HP's ZBook 14 is a business Ultrabook with the power to call itself a mobile workstation. With an Intel Core i7 processor, a monster 16GB of RAM, a 240GB SSD and a dedicated graphics chip, this 14-inch laptop ap22 t101mt akku can easily handle your most demanding tasks. But at $2,349 as configured (starting at $1,399), the Windows 7-powered ZBook 14 is almost as expensive as a similarly configured 15-inch MacBook Pro.
The ZBook 14 G2 hasn't changed much in appearance from the original version-it still looks like a sleek and stylish business ultrabook, not a chunky workstation. A brushed aluminum finish on the top panel is surrounded on three sides by a thick rubber bezel, yielding a subtle two-tone finish. HP's ad 6314t netzteil logo sits in the middle with the letters also carved from brushed aluminum and plopped atop a glossy black circle.It’s thinner and lighter than the 2.8kg, 40mm-thick 15in version, but its design still takes cues from the larger model akku lb6211be. It’s all business: a smart brushed metal pattern across the lid is bordered with more mundane plastic, and the interior is dark and understated.
The 14in version of this machine also features many of the smart office features we were pleased to see on the bigger model. There’s a trackpoint with its own dedicated buttons, the keyboard acer switch 10 ladegerat is backlit, and the right-hand side serves up a fingerprint reader. It’s smaller than the 15in model, but there’s not much missing.The lid is nicely appointed with a rubberized edge which helps with grip when carrying the notebook and has the added bonus of keeping fingerprints off the brushed aluminum. The chassis has excellent rigidity with no noticeable flex vgp ac19v33 even under pressure. The lid also has ample strength with only minor flex. We weren’t able to get ripples to appear in the display by applying pressure from behind which is a good indicator the display is well protected. The lid’s hinges allow the lid to be opened with one hand however we do wish they allowed it to tilt back farther than 45 degrees past vertical.
Upgrading the ZBook 14 G2 adp 90cd db netzteil couldn’t be easier thanks to the tool-less bottom access panel. Slide the center latch to the left to unlock the bottom panel which comes off towards the front. You’ll find the two memory slots, M.2 storage drive, M.2 wireless card and the 2.5-inch bay capable of accommodating drives up to 9.5mm in height under this panel. The 3-cell 50WHr battery is also removable. This level of upgradeability in an Ultrabook is a rare.Above the keyboard netzteil fujitsu fi 5120c, and stretching from edge to edge, is the notebook's speaker grille. Just above sits the power button on the left, and Wi-Fi and mute buttons on the right.
The ZBook 14 G2 is offered with a choice of displays; our review unit has the mid-tier option, the full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS panel with an anti-glare surface a1278 akku. A touch panel of the same resolution is optional and the base configuration has a 1600 x 900 SVA panel. The panel on our review unit has very good image quality for a notebook with ample brightness and contrast. Its color reproduction is also satisfactory without being oversaturated. The IPS panel technology affords 178-degree viewing adlx65ncc3a angles which means you can look in from any angle without seeing distorted colors.
We did however notice significant brightness shift when looking in from different angles; this was least noticeable when looking at the display head on. The anti-glare surface is helpful at reducing or eliminating reflections from ambient light sources which is especially important for outdoor usage.We’ve no major qualms about the HP’s resolution or basic specification, but it’s just not as good as the Lenovo’s panel in most benchmarks. The ZBook’s asus pa 1121 28 contrast ratio of 700:1 is lower than the Lenovo’s 1,013:1 figure largely thanks to a poorer black level, and the two screens have virtually identical brightness.Two stereo speakers are located under the deceptively-sized speaker grille above the keyboard asus adp 120zb bb. The weak sound they produce has no noticeable bass however they do get sufficiently loud for a Skype conversation. The headphone/microphone combo jack on the right side of the chassis is static-free.
The oversized Synaptics touchpad centered slightly to the left in the palm rest is traditional in the sense it has dedicated left and right click buttons. These buttons have ample travel and provide decisive feedback with minimal noise - there’s no sharp “click” as we often hear on consumer notebooks. The touchpad surface is smooth and has well-defined borders. The ZBook 14 G2 a11 200p1a also features a pointing stick in the center of the keyboard with its own set of buttons which is functional but isn’t as intuitive to use as the gold standard Lenovo ThinkPad x205ta charger pointing stick. Our one minor complaint is that both the touchpad and pointing stick lack center click buttons.
Like any business notebook worth its salt, the ZBook 14 lenovo ideapad miix 10 charger offers a quality backlit Chiclet-style keyboard. The keys' travel and lightly textured surface made typing this review a breeze. On the Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor, we recorded an average typing speed of 80 words per minute, with a 1 percent error rate. That's better than our usual laptop typing speed of 78 words per minute.There's a fingerprint reader near the right edge of the keyboard deck for securely logging into the laptop acer aspire switch 10 power supply, one of several professional-grade features. Many of them fall under Intel's vPro label, a marketing term for a collection of specific hardware features like Active Management Technology (AMT) for remote management chores and Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) to run multiple operating systems and applications in separate disk partitions.
Mobile workstations have been traditionally focused on providing the highest possible performance regardless of the impact on portability and battery life. The ZBook 14 G2 bose soundlink 3 charger takes a different approach by including workstation-class features such as an AMD FirePro graphics card but employing a 15W CPU to fit in a smaller, more portable chassis with extended battery life. The ZBook 14 G2 as of writing is the only 14” notebook sold as a mobile workstation.HP equipped the ZBook 14 surface pro 3 charger uk with a 2.1-GHz dual-core Intel Core i7-4600U processor, a whopping 16GB of RAM and a 240GB SSD. With that kind of power, this workstation can easily handle even your most demanding productivity tasks. We ran a system scan on our review unit while streaming a Hulu Plus video with eight tabs open in Chrome without noticing any slowdown.
For our benchmark charts, we matched the ZBook 14 G2 against three other mobile workstations: Lenovo's ThinkPad W540 dell da130pm130, reviewed here in January 2015; the Dell Precision M2800,and the HP ZBook 15u G2, our test unit's 15.6-inch sibling. For comparison's sake, we also tossed in a Core i7 gaming laptop, the 2015 Razer Blade, which boasts Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M graphics.The ZBook’s dell xps 13 9333 charger thermal performance wasn’t as impressive as the Carbon. The processor’s top temperature of 92 degrees isn’t far short of the chip’s thermal limit and is far beyond the Lenovo’s highest point. The GPU was far less stressed, though, hitting a maximum of 75 degrees.
The HP’s bottom becomes a little toasty under duress though it's nothing too concerning. Hot air is expelled through a vent on the left-hand edge. The fan noise when under load is a little disturbing and can easily be heard in a quiet office - something we didn’t notice on the Lenovo. It’s not a clean bill of health, even though the HP samsung xe700t1c battery is virtually silent during easier tasks.
battery-conserving tweaks in preparation for our unplugged video rundown test. In this test, we loop a video-a locally stored MP4 file containing the full The Lord of the Rings trilogy-with screen brightness set at 50 percent and volume at 100 percent until the system conks out.The ZBook 14 G2 adl40wdd managed four hours, two minutes which is a good time for a mobile workstation and average for an everyday Ultrabook. This is quite respectable given the ZBook 14 G2 packs a dedicated graphics card. This time translates to between six and seven hours of normal usage while running non-demanding applications with reduced screen brightness. In other words, close to a full days’ usage per charge. The ZBook 14 G2’s cinema hd display 150w power adapter battery is easily changeable as mentioned earlier; therefore it’s practical to carry a spare battery.
The HP ZBook 14's 3-cell battery lasted 7 hours and 34 minutes on our Laptop Battery vgp bps24 Test, which involves continuous Web browsing over Wi-Fi with the display brightness set to 40 percent. That runtime is better than that on the Dell Latitude E7440 (5:52) and the thin-and-light laptop category average (6:51). However, other systems lasted longer, such as the MacBook Pro 15-inch (8:57), the Acer TravelMate P645 (9:46) and the Lenovo ThinkPad T440s cinema hd display 90w power adapter, which ran for 14:36 with its high-capacity battery pack.Longevity is another area where the HP is good, but the Lenovo is better. In our standard test the ZBook lasted for six hours and 25 minutes, but the Carbon was more than three hours better in that same run.
We turned on Power Save mode and turned down the screen brightness but, even with a more modest benchmark, the HP barely made it over nine hours, which still doesn’t beat the Lenovo’s standard result.HP’s dell m6500 akku latest workstation laptop is attractive in several important areas. It’s got a discrete professional GPU that can handle graphical applications with more aplomb than any other Ultrabook, and the rest of its specification is powerful, too.It faces strong competition from Lenovo’s latest ThinkPad, though, and the HP falls behind the X1 Carbon in several different departments. The ZBook yoga 3 pro 80he000hus 80he000lus is thicker and heavier, it’s screen isn’t quite as good, and the HP laptop doesn’t have the same high-quality keyboard. The HP can’t match its rival for battery life, either.