance cores, eight Efficient cores, 20 threads) with Intel's vPro IT manageability tech, a 512GB SSD, and Intel 5G Solution 5000 connectivity for desolate places without Wi-Fi coverage. Extras include a SmartCard slot as well as both a fingerprint reader and face-recognition webcam to skip typing passwords with Windows Hello. The laptop also features HP's Wolf Security bundle, including BIOS and AI-based malware protection along with Sure Click sandboxing of online apps and websites.

This aluminum-clad EliteBook measures 0.76 by 12.4 by 8.8 inches, and it just clears our ultraportable cutoff at 2.99 pounds. Among other 14-inch business systems with 16:10 screen aspect ratios, Lenovo's X1 Carbon is an eighth of an inch thinner and half a pound lighter (2.48 pounds), while the Acer TravelMate P6 is lighter still at 2.2 pounds.

Thin bezels border the sides of the screen, with slightly thicker bars above and below. A sliding shutter covers the webcam lens when you want some privacy, and a microphone mute key is included on the top row. Ports include two USB4 ports with Thunderbolt 4 support on the left flank, along with an HDMI monitor port. The laptop features one 5Gbps USB 3.2 Type-A port on each side plus an audio jack, a nano SIM slot, and a security-cable lockdown notch on the right. HP's compact AC adapter has a USB-C connector.

HP Gets the Keyboard Right 

Beyond even the recently growing 1080p standard, HP's webcam captures up to 2,560-by-1,440-pixel (16:9 aspect ratio) or 2,560-by-1,920-pixel (4:3) stills, as well as 1080p or 1440p videos. Images produced by the camera are reasonably well-lit and colorful, with minimal static. The myHP utility's HP Presence enhancements include a backlight and low-light adjustment, as well as framing tools for your head, head and shoulders, or upper body—depending on how much of your shirt or blouse you want to show.

Speaking of shirts, what appears in my reviews more often than torn bodices do in romance novels? Complaints about HP laptops arranging the cursor arrow keys in a clumsy row instead of the handier inverted-T layout. The EliteBook's arrow keys are only half-size but are—amazingly—properly placed.

Even better are the dedicated Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down keys in a ThinkPad-style arrangement at the top right for the first two and lower right for the latter. The backlit keyboard has a shallow but reasonably snappy typing feel, and typing on it is audible but not too noisy. The laptop's decently sized, buttonless touchpad glides and clicks smoothly.

Sound from the bottom-firing speakers isn't exactly symphonic, but it's loud and sharp enough for any business use, as well as for enjoying streaming movies or music. These speakers produce very little bass to speak of, but the audio isn't harsh or tinny even at top volume, and it's easy to make out overlapping tracks. HP Audio Control software provides music, movie, and voice modes, as well as an equalizer. Finally, AI-based speaker and mic noise reduction, and sound calibration for supported headsets, are also available here.

I'm sad that the EliteBook doesn't match most rivals in supporting a high-res screen option, but the 1,920-by-1,200 display is perfectly crisp and quite bright. Colors are rich and well-saturated, contrast is decent, and viewing angles are wide. White backgrounds are clean, helped by the ability to tilt the screen back as far as you like, and I can't see any pixelation around the edges of letters on websites and in emails.

Testing the HP EliteBook 840 G9: The High End of Mainstream 

For our benchmark charts, we're comparing the HP to four other 14-inch slimline laptops, including the premium Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 (starts at $1,439; $2,249 as tested) and the more affordable Acer TravelMate P6 (starts at $1,299.99; $1,499.99 as tested). The Dell Latitude 9430 2-in-1 (starts at $2,169; $2,994 as tested) is a business convertible, while the Lenovo Slim 9i (starts at $1,249; $2,070 as tested) is a consumer showpiece with a 4K OLED display.

Productivity Tests 

Our primary performance benchmark, UL's PCMark 10, simulates a variety of real-world productivity and content-creation workflows to measure overall performance for office-centric tasks such as word processing, spreadsheeting, web browsing, and videoconferencing. We also run PCMark 10's Full System Drive test to assess a laptop's storage load time and throughput.

Three more benchmarks focus on the CPU, using all available cores and threads, to rate a PC's suitability for processor-intensive workloads. Maxon's Cinebench R23 uses that company's Cinema 4D engine to render a complex scene, while Primate Labs' Geekbench 5.4 Pro simulates popular apps ranging from PDF rendering and speech recognition to machine learning. Finally, we use the open-source video transcoder HandBrake 1.4 to convert a 12-minute video clip from 4K to 1080p resolution (lower times are better). 

Our final productivity test is Puget Systems' PugetBench for Photoshop, which uses the Creative Cloud version 22 of Adobe's famous image editor to rate a PC's performance for content creation and multimedia applications. It's an automated extension that executes a variety of general and GPU-accelerated Photoshop tasks ranging from opening, rotating, resizing, and saving an image to applying masks, gradient fills, and filters.

HP's EliteBook 840 G9 finishes first or second in every event, showing more than ample power for everyday apps (scoring half again the 4,000 points in PCMark 10 that indicate excellent productivity for Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace) and even enough muscle for some mild digital content creation, though it's not up to workstation-class CGI rendering or data science. 

Graphics Tests 

For visual testing, we benchmark Windows PCs' graphics with two DirectX 12 gaming simulations from UL's 3DMark, Night Raid (more modest, suitable for laptops with integrated graphics) and Time Spy (more demanding, suitable for gaming rigs with discrete GPUs). 

We also run two tests from the cross-platform GPU benchmark GFXBench 5, which stresses both low-level routines like texturing and high-level, game-like image rendering. The 1440p Aztec Ruins and 1080p Car Chase tests, rendered offscreen to accommodate different display resolutions, exercise graphics and compute shaders using the OpenGL programming interface and hardware tessellation respectively. The more frames per second (fps), the better.

Lenovo's sleek Slim 9i laptop leads the pack with the HP close behind, but all these notebooks' Intel integrated graphics fall way short of the 3D performance you'll see from the discrete GPU of a gaming laptop or workstation. They're fine for casual gaming and streaming media, but not meant for high-speed shoot-'em-ups or particularly heavy-duty visual content creation. 

Battery and Display Tests

We test laptops' battery life by playing a locally stored 720p video file (the open-source Blender movie Tears of Steel Tears of Steel ) with display brightness at 50% and audio volume at 100%. We make sure the battery is fully charged before the test, with Wi-Fi and keyboard backlighting turned off. 

For display testing, we use Datacolor SpyderX Elite monitor calibration sensor and its Windows software to measure a laptop screen's color saturation. That means what percentage of the sRGB, Adobe RGB, and DCI-P3 color gamuts or palettes the display can show—and its 50% and peak brightness in nits (candelas per square meter).

No complaints here, as the EliteBook shows more than enough unplugged stamina for a full day's work—plus an evening's Netflix or YouTube entertainment. Bested only by the Dell Latitude in this test lot, this makes the EliteBook ideal for workers who frequently travel.

Unfortunately, this EliteBook's screen can't match the vivid hues of the Slim 9i's OLED panel in color coverage. However, the screen is more than colorful enough for business apps, and it's actually brighter than its rated 400 nits—again, beat only by the Dell Latitude.

Verdict: A Sleek Silver Slab for the Enterprise 

If you can live with a merely fine screen instead of a show-off OLED or 4K display, it's hard to fault HP's EliteBook 840 G9. This business laptop includes everything from 5G mobile broadband to a high-res, AI-enhanced conferencing camera, along with highly competitive performance and additional security. The only question in our minds is how HP can top it with the would-be EliteBook 1000 series, and whether it can earn our Editors' Choice award next time.

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HP Elitebook 840 G9 Review: A Utilitarian Notebook that Makes Utilitarian Look Good

January 27, 2023 by Daniel W. Rasmus Leave a Comment

HP Elitebook 840 G9

Aimed at the corporate market, the HP Elitebook 840 G9 is a solid workhorse of a computer that comes in configurations that will meet most general business needs.

HP Elitebook 840 G9 Review

With the HP Elitebook 840 G9, HP delivers a relatively powerful computer in the preferred form factor for most business users. The wide-ranging options make it ideal for corporate purchases that want to buy in bulk but still meet the needs of varying use cases.

What we like

From its excellent 5-megapixel auto-framing camera to its 14-inch 16:10 aspect ratio 2920×1200 WUXGA display, the HP Elitebook 840 G9 elegantly states that it’s all business. The adoption of the 16:10 offers more workspace than the 16:9 EliteBook 840 Aero G8 which preceded this model. The list price shared during a briefing stated the device will cost between $1,100 and $1,600, depending on the configuration, though the HP website shows several higher-priced configurations.

It’s too bad all workhorse appliances don’t look this good. And given this is an HP business computer, it arrives fully loaded with Wolf Security to complement Microsoft Windows security features.

The 840 G9, at 12.42 x 8.82 x 0.76 inches and weighing in at just under 3 pounds, isn’t the thinnest and lightest laptop from HP, but it is generally the most business-forward laptop that I’ve reviewed. The device and its configurations speak directly to the IT procurement team seeking a laptop for the masses that the masses won’t find disappointing.

At the center of the HP Elitebook, 840 G9 sits a 12 th  Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1280P vPro® processor running at 1.8 GHz. That’s top-of-the-line for this model. Core i5 is available, as is available an i5-1240 or 1250. Graphics support comes with more or less GPU from the integrated Intel® Iris® Xᵉ Graphics associated with the chosen CPU. Most organizations should lean into the i7 configurations to ensure a longer service life and consider the i5s only for less demanding use cases that may also subject the devices to more wear and tear than day-to-day office use.

HP fully admits that the HP Elitebook 840 G9 is a middling performer, but middling is pretty good these days and perfectly acceptable for basic work. For a device likely purchased in bulk, its good battery (up to 13 hours) life and quiet design combine with good enough performance to offer a device that won’t become obsolete or annoying over a two or three-year refresh horizon.

A couple more notes on power: the HP Elitebook 840 G9 employs intelligent charging to optimize charge and battery life, and the HP Power Manager dashboard provides owners with insight into the battery’s performance and its condition.

The 1920×1200 anti-glare screen is bright and clear. The review unit did not ship with a touchscreen, but touchscreens and security screens are available as options. HP even offers a “low cost” screen version, further demonstrating its commitment to this device as a broad-range laptop capable of serving many enterprise workflows.

A key factor, besides its relatively slim and light build, is the optional smart card security slot that anyone inside a corporation or government agency with secrets to keep will recognize, but most people won’t know what it is, let alone what to do with it. The answer is that slot acts as a physical security port for a badge that unlocks the laptop, along with other authentication measures.

For those longing to return to the more-ports-is-better days, HP answered the call with two USB-A ports and an HDMI connector to complement the dual USB-C Thunderbolt ports. The HP Elitebook 840 G9 ships with WiFi 6E and can be ordered with 5G capabilities via an Intel 5000 series modem. The review unit came equipped for 5G, but I could not test the experience as I didn’t purchase an AT&T 5G service contract for this device.

Dual stereo speakers tuned by Bang & Olufsen offer decent sound for headphone-less conference calls or video soundtracks. I would, however, suggest headphones or a good external speaker for music. HP’s AI Noise Reduction 2.0 and HP Dynamic Voice help keep out background noise and focus on the speaker. Those who still want to use headphones can connect via Bluetooth® 5.2 or connect wired headphones to the physical 3.5mm audio combo jack.

Our review unit arrived with a 512GB SSD. The unit can be configured with up to 2TB of SSD. 

The backlit chicklet-style keys provide a nice tactile push and solid backlighting.

For those worried about laptops that won’t hold up to wear, the 840 G9 went through 19 passes of the MIL-STD 810H tests and 120,000 hours of test processes within HP. And if something does go wrong, the battery, SSD, WWAN, WLAN, and RAM are all IT replaceable. 

If hardware loss is a concern, HP integrated tile into the hardware profile, making the device discoverable via their free service. Tile’s tracking service offers additional features for a fee.

HP receives high marks for its environmental efforts on devices like the 840 G9, which incorporates at least 50% recycled stamped aluminum on the covers, 75% post-consumer recycled plastic in the bezel, 50% post-consumer recycled DVDs and CDs in the keycaps and diverts 5% of previously ocean-bound plastic for the speaker enclosure. The packing material is 100% sustainably sourced.

What could be improved

I would like the base model to include an IT webcam to enable Microsoft Hello. (Note: The version reviewed included an IR webcam that supported the Hello facial authentication feature.)

It would also be interesting to see business devices like this lean into Apple’s nearly double resolution screens on their MacBook Pro 14, a device that compares favorably to the 840 G9. The MacBook Pro’s 3024-by-1964 and mini-LEDs offer more real estate and richer colors and blacks than the 840 G9 at a comparable price.

As a work machine, HP should incorporate its collaboration keys (call pick up, call hangup, etc.) into the 840’s keyboard configuration and swap out the physical camera privacy shutter for a virtual one.

HP Elitebook 840 G9: The bottom line

HP has crafted a well-designed, purpose-built laptop that delivers the performance required for general work of any kind. The 840 G9 isn’t for content creators unless those creators focus on words. For those who spend their work lives communicating, collaborating via video conferences and other collaboration tools, analyzing basic data in spreadsheets, managing their local data, or accessing data on a network, the 840 G9 will do that all day, every day without breaking a sweat.

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• Around 63% better multi-core CPU performance in the Cinebench R23 test
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HP EliteBook 840 G9

A strong, state-of-the-art business laptop in a tough, tough field.

Bottom Line

• Impressive performance, battery life, and security
• Trim design with a decent array of ports
• Available 4G or 5G mobile broadband
• Smart 5-megapixel webcam
• A tad heavier than competitors
• No high-res or OLED screen options

Setting aside its ZBook mobile workstations and ultralight Dragonfly line, HP's EliteBook 800 models are the firm's second-best business laptops (between the 600 and 1000 series). The EliteBook 840 G9 (starts at A$2,085) sits smack in the mainstream of 14-inch, clamshell corporate notebooks. This laptop is packed with up-to-date features like a slightly taller 16:10 (instead of 16:9) aspect ratio display, Wi-Fi 6E , and 5G mobile broadband. HP's 840 G9 doesn't upstage Lenovo's legendary ThinkPad X1 Carbon as our favorite business laptop, but it's a trim and terrific enterprise option.

Ready for the Corner Office

On HP.com, the cheapest EliteBook 840 G9 is A$2,085 (discounted to $2,036) with a 12th Generation Intel Core i5 processor , 16GB of RAM, and a 256GB NVMe solid-state drive. Four screen choices are available, all IPS panels with 1,920-by-1,200-pixel resolution: non-touch or touch with a modest 250 nits of brightness, a sunnier 400-nit non-touch screen, and one of HP's Sure View Reflect panels with an integrated privacy filter. Disappointingly, you can't get a sharper 4K or OLED display.

Our Windows 11 Pro test unit steps up to a faster Core i7-1280P chip (six Performance cores, eight Efficient cores, 20 threads) with Intel's vPro IT manageability tech, a 512GB SSD, and Intel 5G Solution 5000 connectivity for desolate places without Wi-Fi coverage. Extras include a SmartCard slot as well as both a fingerprint reader and face-recognition webcam to skip typing passwords with Windows Hello. The laptop also features HP's Wolf Security bundle, including BIOS and AI-based malware protection along with Sure Click sandboxing of online apps and websites.

This aluminum-clad EliteBook measures 0.76 by 12.4 by 8.8 inches, and it just clears our ultraportable cutoff at 2.99 pounds. Among other 14-inch business systems with 16:10 screen aspect ratios, Lenovo's X1 Carbon is an eighth of an inch thinner and half a pound lighter (2.48 pounds), while the Acer TravelMate P6 is lighter still at 2.2 pounds.

Thin bezels border the sides of the screen, with slightly thicker bars above and below. A sliding shutter covers the webcam lens when you want some privacy, and a microphone mute key is included on the top row. Ports include two USB4 ports with Thunderbolt 4 support on the left flank, along with an HDMI monitor port. The laptop features one 5Gbps USB 3.2 Type-A port on each side plus an audio jack, a nano SIM slot, and a security-cable lockdown notch on the right. HP's compact AC adapter has a USB-C connector.

HP Gets the Keyboard Right

Beyond even the recently growing 1080p standard, HP's webcam captures up to 2,560-by-1,440-pixel (16:9 aspect ratio) or 2,560-by-1,920-pixel (4:3) stills, as well as 1080p or 1440p videos. Images produced by the camera are reasonably well-lit and colorful, with minimal static. The myHP utility's HP Presence enhancements include a backlight and low-light adjustment, as well as framing tools for your head, head and shoulders, or upper body—depending on how much of your shirt or blouse you want to show.

Speaking of shirts, what appears in my reviews more often than torn bodices do in romance novels? Complaints about HP laptops arranging the cursor arrow keys in a clumsy row instead of the handier inverted-T layout. The EliteBook's arrow keys are only half-size but are—amazingly—properly placed.

Even better are the dedicated Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down keys in a ThinkPad-style arrangement at the top right for the first two and lower right for the latter. The backlit keyboard has a shallow but reasonably snappy typing feel, and typing on it is audible but not too noisy. The laptop's decently sized, buttonless touchpad glides and clicks smoothly.

Sound from the bottom-firing speakers isn't exactly symphonic, but it's loud and sharp enough for any business use, as well as for enjoying streaming movies or music. These speakers produce very little bass to speak of, but the audio isn't harsh or tinny even at top volume, and it's easy to make out overlapping tracks. HP Audio Control software provides music, movie, and voice modes, as well as an equalizer. Finally, AI-based speaker and mic noise reduction, and sound calibration for supported headsets, are also available here.

I'm sad that the EliteBook doesn't match most rivals in supporting a high-res screen option, but the 1,920-by-1,200 display is perfectly crisp and quite bright. Colors are rich and well-saturated, contrast is decent, and viewing angles are wide. White backgrounds are clean, helped by the ability to tilt the screen back as far as you like, and I can't see any pixelation around the edges of letters on websites and in emails.

Testing the HP EliteBook 840 G9: The High End of Mainstream

For our benchmark charts, we're comparing the HP to four other 14-inch slimline laptops, including the premium Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10, and the more affordable Acer TravelMate P6 . The Dell Latitude 9430 2-in-1 is a business convertible, while the Lenovo Slim 9i is a consumer showpiece with a 4K OLED display.

Productivity Tests

Our primary performance benchmark, UL's PCMark 10, simulates a variety of real-world productivity and content-creation workflows to measure overall performance for office-centric tasks such as word processing, spreadsheeting, web browsing, and videoconferencing. We also run PCMark 10's Full System Drive test to assess a laptop's storage load time and throughput.

Three more benchmarks focus on the CPU, using all available cores and threads, to rate a PC's suitability for processor-intensive workloads. Maxon's Cinebench R23 uses that company's Cinema 4D engine to render a complex scene, while Primate Labs' Geekbench 5.4 Pro simulates popular apps ranging from PDF rendering and speech recognition to machine learning. Finally, we use the open-source video transcoder HandBrake 1.4 to convert a 12-minute video clip from 4K to 1080p resolution (lower times are better).

Our final productivity test is Puget Systems' PugetBench for Photoshop, which uses the Creative Cloud version 22 of Adobe's famous image editor to rate a PC's performance for content creation and multimedia applications. It's an automated extension that executes a variety of general and GPU-accelerated Photoshop tasks ranging from opening, rotating, resizing, and saving an image to applying masks, gradient fills, and filters.

HP's EliteBook 840 G9 finishes first or second in every event, showing more than ample power for everyday apps (scoring half again the 4,000 points in PCMark 10 that indicate excellent productivity for Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace) and even enough muscle for some mild digital content creation, though it's not up to workstation-class CGI rendering or data science.

Graphics Tests

For visual testing, we benchmark Windows PCs' graphics with two DirectX 12 gaming simulations from UL's 3DMark, Night Raid (more modest, suitable for laptops with integrated graphics) and Time Spy (more demanding, suitable for gaming rigs with discrete GPUs).

We also run two tests from the cross-platform GPU benchmark GFXBench 5, which stresses both low-level routines like texturing and high-level, game-like image rendering. The 1440p Aztec Ruins and 1080p Car Chase tests, rendered offscreen to accommodate different display resolutions, exercise graphics and compute shaders using the OpenGL programming interface and hardware tessellation respectively. The more frames per second (fps), the better.

Lenovo's sleek Slim 9i laptop leads the pack with the HP close behind, but all these notebooks' Intel integrated graphics fall way short of the 3D performance you'll see from the discrete GPU of a gaming laptop or workstation. They're fine for casual gaming and streaming media, but not meant for high-speed shoot-'em-ups or particularly heavy-duty visual content creation.

Battery and Display Tests

We test laptops' battery life by playing a locally stored 720p video file (the open-source Blender movie Tears of Steel Tears of Steel ) with display brightness at 50% and audio volume at 100%. We make sure the battery is fully charged before the test, with Wi-Fi and keyboard backlighting turned off.

For display testing, we use Datacolor SpyderX Elite monitor calibration sensor and its Windows software to measure a laptop screen's color saturation. That means what percentage of the sRGB, Adobe RGB, and DCI-P3 color gamuts or palettes the display can show—and its 50% and peak brightness in nits (candelas per square meter).

No complaints here, as the EliteBook shows more than enough unplugged stamina for a full day's work—plus an evening's Netflix or YouTube entertainment. Bested only by the Dell Latitude in this test lot, this makes the EliteBook ideal for workers who frequently travel.

Unfortunately, this EliteBook's screen can't match the vivid hues of the Slim 9i's OLED panel in color coverage. However, the screen is more than colorful enough for business apps, and it's actually brighter than its rated 400 nits—again, beat only by the Dell Latitude.

Verdict: A Sleek Silver Slab for the Enterprise

If you can live with a merely fine screen instead of a show-off OLED or 4K display, it's hard to fault HP's EliteBook 840 G9. This business laptop includes everything from 5G mobile broadband to a high-res, AI-enhanced conferencing camera, along with highly competitive performance and additional security. The only question in our minds is how HP can top it with the would-be EliteBook 1000 series, and whether it can earn our Editors' Choice award next time.

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About Eric Grevstad

I was picked to write the "20 Most Influential PCs" feature for PCMag's 40th Anniversary coverage because I remember them all—I started on a TRS-80 magazine in 1982 and served as editor of Computer Shopper when it was a 700-page monthly. I was later the editor in chief of Home Office Computing , a magazine that promoted using tech to work from home two decades before a pandemic made it standard practice. Even in semiretirement in Bradenton, Florida, I can't stop playing with toys and telling people what gear to buy.

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