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#HP ELITEBOOK WORKSTATION 8760W REVIEW SOFTWARE#

That's not impressive but on a par with the 17-inch MacBook Pro. But when we cranked the resolution to 1920 x 1200, bumped the effects to Very High and enabled DirectX 10, the frame rate dropped to 19 fps. The 8730w managed a respectable 69 frames per second with the resolution set to 1280 x 720, and the effects set to optimal. These results were borne out somewhat in Far Cry 2. The MacBook Pro, which has the more modest Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT card, notched 5,194 in the same test. That's about 1,600 points above the desktop replacement category, but still falls behind the W700 (which has a more powerful Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M GPU) by about 3,000 points. The Nvidia Quadro FX 2700M GPU, backed by 512MB of dedicated memory helped deliver a 3DMark06 score of 7,564. That falls below the category average (4:34 and 8:01, respectively), but this group includes notebooks with faster quad-core processors.

It took 9:46 when we tried this conversion with jZip zipping a 4.97GB mixed-media folder in the background.

#HP ELITEBOOK WORKSTATION 8760W REVIEW MP4#

When we transcoded a 5-minute-and-5-second MP4 clip to AVI using Handbrake, it took 5 minutes and 28 seconds. The 8730w continued to hold up in more demanding situations as well.

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And thanks to the paucity of trialware, the 8730w booted to Vista Business in just 53 seconds, 16 seconds faster than the category average.ДЄs you'd expect with a machine this powerful, we saw no on-screen lag when we opened new programs or documents at full screen or switched tabs in Internet Explorer. On our LAPTOP Transfer test (duplicating 4.97GB of multimedia files), the 320GB, 7200-rpm hard drive notched a transfer rate of 22.4 MBps, which is the same as the desktop replacement average. Meanwhile, the 17-inch MacBook Pro, which is also aimed at creative professionals, scored just 3,745 when we ran PCMark Vantage in Boot Camp. The ThinkPad W700, which costs more than an additional $500, scored nearly the same: 4,918. The 2.93-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9800 and 4GB of RAM powered the 8730w to a PCMark Vantage score of 4,913, which is almost 1,400 points above the category average. The stubble of the five-o'clock shadow on a general's face in a trailer for Monsters vs. The ripples on water and the texture of concrete were perfectly rendered and action was crisp when watching a Blu-ray of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.

#HP ELITEBOOK WORKSTATION 8760W REVIEW SOFTWARE#

While the 8730w lacks the built-in color calibrator on the W700 we reviewed, this HP's Mobile Display Assistant software guides you through a series of windows to accurately render colors on screen. The RGB-LED backlit screen has a brightness of 300 nits (about 50 percent brighter than other screens the Lenovo ThinkPad W700's screeen has a brightness of 400 nits), and features a contrast ratio of 800:1 (where 300:1 is more typical). Indeed, while animators and other video professionals are one group for whom color accuracy is critical, these nuances in color are also crucial for photographers and other artistic types. HP developed the technology in collaboration with the film studio DreamWorks Animation SKG. (HP also sells a standalone display for $1,999 that recognizes 1 billion colors.) In addition to a much larger gamut, the colors themselves look better: HP promises that reds, blues, and greens look deeper, blacks are four times as dark, and whites are more adjustable. Our configuration of the 8730w featured a 17-inch, 1920 x 1200-pixel display with HP DreamColor technology, which makes it capable of displaying more than 15 million colors, whereas most notebook displays recognize 260,000 colors. While our unit did not come with one, you can add a 2.0-megapixel Webcam for $24. There are no ports on the rear, but HP included a docking port on the underside. The front of the workstation has a 6-in-1 memory card reader and headphone and mic ports. On the right are three USB ports, eSATA, and Ethernet and modem ports. HP makes good use of all the space around the 8730w on the left side are HDMI, VGA, USB, and FireWire 400 ports, along with an ExpressCard/54 and Smart Card slot. By default, each can be used to scroll through Web pages when used in conjunction with the touchpad, but can be customized to perform other actions. Interestingly, each set has a third mouse button. There are two sets of mouse buttons (for the pointer or the touchpad), which were comfortable, but felt too floppy.

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