mobile workstation | Thomas Maurer MVP

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:

HP EliteBook 8460w Mobile Workstation
Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM Processor (2.0 GHz, 6 MB L3 Cache)
Mobile Intel QM67 chipset
14.0-inch diagonal LED-backlit HD+ anti-glare (1600 x 900) with 720p HD Webcam
AMD FirePro™ M3900 w/1 GB gDDR3
8GB 1333 MHz DDR3 SDRAM (2D)
500 GB 7200 rpm 2.5-inch hard drive
DVD+/-RW SuperMulti DL Drive
DualPoint (TouchPad and PointStick)
Intel Centrino® Ultimate-N 6300 (3×3)
Bluetooth® Wireless Technology 2.1
TPM & Fingerprint
HP 9-Cell 100 Wh Li-Ion Battery
56K v.92 high speed modem
HP Elite Support with limited 3 year standard parts and labor warranty 3/3/3

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.

HP-EliteBook-8460w-8560w-and-8760w-header

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
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.

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