HP EliteBook 6 G1q: Enterprise Connectivity Reimagined

Go Online For my money, HP Go is easily the biggest and best-selling point on the EliteBook 6 G1q, which HP describes as “a connected, seamlessly productive experience that helps mitigate security vulnerabilities, end user frustration, and organization hidden costs to stay connected.” That’s a long way of saying that the integrated cellular radio doesn’t require any extra configuration or login hassles when you use it. Instead, it’s always there, waiting in the background, at the ready. If you’ve got a paid subscription (plan prices haven’t been announced but are expected to start at $19 per month), the service kicks in automatically when you’re disconnected from Wi-Fi and goes dark when the Wi-Fi’s live.

The service works well—or, at least, as well as the 5G signal is in your area. In my house, cell service is spotty, and HP Go was hit or miss. But on the road, in a beachfront rental with decidedly shoddy Wi-Fi, HP Go worked great, providing me with a reliable backup connection when I needed it the most.

HP Go is installed on a laptop, though it seems almost incidental to the main event. The EliteBook 6 G1q is a Qualcomm-based system, with rather pedestrian specs that are similar to what was on the market a year ago.