*HP EliteBook 8740w Owners Lounge - PART 2*

[Aikimox]

@CubanIceCube,

When talking about thickness and comparing it to a Macbook, don't forget about the power of the components and the cooling potential

[goladith]

Uh, wrong person Aikimox.

[Thecla]

PS. does anyone think i should bother continuing the Server 2008 R2 guide for our notebooks? i was expecting a reply or two at least for it, but it seems no-one is interested?

It's not something I use myself, but everything you post here is great info for someone so please continue.

[Siorah]

well, it's a lot of stuff to compile and post up, it's why i'm doing it in bits in between work. but yea, i'm not sure if it's really neccessary, as it's a bit of a pain in the backside to install

it is however, extremely stable for production work!

Elitebook 8740/8540W Server 2008 R2 Guide

[Aikimox]

Uh, wrong person Aikimox.

Thanks for the correction!

[Judicator]

The adapter is enormous! On the plus side, you can use a 65w or 90w travel adapter, I have already tested with a normal 90w smart adapter and it seemed fine. Doing so -however- puts limits on performance as not to draw too much power, which is indicated by HP's power assistant.

Yes, yes it is. And you only have the 200 watt adaptor. The 230 watt that some of us got is even bigger (you can check my pictures earlier in the thread if you're curious).

Minor annoyances:

• The trackpad doesn't support multitouch and is generally unpleasant. I will be using this with a mouse.
• The keyboard takes some getting used to.
• Cyan lights can't be dimmed.
• Fan always running (understandably).
• Catches fingerprints easily, especially around the edges of the screen.
• Some minor quirks with windows and its lack of pre-installed software (when I need to open a pdf I still needed to download a reader etc.) But that's just me being an apple fanboy.

My trackpad supports limited multi-touch (2 finger scrolling, specifically, I haven't actually tried using anything else because I don't usually have a need for anything else...). I agree about the keyboard, don't notice the lights for some reason, and my fan is often pretty much unnoticeable at idle... or maybe I just have too much ambient noise to notice. No real fingerprints on mine yet, but I haven't been trying. And the lack of pre-installed software is actually a little refreshing, considering the massive bloat that tends to come on a lot of consumer PCs... although when I did a fresh install to my 8740w's SSD (which I just redid, thanks to some fiddling >.<), there was an option on the driver/resource CD to install a PDF reader/editor (called PDF complete, I think.. it's available from the support page).

Oh, and for the record, I have a quad-core model (i7-740QM, 10 GB RAM from the 2 GB original and a pair of 4 GB sticks aftermarket, 240 GB Vertex 2 in the main bay, 640 GB Samsung HM640JJ in the upgrade bay).

[joco]

is there already word on the street when this laptop is going to be upgraded to Sandy Bridge?

I like to have this one with the 2820QM or another 1200p screen laptop (like the Dell M6500, or Lenovo thinkpad w701) with that same proc.

[Judicator]

Pre-order appears to be in May. No details yet, though.

[Sotton]

all I have hear there will be no 1200p screen any longer but I hope I am wrong

[qq328544133]

Pre-order appears to be in May. No details yet, though.

Where do you hear this from? Could you tell more information because so many people is interested about it? You mean a new 8740w is coming out in May or June？