HP Probook X360 435 G7

HP Probook X360 435 G7 Price in Pakistan

Design

Although it’s “only” a 400 series ProBook, i.e. the cheapest business series, the case is almost completely made of aluminum. Only the keyboard and a small strip on the display cover, which protects the area of the Wi-Fi antennas, are made of plastic. As a result, the device is in a league that is actually above its price range in terms of feel. The stability and workmanship are also virtually perfect. The base unit can’t be pushed in anywhere, and it can’t be twisted in any way either. Even the display cover, which is additionally reinforced by the glass pane in front of the display panel, is hardly twistable whereby it transfers pressure to the panel relatively quickly. In this regard, the ProBook is clearly better than the Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Yoga with its fiberglass-plastic case.

Processor

The AMD Ryzen 7 4700U is a processor for thin and light laptops based on the Renoir architecture. The 4700U integrates all eight cores based on the Zen 2 microarchitecture. They are clocked at 2 (guaranteed base clock) to 4.1 GHz (Turbo). There is no support for the thread-doubling SMT tech. The chip is manufactured on the modern 7 nm TSMC process and partly thanks to it AMD advertises a 2x improved performance per Watt for the Renoir chips. Compared to the faster R7 4800U, the 4700U offers slightly lower clock speeds and no support for SMT / Hyperthreading.

Performance

HP offers five different AMD CPUs of the Ryzen 4000 series in the ProBook 435 G7: The Ryzen 3 4300U, Ryzen 5 4500U, and Ryzen 7 4700U non-Pro versions as well as the Ryzen 5 Pro 4650U and Ryzen 7 Pro 4750U Pro variants. Since the HP laptop is a compact model, there’s no dGPU; instead, the integrated AMD graphics are used. The fastest GPU available in this case is the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7. You’ll find maximum flexibility in the compact HP laptop when it comes to the RAM, because with two slots, you can install up to 64 GB of DDR4 3200 memory. This gives the HP ProBook x360 435 G7 a big advantage compared to the Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Yoga, even though HP admittedly only sells the convertible with up to 16 GB of memory ex-works. A single M.2 2280 SSD completes the package.

Keyboard

The square, flat keys of the six-row backlit chiclet keyboard have a very pleasant, matte feel. HP describes the keyboard as a “Premium Keyboard” with “Durakeys”, and this name thoroughly fits the keyboard. The typing experience is very pleasant with an estimated travel of 1.5 to 1.8 mm as well as a crisp pressure point and good resistance. You can type longer text without problems on this keyboard. The only unpleasant aspects are the small vertical arrow keys and the lack of dedicated page up/page down keys as well as home and end keys.