Hp Elite X2 1011 G1- 116- Core M 5y71- 8 Gb Ram- 256 Gb Review

Our Verdict

HP's Elite x2 1011 is a durable and secure 11.6-inch hybrid with long bombardment life and a great keyboard.

For

• Long battery life
• Quality keyboard
• Brilliant, accurate display
• Rugged and secure

Against

• Below-average performance
• Touchpad doesn't provide tactile feedback
• Thicker and heavier than competing hybrids

Laptop Mag Verdict

HP's Aristocracy x2 1011 is a durable and secure 11.vi-inch hybrid with long bombardment life and a corking keyboard.

Pros

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  Long battery life

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  Quality keyboard

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  Bright, accurate brandish

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  Rugged and secure

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Cons

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  Below-average performance

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  Touchpad doesn't provide tactile feedback

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  Thicker and heavier than competing hybrids

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Business concern travelers may like the thought of toting a durable notebook and a versatile tablet on the road, but their bags are heavy plenty without having to comport two devices. That demand has led to hybrids like HP's Elite x2 1011, whose xi.vi-inch brandish detaches to exist a fully performance tablet. With an Intel Core M processor, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB solid-state drive, the Aristocracy x2 has the kind of power that business users are looking for. With a starting price of $ane,219 (the version we reviewed costs $1,629), the Elite x2 is an expensive but capable hybrid.

Design

With a dark-grayness magnesium trunk, the Elite x2 resembles HP's sleek EliteBook Folio notebooks. Its lid features a silver-and-black HP logo in the middle and a speaker grille running along the top, which has a five-megapixel photographic camera in the center. All of the device's physical switches are on the dorsum of the display, and then you take to attain effectually the left side for rotation-lock and volume controls, and effectually the correct side for the power switch. Besides on the right side is a nondescript metallic flap that hides microSD and SIM-card slots.

There is a 2-MP photographic camera above the screen and a touch on-sensitive Windows push on the bottom bezel, and the Elite x2's second speaker bar is beneath that. The Windows button gives off a slight vibration whenever it's pressed, which I appreciated.

To detach the Elite x2's tablet from a keyboard, you button the eject push button that's directly in front of the screen, and then elevator the display up. Reconnecting the two parts is every bit simple as sliding it back down. It's a reliable solution, and its potent metal dock connectors do not require the protective flap nosotros saw on Lenovo'due south Helix two. However, this setup is not every bit seamless as that of the Toshiba Portege Z20t, which is held together by magnets.

Without its keyboard, the Elite x2 weighs 1.92 pounds, making it heavier than the tablet-simply Microsoft Surface Pro iii (1.76 pounds), the Lenovo ThinkPad Helix ii (1.7 pounds), the Dell Venue 11 Pro 7000 and the Toshiba Portege Z20t (both are i.6 pounds). In one case you connect the keyboard, the Elite x2's weight increases to 3.63 pounds. That's a hair lighter than the Helix 2 (three.65 pounds), but it's heavier than the Portege Z20t (3.two pounds), the Surface Pro three (2.4 pounds) and the Venue eleven Pro (3.6 pounds).

Display

The Aristocracy x2'southward xi.half dozen-inch full-HD (1920 x 1080) BrightView IPS LED-backlit touch-screen brandish offers vibrant visuals. When I watched a 1080p episode of Better Call Saul, the Elite x2's screen showed lots of item in the wood grain on a table, equally well as in the titular attorney's furrowed brow and cheap, shiny conform. I was able to see strong colors and all of the action with clarity, fifty-fifty at 90-degree angles.

With an average of 386 nits of effulgence, the Elite x2'southward LED display shines brighter than the ultraportable laptop boilerplate (277 nits), the Helix ii (306), the Portege Z30t (288 nits), the Surface Pro 3 (298 nits) and the Venue 11 Pro (341 nits).

In terms of color accuracy, the Elite x2 has a Delta-Eastward rating of 1.23 (0 is perfect). That's more accurate than the category average (3.ii), the Helix 2 (iii.v), the Portege Z20t (3.5), the Venue 11 Pro (6.3) and the Surface Pro three (9.9).

However, the Elite x2 produced just 64 percent of the sRGB colour gamut. That's better than the Portege Z20t (66 percent), simply well curt of the category average (79 percent), the Helix ii (69 percent), the Surface Pro three (97 percentage) and the Venue 11 Pro (101.7 percent).

Immovability

The tablet portion of the Elite x2 has a magnesium trounce, and the Power Keyboard is fabricated of machined aluminum and magnesium.

Not only does it feel durable and road-set, but the Elite x2 besides meets 12 MIL-SPEC 810G standards, including those for low and high temperatures, operation in high altitudes, shocks, drops, dust, and humidity. Also, the Elite x2 has a durable, scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass brandish.

Security

The Elite x2 features HP SureStart, a self-healing solution against BIOS attacks. If Certain First detects that the notebook's BIOS has been compromised, it will supercede it with a clean, secure version, and provide a log of what went wrong.

The notebook's fingerprint reader allows you to register up to fifty prints (10 each for a maximum of five users) for secure logins. Registered users can unlock the Elite x2, too every bit log in to any website with credentials you elect to proceed in the HP Countersign Manager. You can manage all of your fingerprints and passwords in the HP Client Security plan.

The Elite x2 too features an active integrated smart-menu reader for encrypted logins and a cocky-encrypting difficult drive, and its motherboard has a Trusted Platform Module (TMP 1.two/two.0 compliant) for safe storage of encryption keys, passwords and certificates.

Audio

The Elite x2'due south speaker bars have enough audio power to fill a small to medium-size room. When I listened to Jamie xx's "I Know There's Gonna Be (Expert Times)," the rails's high-pitched, nasally vocals; bells; and synths had a nice, juicy liveliness. Unfortunately, on low-end vocals and samples, the sound was distorted, congested and weakened.

Impact and Pen Input

The Elite x2's affect screen supports 10-finger input. It accurately recognized all of my gestures (such as pinch, zoom and swipe) during testing.

I was impressed with the Elite x2's ability to recognize my handwriting when I used the included Wacom stylus. When I tested information technology with the preinstalled Microsoft OneNote, the pen was highly accurate, and the software did a skillful job of turning my chicken scratch into text. Conveniently, there'southward a slot to store the stylus in the base of the tablet.

Keyboard

Even though the Elite x2 is on the smaller end of the spectrum, its Premium Keyboard is a good size and offers exceptional feedback.

On the 10FastFingers typing examination, I reached an average typing speed of 63 words per minute with a 2 percent error rate. That's but beneath my average on a desktop keyboard (67 wpm). Its keys have 1.ii mm of travel, which is slightly shallower than we prefer, only they require 63 grams of force to actuate, which is more than in line with a typical notebook.

Similar most other detachable hybrids, the Aristocracy x2 is peak-heavy, with a display that tips backward whenever your wrists are non resting on the keyboard base. As a result, typing on the Elite x2 in my lap didn't feel as comfortable as typing on a hard surface.

ForcePad

Starting time introduced on concluding year's HP EliteBook 1040, the 3.5 x 2-inch Synaptics' glass ForcePad on the Elite x2 does non depress at all. When you push downwards onto the ForcePad, though, dissimilar functions tin can exist enabled based on the amount of pressure level you employ.

For instance, the harder you press, the faster you can zoom or scroll. To drag and drib, you just utilise force per unit area when selecting an particular to drag, and release your finger when it's time to drop the detail. Two- and three-finger gestures (compression, zoom, forward, backward and application-specific commands) also tin be enabled in the ForcePad's preferences.

However, unlike the Force Bear upon trackpads in Apple tree's new MacBooks, HP's ForcePad provides no tactile feedback. Apple's Force Touch touchpads use haptic feedback to give users a concrete sensation when they press on the touchpad. Without any concrete confirmation, I found myself clicking downward forcefully at times, and my fingers became sore.

A Forcefulness progress bar tin can show y'all how hard you're pressing, and the Elite x2 makes a click sound every fourth dimension y'all printing on the pad. But even when I tried various settings, I could not go used to the lack of tactile feedback.

Operation

Equipped with a 1.2-GHz Intel Core M-5Y71 processor, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD, the Elite x2 offers enough performance for nigh business concern needs. The Elite x2 handled my daily rigors (a few dozen Chrome tabs, streaming audio or video, text editing and our visitor'south chat client) without lag. Apps opened and airtight speedily, fifty-fifty while Windows Defender was scanning all organisation files.

On the Geekbench 3 benchmark, which measures a arrangement's overall performance, the Elite x2 scored 3,746, falling below the iv,567 ultraportable category average. While that's meliorate than the Core-M 5Y71-powered Helix 2 (3,517), information technology's beneath the scores of the Core i5-powered Surface Pro 3 (5,665), besides equally the Core Grand-powered Portege Z20t (4,341) and Venue 11 Pro (5,999).

The Elite x2's 256GB SSD duplicated 4.97GB of multimedia files at a rate of 127.ii MBps, which is slower than the category boilerplate (181.vi MBps), the Venue eleven Pro (130.5 MBps), the Surface Pro 3 (145.v MBps), the Helix 2 (188.5 MBps) and the Portege Z30t (212 MBps).

The Aristocracy x2 performed similarly on the Laptop Mag OpenOffice Spreadsheet examination, matching twenty,000 names to their addresses in vii minutes and xvi seconds. That's faster than the category boilerplate (8:31), but slower than the Portege Z20t (6:01), the Helix 2 (five:57), the Venue 11 Pro (5:05) and the Surface Pro 3 (4:43).

Graphics

Featuring Intel HD Graphics 5300, the Aristocracy x2 is skilful for watching movies, just annihilation more strenuous is out of the question.

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On Earth of Warcraft with the graphics set to auto and the resolution at 1920 x 1080p, the Aristocracy x2 registered an unplayable xv frames per second. That's slower than the Surface Pro iii (36 fps), but the category average (also an unplayable 26.8 fps), the Helix ii (24 fps) and the Portege Z20t (17 fps) were also below our 30-fps playability threshold.

Battery Life

Like the Helix ii and the Venue 11 Pro, the Elite x2 includes batteries in both its tablet body and the Ability Keyboard. On the Laptop Mag Bombardment Test (continuous Web browsing over Wi-Fi at 100 nits of brightness), the tablet's two-cell battery and the keyboard dock's six-prison cell back up battery combined to last 11 hours and 24 minutes. That's longer than the ultraportable-notebook category boilerplate battery life (8:17) and the Helix 2 (x:00), but short of the times recorded past the Venue eleven Pro (thirteen:33) and the Portege Z20t (14:37).

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On its own, the Elite x2 tablet lasted but 7 hours and 26 minutes. That's shorter than the tablet-only fourth dimension of the Venue 11 Pro (viii:00), just on a par with the Portege Z20t (7:29) and Surface Pro 3 (7:27), and longer than the Helix 2 (vii:06) and the tablet category boilerplate (7:01).

Heat

After streaming a xv-infinitesimal Hulu video, the notebook's touchpad reached only 75 degrees Fahrenheit, while the K and H keys were 75 degrees. The hottest the Elite x2 got was on the back of the tablet, where it reached 86 degrees. All of these temperatures are well below what we consider too warm (95 degrees).

Ports

The right edge of the tablet portion of the Elite x2 hides a microSD-carte port and a SIM-card port nether a flap. On the bottom border is a headphone jack, which is subconscious when the tablet is attached to the keyboard dock.

The left side of the Power Keyboard dock has one USB 3.0 port, a headphone jack, a proprietary docking port and a smart-bill of fare reader. On the correct side is a 2d USB three.0 port, a DisplayPort 1.2 port and the proprietary power connector. A second power connector on the tablet itself (as on the Helix ii) would have been a welcome addition for those who want to charge the tablet without docking it.

Cameras

The Elite x2 has a 2-MP front camera and a 5-MP rear shooter. In a well-lit room, the colors in the images that the forepart camera captured of me looked accurate, but the photos lacked detail. Images shot using the rear lens were very detailed and captured colors accurately. All the same, at that place was a persistent graininess that became more pronounced in darker atmospheric condition.

Both outdoors at New York City'south Flatiron edifice and indoors at our office, the rear lens produced photos and 1080p video with strong color simply without much detail. When I tapped on the screen to adjust the color balance and focus, the Elite x2 overcorrected for the vivid lights around our office, leaving the residue of the epitome pitch-blackness.

Software and Warranty

Thankfully, the Aristocracy x2 comes with a minimal amount of preloaded software, and what is there is pretty useful.

HP'due south PageLift app allows users to browse pages by just taking a photo. CyberLink'due south webcam-access and media-management programs (YouCam and PowerDVD, respectively) come preinstalled on the Aristocracy x2.

HP offers its SoftPaq Download Manager for business organisation clients to manage disquisitional security updates, and Support Assistant for tech-support access and system data.

Likewise preinstalled is the Netflix app for Windows 8, Microsoft OneNote and the Foxit PhantomPDF Limited awarding for opening and editing PDFs.

The Elite x2 comes with a standard one-yr parts-and-labor warranty, which does not include on-site service. Simply considering it'due south a part of the Elite line of devices, calls to the support middle are given priority and are moved up the chain.

Configurations

Our $i,629 review unit features a i.ii-GHz Intel Cadre M5Y71-processor, 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, the digital pen, the Ability Keyboard and a 1080p display. For $one,729, y'all can get the maxed-out version, which has the same specs except for a larger 512GB SSD.

The entry-level Elite x2 costs $1,219, and has a 1.1-GHz Intel Core K-5Y11 processor, 4GB of RAM, the Power Keyboard and a 128GB SSD.

Bottom Line

With its brilliant brandish, long bombardment life and great keyboard, the HP Elite X2 1011 provides much of what business users need in a ii-in-i. The Elite x2 is likewise durable and secure, unlike many consumer-focused hybrids.

Priced at a steep $1,629, our configuration of the Elite x2 is $132 more than Toshiba'south Portege Z20t, which is faster, and has a longer battery life and a larger screen. Withal, the Elite x2 1011 should be a fine add-on to the carry-ons of executives who would like the flexibility of using a notebook or tablet when they're traveling, without worrying virtually whether their convertible can survive life on the road.

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HP Aristocracy X2 1011 Specs

Bluetooth	Bluetooth 4.0
Make	HP
CPU	1.ii GHz Intel Core M-5Y71
Company Website	http://world wide web.hp.com
Display Size	eleven.six
Graphics Card	Intel Hd Graphics 5300
Hard Drive Size	256GB SSD
Hard Drive Type	SSD Drive
Native Resolution	1920x1080
Operating Organisation	Windows 8.one Pro
Optical Drive	None
Ports (excluding USB)	USB iii.0, DisplayPort, Headphone, Proprietary
RAM	8GB
Size	11.73 x eight.04 x 0.82 in (tablet with power keyboard), xi. 73 10 7.58 x 0.42 (tablet)
Touchpad Size	ii x iii.v inches
USB Ports	2
Warranty/Support	ane year express warranty, one year limited warranty on primary battery
Weight	Tablet: 1.92 pounds, Ability Keyboard 1.71 pounds, 3.63 pounds combined total
Wi-Fi	802.11a/b/thousand/n/ac
Wi-Fi Model	Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265

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