The HP Chromebook 13 G1's 3.8 x 2.1-inch, buttonless touchpad accurately tracked my input as I navigated web pages. This Chromebook's keys are good enough, offering 1.23 millimeters of travel and requiring 50 grams of force to actuate, but more comfort would be possible if those numbers were closer to 1.5 mm and 60 g. When I tested the notebook out on the typing test, I click-clacked my way to 78 words per minute, a rate that's close to my 80-wpm average. Since the Chromebook 13 G1 is meant for work, it's good that HP gave this device a solid backlit keyboard and touchpad. If the panel were brighter, it might have provided better viewing angles, as a white cast of reflected light muted colors when I viewed the panel at 45 degrees to the left or right. While this laptop outshines the Dell Chromebook 13 (270 nits), Lenovo ThinkPad 13 (241 nits) and Acer Chromebook 14 for Work (231 nits), it's slightly less luminous than the average ultraportable notebook (304 nits) and the Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35 (378 nits). The HP Chromebook 13 G1 emits up to 294 nits, which proved bright enough for me during testing. The Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35 (0.9) and Lenovo ThinkPad 13 (0.7) did even better. The HP Chromebook 13 G1's colors are relatively accurate, as it scored a 1.4 on the Delta-E test (closer to zero is better), which is tied with the Dell Chromebook 13's showing (1.4) and better than the average ultraportable notebook's score (2.3). Our review unit's QHD panel appeared sharp and color-accurate in our testing.Īccording to our colorimeter, the HP Chromebook 13 G1's QHD panel produces 106 percent of the sRGB gamut, which makes this display more colorful than those of the Dell Chromebook 13 (96), Lenovo ThinkPad 13 (64 percent), Acer Chromebook 14 for Work (60 percent) and average ultraportable (91 percent), but similar to the Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35 (110 percent). The HP Chromebook 13 G1 is available with either a quad-HD, 3200 x 1800-pixel or a 1920 x 1080-pixel display. This machine also supports SAML (security assertion markup language) for single-sign-on security. It has an integrated Trusted Platform Module to protect files in the cloud (100GB of which comes free from Google Drive).Ĭhromebooks also support multiple user accounts, so the same laptop can be shared with multiple people across an organization. IT administrators will appreciate the HP Chromebook 13 G1's multiple security features. The HP Chromebook 13 G1 measures 0.5 inches thick and weighs 2.6 pounds, making it thinner and lighter than fellow 13-inch notebooks, such as the Toshiba Chromebook 2 (0.8 inches, 2.9 pounds), Lenovo ThinkPad 13 (0.78 inches, 3.1 pounds) and Dell Chromebook 13 (0.7 inches, 3.2 pounds), as well as the 14-inch Acer Chromebook 14 for Work (0.9 inches, 3.2 pounds).
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