![]() The Elite Folio offers a bit more in the sliding webcam shutter. You do have to wonder whether, after over a year working from home, HP at least considered a more premium 1080p webcam option. HP’s Elite Folio includes a 720p webcam, mounted at the top of the PC’s display bezel, which offers average graininess and color balance. It’s clickable almost all the way to the top. Windows classifies it as a Precision touchpad, meaning that Microsoft and Windows can manage its drivers, add gestures, and improve it over time. The Elite Folio trackpad, while not overly large, boasts the glossy glass smoothness of a premium offering. The HP Elite Folio keyboard offers shallow, though spacious keys. ![]() ![]() The F2 key entirely lacks a secondary function, a rather unusual omission. The layout is fairly standard, with a narrow row of function keys at the top and cross-shaped cursor keys to the lower right. Although its keys are almost aggressively springy, the shallow (1.3mm) travel is best suited for gentle tappers rather than forceful mashers. HP offers some of the most comfortable keyboards in the industry-but not on the Elite Folio. Connecting to a Thunderbolt dock enabled work on a single external 4K display, which satisfied our productivity needs. Port selection is sparse-two USB-C (not Thunderbolt) connections, one on either side of the chassis. Mark Hachman / IDGĪ USB-C port lies on either side of the chassis. ![]() HP tells us there will be 5G options in the future. The Elite Folio includes built-in 4G LTE capabilities, with a SIM slot in the pen cubby, which we’ll talk about below. Turning up the display brightness will run down the integrated 46Wh battery more quickly, of course. You might not buy a laptop to work outside, but if you do, the Elite Folio’s ready with two bright display options: a base model with a maximum 400 nits of brightness, and a 1,000-nit higher-end option, which we didn’t review. The HP Elite Folio’s display is pleasing: bright, with vivid colors that cover 99 percent of the SRGB color gamut, though only 74 percent of AdobeRGB and 75 percent of sRGB, as measured by our colorimeter. HP also includes a pen, an additional cost with rival tablets. A “hybrid” mode allows it to pull forward, hiding the keyboard for streaming video and using the screen as a primary interface. Instead, it can rotate flat into a tablet mode. The keyboard does not detach, as it does with Microsoft’s Surface Pro X or Surface Pro 7+. While the Elite Folio looks like a clamshell laptop, it’s closer to a 2-in-1 Windows tablet.
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