Benchmarks: Display
Some of the biggest advancements in modern laptops revolve around the capabilities of the display panel. To provide a more meaningful overview of panel characteristics, we're deploying Datacolor's Spyder 4 Elite professional monitor analyser to return a quantitative assessment of display quality.
We described the EliteBook's full-HD display as a potential weak spot, but that isn't to say it's a terrible display. 98 per cent coverage of the sRGB colour space is a respectable return.
Being able to display a wide gamut of colours is helpful, yet the colours themselves still need to deliver in terms of accuracy. In the above chart, the Delta-E figure corresponds to how close the displayed colours match up with real life and the lower the overall result, the better. Any figure below two is considered very good and the HP panel is up to the task, scoring 1.81.
Brightness is the most obvious shortcoming. 255 nits at the maximum setting is disappointing for a glossy panel, and though black levels are decent, contrast could be better and outdoor visibility isn't the best.