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Today I got an email from myus.com that the order from HP finally arrived and they will send it now to my destination. The great thing myus.com checks the content of the package and you can check the pictures online.
Until now I am very happy with myus.com and their service. Fast and good service and really good but free support.
Some days ago I compared the new HP EliteBook and ProBook series. Now I decided to buy the HP EliteBook 8460w mobile workstation. I think this is the best option between performance and batterylife.
Here the 8460w configuration I ordered:
As I said the main reasons for me to buy this notebook, are the performance, the form factor, the batterylife and of coure the design. I am sure the EliteBook 8460p would be enought performance for me, but I really like the color of the EliteBook w-series notebooks.
Since HP will not release the EliteBook 8460w in Europe I ordered the notebook directly in the HP Online Store with my myus.com account.
I thinking about buying a new notebook and since HP, Dell and other vendors released new notebooks based on Intel Sandy Bridge this would be the perfect time to replace my current MacBook Pro with a new Windows Laptop.
So basically I made this HP Elitebook comparison for all Important things for me based on the Swiss data. (In Switzerland not every model is available.) I also took always the best available option for me.
| Probook 6460b | Probook 6560b | Elitebook 8460p | Elitebook 8560p | Elitebook 8460w | Elitebook 8560w |
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| CPU | i5-2520M | i5-2520M | i7-2620M | i7-2620M | i7-2630QM | i7-2630QM |
| RAM | 16GB | 16GB | 16GB | 16GB | 16GB | 32GB |
| Graphics | AMD HD 6470M 512MB | AMD HD 6470M 512MB | AMD HD 6470M 1GB | AMD HD 6470M 1GB | AMD FirePro M3900 1GB | AMD FirePro M5950 1GB |
| Display | 14.0 1600×900 | 15.6 1600×900 | 14.0 1600×900 | 15.6 1920×1080 | 14.0 1600×900 | 15.6 1920×1080 |
| 3G | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Glass Trackpad | no | no | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| USB 3.0 | no | no | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Weight | 2.02kg | 2.46kg | 2.07kg | 2.73kg | 2.22kg | 3kg |
| Thickness | 3.4cm | 3.4cm | 3.4cm | 3.4cm | 3.2cm | 3.45cm |
| Design | good | good | okay | okay | awesome | good |
| Battery life | okay | okay | very good | good | good | bad |
| Battery life+ | no | no | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Docking station | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| incl. warranty | 1 year | 1 year | 3 years | 3 years | 3 years | 3 years |
| Price | good | good | okay | okay | okay | okay |
Maybe there are some mistakes in this chart but the most things should be right. And I don’t say one is better than the other one, clearly they are made for different tasks and workloads.
Other things:
What’s important for me:
Gallery:
After some years with my Apple MacBook Pro its time for a new notebook. Now since my work now is really in the Microsoft field, it does not really make sence to buy a MacBook Pro again. So first I check out the new Dell Latitude E-Series, and now HP released the new Elitebook Workstations.
Now I don’t really like the new HP Elitebook p-series, but I really like the black desgin of the ProBook or the new gunmetal black of the Elitebook w-series.
What is important for me:
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I just installed two new HP ProLiant DL360 G6 with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. Everything worked fine until I installed the HP Support Pack which includes Drivers and Firmware for the HP Server.
After I installed the HP ProLiant Support Pack one of my Network Interfaces could not start. I got the following error in the Device Manager:
HP NC382i DP Virtual Bus Device
This device cannot start. (Code 10)
I tried to uninstall the device and rebooted the server but this didn’t work. I had still the same error.
The problem was that just uninstalling the driver does not work, you also have to check the checkbox on “Delete the driver software for this device.”
After doing that you can rescan for new hardware and the system will find this adapter again and everything will work fine.