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18mm thick when closed, the build quality is pretty firm with a silver brushed lid giving it a premium look. The unibody design makes it solid to hold even with a plastic bottom. The plastic finish however is quite the finger print magnet (but then again, who will be looking for fingerprints under your laptop? Anybody?)
Carries a 13.3" LED backlit screen 1366 x 768. The screen is much smaller than the space carved out in the cover. When it's off, you get the idea the screen has a thin bezel. However when you power the machine on, you notice the view doesn't stretch to the tip of the bezel. For those with some compulsive disorders for everything to fit where it's supposed to be, it may annoy you slightly. Otherwise it being such a bright screen, you will not notice the difference. The reflections that bounce off the screen on this machine are quite bright. So please avoid its glare. You will probably want to switch off any lights with battery like Fujitsu FPCBP91 Battery, Fujitsu LifeBook E8020 Battery, Fujitsu LifeBook C1212 Battery, Fujitsu FPCBP94 Battery, Fujitsu LifeBook N3500 Battery, Fujitsu Esprimo Mobile X9510 Battery, Fujitsu Esprimo Mobile X9525 Battery, Fujitsu LifeBook C1212D Battery, Fujitsu FPCBP107 Battery, Fujitsu FPCBP65 Battery, Fujitsu LifeBook C2220 Battery, Fujitsu FPCBP50 Battery above or behind you when using this laptop. You will tend to concentrate on the bright lights reflecting than the content on your screen (at least that's what happened to me until I sat somewhere away from too much light). Watching a movie can become some form of an art and the angle of the screen has to be just right. Oh! Another thing; When closed, the screen tends to pick up the outline of the key
board - so best carry a piece of cloth to wipe them off every so odd often.
The keyboard is well spaced and the backlight makes it usable in dark places while not blinding your view to the screen. The HDD and power LEDs are located on the left side of the laptop. So there is no distraction of blinking lights as you do your work.
Moving on to the big touch pad. Its default settings are not sensitive enough. So I had to make a few adjustments prior to using it. I did get a few confused instances where my palm would brush across the pad and change cursor position as I type. If I were you I would still keep my Microsoft arc mouse close-by until I get used to the track pad.
My colleagues and I managed to get close to 8 hours of light use out of the HP Folio 13. It does very well for a full capacity laptop, which I must say is incredible. I even stopped carrying the charger with me when I left the house. When doing my data analysis it would last me around 6 or so straight hours. Still well within expectations of the average multitasking business user. The device does claim a 9 hour battery life though. I am yet to push it to this limit. I shall do so very soon.
We put the Folio 13 through some benchmark tests to relatively measure its processor performance and finally a disk intensive test using a the IDEA data analysis tool to see the gains of the Solid state Drive against the standard hard disks.
Super PI is a computer program that calculates PI to a specified number of digits after the decimal point. Super PI is used by many overclockers to test the performance and stability of their computers. Super PI utilizes a single core of the processor. To calculate up to 1 million digits of PI after the decimal point we compared the performance against a desktop 2ndgeneration core i5 2500k (3.3 GHz), 1st generation laptop core i5 - 520m (2.4Ghz) and the HP envy core i5-3317u.
It should be noted here that the 3317u is third generation core i5 and the 2467 is 2nd generation technology. However the older generation outpaces the third generation in this test, even though they are almost matched on core speed (1.7GHz vs 1.6GHz), because of the SSD (Solid State Drives) in the Folio 13 that improves the read and write times.