HP Mobile-Thin-Client-mt42- Refurbished AMD-Pro-8 GB-RAM-256-GB-SSD-windows 10 Trial With Graphics

The HP mt42 client is geared towards mobile virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) users that need a very powerful laptop form factor VDI client. To give a brief overview of its specifications, the HP mt42 is a laptop format, thin client that has a 14” screen, with multiple ports, is powered by an AMD Ryzen CPU with integrated Radeon GPU that runs HP Thin Pro or Windows 10 IoT enterprise operating system. It supports all major VDI environments as well as a HP RGS. It has a few features that we have not seen on other VID clients such as an outward facing third microphone, loud speakers and collaboration keys.

Design and Build

The cardboard packaging box that the device came in was heavy and well designed, the device itself was nestled between two black foam blocks and wrapped in a plastic bag, and it had a piece of black material between the screen and the keyboard. The box also contained the power supply, and a warranty and setup guide.

The front of the device has indicator lights for; sleep mode, disk activity, and Wi-Fi. The right side of the device has a power connector, USB Type-C, Docking Connector, RJ 45, HDMI, USB 3.1, and audio combo port. The left side of the device has a Kensington Lock Slot, USB3.1 (charging), Smartcard Reader (optional), and air vents.

The entire case, except the rear, is made of aluminum with ventilation holes on the left sides and the bottom. Opening the lid to device exposes a 14” LED screen that has a built-in web cam at the top of it. The web cam has a privacy shutter. On either side of the camera are the stereo microphones. The monitor is framed with a thin 7mm black plastic boarder. The device has a full-sized keyboard, it does not have a number pad but it does have dedicated keys to answer and hang up on phone calls. The 110mm x 58mm touchpad has two buttons at the top of it. The power button is at the left corner of the keyboard. Overall, the case on this device is on par with what you would expect on a high-end laptop.

The case is held together with 6 Phillips-head screws on the bottom of the device. After removing these screws, we couldn’t pry the bottom off the device to inspect the motherboard of the device to inspect the build quality of the motherboard.

This is the first VDI client that we have had in that uses the AMD 8 PRO 8600U APU with Radeon R6 Graphics. This CPU is a core, 4 thread, 6 GPU core chip that has a base frequency of 2.1GHz and a boost frequency of 3.5 GHz. It has comparable performance to an Intel Core i5