As I blasted Grandtheft & Keys N Krates' track 'Keep It 100,' the thump of the instrumental track demonstrated that the laptop handles bass well.

When listening to Pusha T's 'The Story of Adidon,' I heard the rapper's brutal vocals come through clearly, while the track's sample of Nina Simone's 'Four Women' was reproduced accurately. The Bang & Olufsen-tuned speakers in the HP EliteBook 830 G5 provided quality audio, filling a medium-size conference room. Yes, that may sound strange, but some people live and die by whether a laptop has a nub.

This concave nub tracks input accurately and allows you to keep your fingers on the home row of keys so you don't need to move them down to the touchpad. Some users will be excited to know the EliteBook 830 G5 offers a pointing stick and a pair of physical mouse buttons. It also smoothly registered two-finger scrolling and Windows 10's three-finger navigation swipes, though the latter once required me to restart the computer. (Both measurements fall near or within the 1.5 to 2 millimeters and 60 grams or more we look for.)Īs I navigated the desktop, the EliteBook 830 G5's 3.9 x 2.1-inch touchpad tracked my input accurately. This is due in part to the keys' relatively deep 1.4 millimeters of vertical travel and 78 grams of required actuation force. When I tested out the keyboard on the typing test, I easily tied my 80-words-per-minute average. And the HP EliteBook 820 G5 won a lot of points with me for its comfortable typing experience. Pardon the pun, but keyboards are a hot-button issue for me these days. It also recognized Windows 10's edge-swipe gestures and enabled smooth scrolling in TweetDeck. That touch screen, though, tracked my taps accurately as I navigated the desktop. MORE: Laptops with the Best Overall Performance Personally, I'd make that choice, as this muted display was clouded by light reflected off of its glossy screen, leading to poor visibility when viewed from 30 degrees or more to the left or right. If you opt for a nontouch screen, you save $68 and get a display that HP rates at 400 nits. Higher ratings came from the MateBook X Pro (458 nits), the ThinkPad X1 Carbon (293 nits with a 1080p screen, 469 nits with a 2K screen) and the Latitude 7490 (277 nits). The EliteBook 830 G5 we tested isn't that bright, either its screen maxes out at 218 nits of brightness, which is below the 305-nit category average. Higher ratings came from the Huawei MateBook X Pro (124 percent), the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (129 percent with a 1080p screen, 199 percent with a 2K screen) and the Dell Latitude 7490 (118 percent).Ī trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp looked particularly dull on the HP EliteBook 830 G5, partly because the panel is super-reflective.

According to our colorimeter, the EliteBook 830 G5 produces a low 72 percent of the sRGB spectrum, which falls below the 113-percent premium-notebook average.

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