Major notebook vendors have introduced the latest i processor with Intel launched Intel Core I series Duo processor. In all I processors, Core i5 positioning moderate, it is bound to become the first choice of mainstream configuration. Today we review on HP Pro Book 6540b.

HP Pro Book 6540b gives the first impression is the style of tough, and did not use the previous very popular piano techique, instead of using a matte surface treament. Of course, fingerprint problem does not exist.

HP Pro Book 6540b case comes with silver-gray, the surface has the grinding treatment. But really using ABS engineering plastics, although HP Pro Book 6540b screen is 15 inch, the ability of shell supporing the screen is pretty good.

HP Pro Book 6540b screen uses LED backlighting and high-definition mainstream glare screen, the resolution is 1366×768. There is a 2 million pixel camera above the screen. Screen around has foot pads to prevent the screen being scratched.

HP Pro Book 6540b keyboard design is unique, this notebook uses a touch shortcut design and the key itself is indicator light.

HP Pro Book 6540b as a 15-inch notebooks, in addition to big-screen, the other advantage is that large-size keyboard, ProBook 6540 includes not only the large buttons, and even small keyboards have been accommodated in, faciliate to enter number.

The opening and closing angle is up to 180 °.

HP Pro Book 6540b weight.

HP Pro Book 6540b is very thoughful in interface design, taking into account the various type of business people’s different needs. Interfaces are almost equally distributed on the left, right and the back of HP Pro Book 6540b. HP Pro Book 6540b left side has DisplayPort interface and 3 USB port, which is especially convenient for the user normally inserted U disk, an external mouse and keyboard. In addition to the right side of HP Pro Book 6540b also designed the current drive and the rare 1394 interface, and serial design.We can also see that ProBook 6540b highly commercial properties.

The right side interfaces of HP Pro Book 6540b.

The left side interfaces of HP Pro Book 6540b.

Back interfaces of HP Pro Book 6540b.The bottom interfaces of HP Pro Book 6540b

HP Pro Book 6540b front has any interfaces, a long strip speaker at the buttom. Battery is occupied most spaces of back, but RJ11 and RJ45 interfaces appear together. We can see HP Pro Book 6540b provides different access needs for users. You can see screw jack in the both sides of VGA interface which allows external projector more stable.

HP Pro Book 6540b has a spare battery connector at the buttom, also a docking connector at the top for extending the types of interfaces.

HP Pro Book 6540b uses the latest Core i5 processor, and frequencey is up to 2.27GHz, as well as ATI Radeon 4550 series graphics cards, with a speed of up to 7,200 rpm SATA hard drive, the overall configuration is good.

Core i5-430M dual-core processor using 32nm technology, and support Hyper-Threading technology, can virtual out the two core-logic, the performance is very strong.

Another highlight of HP Pro Book 6540b is the adoption of 320GB7200 turn drives, through the HD Tune read test indicates that the minimum transfer rate of 46.7MB / s, the maximum 94.6MB / s, burst transfer rate of 68.2MB / s, from the curve analysis, the hard disk reading and writing skills are very excellent.
HP Pro Book 6540b gains 5.0 points in the comes scoring system of Window7. Performance bottleneck is the mobile version of the HD4550 graphics card. i5 platform has two graphics cards, one is to choose one’s own 45nm GMA integrated graphics core, and the other is a dedicated graphics card. However, all current i5 explicit laptop notebook are alone, and do not provide significant and unique set of significant switching. However, we can see, CPU score is 6.4, the new i5 processor performance is indeed impressive, for business applications is absolutely not a problem.

CineBench mainly test CPU and graphics performance which is using special Cinema 4D engine for film and television industry.ProBook 6540b dual-core processor i5 M430 obtains 6315 points in the test, single-core scores reached 2766 points; in CINEBENCH test, the performance of dual-core with Hyper-Threading has finally been fully tapped, this notebook built-in dual-core processor as opposed to equivalent single-core processors, the performance of the 2.34-fold, with Hyper-Threading technology, a manifestation of a very good dual-core i5 out of the 1 +1 larger than two features.

In the PCMark05 and PCMark Vangtage tests, ProBook 6540b, respectively scored 6680 points and 4990 points, it can be said is very good overall performance. Performance bottlenecks still in the cards, this point and the above self-test rating conclusion is consistent.

In the 3DMark05 and 3DMark06 tests, HP Pro Book 6540b respectively scores 7292 points and 3937 points, graphics score quite satisfactory, as a commercial notebook, graphics performance is definitely able to meet most office requirements. In the 3DMark06 years gained 3937 points, which means that under the default resolution to play most games do not have any problems.

We use the famous 3D game Street Fighter 4  to test HP Pro Book 6540b. In the default settings, score is 8258 points, with an average frame rate 39.61FPS, levels of D-class, that is, a computer configured in the default settings that can run this games, but still can not achieve the special fluid level.

The thermal performance of HP’s Business has been pretty good, for HP Pro Book 6540b as a large-size business book, do more excellent thermal performance. We put HP Pro Book 6540b  in air-conditioned room temperature 26 degrees Celsius environment, using Everest software loaded laptops 20 minutes later, with the infrared thermometer measurements of temperature and laptop data results. This can be seen 6540b cooling performance is still very prominent.

Here we use the BatteryMark of Life Test to test HP Pro Book 6540b under the battery of high energy-consuming testing. The final score is 3 hours 38 minutes. Battery life is satisfactory.

HP Pro Book 6540b uses spill-resistant keyboard, comfortable, buttons are responsive but not loose which can effective protect the laptop. This is a very practical design for business people.

Relative to the desktop, the notebook computer power consumption is not high. HP is still originality for ProBook 6540b introduced a software called power assistent, as long as input in the software where the local electricity prices, it can and Statistics Notebook overall electricity consumption, with concrete actions to prove that i5 processors and HP notebook is very energy-efficient.

Users can load the state of Windows at the same time to early preview of MS Outlook calendar, a summary of pre-selected 12-hour trip, check the battery charge status, significant savings in operating time manually after boot.

Summary
As a HP introduced the first processors with Core i5 business  notebook, HP Pro Book 6540b revirw will stop here, and I simply say the following strengths and weaknesses.

Pro:
Excellent machine configuration, business festive atmosphere;
Adding a small keyboard, to facilitate business office use;
Good heat dissipation and endurance performance;
Configure the latest Core Duo processor, i5, performance strong;
Equipped with 7200 RPM high speed hard drive, to raise the overall performance;

Con:
Graphics performance somewhat inadequate;
Total Weight is heavy;