HP's EliteBook laptops have a sleek but solid industrial design, and the 830 G6's aluminium chassis provides plenty of protection for the innards, and the lid is among the toughest I've seen: I could not bend or bow it at all in my hands.
Open up and you'll find the distinctive stippled speaker grille sitting above the keyboard, with Bang & Olufsen branding below it in a discreet grey.
The 360-degree rotating hinge means you can use the laptop in tablet mode and all points in between. The hinge is well made -- easy to move around, yet rigid when the laptop is in the position you need.
This laptop's thin edges taper ever so slightly towards the front, and the whole thing measures a very portable 306mm wide by 21mm deep by 16.9mm thick. My smallest 15-litre backpack had no trouble accommodating it. However that strong and tough chassis means this isn't the lightest of compact laptops, with a starting weight 1.35kg.