This HP-66 second-generation notebook, in addition to Intel's eighth-generation Core equipped with MX250, has also added AMD platform version and 15-inch large-size version to the product line. In addition to the improvement of hardware performance, the new HP Zhan 66 second-generation appearance adopts high-end design, using aviation aluminum 5 series A/C surface, and the C surface adopts a new 3D integrated molding process. The touch pad/press fingerprint is surrounded by diamond cutting technology, 180 degree opening and closing, and the narrow frame design is refreshing and high-end atmosphere. Most notably, HP Zhan 66 II is the first notebook equipped with Intel's high-end 9560 dual-band dual-antenna network card, which greatly improves the speed of wireless data transmission and supports the latest Bluetooth 5.0 standard. Most importantly, this notebook has passed the most stringent MIL-SDT 8 10 military test 13 in the industry, as well as many more intimate exclusive services from HP.
Next, let's take a detailed look at this HP War 66 second-generation notebook, from appearance analysis to performance configuration, as well as the introduction of security and service. I believe you will find that HP War 66 II is not only a product with high appearance, but also a weapon with excellent performance and high office efficiency, and it is the protector of your important data.
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Appearance analysis
The second generation of HP Zhan 66 we evaluated is 14 inch, including 13 inch introduced at the beginning of this year and 15 inch to be added soon. HP Zhan 66 series is actually a process of completing specifications and meeting the needs of different users. Adhering to the classic design of the previous generation, the new notebook is slim to 17.95mm, and supports 180 degree opening and closing. AC-plane fuselage adopts high-end aviation aluminum metal, which makes the fuselage more beautiful and has the characteristics of compression resistance, fall resistance and heat dissipation. This security protection is also part of military standards.
The B side is designed with a narrow frame, and the upper frame includes a front camera, a built-in antenna and a microphone that has passed the skype audio test, so the upper and lower frames are not designed with a narrow frame. However, the whole B-plane is still visually harmonious, and it is changed and upgraded in the tradition, giving users a better experience. This notebook comes standard with LG anti-glare full HD IPS wide-angle matte screen with resolution of 1080P. It can also choose a high color gamut of 100%sRGB and a high brightness of 400 nits. For example, when the light is particularly bright in the office or outdoors, it can greatly reduce the common strong reflection and glare on the mirror screen and provide a more comfortable and soft visual experience.
The C-plane adopts 3D integrated design, and the keyboard area sinks, so that the keycap is flush with the border, which not only makes the visual design more aesthetic, but also makes the operation experience very comfortable. Key cap with fine sand blasting effect, full size, uniform force feedback and long key stroke. It should be noted that an isolation layer is also designed under the keycap. Accidentally pouring water, as long as the notebook is turned upside down, it can effectively prevent water from entering the machine and causing injuries.
The power button is located in the upper left corner and is indicated by the LED light. At the back end of the C-plane, below the screen, these fine holes are the speaker system. Because the design of double speakers sounds better than the speakers designed at the bottom, it is not boring. For example, it can be played more directly in volume and sound quality.
Large-size integrated multi-touch pad, diamond trimming, more texture and fashion sense. This touchpad has a smooth feel and accurate positioning, and can completely replace the mouse for users who often move their offices.
Compared with traditional password input, fingerprint identification login system is faster and better in privacy protection. HP Zhan 66 II is equipped with a push-type fingerprint identification module on the right side of the palm rest, and it also adopts a waterproof design, which can effectively identify even a small amount of water stains and oil stains. Don't underestimate this configuration. In this price range, few products are equipped with push-type fingerprint identification module, which will be found inseparable after use.
In addition, the system security settings can be identified by the system password and fingerprint through the client security settings pre-installed in the notebook.
Let's take a look at the interface, mainly concentrated on the right side of the fuselage. It can be said that HP Zhan 66 II is a very rich product in terms of interface. Including USB 2.0, USB 3. 1, HDIM and RJ45, etc. EST anti-static protection is also added to the interface. For example, it is easier to generate static electricity in winter in the north, and anti-static can better prevent internal hardware from being damaged.
In addition, the interface also has a full-featured Type-C, which supports fast charging and PD reverse charging. Of course, it also supports dual-screen 4K DP+HDMI connection. A laptop has two display screens and two additional 4K monitors. Three-screen linkage can be realized without other peripherals, which reduces the trouble of connecting the converter. I believe many financial professionals, design professionals, programmers and so on. It will be needed, which will definitely be of great help to improve work efficiency.
Figure: Interface supporting multi-screen linkage
As a light business notebook, HP Zhan 66 II also supports the opening and closing of 180, and the hinge has been tested for 40,000 times. Even if you switch it on and off many times a day, it will not be damaged after several years of use. Of course, the biggest advantage is that it is convenient, tiled on the desktop, and sharing documents with colleagues in a small range is clear at a glance.
In the heat dissipation part, the second generation of Zhan 66 has adopted a brand-new design, adopting a larger fan, double heat pipes and double air inlet holes (screen shaft/bottom), and adopting a larger air outlet hole on the left side, instead of putting the air outlet hole at the screen shaft to cause heat dissipation difficulties and aging of the screen shaft. In addition to the larger air intake, there are four non-slip mats on the D side. It is worth noting that the disassembly of surface D is also very humanized. Except for the two screws on the front of the fuselage, all the other screws have safety buckles to prevent them from being lost after unscrewing.
From the appearance, HP Zhan 66 II itself is redesigned and newly launched on the basis of the previous generation of classics. Its A/C surface is made of 5 high-end materials of aviation aluminum series, and its C surface adopts a new 3D integrated molding process. The touch pad/pressed fingerprint is surrounded by diamond cutting technology, 180 opening and closing characteristics, narrow frame design, and refreshing high-end atmosphere. Most importantly, this notebook has passed the most stringent MIL-SDT 8 10 military test 13 in the industry, as well as many more intimate exclusive services from HP.
Hardware performance evaluation
The biggest change in hardware of the brand-new HP War 66 II is the configuration of "full blood" MX250 graphics card. The laptop we got is also equipped with Intel's eight-generation Core i5-8265U processor, 8GB memory and PCIe M.2 256GB solid state drive. As can be seen from the following disassembly diagram, this notebook supports dual memory slots and dual disk design, so it is very scalable.
cpu
Intel's eighth generation Core i5-8265U, whiskey lake architecture, four cores and eight threads, I believe everyone knows that this processor is still 14nm technology, but after improvement, its performance has been greatly improved, so it is also called 14nm ++ by many people. The highest frequency of the processor can reach 3.9GHz, the designed power consumption is TDP 15W, and the Intel UHD graphics card 620 is integrated. However, due to the MX250 graphics card, it can be ignored.
Then let's take a look at the performance of the i5-8265U in this notebook. The final score of CINEBENCH R 15 in multi-core tasks is 6 15cb, and that of single core 164cb. The multi-core computing ability of chess has also reached the level of 1 1536. In the application of thin and light business books, such scoring performance has meant that it can handle more graphics and even video processing, especially multi-task applications, with almost no bottleneck.
display card
It can be said that the application of MX 150 in thin and light notebooks is very successful, so NVIDIA introduced MX250 after updating the desktop graphics card this year, so there is no doubt that more business thin and light notebooks will be upgraded to MX250 alone this year without exception. However, in terms of specifications, MX250 is slightly different from MX 150, only slightly increasing the core acceleration frequency and greatly increasing the video memory frequency, while other architectures include core, video memory, bit width and stream processor. They are all exactly the same, and there are some improvements, but there is no need to expect too much.
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Time spy: 1249
Fire strike: 3299
Fire limit: 1680
Sky diver: 10398
Cloud gate: 13433
In addition, MX250 is unique in the game. League of Legends, DNF and other games can run perfectly, and the full opening effect is stress-free. In fact, according to our previous test of MX 150 graphics card, even if the game is set to full height, it can exceed the rate of 120 frames, and it is no problem to be very smooth.
Memory and hard disk
As can be seen from the disassembly diagram above, this notebook supports dual memory slots. If you want to get higher performance or need to upgrade later, this configuration is very useful and can maintain the performance of hardware configuration for many years. Hard disk storage adopts M.2 solid-state plus reserved mechanical dual-disk scheme, which also gives users the choice of capacity expansion. The memory specification is DDR4 2400, which supports 32GB at most. The reading speed of the memory is 17942MB/s, and the writing speed is17567 MB/s/s. ..
This notebook has a built-in 256GB PCIe M.2 solid-state drive. The sequential reading speed of CrystaDiskMark detection is 1722.2MB/s, the writing speed is 1302. 1MB/s, and the reading speed as the benchmark of SSD is1408.07 MB/s. The writing speed is 1207. 14MB/s If you think that the solid-state capacity of 256GB is small, you can choose a dual-disk model or upgrade a hard disk with a larger capacity yourself.
Continue to travel without refueling.
This notebook has a built-in three-cell 45Wh high-density battery with a capacity of 3750mAh. The way we detect it is to set the system to "longer battery life" mode first, and then detect it through PCMARK8 working mode. The final result is 8 hours and 7 minutes, and the remaining 20% will not be turned off. This kind of performance can be said to be much better than similar products, even longer than other batteries with larger capacity.
PCMARK8 working mode is a common analog stress test and a continuous high voltage test. If it is just daily work, its battery life will definitely exceed this time. In addition, this notebook also supports fast charging mode, which can charge 50% in 30 minutes. It should be noted that the battery life will not decay rapidly due to time life and frequent charging and discharging, and this notebook supports 1000 charging and discharging (equivalent to charging and discharging once a day for three years), and it can also maintain more than 65% of the battery capacity, so don't worry about the battery life. At the same time, HP also provides exclusive services, that is, in the case of three-year warranty of the whole machine, the battery is also guaranteed for three years free of charge, which relieves the worries of battery life.
dissipate heat
This second-generation upgraded version of HP Zhan 66 with discrete graphics card comes standard with a single fan and two tubes cooling scheme, and provides double air inlets at the shaft and bottom. The air outlet is designed on the left side of the fuselage, and the air inlet and the air outlet dissipate heat separately, which effectively avoids the backflow of hot air and ensures that users who use the mouse will not be disturbed by heat.
It can also be seen from the measured surface temperature of the fuselage that more heat is discharged through the large air volume on the left side. Although there is still some temperature in the keyboard area, it is within the acceptable range, and it is actually impossible for us to reach this temperature in our daily office.
Hp service
When using a notebook, sometimes the performance is not the best, maybe not the most important, but the data we store every day is more important. Therefore, HP's second-generation upgraded Zhan 66 notebook first passed the most stringent MIL-SDT 8 10 military regulations test in the industry, with a total of 13 items tested. For example, we may accidentally fall and bump in daily use, so it is very important to protect the appearance and hard disk. In addition, in some extremely harsh environments, such as high temperature/ultra-low temperature environment, or dusty outdoor environment, or humid areas in southern China, the testing of these environments is particularly important, which proves that the notebook can still run well in these harsh environments.
But nothing is absolute. We still encounter some minor faults in daily use. As a user, not everyone is familiar with the use of notebooks or can easily solve problems. At this time, it is necessary to turn to professionals for maintenance. HP Zhan 66 second-generation notebook has a built-in small secretary in the cloud, which is MengMeng's robot on the desktop. When the mouse moves to the robot area, a dialog box will pop up, including asking for help from engineers, system backup and recovery, USB interface locking, etc. , so that we can solve common faults conveniently and quickly according to our needs.
In addition, we can also help technical experts online through the "Huiguanjia" client to provide us with more comprehensive services. Of course, there are some intimate gadgets and services, such as printer installation settings, mail client settings, Office activation services, hard disk partition and so on. It can be solved quickly here.
In addition, HP also provides 1 year on-site maintenance service and optional 3-year whole machine+on-site gold medal service, including 3-year battery warranty. Such perfect after-sales service gives consumers thoughtful protection from the day they buy notebooks, so that they can have no worries in the future.
Evaluation summary: The upgraded new HP-66 second-generation upgraded notebook is really full of sincerity, and the details are optimized to enhance the user experience. The upgrade of hardware configuration, on the one hand, is the reaction speed of HP in terms of products, on the other hand, is to present the best products to consumers as soon as possible. At the same time, product upgrades and service upgrades reflect HP's concern for consumers and service intentions. Back to the product itself, as a lightweight and portable HP Zhan 66 second-generation business upgrade notebook, it is definitely a product worth buying. Are you ready?