*HP EliteBook 8460p Owners Lounge!*

[ponury]

Just read something that has me pretty excited on
HP's Business Notebook Hat Trick - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

"but AMD has apparently introduced technology comparable to NVIDIA's Optimus that enables switching between the Sandy Bridge IGP and the dedicated AMD graphics."

Hopefully this is true because I would love to be able to switch back and forth between the two for better battery performance like I used to on my Envy 14.

I've asked hp and they answered that switching graphics is possible only on latest probooks s-series. We can hope that bios update will add that feature to elitebooks but i think if it's not implemented now it won't be.

[uprisingpure]

I've asked hp and they answered that switching graphics is possible only on latest probooks s-series. We can hope that bios update will add that feature to elitebooks but i think if it's not implemented now it won't be.

Darn, That would have been great. Oh well

[junglej1m]

Does anyone know if the 6470m in the 8460p has the mxm interface?

[biketom69]

I'm just thinking if it wouldn't make more sense to go for the HD3000 instead of the 6470m.... because as much as I could find out that 6470m is quite midrange.

Bye,
Tom

[biketom69]

Anyone know if this model has 1 free PCI Express Mini Card port for Intel 310 SSD and supports the mSata over pcie

Any news on that topic?

[junglej1m]

I'm just thinking if it wouldn't make more sense to go for the HD3000 instead of the 6470m.... because as much as I could find out that 6470m is quite midrange.

Bye,
Tom

Yeah I'm thinking that if the 6470m isn't mxm (ie no chance of ever upgrading) then I'll just go with the HD3000 as they're both pretty weak.

[ponury]

I am worried about that integrated card. Everyone always tests 3d capabilities these days. I have Lenovo T61p with Nvidia Quadro FX 570m dedicated GPU which should be powerfull like the captain planet himself. But when I plug in second external display and use both screens in dual view (which makes my screen about 3448px x 1152px even browser lags (not to mention terminal or playing youtube). Same thing applies when i just connect my 23" 2048x1152 display and disable internal lcd but the lag is smaller then. If HD 3000 can handle that two displays easily then the choice would be easy. Also which somehow confirms my doubts is that all models with higher internal lcd resolution come with radeon. There are no models with 1600x900 and hd 3000.

[uprisingpure]

I should have my machine on Friday of this week and then I can check it out for you guys. I will have an unboxing video up by Friday evening (assuming it does get here) and then I will update with more pictures and answers as I can.

[redmango]

I should have my machine on Friday of this week and then I can check it out for you guys. I will have an unboxing video up by Friday evening (assuming it does get here) and then I will update with more pictures and answers as I can.

Can't wait to see your video.

[wii]

Yeah, don't forget to name the video correctly, so we can find at all times.

Thanks