All the functional parts including the keyboard, base and bezel get a rubbery matte black dressing that makes them disappear, but brushed aluminum plates on the palm rest and lid supply a literal dose of cool (as in, chilly wrists in the winter cool).Īll the controls have been built into a slender strip above the keyboard, which looks black when powered off but lights up with a number of touch-sensitive controls after being powered on, including shortcuts for e-mail and the Web, a Wi-Fi indicator, volume mute and adjust buttons, and a switch to turn the touchpad off. Like the EliteBook 8440p we looked at back in April, the 2540p adopts a look somewhere between boardroom and livingroom – a working man’s laptop that’s not afraid to show some class. Our review notebook came equipped with a 2.1GHz Core i7 processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a standard six-cell battery, and a 250GB 5400RPM SATA II hard drive. The same choice also confines users to only 1.8-inch hard drives, which cap out at 320GB. To that end, you can order one with any of Intel’s latest high-end processors, up to 8GB of RAM, hard drives up to 500GB, and even an optical drive, which many competitors in this class have yanked in favor of ever-slimmer designs (Lenovo’s otherwise trusty ThinkPad X201 comes to mind).Īlthough HP offers a choice of standard-voltage Core i5 and Core i7 processors, buyers who want the optical drive will need to opt for the low-voltage i7, clocked at 2.1GHz. FeaturesĪs the EliteBook designation suggests, HP’s 2540p caters to business users looking for serious computational horsepower packaged neatly into a road-ready design.
While its 12.1-inch screen makes it the smallest of HP’s EliteBook business notebooks, it lacks little of their workhorse character, making it an ideal travel mate for the productivity crowd. Fitbit Versa 3Īfter wading through netbook after anemic netbook over the past two years, you could be forgiven for dismissing HP’s diminutive EliteBook 2540p as yet another underperforming compact notebook at first glance.
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