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HP Elitebook 835 G10 Notebook PC - Customizable
HP Elitebook 835 G10 Notebook PC - Customizable
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Thanks. There appears to be 5, 5 Pro, 7, 7 Pro. You think it’s ok to stick with the 5?Yes, anti-glare means matte display. I have the 845 G10 with Ryzen 7 and 2.5k display. Very nice machine, quiet, only the high-res screen spoils the battery life a little bit. You can even take the Ryzen 5, which is not too different from the 7 if I remember the discussion from notebookcheck correctly. Just avoid the privacy screen and the screens with 250 nits. 400 nits should be ok.
But is it built to EliteBook [read: business class] ruggedness standards? That’s the point, here, why you’d pick an EliteBook/ ProBook/ Latitude/ ThinkPad T series over a Framework or an Envy/ Pavilion/ Inspiron/ IdeaPad consumer laptop.I'm now getting confused.
A Framework laptop with AMD and 16/512 can be had for approx $1500.
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I'm having a "Windows moment" with my work machine which is again making me rethink my whole thing. The current one is where the fans fire up full speed and the machine crawls...while just using a browser. Rebooting doesn't seem to help.But is it built to EliteBook [read: business class] ruggedness standards? That’s the point, here, why you’d pick an EliteBook/ ProBook/ Latitude/ ThinkPad T series over a Framework or an Envy/ Pavilion/ Inspiron/ IdeaPad consumer laptop.
Windows Updates? Patch Tuesday was on the 13th this month. Look for Windows Modules Installer Worker process or Windows Update or Update Orchestrator services in Task Manager and sort by CPU or Disk to see if they are misbehaving.I'm having a "Windows moment" with my work machine which is again making me rethink my whole thing. The current one is where the fans fire up full speed and the machine crawls...while just using a browser. Rebooting doesn't seem to help.
It's a corporate image, so it definitely could be something there. There's an InventoryAgent taking 15% of CPU but nothing else significant. Given these are multicore processors, that should really be nothing. It doesn't explain the fans fired up like a jet engine ready for takeoff.Windows Updates? Patch Tuesday was on the 13th this month. Look for Windows Modules Installer Worker process or Windows Update or Update Orchestrator services in Task Manager and sort by CPU or Disk to see if they are misbehaving.
Antivirus? Do you have an SSD installed?
Thinking out loud here.
Fan curves between a Windows and a Mac are really different; Windows prioritizes performance and Mac prioritizes quietness. Try to get a Mac's fans to turn on unless you install Macs Fan Control.It's a corporate image, so it definitely could be something there. There's an InventoryAgent taking 15% of CPU but nothing else significant. Given these are multicore processors, that should really be nothing. It doesn't explain the fans fired up like a jet engine ready for takeoff.
I do have a few browser tabs open but they are mostly static pages. Still, fans running at full speed and machine hot really makes me question things. Does this kind of stuff happen with Linux?Fan curves between a Windows and a Mac are really different; Windows prioritizes performance and Mac prioritizes quietness. Try to get a Mac's fans to turn on unless you install Macs Fan Control.
Multiple Chrome-based browsers with a lot of processes running simultaneously? Also, Edge runs in the background from startup unless configured differently, even when it isn't actively picked.
sorry the Mac isn't for your eyes; must be tough to handle.I do have a few browser tabs open but they are mostly static pages. Still, fans running at full speed and machine hot really makes me question things. Does this kind of stuff happen with Linux?
Mac is out for me because my eyes simply cannot handle the displays that came with the M1 and later. I think it's due to temporal dithering, but there's no way to know for sure. I do know that I can handle hours of being on a Windows machine with no problems but get eye pain and headaches within minutes on a mac...noticeable even when trying it in the store. If I bring it back home (bought and returned multiple times), my eyes start watering after 30-60 min of use.
I do get that very rarely on my Elitebook with a clean install of Enterprise Windows 11. I don't know why, and it hasn't happened recently.I'm having a "Windows moment" with my work machine which is again making me rethink my whole thing. The current one is where the fans fire up full speed and the machine crawls...while just using a browser. Rebooting doesn't seem to help.