EliteBook is HP’s business laptop brand—“real power for real work”—and a quick peek at the price reveals a fairly universal truth about business-focused hardware: It’s more expensive than consumer-grade gear. With a $2,429 MSRP (though already discounted to $1,999), the EliteBook Ultra G1i is the priciest laptop I’ve tested in over a year, except for Apple's MacBook Pro, which had its specs blown out. The EliteBook Ultra G1i has relatively tame tech under the hood, a modest configuration that would barely merit a raised eyebrow amongst its Windows competitors. Photograph: Chris NullThe big sell is security: HP Wolf Security for Business adds several extra layers of protection on top of existing anti-malware features, and it's hard not to notice them right away. I tested as many of the security features as I could and was impressed that they were wholly effective at blocking any of the bad stuff I could turn up.