 The HP Elite Book 830G9 is in a sense, elite. Its premium nature and heavy price tag make the potential consumer base small, but if you're looking for the best 13-inch office machine, there's nowhere you'd rather be but here. The Elite Book comes with a fully aluminum chassis that brings supreme flex resistance. It measures 1.27 kg and 19.3 mm in terms of weight and thickness, respectively. While the ladder might seem a bit much, the edges of the laptop are curved, so it appears much thinner. In fact, the weight has been distributed so well that the laptop feels very portable. The lid also opens up with one hand, showcasing the thin bezels that surround the Full HD display, which you'll hear more about in a minute. The top one houses a bunch of sensors, including a Full HD webcam and an IR sensor, which makes Windows Hello Login possible. There's a privacy shutter, however, it's not manual, like we usually prefer. Moving down to the base, we have an island keyboard with long key travel and clicky feedback. It also has a backlight and is spill-resistant, which further adds to the experience. The touchpad and fingerprint reader are separated, with the former getting a glass cover. Glass is undoubtedly really smooth, and while the clicking mechanism is uniform, it gets harder and harder to press the hire along the pad that you go. Next are the sides, where we have to look at the ports. The left side keeps an HDMI 2.0 connector, one USB Type-A 3.2 generation, one port that's always on, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, and an optional smart card reader. Then, on the right, we have an optional SIM card tray, one more USB Type-A port, and a 3.5mm audio jack. The full HD display is actually a full HD plus display, with a taller 1610 aspect ratio. Its viewing angles are excellent, and with a peak brightness of 473 nits, you can clearly see it even in direct sunlight. The contrast ratio is very high, at 1760 to 1, so black colors appear really deep. If you plan on editing images or color grading, you can sleep tight, as the Elite Book 830G9 shows 100% sRGB coverage. Hared with our design and gaming profile, you get a Delta E value of 1.5, which makes sure colors are accurate, punchy, and vibrant. We'll leave links to all of our profiles in the description. While there's no space for speaker grills on the bass, the bang and the lufts in set up on the bottom produces very good audio with no deviations across the entire frequency range. Only 2 per 100 people watching this video are subscribers. If you decide to just start following us, we'll be able to reinvest more in our laboratory thus making even more helpful videos for you. Thank you, you're awesome. As the laptop uses Alder Lake U-Series processors, we expect them to go easy on the 51.3Wh battery pack. In the battery test, the Elite Book with a Core i7-1255U lasts for 13 hours and 20 minutes of web browsing and 10 hours and 45 minutes of video playback, which makes a whole day of unplugged use possible. As for the performance of the Core i7-1255U, it packs a wallop, with a very decent score inside Cinebench R23 and Photoshop. It's not the highest we've seen, however, keep in mind the small stature of the laptop. With a smaller device, you need a more compact cooling solution. Here we see one heat pipe and one fan, which keep the chip cool and stable under full load. The CPU jumps to 46W in the first few seconds, which is amazing, followed by 36W in the next 20 seconds. In long loads, like video rendering, the Core i7 runs at 22W, which is admirable, considering the 15W base TDP. The comfort of the laptop is astonishing, with the keyboard reaching a hotspot of just 34.4 degrees Celsius, while the single fan can't make a lot of noise even if it wants to. Our only gripe with small laptops is the lack of expandable memory, as all 16GB of DDR5 memory is soldered onto the motherboard. For storage, there's one M.2 slot for generation for SSDs. We've got a detailed teardown video, which shows how to take apart the laptop, both for upgradeability, but also in case you want to take out the battery of cooling for maintenance, repasting, etc. You can check it out down below. The HP Elitebook 830G9 is in a league of its own when it comes to providing a good looking computing platform with all the bells and whistles that you might need. Its lack of an SD card reader is more than well compensated, while the missing upgradeability is present across most of the 13 inch market, so it's not like we have many better options. For more information about the Elitebook 830G9, check out the written review on our website.