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HP reached out to sponsor a showcase of their new elite books so I've got the 14 inch 10 40 G 4 and the 12 and a half inch x 360 1020 g2 here these are both ultra slim business notebooks each of them with three yes three discreet hardware and forced security features to keep your computer secure no matter where you're working and this is probably the coolest one toggleable privacy filter what most of the time you'll want the full experience of the elite books glossy 4k IPS touchscreen but what about situations where you don't want looky-loos spying over your shoulder or you actually can't let others see the sensitive information on your screen like when you're trying to get some real work done on a plane sure view is HP's name for their built-in privacy screen that you can toggle with a one-button click this is so cool sure view combines a 3m light control film on the screen with a proprietary backlight behind it so when sure view is off the backlight uses two light sources to disperse light across all areas of the display when it's on however the backlight only uses one light source and it focuses it through the light control film in a narrow 70 degree cone reducing up to 95% of the light that's being emitted outside of your privacy zone it doesn't block off axis viewing to quite the same degree as a standalone external filter and it does cut down on the vertical viewing angles a little bit even when it's disabled but from our experience it is more than good enough it doesn't add any extra bulk to this super slim notebook the ability to toggle it on and off is freaking awesome and it can even have the added benefit of increasing battery life by up to 15% depending on how long you keep it on alright let's move on to attackers that aren't sitting in the same room unsecured web browsing is one of the most common attack vectors for malware as innocent employees or even woke IT buffs like you and I can easily download malicious malware or ransomware if we haven't had our morning coffee yet to combat this HP has worked closely with bromium on a feature that they call sure click which is designed to shift the cyber security responsibility from the bright-eyed Internet user to the PC itself whenever you visit a website sure click isolates the browsing session inside of a micro virtual machine which eliminates the ability of that one site to infect the system or even other browser tabs if a piece of malware attacks a browsing session it simply goes away once the infected tab is closed it all works through the shirt click browser which currently supports both Internet Explorer and chromium without adding any extra Bologna but you can also check out some vital stats through the shirt click console including how many pages have been safely opened and how many micro VMs are instantiated at that moment moving on let's look at the last line of defense our third security feature here it's a below the OS protocol called HP SureStart which I personally would have called sure boot because it picks out any foreign code that might have made its way into your machines bios built into a custom Hardware chip on the system board SureStart will cryptographically verify the integrity of the HP BIOS code before the CPU is allowed to execute even the first line if the system detects that the BIOS has been altered from a malicious attack for an accidental error or whatever the embedded controller will replace the BIOS with a new copy that's stored in a secret memory that can't be accessed by third party software or malware or even third-party firmware ok but hold on a second - I don't really restart my computer that often my BIOS could be infected for days or weeks before SureStart fixes it ah no so this latest 3rd generation of SureStart has run time intrusion detection meaning it will continually verify that a genuine HP system BIOS is present in the system flash and if tampering is detected it will automatically restore the BIOS while the system is running but even with all these hardcore security features there's no extra bulk on these notebooks they're just over half an inch at their thickest and are very light despite all the goodies inside so ours rock core i7 7600 you processors 16 gigs of ram and a one terabyte nvme SSD with HDMI output and dual Thunderbolt 3 ports the X 360 even comes with a stylus if you want to get your are or more likely in my case jot down some chicken scratch notes and diagrams not too shabby the 1040 G for in the x360 1020 G to both start at $13.99 so be sure to check them and all their hardware and forced features out at the link below thanks for watching guys thanks to HP for sponsoring this video if you just liked it you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the links in the video description also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should totally join