HP ProBook 4 G1q review

HP ProBook 4 G1q (2025) Review: The ARM Business Machine, Honestly Measured

The ProBook 4 G1q is HP's 2025 ARM-based business laptop: a Qualcomm Snapdragon X with 32 GB of memory at $1,144. The durability reading is perfect and the office score is top-band — and nearly everything else on the sheet sits at the bottom of its band, which this review will not paper over.

Where it holds up

Reliability posts a perfect 100 — 135.3 percent above the business-class median of 42.5, the largest durability margin in this batch — and office work reads 88.26 in the top band. Portability holds 69.5 in the high band, and the 32 GB of memory meets the business-class norm. For a documents, browser and meetings workload, the efficiency of the platform does the talking: quiet, cool, and built to outlast the fleet cycle.

Where it falls short

The graphics score column reads zero — a coverage gap rather than a measured zero, with no matched score for the Snapdragon stack — and the measured axes are unkind: overall performance at 19.63 sits in the low band, with gaming at 19, modeling at 12, engineering CAD at 19 and photo design at 24, all low. The composite score reads 18, some 63.3 percent below the class median — tied for the lowest composite reading in this batch. The value axis is not scored for this ARM configuration, so no price-to-capability judgment is offered here.

Price and depreciation

At $1,144 this prices with the 2025 Intel and AMD business tier while posting the weakest measured capability sheet in the group. The modeled depreciation curve runs at 12 percent per year; no listing anchor is available for dollar projections.

Alternatives to consider

The ProBook 4 G1a 14 (2025) at the same $1,144 swaps to AMD Ryzen 3 silicon and transforms the sheet: graphics at 34.39, photo design at 72, performance at 55.17 — strictly more measured machine for identical money. The ProBook 4 G1i 14 (2025), also $1,144, offers a 91.36 processor score in the enthusiast band. Within ARM, the OmniBook Ultra 14 (2026) at $1,400 doubles memory to 64 GB and raises office work to 98.34, though the low-band creative axes persist.

Bottom line

Fairly priced for the class. The ProBook 4 G1q is a perfect-reliability, top-band-office ARM machine whose low-band performance sheet and batch-lowest composite score make it a specialist buy — efficiency and longevity over measured capability.