In the first part of this series, I assessed the condition of my refurbished HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop. Overall the laptop is in excellent condition with the only blemish being a small ding on the laptop’s lid.
Let’s look at the specifications of the laptop in more detail. I’ll use a popular system profiler, inxi, to help delve into the laptop’s specs.
The images below were captured with the machine running the Manjaro, a distribution based on Arch Linux. I’m going to experiment with a variety of different Linux distributions, and spend a week using just the laptop for computing including maintaining this website. I’ll write up my findings in a separate article.
Processor
As you can see, the laptop has an 11th generation Intel Core i5-1135G7 processor. This is a fairly old CPU with a CPU Mark of 9417. That’s pretty low by modern standards but bear in mind the processor only has 4 cores (with 8 threads).
For a lot of desktop software, single core performance is incredibly important. It’ll be interesting to see how I get on with maintaining the website for a week with a machine given the CPU Mark less than a third of any of the mini PCs I’m currently writing about. For a lot of desktop tasks, computers often end up only using a few cores. And the single core performance of the Intel Core i5-1135G7 is pretty reasonable.
The CPU has a typical TDP of 15W. As inxi shows it has a turbo speed of 4.2 GHz. When the image was taken the laptop was under no load. All the cores are running at their minimum 400 MHz. Its base clock speed is 2.40 GHz.
Graphics
The laptop’s graphics are the onboard Intel Iris Xe graphics. For its day, it was known for good performance (for an integrated graphics solution) in everyday computing and light tasks. Its certainly not designed for gaming.
The laptop has an HDMI port, so I’ve attached a 4K monitor, as shown in the inxi output below. Its shown as Monitor-1.
Disk
The laptop has a Samsung PM991 MZVLQ256HAJD solid state drive. It’s a 256GBNVMe.
It’s been a long time since I’ve used a machine with such a small disk. Fortunately Linux distributions are far more frugal with disk space than Windows. Combined with the fact that I have lots of disk storage available with Network Attached Storage, the small disk size shouldn’t be a major issue. Two areas where a large local disk is important are really out of the question with the laptop in any event given its integrated graphics and small number of cores. These areas are machine learning apps and virtual machines.
Memory
inxi reports the laptop has 16GB of DDR4 RAM with both its SODIMM memory slots occupied. Given the dual channel memory configuration, I’m expecting good memory benchmark results.
The laptop has a maximum memory capacity of 32GB so there is some expansion available if needed in the future.
Audio
Bluetooth
The laptop has Bluetooth 5.2.
Network
When taking the above image, the laptop was only connected via WiFi. We have the Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (802.11ax)
I also connected a network cable as the laptop has a 10/100/1000 GBe NIC. From brief testing I can actually get faster transfer rates over WiFi.
Temperature
When these readings were taken the laptop was under light load. Room temperature was 18.1°C.
In the next article in the series, I’ll put the laptop through some benchmarks.
Complete list of articles in this series:
| HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop | |
|---|---|
| Introduction | Condition of the refurbished laptop |
| Specifications | Let's interrogate the laptop specifications |