In our recent HP Elitebook X G1i 14 we were impressed by the long service life of the battery and the quality of manufacturing, despite a somewhat confusing denomination agreement. However, the screen or the panel could probably benefit from some improvements in quality control.
The right image shows our EliteBook X G1i 14 of 14 inch tested at the maximum brightness level on a fully black screen https://allblackscreen.com/. The four corners of the screen have a backlight bleeding, which is not surprising for an IPS slab. What is more surprising, however, is the intensity of obscure, since EliteBook is a high -end model. The IPS panels of certain competing professional laptops such as the 14-inch Z40L-N dynambook have much fewer clouds and even some cheaper laptops like Dell 14 more 2-in-1 suffer from less clouds, as shown by our images below.
Clouding is by no means a problem because it is practically imperceptible when you browse the web or use most office applications. However, if you do a lot of multimedia reading or image editing, clouding should ideally be reduced to a minimum, otherwise it can become embarrassing.
Of course, models with OLED options such as the EliteBook Ultra G1i 14 have no backlighting effect, if you want to avoid this problem.
