HP EliteBook 725 G2 review – this is the smallest member of the series 700, equipped with a miniature, by the standards of notebook’s 12.5-inch display and a few chips inherent in business decisions. It is suitable for travelers or simply respecting the mobility of users, as well as for those who do not claim to be a high power device. Cost HP EliteBook 725 G2 review hovers around $ 1,000 – not so cheap for such a baby, but let’s see what this money maker offers modern user is already accustomed to the good performance and excellent autonomy.
Design – HP EliteBook 725 G2 review
Appearance device very restrained, that does not prevent him to get his audience of fans. Black and silver color, smoothly curved corners of the image forming a small, but serious laptop. HP EliteBook 725 G2 review is almost entirely made of magnesium, so is strong enough to successfully withstand adverse operating conditions. Plus matte finishes inside and prevents the appearance of fingerprints.
HP EliteBook 725 G2 review weighs no less 1.55 kg, while the overall dimensions of the housing are 311h215.3h24.8 mm. It’s very easy to carry, putting into your sleeve or just a bag, because even with the charger it does not take much space.
The build quality of the device at the height of the notebook complies with protection MIL-SPEC 810G, and the access to the internal components of the laptop is extremely easy – just removing one single cover, which covers almost all the bottom. Besides her, the lower part of the body has several ventilation grilles, slider, locking the access panel, a pair of connectors for a docking station, and four support legs. Everything is made very high quality, durable.
Display, sound, webcam – HP EliteBook 725 G2 review
The screen resolution of 1366×768 pixels is considered quite dated, but for the 12.5-inch HP EliteBook 725 G2 review is enough. Anyone who is looking for the best option may be to pay attention to the modification with Full HD-display and touch panel.
Thus, the maximum brightness is far from perfect – 186 cd / m2, it is barely enough for a comfortable chat with laptop in bright light. And LED lights are very weak to somehow correct this deficiency. Using TN-panel provides poor viewing angles, even a slight change in slope of the cover leads to a distortion of the image. For everyday office tasks such resource will be sufficient, but more should not count.
Two speakers located above the keyboard, and they disappoint their work completely, and especially do not help even configure DTS Studio Sound. Lack of bass and sound distortion at maximum volume, which is perhaps the only reassuring in this laptop, you can even slightly correct using external speakers or headphones.
0.9-megapixel webcam is located at the usual place in laptops. Along with the microphone it provides quite reasonable for the quality of the videoconference.
Keyboard and Touchpad – HP EliteBook 725 G2 review
In notebook built island keyboard with a large distance between the buttons, so here just does not fit a number of function keys [End], [Delete], and others. There is no light, but provides protection from water (liquid drain holes), and between the joystick [G ], [H] and [B]. He works quickly and correctly, ensuring smooth sliding of the cursor on the display. Also leaves a pleasant impression and keyboard – good return keys, durable substrate and no noise when typing provide great comfort. The only troubled dial button unit, two of which are located too closely to each other, but this is, after all, can be used.
In the left upper corner you can find the power button on the laptop HP EliteBook 725 G2 review in the upper right key wireless and mute.
The touchpad is surrounded by four dedicated mouse buttons – and their own two pairs belonging to the TrackPoint, is quite compact, but for quite optimal. It supports various multi-touch gestures, and also has excellent sensitivity. Slightly rough surface ensures the correctness of gestures and pleasant to the touch.
HP EliteBook 725 G2 review has a very useful feature – fingerprint scanner, which is located to the right of the touch pad.
Productivity – HP EliteBook 725 G2 review
HP EliteBook 725 G2 review (J0H65AW) is running Windows 7 Pro (64-bit). As the processor supports quad ULV APU with a TDP of 19 W AMD A10 Pro-7350B. It is worth noting that it meets not only the smallest model series and 745 G2, and 755 G2. The operating frequency of 2.1 to 3.3 GHz and 4 MB of cache provides decent performance at the level of everyday tasks, roughly comparable to the capacity of a competitor from Intel – Core i3-4100U (Haswell).
Integrated graphics card Radeon R6 power surpasses many integrated solutions. It is based on the architecture of GCN 1.1 and operates at 533 MHz with 384 shader cores. The available options are wide enough – there is support for DirectX 11.2 “Tier 2” part of the package is AMD Mantle API. Thus, the 2014 Games will go to the native HP EliteBook 725 G2 review resolution and low / medium settings. For example, Sims 4 or GRID 2 – with a frequency of 25-27 frames per second.
The entire amount of RAM, and a 4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz, is in one slot, leaving the second free. So, if you wish, you can increase the memory up to 16 GB. The hard disk drive 500 provides GB rotation speed of 7200 rpm. It works fast as for the HDD, but inferior to even the most budget SSD.
Ports and Communications – HP EliteBook 725 G2 review
Interestingly, despite the “small” size, this 12.5-inch laptop not only offers a decent set of ports, but also the ability to connect the docking station and this is a major advantage. So, on the left we see the Kensington lock, ventilation grille, VGA, USB 3.0 with charging function, a slot for SmartCard.
Front, except strips with LEDs active device of a wireless network, battery and hard drive activity, nothing. As well as the rear.
But the right is concentrated all the “heavy artillery” in the form of combo audio, DisplayPort, two USB 3.0, RJ-45 connector for a docking station and socket for the charger. Immediately, slightly shifted to the bottom, hidden card reader SD, covered with a plug.
A set of wireless technologies is plain – Wi-Fi 802.11a / b / g / n and Bluetooth 4.0.
Battery – HP EliteBook 725 G2 review
HP EliteBook 725 G2 review is equipped with a 3-cell lithium-ion battery capacity of 46 Wh. It’s very good, but indicators of autonomy slightly confused. Having a small, very simple, display, energy efficient filling, this laptop is capable of, for example, only four hours of web surfing.
Conclusion – HP EliteBook 725 G2 review
We cannot say for sure, will the HP EliteBook 725 G2 review really popular among fans of miniature laptops. It is well suited for typical office tasks, due to the small dimensions can accompany the user anytime, anywhere, offers a really decent set of ports, and even the ability to connect the docking station and a fingerprint scanner to boot. However, poor quality and poor display against a background of relatively autonomous considerable price – about $ 1,000, make you think about him as not very appropriate purchase. Although, of course, a matter of taste.
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