Hp Elitebook 745 G5 2700u 14" Laptop, Amd Ryzen 7 Pro, 16gb Ram, 256gb Ssd, Win10 Pro

Key features for HP EliteBook 745 G5 2700U 14" Laptop, AMD Ryzen 7 Pro, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Win10 Pro

• Brand: HP
• Series: HP EliteBook
• Hard Disk Size: 256 GB
• CPU Model: AMD Ryzen 7
• Operating System: Windows 10 Pro
• Card Description: Integrated
• Graphics Coprocessor: AMD Radeon Graphics
• CPU Speed: 2.2 GHz
• Hard Disk Description; SSD
• Item Weight: 3.5 Pounds

The category of business notebooks has always been dominated by Intel. With the Ryzen CPUs, AMD is preparing to break or at least weaken this dominance. For this purpose, HP is a reliable partner for AMD. After all, the world’s largest computer manufacturer offered an AMD CPU option for their EliteBooks since the beginning of 2016, and was banking on AMD long before Ryzen came out. At a time when most of the AMD laptops were disappointing, the 700 series EliteBooks were one of the few serious options.

Despite their undoubted quality, the previous models of the AMD EliteBook series deserved only a limited recommendation, because the older AMD CPUs simply were not able to compete. This fact changes with Ryzen, which makes today's review unit very interesting: the EliteBook 745 G5. It uses the same case as the HP EliteBook 840 G5, which is why this review is only an update. Please read the review of the EliteBook 840 G5 for more information about the case, the features, and the input devices.

Direct competitors are the Lenovo ThinkPad A485 and the Dell Latitude 5495. Since we weren't able to test these Ryzen notebooks yet, we compare the EliteBook 745 G5 with the Lenovo ThinkPad T480s, the ThinkPad T480, the Dell Latitude 5490, and the Dell Latitude 7490, and further with the pre-predecessor of our review unit, the HP EliteBook 745 G3.

Our review unit has the model number 3UN74EA. It is the top model, which is equipped with a 256 GB SSD, 8 GB of RAM, and the AMD Ryzen 7 2700U CPU.