HP Folio 13

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Design

Compared to other ultrabook, the HP Folio 13, owns a solid design but still has the softness. Silver aluminum casing coated translucent. The design of the machine makes it ideal for people clamping machine into the bag away. The entire surface of the machine are resistant to fingerprints. Despite Folio beautifully designed but not as impressive as HP’s Elitebook line. (Though so far not produced ultrabook HP Elitebook line).

31.7 x 21.3 size x 2.03 cm (length x width x thickness) and weighs 1.45 kg, the HP Folio 13, thin and lighter than most notebooks, but thicker and heavier than 1 little compared to other ultrabook. Asus Zenbook UX31 (33.7 x 22.6 x 1.77 cm, weighs 1.36 kg) and the MacBook Air 13-inch (33.7 x 22.6 x 1.77 cm) larger than 1 bit, but lighter 90 grams compared to HP Folio 13. Lenovo IdeaPad U300s form (32.5 x 21.5 x 1.52 cm, weighs 1.36 kg) and Toshiba Portege Z835 (31.4 x 22.6 x 1.52 cm, weighs 1.08 kg) significantly lighter and thinner than the HP ultrabook.

Heat capacity

Although equipped with cooling technology CoolSense, HP Folio 13 is still pretty hot when handling demanding tasks. After a video stream on Netflix for 15 minutes in full-screen mode, the machine’s trackpad is still quite cool (28.05 ° C), but temperatures between keyboard parts to more than 36 degrees Celsius. Bottom surface even higher rate (40.5 degrees C). However, when dealing with light tasks like word processing, web surfing, the system operates fairly cool.

Keyboard, trackpad

Keyboard Folio 13 is the form of the island with backlight keyboard and design a good key spacing. The keyboard is made of relatively soft material so when typing feels quite comfortable, even at the base pretty hot keys below. The first few millimeters narrower keys than Zenbook UX31 from Asus, but the ability to respond quickly. In several tests, the spacebar of the phenomenon being hissed.

Like many other laptops trying to design the buttons left to the user can click on, even at the pad, but this makes the machine’s trackpad to sacrifice accuracy. The operations at the pad should have relatively strong capacity – less obtrusive to users.

About strengths of the trackpad supports multi-touch, pinch zoom capabilities including fingers, rotate, three-finger operation to open the browser ….

Screen and sound

Generally the screen 13.3 inch 1366 x 768 of Folio for quite crisp images but sometimes blurred. When the preview trailer of the movie The Avengers 1080p, select maximum brightness, video without distortion but the color red as the cloak of the character of Thor or blue shield that Captain America character carries secret. Angle of the narrow but not so if you want the image for good quality, you will have to push the lid off a little behind.

Use the brightness measurements confirm again screen monitors Folio is the faintest of ultrabook models that we tested so far. The screen is only 139 lux brightness, while rivals such as Toshiba Portege up to 260 lux, Asus Zenbook UX31 is 360 lux, the Lenovo IdeaPad U300s is 162 lux. MacBook Air’s screen is quite bright with 285 lux.

Dolby Advanced Audio technology HP helps its ultrabook has a large and accurate sound. Bass accurate and reliable machine, when you turn the volume up, the speakers can hear the machine for a large office. Unless you stand far off the machine or use it for presenting material in a large room with many people, perhaps half sound volume level maximum or lower is enough for your music needs.

Ports and Webcam

One of the outstanding features of the HP Folio 13 is that it is equipped with full-size Ethernet port, features that many entrepreneurs use in their office. It also has two USB 3.0 ports, headphone jack / microphone, 1 SD card reader.

However, HP’s ultrabook missing 2 connector that many business users prefer: Kensington lock slot machine Lock, a VGA output port for connecting to external monitors and projectors. Toshiba Portege Z835 is also equipped with full-size ports like Folio but more VGA port and Kensington Lock connector.

Webcam HD resolution of machines for brilliant images, crisp under direct sunlight. However, in low-light conditions, the picture quality can not be as good.

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HP Folio 13-2000 13-Inch LED Ultrabook – Core i5 i5-2467M 4G RAM 128G SSD Windows 7 Professional: Buy it now

HP Folio 13-1029WM 13.3″ Ultrabook (1.4 GHz Intel Core i3-2367M Processor, 4GB RAM, 128GB Solid State Drive, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit): Buy it now

Performance

Core i5-2467M for 1.6GHz, Intel integrated graphics, 4GB of RAM and 128 GB SSD from Samsung, HP Folio 13 and resume quickly launch applications where its potential customers are often regular use. Experiment with PCMark 07, Folio 13 reached 3,167 points, slightly higher than the Toshiba Portege Z835 (Core i5 – 1.4 GHz and SSD Portege Z835 to reach 2498 points). However, the Core i5 chips – 1.7 GHz, ASUS Zenbook UX31 and Lenovo IdeaPad U300s for higher scores PCMarrk Folio 07 with 3606 points and 3533 respectively.

Samsung’s SSD 128GB reduction in boot Windows 7 Professional (64-bit) takes 26 seconds, faster than competitors Zenbook UX31 (takes 29 seconds), and the IdeaPad U300s (34 seconds). However, the startup mode for high-speed (High-Speed ​​Start Mode), Model Toshiba Portege Z835 takes 21 seconds to boot, but this time the MacBook Air 13-inch running Mac OS X is only 17 seconds. Folio 13 startup from standby mode within 3 seconds after opening the lid.

High-speed SSD Folio 13 also allows complete tests 1 file copy 4.97 GB capacity takes only 1 minute 19 seconds, an average speed of 64.4 ie MB / s, much higher than with an average speed of the laptop of the same type (38.6 MB / sec) and much higher rival Portege Z835 (28.4 MB / sec). However, the Asus Zenbook UX31 with SATA 3 SSDs for much higher speeds, 97.9 MB / sec, while the Lenovo IdeaPad U300s hard drive copy speed also impressive 83.4 MB / sec.

What the machine does not get stuck to playing HD videos, but only used by integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000, the Folio 13 for gaming is not recommended. 3DMark06 test to measure the overall graphics performance, Folio reaching 3,425 points, a little higher than the average score 2947 of the laptops same class and higher than rival Lenovo IdeaPad U300s (only 3389 points). However, other competitors for higher scores as the Asus Zenbook (3,761 points), Toshiba Portege Z835 (3,620 points), the MacBook Air 13-inch (4,236 points).

Battery life

Battery HP Folio “Life” is 7 hours 50 minutes with tests continuous web surfing over WiFi networks, and to 40% brightness. This is an impressive battery life than other ultrabook. Lenovo IdeaPad U300s is only for 6 hours 52 minutes duration, the Asus Zenbook UX31 reached 5 hours 58 minutes, the Toshiba Portege Z835 reached 6 hours 48 minutes. MacBook Air 13-inch is also only 6 hours 25 minutes.

Software

HP Folio 13 sold through sales channels for both users and businesses. And with different types of customers, the suite is equipped for various products as well. The version of the users will not have the backup utility and HP’s leading encryption is Protect Tools.

Folio is equipped with HP Security Assistant utility includes preinstalled software like HP Recovery Manager (helps recovery system), Norton Internet Security trial version, Windows Firewall (firewall systems). Program preinstalled HP SimplePass also help you store and manage your passwords for frequently visited websites such as Gmail and Facebook.

CyberLink YouCam is webcam software to operate. HP CoolSense help machines run cooler, but in testing it in several positions, the machine is quite hot when the video stream with maximum screen brightness.

Conclude

HP Folio 13 for stable performance, fast boot time, great sound and better battery life than other ultrabook ever. Potential customers – entrepreneurs will also certainly enjoyed designing, keypad with backlight and the machine’s Ethernet port. However, to take advantage of all the features for the enterprise, customers should purchase version is equipped with the free HP ProtectTools.