t would be easy to look at the HP ProBook 5330M ($ 899 direct), and its thin metal skin, and brush off as another drawing imitate Apple. But you should never judge a computer cover. Thanks to the Intel Core processor i5-2520m and a fortress worthy of the security features in all its seductive exterior Spartan ProBook HP 5330M is a robust mobile professional.
Design
Although ProBook 5330M is unadorned aluminum lid has a resemblance to the Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Thunderbolt) ($ 2,199 direct, 4 stars) when they open the laptop looks much sharper: all right angles, revealed by two bare metal tones. The 5330M is ProBook magnesium chassis gives it a solid feel, and black soft touch coating on the underside of the notebook provides a comfortable grip and traction on all kinds of surfaces.
Design
Although ProBook 5330M is unadorned aluminum lid has a resemblance to the Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Thunderbolt) ($ 2,199 direct, 4 stars) when they open the laptop looks much sharper: all right angles, revealed by two bare metal tones. The 5330M is ProBook magnesium chassis gives it a solid feel, and black soft touch coating on the underside of the notebook provides a comfortable grip and traction on all kinds of surfaces.
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| HP EliteBook 5330M |
Measuring a compact 0.99 by 8.86 inches by 12.91 (DRC) and weighing just 3.99 pounds, the ProBook 5330M is easy to carry in a laptop bag. The 13.3-inch screen has a resolution of 1366 x 768, ideal for reading documents, view photos and watch videos up to 720p.
A large Multi-Touch trackpad, which is accompanied by two programmable mouse buttons, has a smooth surface and respond to gestures, and the gray plastic surface is easy to distinguish in low light conditions. Speaking of dark, ProBook 5330M into a full-size backlit keyboard, and his square black keys provide a comfortable writing experience similar to that obtained with the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 ($ 1,399.99 direct, 3.5 stars), even if not ProBook sculpted keycaps.
No frills appearance is even more extreme with HP to minimize the appearance of any of the LEDs. The only ones that remain are small, subtle indicators of the Wi-Fi and hard drive activity lights and four buttons on a portable platform power on and off, switching the built-in Wi-Fi radio, mute the volume, and activating HP QuickWeb interface. In fact, when the LEDs are not lit pin prick, are also completely. This adds to the car elegance.
The only concern which raises the chassis is hot. During the execution of some of our most demanding fan performance benchmarks ProBook was very noisy, and temperatures rise as high as 106 degrees Fahrenheit (as measured by an infrared thermometer Fluke). It's not a deal breaker by any means, but the laptop can be too hot to use comfortably on your lap.
Characteristic
The ProBook 5330M has a 500 GB 7200 rpm hard drive provides storage space, compared with 320 GB drives can be found in Dell Latitude E6420, Lenovo ThinkPad X1 and Editors' Choice Dell Vostro 3350 ($ 741 direct, 4 stars ). The 5330M series is the typical notebook feature, with two USB 2.0 ports and a standard-port combo USB / eSATA, HDMI and VGA outputs, a multiformat media card slot (SD, MMC) and a combined headphone and microphone.
In addition to Gigabit Ethernet and Wi-Fi 802.11n, ProBook also supports both EVDO and HSPA mobile broadband technologies. All these connections can be controlled with the included HP Connection Center. For those who want to enjoy their mobile broadband capacity without the commitment of a two-year contract, you can use the Connection Center HP using the HP Data Pass, a pre-paid option that allows you to go online anywhere, but only pay for short periods of service.
In addition, all the usual ports and connections, HP offers a healthy dish of safety. Inside and out, with the tools you need to protect your data and your system is turned on. Both the login authentication, and a face, a shot of fingerprints or a Bluetooth phone, or provides the security encryption, the TPM chip, ProBook has you covered. The integrated security system includes a user data management, drive encryption, Pre-Boot Security, and tools such as Intel vPro and Remote Pro for Computrace monitoring and deactivating a lost or stolen laptop.
Hewlett-Packard 5330M ProBook also protects with a one year warranty covering parts and labor, and provides technical support 24 hours a day, seven days a week via a toll free number.
Performance
ProBook HP 5330M can be subtle, but does not sacrifice processing power for the battery, in some way to make portable: a very-low-voltage processors. Its processor is an Intel Core i5-2520m, 2.5GHz dual-core chips, the same can be found in IBM ThinkPad X1, and similar to that used in Dell Inspiron 3350. Coupling this processor 4GB RAM 5330M ProBook helped to do well in our benchmark tests. In PCMark Vantage, our overall operating performance of the test, who scored 7257, while Lenovo X1 scored in 7500 and 6688 Dell Inspiron 3350 only. R11.5 our Cinebench test CPU speed, ProBook 5330M scored 2.78, before the Dell (2.56), but behind Lenovo (2.85).
Thank you to Intel HD 3000 Graphics-system as a processor, 5330M EliteBook packs a lot of video capabilities, even without a discrete card. In 3DMark 06, even in our DirectX 9 benchmark test video, this integrated solution has produced dozens of medium resolution in 4014 and 1928 native resolution. In comparison, Dell Vostro 3350 scored an impressive 5672 and 4648 an average resolution in indigenous communities, while AMD Radeon equipped HP EliteBook 8560p ($ 1,499.99 direct, 4 Stars) scored only 5477 (medium) and 3795 (native). The best test of graphics performance is the game, and could not produce ProBook 5330M 14.9 fps in Lost Planet 2 on medium settings and could not run Crysis at all. Although this prevents serious ProBook games, it has yet to be translated into support for basic graphics work-related programs, and casual games in your off-hours.
Although the game does not effect your workday much media, perhaps. Our test image processing in Photoshop CS5, ProBook 5330M applied to 12 filters and effects for 3 minutes 53 seconds compared to 4:17 for your Dell. We saw a similar performance in our video encoding tests handbrake, the 5330M was completed in 2 minutes and 26 seconds. Dell behind with 2:33.
In our MobileMark 2007 test suite summary, the HP EliteBook 5330M lasted 3 hours and 49 minutes, which is not bad considering that uses a four-cell battery 41Wh. This helps to reduce the thickness reduced ProBook 5330M battery, but it is far 80WH battery that offers the Dell Vostro 3350 battery life every day (9 hours 36 minutes). However, it is comparable to what we have seen in other notebooks in this category, such as the Lenovo ThinkPad X 1 (03:10, 40Wh).
All in all, ProBook 5330M is a robust, portable for professionals to small businesses. If you need better battery life and graphics performance, choice of publishers' Dell Vostro 3350 is a better fit, and if your job involves heavy graphics processing or calculations extreme numbers, consider hitting an HP EliteBook 8560p. But the sharp eyes that will surely make a good impression in meetings and reading the chops to shoulder a workload healthy 5330M ProBook do the job.
A large Multi-Touch trackpad, which is accompanied by two programmable mouse buttons, has a smooth surface and respond to gestures, and the gray plastic surface is easy to distinguish in low light conditions. Speaking of dark, ProBook 5330M into a full-size backlit keyboard, and his square black keys provide a comfortable writing experience similar to that obtained with the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 ($ 1,399.99 direct, 3.5 stars), even if not ProBook sculpted keycaps.
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| HP EliteBook 5330M |
No frills appearance is even more extreme with HP to minimize the appearance of any of the LEDs. The only ones that remain are small, subtle indicators of the Wi-Fi and hard drive activity lights and four buttons on a portable platform power on and off, switching the built-in Wi-Fi radio, mute the volume, and activating HP QuickWeb interface. In fact, when the LEDs are not lit pin prick, are also completely. This adds to the car elegance.
The only concern which raises the chassis is hot. During the execution of some of our most demanding fan performance benchmarks ProBook was very noisy, and temperatures rise as high as 106 degrees Fahrenheit (as measured by an infrared thermometer Fluke). It's not a deal breaker by any means, but the laptop can be too hot to use comfortably on your lap.
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| HP EliteBook 5330M |
Characteristic
The ProBook 5330M has a 500 GB 7200 rpm hard drive provides storage space, compared with 320 GB drives can be found in Dell Latitude E6420, Lenovo ThinkPad X1 and Editors' Choice Dell Vostro 3350 ($ 741 direct, 4 stars ). The 5330M series is the typical notebook feature, with two USB 2.0 ports and a standard-port combo USB / eSATA, HDMI and VGA outputs, a multiformat media card slot (SD, MMC) and a combined headphone and microphone.
In addition to Gigabit Ethernet and Wi-Fi 802.11n, ProBook also supports both EVDO and HSPA mobile broadband technologies. All these connections can be controlled with the included HP Connection Center. For those who want to enjoy their mobile broadband capacity without the commitment of a two-year contract, you can use the Connection Center HP using the HP Data Pass, a pre-paid option that allows you to go online anywhere, but only pay for short periods of service.
In addition, all the usual ports and connections, HP offers a healthy dish of safety. Inside and out, with the tools you need to protect your data and your system is turned on. Both the login authentication, and a face, a shot of fingerprints or a Bluetooth phone, or provides the security encryption, the TPM chip, ProBook has you covered. The integrated security system includes a user data management, drive encryption, Pre-Boot Security, and tools such as Intel vPro and Remote Pro for Computrace monitoring and deactivating a lost or stolen laptop.
Hewlett-Packard 5330M ProBook also protects with a one year warranty covering parts and labor, and provides technical support 24 hours a day, seven days a week via a toll free number.
Performance
ProBook HP 5330M can be subtle, but does not sacrifice processing power for the battery, in some way to make portable: a very-low-voltage processors. Its processor is an Intel Core i5-2520m, 2.5GHz dual-core chips, the same can be found in IBM ThinkPad X1, and similar to that used in Dell Inspiron 3350. Coupling this processor 4GB RAM 5330M ProBook helped to do well in our benchmark tests. In PCMark Vantage, our overall operating performance of the test, who scored 7257, while Lenovo X1 scored in 7500 and 6688 Dell Inspiron 3350 only. R11.5 our Cinebench test CPU speed, ProBook 5330M scored 2.78, before the Dell (2.56), but behind Lenovo (2.85).
Thank you to Intel HD 3000 Graphics-system as a processor, 5330M EliteBook packs a lot of video capabilities, even without a discrete card. In 3DMark 06, even in our DirectX 9 benchmark test video, this integrated solution has produced dozens of medium resolution in 4014 and 1928 native resolution. In comparison, Dell Vostro 3350 scored an impressive 5672 and 4648 an average resolution in indigenous communities, while AMD Radeon equipped HP EliteBook 8560p ($ 1,499.99 direct, 4 Stars) scored only 5477 (medium) and 3795 (native). The best test of graphics performance is the game, and could not produce ProBook 5330M 14.9 fps in Lost Planet 2 on medium settings and could not run Crysis at all. Although this prevents serious ProBook games, it has yet to be translated into support for basic graphics work-related programs, and casual games in your off-hours.
Although the game does not effect your workday much media, perhaps. Our test image processing in Photoshop CS5, ProBook 5330M applied to 12 filters and effects for 3 minutes 53 seconds compared to 4:17 for your Dell. We saw a similar performance in our video encoding tests handbrake, the 5330M was completed in 2 minutes and 26 seconds. Dell behind with 2:33.
In our MobileMark 2007 test suite summary, the HP EliteBook 5330M lasted 3 hours and 49 minutes, which is not bad considering that uses a four-cell battery 41Wh. This helps to reduce the thickness reduced ProBook 5330M battery, but it is far 80WH battery that offers the Dell Vostro 3350 battery life every day (9 hours 36 minutes). However, it is comparable to what we have seen in other notebooks in this category, such as the Lenovo ThinkPad X 1 (03:10, 40Wh).
All in all, ProBook 5330M is a robust, portable for professionals to small businesses. If you need better battery life and graphics performance, choice of publishers' Dell Vostro 3350 is a better fit, and if your job involves heavy graphics processing or calculations extreme numbers, consider hitting an HP EliteBook 8560p. But the sharp eyes that will surely make a good impression in meetings and reading the chops to shoulder a workload healthy 5330M ProBook do the job.
