Build,
Features.
Looks.
The 6930P is yet another rather unobtrusive looking notebook. The lid itself is a matte black, unlike the machined metal finish on the Latitude E 6400 and looks even simpler; some might find it a little too plain looking. The body has an equally lack luster finish with dark grey and black used as tones. This sort of body finish is common to Lenovo’s ThinkPads as well; yet the Elitebook looks even plainer. The culprit, we feel, is the boxy build which gives it a very (yawn) boring look. It’s also about as heavy as the E6400. Once you open the lid, things get a little more interesting. The palm rest is silver-grey as is the outer bezel and lid hinges. The side bezel is slimmer than the E6400 although the top bezel is just as wide, making this notebook appear slightly bigger than its screen size of 14.1-inches; its footprint is a little smaller than the Dell Latitude E6400 though.
HP advertises that the Elitebook 6930P is designed with conformity to certain military standards, (MIL-STD 810F for those who want to look it up), for resilience to vibration, dust, humidity, altitude and high/low temperatures. This notebook also has the option to upgrade the optical drive to a special space saver ODD which allows for using an additional hard drive – a cool option for the power business user. RAID 0 and 1 support is also available if you decide to go dual hard drive. The drives themselves have an impact protection cage to minimize data crashes. The display is LED-backlit once again a plus for battery life; the quality of display remains as good as a CCFL display. The resolution is an excellent 1440 x 900 pixels, although you can opt for a screen with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels as an option.
The trackpad is small and quite recessed; a plus during heavy typing sessions as your wrist is less likely to come in contact with the touchpad surface thereby causing your mouse pointer to jump elsewhere which is a most irritating phenomenon. The touchpad also incorporates dual scroll zones for both vertical and horizontal scrolling. The keys on the 6930P sport the same kind of matte finish that the outer body sports and this adds a bit of welcome grip to each key. Key travel is a little more than the E 6400 and feedback is slightly softer. However the keys are well laid out and due to their large design lack beveling on the top, needless to say, this keypad worked well for all of us and although in theory this should not have been the case but in practice we could find little fault – we’d like key travel to be slightly less and feedback to be more on the positive side of responsive. There are a number of backlit and touch sensitive buttons on the top of the keypad and the all important WLan on/off control is found here. The backlit icon changes color when WLan is switched on and off and there is another indicator which lights up on the front of the notebook; although this indicator will not be on eye level when you’re using it so is not that useful. A configurable shortcut key and the volume buttons are also backlit and touch activated – this is a nifty addition to a business-class notebook; after all even corporate users like to indulge in a little soft finger touching! A fingerprint scan sensor is also provided to added security.
HP provides software that can manage and even repair your notebooks installation over a network; very useful for IT professionals and business houses looking for a robust fleet of notebooks with minimal down times. The 6930P is adequately powered with a P8400 processor and 2 GB of DDR2 memory. It also has a 250 GB, 5400 rpm hard drive and an ATi Radeon HD 3450 graphics solution. This is more than enough grunt to push the 6930P through most tasks; and these components may even be overkill for most users. A D-Sub video-out is provided as standard, we’d have liked something more in the HDMI realm; but this isn’t an entertainment notebook.
The price of the 6930P as quoted by HP is “price on request”. However to our dismay we were unable to get a quote on request – it seems they will only give quotes to potential users; and there was no more information to be had from them. A three year international warranty is provided as standard, a huge plus for the globetrotting professional or businessman; most companies do not offer such warranty terms free of charge. If you’re looking for hassle free service plan and an excellent warranty scheme for a rugged product this may well fit the bill.
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