HP is known for its exellent quality build laptops/ultrabooks for performance as well. Today we take a look at HP EliteBook 8560p.EliteBook 8560p is appropriately professional in design, lacking garish LEDs, prominent logos, or patterned plastic. That’s not to say it’s not stylish, though. Its sharp, squared-off metal lid and wrist-rest have a classy platinum color, while the bottom is an understated matte-black plastic. At 6.25 pounds and 1.34x14.72x9.67 inches, it’s fairly typical in size and weight for a notebook in the mainstream class.EliteBook 8560p is designed to be tough. New to this model is HP’s DisplaySafe design, which runs a rubber border all the way around the edges of the lid to protect the screen. HP says the notebook is designed to meet military standards (MIL-STD-810G, to be exact) for drop, vibration, dust, humidity, altitude, and high temperature.On the bottom of the notebook you’ll find connectors for a docking bay and a secondary external battery. But what’s really cool is that unlocking the battery also releases a large panel on the bottom, giving easy access to the memory slots, hard drive bay.HP packed the EliteBook 8560p with two "Super Speed" USB 3.0 ports, one standard USB 2.0 port, and a "charging" USB 2.0 port (which lets you change a device like a smartphone or an iPod even when the notebook is just on battery power). If that's not enough, you also get a standard VGA port, DisplayPort connector, FireWire, separate microphone in and headphone out audio jacks, Ethernet, modem, serial port (yes, I said "serial port") as well as an ExpressCard/54 slot, a Smart Card reader and a SDHC/SD/MMC card reader.Elitebook 8560p has several options for connecting to your local network or the internet. One is the Gigabit LAN port, which is included as standard. But for this you always need the appropriate network cable and it limits the user’s freedom of movement. Another option is wireless LAN, conforming to the IEEE 802.11 b/g/n standard. You can also connect via Bluetooth. An antiquated 56k modem has also been included.Obviously you don’t want other people to be able to view or copy the information on your notebook. For this reason the notebook is equipped with a fingerprint scanner, which only grants access to the system when the correct fingerprint passes over the sensor. Further security features include hard drive encryption, password protection for BIOS and a Kensington security lock mechanism.EliteBook 8560p trackpad now uses chemically strengthened glass rather than plastic to resist wear, and it has also been supersized to fill almost all of the available palmrest room. The pad now spans a rough 2.25 inches by 4.25 inches, giving plenty of room for carefree multitouch mousing. For users who prefer the ease of a pointer nub in the keyboard, the EliteBook still has one, though the supersized touchpad buttons make it hard to find a place to rest your hand as you use it. Oddly enough, the trackpad performed extremely well on the desktop, but had trouble registering all of our swipes in both the games we tested with. Since it’s a business notebook anyway, we can’t hold it against it, but take note.HP’s island-style keyboard offers a surprising amount of resistance with every keypress, which speaks to its durability but can cause temporary pause to users used to more dainty keys. A full numpad makes a useful addition for number crunchers used to dialing in digits at light speed with one hand.Elitebook has a good system for quickly moving the waste heat away from the CPU and graphics card: it consists of a heat pipe, which transfers the heat towards a fan which runs constantly. The fan is clearly audible, especially in a quiet environment.Elitebook 8560p LQ589AW does an exemplary job of preventing temperature build-up on its case. You will always want to use a laptop on your lap from time to time. The underside of the notebook only gets warmer in the area where the CPU and GPU heat pipe is located; and we only measured 33 degrees Celsius here under stress. The air coming from the ‘exhaust’ was not quite so cool, however. Here, where the waste heat is expelled, the temperature rises noticeably. During the stress test we measured up to 44 degrees Celsius there, while the CPU temperature rose to more than 80 degrees.EliteBook 8560p uses two forward-firing speakers that you can clearly spot when you remove the one-piece bottom — they’re about the size and shape of horse pills, and just about as potent. At full volume, the EliteBook 8560p will easily fill a room with music, although, like any laptop, it gets progressively harsher after the 75 percent level. Even so, the notebook’s surprising voice should come in handy for sharing video and other audible forms of media with large groups of people.Overall its has very nice features.
So let run some tests on it........
- Good Performance.
- Decent Battery Life.
- Build Quality.
- Attractive Design.
- USB 3.0 + eSATA.
- Expensive.
- GPU does not perform well.
- touch-pad buttons.
