*HP EliteBook 8560w Owners Lounge*

[johansan]

Is the 8560w much heavier than the MacBook pro when transporting it?
Can you post some pics?

I might post a pic or two tomorrow, I have tons of stuff to finish before going on summer vacation so not sure I have the time. It looks really good in real life though, the best looking PC laptop I have seen (and I have worked in this industry since the nineties).

And yeah it's much heavier and thicker than the MacBook Pro 15. The feeling is close to what you get if you put a MacBook Pro 15" and a MacBook Air 13" on top of each other. The power adapter is also about twice the weight and size of the MacBook Pro 15".

Personally though I don't care so much about the weight. I think the laptop looks really good, and all in all it's maybe 1 kilo more to carry compared to the MacBook Pro, in a bag that weighs around 6 kilo total anyways due to cables, hard drives, and extra stuff put in there.

Cheers

[Out of the Maelstrom]

Hello,

I live in Sweden, and received my HP 8560w yesterday.

It was the model with 8 GB RAM, 750GB HDD, Quadro 2000 and DreamColor display. I changed the HDD to a 600GB Intel SSD and upgraded the RAM to 16 GB.

Overall I'm very impressed by the system. I have a MacBook Pro 15" as my second laptop (hi-res, Thunderbolt, 8GB, 500 GB SSD) and the 8560w feels a bit like the steel-armored "combat" version of the MacBook Pro. :-) The fan is a bit loud (even when set to "passive cooling") when compared to the near-silent MacBook Pro, however when working in Maya or Unity 3D the HP is more silent than the MacBook Pro when the CPUs are maxed out.

The screen is nice although if you are used to working on glossy MacBook Pro screens it will look a bit grainy (being "matte"). The display angle is nice though.

I was very impressed that HP shipped DVDs with Windows 7 and drivers which made it very easy to make a clean install of Windows 7 and only install the minimum amount of drivers with ease.

Cheers
Johan

Thanks for the report!! Maybe you could add some more details after you've put her through her paces for a few days.

Now, how about some photos?!!

OOTM

600 GB SSD?????

[adshakil]

I am planning to order this laptop in the next few days.. I am just confused about the video card to order with this.. M5950 or 2000M.. I have professional applications that i work with.. but I also will be using this for gaming purposes.. Since no benchmarks is available on M5950.. I am wondering.. which of the two is better for gaming..

[allbald]

I am planning to order this laptop in the next few days.. I am just confused about the video card to order with this.. M5950 or 2000M.. I have professional applications that i work with.. but I also will be using this for gaming purposes.. Since no benchmarks is available on M5950.. I am wondering.. which of the two is better for gaming..

Though similar the 5950 should be better because of the GDDR5 memoery instead of the gimped GDDR3 memory in the 2000m (which is like the consumer 460m gtx but way gimped).

The 5950 is physically the same card as the 6770m so just look at that for peroformance comparisons. The 5950 will be slightly worse because of driver difference between pro an consumer apps.

The 2000m is better for certain pro apps because of the CUDA processing and I believe OpenCL performance.

So unless your pro apps are optimized for nvidia cards the 5950 is better simply because its cheaper and performs better in consumer apps.

[aflat]

Has anyone tried using an 8X60 series laptop display plus two external displays connected to the VGA and Display Ports, so yielding three active displays? Possible?
Or is this only possible with the docking station?

[jin07]

Is the difference between the XU083UT and the XU086UT really just the DC2 screen? Why the heck is there almost a $700 price difference?

[allbald]

Is the difference between the XU083UT and the XU086UT really just the DC2 screen? Why the heck is there almost a $700 price difference?

The DC2 screen is a $425 option -- not sure why the difference in the rest of the price. Not sure where the rest of the difference is coming from CPU, memory, hard drive, and memory look to be the same.

The DC2 in the 8760 is a much more expensive upgrade -- $650 -- I thought that was it initially.

[Palda]

Hello Johansan

I see you bought model, I'm also looking at, can I ask you, doest it really have bavklit keyboard? My online shop doesn't have any in stock to confirm.

[Akodo79]

Is the difference between the XU083UT and the XU086UT really just the DC2 screen? Why the heck is there almost a $700 price difference?

If that's the case then would it be cheaper to buy the panel separately and replace the stock screen yourself?

[dsrini9000]

Because I think the panel itself costs about $1200 from the factory... .