Why would a weaker business laptop, outperform a consumer laptop with better hardware?

Question

Hello all,

I just started work and received and HP EliteBook with an 8th generation i5, my previous old computer was a HP Pavilion with an 8th generation i7. The EliteBook is much faster, although it has definitely seen more usage, has not been constantly been placed on a cooling rack like mine, and I completely factory reset mine every year, why is that?

Also please note I have went to benchmarking websites and have seen that the processor on the i7 should be faster (i7-8565U vs i5 8265U).

Thanks!

Edit: They both have SSD’s and both have 16GB of ram, the Pavilion has an MX250 GPU while the EliteBook has a UHD 620 onboard graphics

In: Technology

Answer 1

One possibility I haven’t seen anyone comment on. If you work for any reasonably large company then your laptop probably went through an IT department. They often strip the computer of any unnecessary software. They lock it out from any applications they don’t want on there. So it will perform better.