HP ZBook 1. 4 Review & Rating. Windows professional users will pay a premium for certain features like a sharper than normal screen and professional workstation graphics. The HP ZBook 1. 4 ($2,3. Power, battery life, a gobsmackingly nice screen, and a good price all combine to earn the HP ZBook 1. Editors' Choice for mobile workstations. Design and Features. The ZBook 1. 4 looks very much like a 1. It measures about 0. HWD) and weighs 3. Editors' Choice HP Elite. Book 8. 56. 0w ($1,5. Dell Precision M4. New PSU and Graphics card installed, not really getting better performance. Should I install new drivers again? 2016 33591 10/18/2012. Many owners of the 'late 2013' Mac Pro 'cylinder' are frustrated with being limited to only AMD GPUs. MacVidCards and netkas have co-developed a hack that enables a. Last week, the new Mac Pro finally went on sale. At $3000 for the entry-level model, and a max price of $9,600 for a customized top-of-the-line model with a 12-core. Update: As of April 2016, AMD has finally released an updated Radeon Boot Camp driver for the 2015 MacBook Pro Retina 15. It's also much lighter than full- sized business desktop replacement laptops like the Dell Latitude E6. The ZBook 1. 4's top lid and keyboard deck are finished in metal, but the bottom lid is plastic/polycarbonate. This is one of the Zbook 1. The light, tool- less removable lid allows access to the internal components, primarily the system's hard drive bay, memory slots, and slots for accessories like the optional 4. G mobile broadband module. The lid also allows access to the system's 5. WHr removable battery, something that may be of the utmost importance when you're computing far away from a power outlet or car charger. The removable and replaceable battery is something you won't find in most ultrabooks. The system's components include an Intel Core i. U processor, 1. 6GB of DDR3. L memory (maxed out), a 2. GB SATA SSD (2. 40. GB usable), and an AMD Fire. Pro M4. 10. 0 GPU. The system uses AMD Switchable Graphics technology, so the system can use the Intel Core i. HD Graphics 4. 40. GPU when you don't need discrete GPU power. As we'll see below, that helps keep the ZBook 1. The bottom lid pops off in one quick flick of a switch and a pull. This is a far cry from most consumer and business notebooks that require undoing multiple screws. Speaking of screws, you won't need a screwdriver to swap out the battery or the memory, but you will need one for the hard drive bracket and for the WWAN module and Wi- Fi/Bluetooth Module. The ZBook 1. 5 we reviewed came with 8. Wi- Fi and Bluetooth 4. If you spring for the optional WWAN/4. G module, it will include GPS. One of the ZBook 1. It is a 1. 4 1,9. HD, though some competitors like the Apple Mac. Book Pro 1. 5- inch (2. Toshiba Kira. Book ($1,9. Though the ZBook 1. The Apple Mac. Book Pro and Toshiba Kirabook only offer glare- prone glass- covered screens. Many former Mac fans lament the fact that you can't buy a Retina Display- equipped Mac. Book Pro with a matte screen. Since the ZBook 1. The ZBook 1. 4 display's color range and brightness make it more than a match for the other two systems listed here, albeit with a slightly smaller workspace and pixel per inch stat. Users who need to create scientific tasks, do edits, and perform content creation full time may want the larger, more pixel dense screens for their day- to- day work. It's a classic tradeoff: less screen/screen room than the larger laptops, but in exchange you get a very portable, sleek looking system. The ZBook 1. 4 has ample external ports as well. There are four USB 3. Display. Port, Ethernet (vitally important for business users), VGA, a Smart. Card slot, Kesinsington lock port, a semi- hidden SD card slot, and a docking port that it shares with other HP Elite. Book laptops. With the optional dock, the ZBook 1. Regardless of a dock purchase, the ZBook 1. Display. Port. The ZBook 1. This may be important for your workers; particularly those that learned how to use a laptop in the 1. Both the touchpad and pointing stick have their own set of physical mouse buttons, but you can use tap- to- click on the multi- point touchpad if you're used to that. Since the ZBook 1. Look at larger laptops like the HP ZBook 1. Asus Zenbook VX5. VZ- XB7. 1 ($2,4. Our review unit had Windows 7 Professional installed, along with the drivers for the internal components. The system comes with an option to install Windows 8 Pro, using the included DVDs. Since the system came with Windows 7, it's not a huge deal that the system lacks a touch screen in our review configuration. A touch screen is optional from HP, which is something that the ZBook 1. Windows 8 has very few business adherents, so the touch screen is hardly a necessity at this time. The ZBook 1. 4 comes with a three year parts and labor warranty. Performance. The ZBook 1. Intel Core i. 7- 4. U processor, 1. 6GB of system memory, a 2. GB SATA SSD, and AMD switchable graphics with both a discrete AMD Fire. Pro M4. 10. 0 GPU and the i. Intel HD Graphics 4. In short, the system is quite capable of creating multimedia projects, but its best strength is that it is ISV certified and can work fine as a supervisor's machine in the field. The Apple Mac. Book Pro 1. Photoshop CS6 (4: 2. ZBook 1. 4) and Handbrake (1: 0. ZBook 1. 4), most likely due to the Mac. Book's slightly faster clocked processor and faster PCIe- based Flash Storage. The ZBook 1. 4 is closer to its peers on 3. D tasks, where it is very close to the performance of the Dell Precision M4. GB Nvidia Quadro K2. M GPU on the 3. DMark 1. True gaming cards like the Nvidia Ge. Apple's new 'overpriced' $1. Mac Pro is $2,0. 00 cheaper than the equivalent Windows PCLast week, the new Mac Pro finally went on sale. At $3. 00. 0 for the entry- level model, and a max price of $9,6. CPU and two GPUs, the Mac Pro certainly isn’t cheap. If you take a closer look at the spec, though, the Mac Pro, rather unusually for an Apple product, is a surprisingly good deal. If you try to match the components as closely as possible, it would actually cost around $1. Windows- powered DIY PC. This might come as a surprise to Windows PC builders, who are usually the first in line to rage at Apple’s overpriced hardware. And, to be fair, the margins on Apple’s Mac. Book Pros, i. Pads, and i. Phones are extraordinarily juicy. For the Mac Pro, though, you appear to get a lot of hardware for your money — and not to mention, a uniquely diminutive form factor that can’t currently be matched by Windows OEMs or DIY PC builders. Silverstone FT0. 3 case. According to Futurelooks, which has priced out each of the components in the Mac Pro, it would cost at least $1. Windows 8 license) to build a Windows PC that is almost equivalent. Some parts cannot be matched like- for- like, as the Mac Pro features proprietary, custom- made logic boards, rather than off- the- shelf components. To build a top- end DIY PC that has almost equivalent specs to the $9,6. Mac Pro, you would need the following hardware: 1. Intel Xeon E5- 2. V2 CPU ($2. 75. 0), two AMD Fire. Pro W9. 00. 0 graphics cards ($3,4. Asus Rampage IV Gene micro ATX motherboard ($2. Silverstone FT0. 3 and Strider 8. W PSU ($3. 60), 3. GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM ($3. GB Samsung 8. 40 Pro SSDs ($4. Throw in a copy of Windows 8, and you’re looking at a total of $1. Despite costing $2,0. Mac Pro, the DIY PC isn’t even as good: It has 3. GB of RAM instead of 6. GB (non- registered 1. GB DIMMs don’t seem to exist), and the PC doesn’t have Thunderbolt support. The Silverstone case, though similarly trash can shaped, is still much larger than the cylindrical Mac Pro. For the most part, these compromises exist because Apple built the Mac Pro from scratch, and could thus build the chassis and its components to spec, while DIY builders have to work with off- the- shelf parts. Likewise, imagine trying to build your own car from parts, versus a finely crafted Tesla or Mercedes. Futurelooks also took a look (!) at the entry- level Mac Pro ($3,0. DIY PC ($4,0. 00). The DIY PC does have some advantages, though — namely, upgradability, and thus longevity. The new Mac Pro, unlike its fairly normal PC tower case predecessor, is very hard to upgrade. The RAM appears to use normal sockets, but the GPUs are situated on proprietary logic boards that don’t use normal PCIe connectors. The CPU is socketed, but whether it’s replaceable or not (due to firmware and thermal restrictions) is unknown. The $1. 1,5. 00 DIY PC, on the other hand, can be upgraded and tweaked to your heart’s content. It’s also worth noting that you have the option of using cheaper graphics cards, too — instead of paying $3. Fire. Pro W9. 00. Nvidia Quadro or Ge. Force cards would be thousands of dollars cheaper, and could yield better performance in CUDA- optimized apps. So, there you have it: The Mac Pro — a pretty good deal, if you’ve got $1.
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