The HP EliteBook 840 G1 Core i5 is styled in silver and gray, with a matte top surface. The chassis is magnesium and the keyboard is fabricated from aluminum, making the unit tougher than most and endowing it with a sturdy feel.

This HP EliteBook 840 G1 Core i5 houses a 4th-generation Haswell Intel Core i5-4310U processor Dual core, clocking at 2.0 GHz also achieves speeds up to 2.6 GHz, thanks to Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 technology. With a dedicated 3MB of cache memory and 4GB of DDR3L RAM, you’ll be able to push the two cores up to four virtual cores for quick and efficient multitasking.

The HP EliteBook 840 G1 Core i5 has ports aplenty: Two USB 3.0 ports (one provides always-on charging), a legacy VGA port, and a smart card slot on the left side. A headset jack, two more USB 3.0 ports, a full-sized DisplayPort, a super-slim docking port, and a drop-jaw gigabit ethernet port on the right side.

The 14″ widescreen Twisted Nematic (TN) display of the hp EliteBook 840 G1 features LED backlighting, a 16:9 aspect ratio, a 300:1 contrast ratio, a 60 Hz refresh rate, 250 cd/m² brightness, 131 ppi, and viewing angles of 40/40/15/30°. You can also output video to an external display via the DisplayPort at resolutions up to 3200 x 2000 @ 60 Hz, or use the VGA port for resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 @ 60 Hz.