Ironically I'm trying to pursuade my boss to throw out our Surfaces and replace them with nice quality HP's. I didn't much like the surface laptops but so far the HPs seem much more problematic, not great for a $3K laptop.
I had HP support out a few weeks ago for a probook that turns out to be a software problem. I guess the problem then is the driver spinning the fan up too early. I assume it pegs the CPU at 100%, the fan spun up eventually but not near as early as I expected. The fan / temperature tests came back fine. I ran HP diagnostics and it found two failures before it wouldn't do any more tests. Is there any way to configure it to be quieter? Is there likely something wrong with it, or is this normal for the probook? My next approach will be to buy a 5+m long USB-C extension cable and put it in another room. I have it sitting on top of my home PC, a hard surface, so airflow is probably pretty good. I find it's slightly better with the laptop open than closed - I don't use the screen, I use an external monitor. Doing things like building docker containers or even a basic build the fan spins up almost immediately, and fan speed changing constantly which is worse than staying on high and at a set speed. The HP fan spins up whenever I do more than very light web browsing. I changed from a Surface to Elitebook because the Surface WiFi was a bit rubbish, but I used USB ethernet most of the time anyway. When it did spin up it was much, much quieter. I rarely if ever heard the Surface fan, but I wasn't doing as much CPU intensive work when I had it. Is there any practical way to reduce the noise of the Elitebook G7 fan? My work computer is brand new and the fan noise is getting pretty annoying, compared with the surface laptop 2 that was much much quieter doing similar work.
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