While HP had managed to squeeze in an optical drive in the EliteBook 2570p, the engineers have omitted it in our test unit in favor of stability and height. There is no HDMI, but a business oriented DisplayPort. Older monitors and projectors can be connected via VGA.

Speaking of docking: the Docking Stations HP 2012 (90/120/230 W, four models) support all of the EliteBooks, the 11.6-inch one as well. Even the 90 W model (at 120 Euros, ~$154) offers RJ45, USB 2.0, VGA, Parallel, Serial, PS2, Audio and DisplayPort. The luxury 120/230 W models have a SATA Upgrade Bay for an optical drive or a hard drive. When a docking station is available, the two USB ports on the notebook do not seem too bad (2x USB 3.0, 1x Sleep & Charge).

Keyboard

HP has equipped the 2170p with free-standing keys, which lie in a two-millimeter recess. This way, the keys are at the same height as the palm rest. The keyboard base is extremely solid, which provides a firm, almost hard impact. Typing is almost silent. HP has also thought of accuracy and has given the keys a slight concave curvature. It is barely visible, but provides the fingers enough orientation while typing.

We quickly got accustomed to the forcibly reduced 11.6-inch layout. Because the Enter, Shift (right and left) as well as Backspace and Tab are only marginally smaller than usual, we’ve had no problems with the layout. This comes at the expense of the smaller Fn and F keys, but that did not bother us.

Key travel and pressure point are both clear. The crisp pressure point gives a very good feedback. The keyboard has backlighting, which can only be turned on or off, which is a shame, since in complete darkness, the brightness is too high. We would have liked an option to lower it.

Touchpad

The dual pointing device consists of touchpad and pointer stick and is considered standard not only for HP, but also for Lenovo and Dell. Technically, it consists of four devices, which all come with separate settings. Sounds confusing, but can be very practical: those that do not like the four mouse buttons, can deactivate one or two pairs, while still using the pad.

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