Design and Display

HP’s winning streak with premium design continues with the EliteBook x360 G2, which is the most stunning business machine I’ve ever seen. The silver, aluminum unibody laptop uses the company’s modern logo found only on its top-of-the-line machines. Lifting the lid shows off the 13.3-inch, 1080p touch screen; backlit keyboard; and shiny, diamond cut around the touchpad and fingerprint reader. The 360-degree hinges allow the EliteBook to be used in several modes, including as a laptop, a tablet, a tent (an upside-down “V”) and a display (with the keyboard facing down).  This is a qualified candidate if you are in search of business laptop with very durable build quality. The HP EliteBook x360 1030 G2 shows off an elegant unibody design featuring precision-cut CNC aluminium. The business laptop is built to pass military-grade testing for durability and ruggedness. Its 360-degree hinge allows users to fold the screen all the way back for use in five different modes. This one is very thin and lightweight.

HP EliteBook x360 1030 G2 features a stunning 13.3-inch touchscreen with Full HD or Quad HD resolution for super sharp images. The display features Corning Gorilla Glass protection. An optional HP Sure View privacy screen keeps your sensitive information and content from prying eyes with a button touch.

SureView Privacy 

The SureView privacy screen works surprisingly well. With the press of a button (F2, to be precise), the display appears completely white to anyone trying to sneak a peek at what you’re looking on. From straight on, you can still see everything, although with a slightly foggy quality. It’s still good enough to see some writing, web browsing or spreadsheets.

From 45 degrees, the screen is difficult to read. From 70 degrees, it’s impossible. Someone sitting next to you on a plane or a bus will have no idea what you’re working on. It’s truly impressive, and better.

Performance

Armed with a 2.8-GHz Intel Core i7-7600U CPU, 16GB of RAM and a 512GB PCIe solid-state drive, the EliteBook is more than prepared for a cornucopia of research and spreadsheets. I had 30 tabs open in Google Chrome, including one streaming a 1080p episode of “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” from YouTube, and I saw no sign of slowdown (although the vents started going off).

On the Geekbench 4 overall performance test, the EliteBook x360 earned a score of 8,873, beating the ultraportable category average (7,147), the Spectre x360 (Core i7-7500U; 8,147) and the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (1.2-GHz Core i5-7Y54; 6,498). It took the EliteBook x360 17 seconds to copy 4.97GB of mixed media files, which translates to 299.4 megabytes per second. That’s faster than the category average (187.4 MBps), the XPS 13 2-in-1 (187 MBps) and the ThinkPad X1 Yoga (186.23 MBps), but a bit slower than the consumer-centric Spectre x360 (318.1 MBps). On our OpenOffice Spreadsheet macro, the EliteBook x360 took 3 minutes and 16 seconds to pair 20,000 names and addresses, handily beating the average (6:01) as well as the ThinkPad X1 Yoga (4:31), the XPS 13 2-in-1 (4:14) and the Spectre x360 (3:33)

Battery Life

The EliteBook should last you through most (if not all) of your workday. This 2-in-1 endured for 9 hours and 17 minutes on the Laptop Mag Battery Test, handily beating the 8:13 ultraportable average.