HP ProBook 4310s Review Discussion

The HP ProBook 4310s takes the same design we've seen from the ProBook 4510s and 4710s and made it more portable thanks to a 13-inch display. The 4310s was designed to provide road warriors with a low-cost machine that still delivers solid performance. Did HP manage to deliver a 13-inch budget business notebook that you might actually want to buy? Read on to find out.

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"very basic build and deign in order"
typo, might wanna correct that Jerry.

The screen lid flexes but the screen frame is solid? Like that? Strange combination, but I think it is done that way to lower prices and give a somewhat good support and protection.

One thing, is this thing that thick as the pics make it look? Because, wow, it looks quite thick on the Ports and Features area...

I like how in the touchpad and buttons it was more subtle but at the end, they are horrible, that bad were them? I must admit that they do look uncomfortable.

How come the 4510 is below, if it is using the same IGP? Newer drives for the 4310?

Battery life is impressive, considering it is a 4 Cell and it has a good CPU. 4 hours out of a 4 cell, not bad.

And odd that it offers HDMI. Interesting and nice at the same time.

Thanks for the review Jerry, very nicely done!

 

Nice review. The ProBook line has been average at best so far based on your reviews, especially when it comes to build quality. I wonder how the upcoming 5310m will fare, it looks like it has sturdier build materials.

 

Thanks for the review.

Another con, from the business user perspective, is the 16:9 display.

John

 

Yeah, but since most 13" notebooks come with WXGA 1280x800, it's not all that bad. In fact, you technically get more pixels with 1366x768 (1,049,088) than 1280x800 (1,024,000). However, most business apps would be better suited for the 68 more vertical lines of WXGA than the 86 more horizaontal lines of 1366x768.

 

It depends. Widescreen resolution is nice for graphs and spreadsheet applications because most graphs and spreadsheets are displayed landscape, particularly for financial analytics.

It is true that you can show less rows, but scrolling vertically is often less painful than scrolling horizontally as the columns are likely to be arranged horizontally.

 

Yes, I agree there. Horizontal scrolling is a pain, at least with my current touchpad, it barely even works, and is very problematic, I prefer A LOT more to scroll vertically. (OH NO! I switched to the 16:9 side! To the dark side!! lol)

 

Great Review. To my eyes, this looks way better, more upscale than the slightly cheap looking Vostro 1320. Too bad about the build quality though. I do wish that HP would make custom configured versions of their business notebooks WAY less expensive. I was toying with custom configuring a ProBook netbook and the price for most of the options was just ridiculous, not to mention that just starting out with a base custom config without changing anything results in a higher price.