HP 8740w Review! - Full Metal Jacket!

[abaddon4180]

Best workstation on the market right now, imo. I have a friend with the the 8540w and I am so jealous of it I am ashamed.

[Mandrake]

Great review! That looks like the keyboard on the Dell latitude line.

[Aikimox]

Thanks!

Updated the Performance section: added 3Dmark06 and Vantage results.

[m8o]

Great review! That looks like the keyboard on the Dell latitude line.

As a user of a Latitude E6500 daily for 10 to 16 hours a day, I can assure you they are very different beasts with a very different feel. The quality of the 8740w is in another league from the Latitudes; the 'feel and rightness award' goes to the E6500 for me. Coming from IBM (then Lenovo) keyboards for years, I felt right at home on the E6500; still no so with this HP keyboard.

Not sure why still. It's not that I mis-key; I actually mis-key far more on the Latitude. The HP just feels 'off' to me.

[Philthy84]

Nice review Akimox! Have a question, since you own both the M17x and the HP 8740w how would you compare their screens with each other?

EDIT: Opps nvm just seen your thread in the AW forum haha. Ya that HP screen looks amazing!

[no92stallion]

NICE SCREEN! Question for you though--what's the painting in the last few pictures?

[Johnny T]

Thanks for the excellent review!

About the pointstick, you can try purchasing pointstick "tips" (red eraser style in particular) from Thinkpads. You can find a pack them on ebay for a couple of bucks (genuine), I've found that it works better than the stock HP one on my 8510p. Though of course I am not sure with the keyboard change the Thinkpad "tips" would still fit.

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[papalazarou]

That's one serious laptop

[TechAnimal]

Another user tried the thinkpad tips on the Elitebooks and found that they fit and worked better than the original elitebook tips.

[MidnightSun]

That is one amazing screen - if only such screens were available on more laptops... Great review and pictures, +rep.