HP Elitebook 745 G3 Business Notebook

The first corporate laptop we’ve seen with an AMD A8 processor inside, the HP EliteBook 745 promises an attractive design and solid performance for a reasonable price. Starting at $749 ($1,049 as tested), this laptop is certainly light enough to take anywhere and, though it falls short of most Intel-powered competitors, powerful enough to perform mainstream tasks. However, the EliteBook 745’s sleek, silver-colored chassis can’t make up for its poor battery life, weak typing experience and dull display.

Design

HP’s design language for most of its laptops is sleek and silver. You can see it in the consumer-focused HP Envy 13t, and it’s on display in the EliteBook 745. The body is black on the underside and a beautiful shade of gunmetal gray everywhere else, and it has a reflective HP logo on the lid.