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HP ProBook 4411s - Budget Business Class

By Aloysius Low - 15 Aug 2009

I for Inner Hardware

I for Inner Hardware

By now you should have a good look and feel of the HP ProBook 4411s, so it's time to take a look at its inner specifications. This machine uses an Intel Core 2 Duo T6570 (2.1GHz) which should be decent enough for most applications and comes equipped with 3GB of DDR2 RAM. For its graphics subsystem, it uses a discrete solution in the form of the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 with 512MB video memory. It's not gaming class, but it should do fine rendering HD clips fine on the 14-inch screen. Rounding things up is a 500GB hard drive from Toshiba, the MK5055GSX 5400RPM drive that should provide more than adequate storage space.

The back of the HP ProBook 4411s lies clean with no panels to open for upgrading the notebook.

Notebook Comparisons

With notebooks being the way they are, it's almost impossible to get a direct comparison, though we've used the slightly more expensive and portable Samsung X460 in a direct comparison to see how the affordable HP ProBook 4411s holds up. We've also managed to obtain limited benchmark scores on a HP EliteBook 6930p to throw in for further comparison.

Notebook Comparison Table
Specifications / Notebook HP ProBook 4411s Samsung X460 HP EliteBook 6930p
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo processor P6570 (2.10GHz) with 2MB L2 cache Intel Core 2 Duo processor P7450 (2.13GHz) with 3MB L2 cache Intel Core 2 Duo processor P8600 (2.40GHz) with 3MB L2 cache
Chipset Intel PM45 Intel PM45 Intel PM45
FSB 800MHz 1066MHz 1066MHz
Memory 1 x 1GB DDR2 1 x 2GB DDR2 1 x 2GB DDR3 1 x 1GB DDR2 2 x 2GB DDR2
HDD 1 x 500GB SATA 1 x 320GB SATA 1 x 80GB SSD
Video ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS Intel GMA 4500MHD

 

Battery Performance and Portability Index

The HP ProBook 4411s packs a 6-cell Li-Ion battery that's rated at 10.8V and 47WH.

If you're a business road warrior thinking of getting the HP ProBook 4411s and wondering if it will last you the distance, well fret not, we've put it to our usual battery testing to see if it can hold enough of a charge. Since it came packed with a 6-cell Li-Ion battery by default, we expected it fair well and we weren't disappointed. Lasting a cool 2 hours 34 minutes on our DVD looping test, the unit should get you going places and will last long enough without a charge to nail down that very important presentation.

Power consumption wise, the unit does achieve a very respectable 18.29 watts even though the 4411s' processor is rated at a higher TDP (35W compared to the X460's processor which is rated for just 25W). This is probably due to better optimization in the system hardware, but the difference between both systems' scores is quite close.

Lastly, putting the battery life, weight and dimensions together, we found that the HP notebook does quite reasonably in our Portability Index test with its score of 0.468. Sure it's not as portable compared to the other notebooks due to its size and weight, but it's still a very good score seeing as how we were expecting a much lower score to emerge prior to our calculations.

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