The Most EXPENSIVE Laptop I've Reviewed! // HP ZBook Fury G8 

I decided to use no audio for most of the video. Do you guys prefer this? Let me know! Also, if you missed it I compared the MacBook Pro M1 Max/Pro to a Fully spec'd 12th Gen Intel Desktop which you can find here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p4wLR2RzCaY.html

Many on here just don't seem to understand these types of workstation laptops are not geared for the average consumer. They are meant to be used for CAD or scientific programs. All the workstation configurations are certified to use different CAD programs. CAD programs can easily exceed the cost of these machines. You are also paying for 1) system stability and 2) business class support. You will talk with a live person based in the US. They'll try to diagnose issues over phone first, but if it can't be fixed they'll have next business day visit. If the part is no longer available they'll upgrade the entire workstation. So think, you are paying $10-15k for a single license CAD program, you are paying a user $100-130k a year, $6500 workstation laptop that will be used for 3-5 years is nothing for a company. These are tools and not show pieces.

HP Z-Book have always been super expensive, even more than Lenovo and Dell comparable offerings. These are for a specific category of pros whose company will pay for this and probably in bulk at a discounted price. And these workstation laptops usually come with at least 3 years of on-site next business day warranty, something you do not get with usual consumer or gaming laptops: it can save your ass if each day without a working laptop is making you lose lots of money. These workstation laptops are often designed conservatively regarding performance, to limit noise and heat (it can be tweaked). But they are also designed (and tested) to support heavy processing for hours or even days.

My company provides this laptop, the security in this thing is insane. Intel Xeon and Nvidia Quadro holds quite good in most of the engineering apps we use. This is the best corporate laptop I have used thus far compared to Mac, IBM ThinkPad etc.

"tHiS iS nOt WoRtH $6500" yeah which is why such laptops are never advertised for consumers. Most of you wouldn't even have heard about this from any marketing material for the company and that's for a reason.

I've been using a zbook for about 3 years provided for me by my company, and one quick thing I want to point is that I LOVE those physical mouse buttons. Especially as someone who use the middle button a lot, and also there are 2 sets! If I'm not connected to my external monitor and want to chill and code on my bed, that track pad is really really good! So yeah, some people actually love that track pad. Function over form.

It's Time to All Brands Start To Give FHD Webcam in Laptop

Today I started Aerospace Engineering, and when my teacher saw my 2016 MacBook Air he said that I was gonna suffer quite a lot, since we are gonna use Solidworks. I'm gonna buy this laptop and see if it works well for those purposes!

If you downtime is worth more than this 6k device and it fits you needs - go for it. Expensive workstations are a combination of performance, reliability and most importantly - SUPPORT, if things go bad. Yes, it won't perform as good as any gaming laptop, mainly because the parts are clocked LOWER because they're tuned for reliability. The Quadro cards are clocked lower than their Geforce RTX counterparts (counterparts as in the same core), Xeons are usually clocked slightly lower than their I7\I9 counterparts (no core model here, but top spec Xeon is usually slower than top spec I9), memory is always in spec, so no overclocking for you buddy, even if the that thing doesn't thermal throttle - it's great, but you aren't going to make use of that thermal gap, if you wanted overclocking you should have went with whatever gaming laptops they have. And the most crucial thing besides aiming towards reliability is support - these things usually come with GREAT suppor. They are getting updates constantly - even when they're out of warranty! My Precision 7510 is 5 years old now and it's still getting firmware updates, even when it's 1-2 years after it's warranty expired. When I had issues with it, a technician came to my house and replaced the motherboard - the next day I called Dell. And this is where Dell gets their money from, from businesses, because usually their support is dog shit. It's not just the product, it's the the whole package. Oh, and you don't have to spec it so high, I got my Precision from an outlet, it had top specs (best Quadro they could offer, 32GB of ram, a Xeon processor), and that thing was $2k with a 4 year onsite warranty. I still use it to this day, it's a great laptop to program on. I'd rather put $3k on a business\workstation laptop than $2k on their rgb infested lineup (like Alienware) so I don't find myself waiting for a foreign call center to assist me with their 'Cinebench beast'.., but at $6k it's quite of a niche product.

You keep identifying this machine as a "laptop". This suggest it is a consumer-type notebook. And while it has a form factor of a laptop, it is NOT A CONSUMER-TYPE product. It is a WORKSTATION laid-out and packaged in laptop form factor. Next time, refer to these type of machines as portable or mobile workstations. This clearifies the targetted audience and does justice to the product and explains the higher price point.

Matthew: 6500$ me: definitely not worth it I don't even care if it can fly

I was just issued one of these for a job in data analytics but wasn't familiar with the Z book product line. Now I get it. Thanks for this video.

I didn’t know anything was priced over $5000 for windows laptops 😂

HP ZBook, Lenovo ThinkPad P series, Dell Precision... It's the same laptop machine rebranded. Made by the same Chinese guy I suppose. If you look closely, only the chassis differs. The hinges are the same, the speakers and the fingerprint sensor are in the same place, the touchpad is the same size, etc. Specs and prices are more or less the same. Globalization...

I feel every laptop should have the ability to swap batteries like that. I had a lenovo y410p back in 2014 and it was amazing, could swap the battery out with just a slide of a button and you could even upgrade the gpu or replace the dvd with another one to work in SLI mode. Absolute madness.

This is definitely a Security focused laptop that isn't meant for the average consumer. Neat to see, but it is a rather niche machine

I'm a blockchain developer and I'm a zbook user since my student life when I was studying software engineering and now my main laptop is also a zbook with arch linux its really amazing but now I feel that hp should include amd processors in zbook as zbook contain more heat eliminating cobablities

I just ordered mine today as an upgrade to my zbook 15 g5. My use case involves enterprise software (Particularly Oracle FMW based VMs ranging from ADF, SOA Suite, BPM and Forms as customer environment replicas) and platform development (Enterprise Application Containerization, Kubernetes Ingress, Daemon Sets and Operators development on a minimal cluster with monitoring setup that involves NoSQL or time-series databases along with Stateful sets that require a pseudo-storage server ). Speaking for the 15" model (Current one that I am replacing had 8750h - 80 GB memory and 3 tb nvme + 4tb AHCI SSD storage), outside of the mobile workstations of this caliber where only zbook has the parts access with great modularity there is no other notebook option that has 4 memory slots. Now, I had to go for the A3000 instead of the A2000 due to the vapor chamber being available with the prior and higher models as the only issue I had with my previous one was getting BSODs due to overheating when driving a 4k and an fhd monitor while the machine had 70% CPU load which I forced me to plug-out the monitors to not have gpu pumping additional heat.

You should do a video about laptop best for game development. Ones that are the best fit to handle things like Unreal engine, unity etc

I use this at work for Android development and it's a good machine (i7 11th gen, 32gb ram) but let me tell you, this sounds like it's about to take off all day long. I pretty much have an emulator running constantly and the top part of the laptop is always very hot. And the battery is trash, but it's always plugged in anyway.

i know this video is a litte older. We are getting our new laptops at work, they are the Fury G9. And you know what we do? Excel! lol we do word docs and excel files and some SAP. Absolutely no need for this much horsepower but what the heck right? If they want to buy these for us ill take it.

Actually, rtx 3060-3080 mobile also work amazingly in engineering applications. It just certain software developers don't list geforce card on their system (which is intended, so people will buy quadro card that include full support for engineering application).

My company dropped me one of these babies for remote work.

Great port selection. But since HP insist that their customers watch movies 24/7 and hence need a 16:9 screen, they finally lost me to the Lenovo X1 Yoga. Always liked and bought their high-end EliteBooks x360, but I need a productivity machine, not a Netflix machine, sorry. No 16:10, no buy. End of.

We own a zbook workstation g5 15v and it's awesome

Holy shit. I was so ready to just forget about the idea of ever owning this under the assumption it would not have a trackpoint. I was wrong. This is a top tier laptop.

You’re discussion of the 4 SSDs is slightly off. Those slots u refer to are for the WFi card and WWan cellular card. One SSD is under the keyboard. The other one is next to the battery, and the last two actually go where that large hard drive bay is.

There are extra two slots for SSD under the keyboard.

Pretty nice laptop, I started laughing when compared to Macbook Pro (price wise), pretty bad review considering the target audience for this kind of laptop since it's not a consumer product and more than once I heard "content creators" which was pretty funny. There are far more expensive laptops for content creators, the 10k Asus ProArt laptop comes to mind. Anyway, nice effort, decent laptop with a reasonable price, considering all the security/ugradability/service provided and so on. I recently bought a ThinkPad T15g Gen 2 which is best suited for my needs and I don't even use the touchpad, most users preffer the thumbstick (don't really know what it's called), once you become used to it.

Not my use case. Liking and commenting to keep that engagement high. Ever considered doing any Linux native laptops? Not sure how familiar you are with the OS, or manufacturers like System76, etc.

I was wondering about why you might have to pay for a wifi and bluetooth card on a $6,000 machine but then im guessing that some people who buy this laptop may never need or want to connect it to the internet or transmit any signals hence the option to remove it from the system

Hello! Thank you for the excellent review! What about the noise? Does the device get loud under load? Do the fans run all the time? I have a Z-Book Firefly and it is very noisy under load, so I am considering buying a Z-Book Fury. Thank you very much for a short feedback.

My only wish for these laptop is to finally get a LARGER then 17 inch screen! Keep the same old size and slim down the bezel. Give us a 18-19 inch screen in the same body! Other then that I am glad they kept the touchpad buttons. Always keep the buttons, especially if you are somewhere that's moving or unstable, you can be 100% certain your click is where you want. I used the Zbook 17 G1 for almost 6 years. It was the best laptop I ever owned. I eventually upgraded it from K3100m to k5100m. Its got 32GB ram, 2TB HDD, 1TB SSD and 500GB SSD. Its currently still working like a champ hosting a Valheim server using about 0.1% of its power.

Have ZBOOK G6 for 2 years and it was really great machine.But 2xtimes replacement of motherboard due issue with overheating and then with not charging.Luckily it was under guarante,as motherboard replace was higher price than new laptop.Now switched to Lenovo Legion 5 Pro and max satisfied

The Z in the middle is kind of sassy and its using magnesium alloy chassis That's MM, M̶a̶r̶s̶h̶a̶l̶ ̶M̶a̶t̶h̶e̶r̶s̶ Matthew Moniz

6500 $ computer ×2 RTX 3090 RAM : 128GB Hard : 2TB SSD + 2TB HDD Intel i9 and complement It will cost 6500 $

So, unlike with HP Envy they didn’t even bother to put in Bang & Olufsen Audio system - what a shame, for $6,500 large.

Just look at that blender test!!! Wow just Wow

You didn't mention the other SSD slot and you also didn't mention the other 2 SODIMM slots (there are 4 slots in total)

As "that" guy who uses this stuff every day. It would be so fun to have someone like me to comment on a lot of stuff people like as "useless to me"! Good review though! Cheers!

HP laptop is known for over heating, like years ago. Has that been resolved? Are HP laptops (HP ZBook Fury G8), over 5 years old, been overheating?

The Asus Proart One is 10k with the Quadro RTX 6000. The only laptop Nvidia made with a GPU derivative of the 80TI, in theis case the 2080TI. The RTX 6000M have a wopping 24GB of GDDR6 ram

Interesting. Have you had a chance to review newer HP ZBook Fury 16 G9 ?

If you can compile Unreal Engine from the source (to check compile time) and Build Light of some project in unreal engine (to check light build time), will really appreciate that.

Whoaaa I read all the comments, the thing is people aren't getting it (including me tbh) though 6500 is a lot of cash, it is for business/corporate work, like microsoft is planning to do with the surface duo 2 (heard in the mkbhd podcast dunno how legit it is) the corporate sector for tech is just weird tbh

Was going to get this laptop for video editing. Such as shame it isn’t great for it

Enjoyed your video! What if you added an NVIDIARTXA4000 8GB Graphics card, would this laptop be suitable for 4k video editing? Thanks in advance

Almost 4 minutes in and I still don't know how much ram or what processor is inside.

Yes, my company provides these laptops for all engineers within corporates. Solid feeling and smooth when using.

My company has procured this laptop. I wish they saw this video before procuring

If astronauts are using it then it undoubtedly has the instant home-away-from-home button which transforms the laptop into a house if the owner or user is stuck on a far distant planet with no cup of tea handy. That must be why it costs a fair bit though pitifully cheap compared to a Compaq some years back with a 486 in it.

The MacBook are really interesting now, That's weird!

HI One question I have the laptop but I have the feeling the screen brightness does not reach the expected quality also the tones are quite yellowish. I have tried everything but seems something with the hardware have you experienced something similar?

Is it good for gaming? More like i want to use a PC alternative for game development in unreal. Im wondering if its good enough for it?

I am looking at the G8 i9 RTX A3000, and wondering if all the workstation laptops from HP with RTX graphics is Quadro cards ?

Mentioning some of those security features in more detail would've been nice

Port placement on this machine is quite inconvenient. All the display ports & Power input should be on the right side or at the back of the laptop like Lenovo. These cables are thick and have higher bending radius in the beginning. Assuming almost all of the people use mouse with their right hand, this causes a slight interruption on the right side. I would prefer all the cable mess on the left/back side and two USB A ports on the right side, where I can plug my wireless dongles. One USB port on left side would be good too for the wired headphones. In a typical office scenario, this would be useful.

I hope you can review the soon to be released Zbook Fury G9 and Studio G9

Sorry but this laptop has 4 ram slots two are below keyboard when you open will surprise that their is a space for full size m2 ssd to which also nvme

Wait. That laptop was still running without the battery.

I ordered one custom build with i9 and 64gb ram etc, was almost 4000 pounds

I have this laptop...and I HATE IT. All my other laptops and MacBooks Pro uses USB-C charger to charge. Not this Z book. It needs 120 w to charge on USB-C. A catastrophe for me. It should be my go to laptop, but I don't use it. I received it from my work, but use my old laptop instead.

$6500 laptop and they couldn't tune the hinge to open with one hand geez

It's all down to the certifications for really really high end CAD programs. Stuff like Siemens Unigraphics and the like. The software costs to run that program in an organisation are massive compared to the cost of hardware certified to run that software. This is the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) software used by the Aero industry and Automotive and Subsea Oil extraction equipment. Extremely high cost product elite engineering companies. The software is certified to run correctly on certain hardware and the cost of certification is very high so any addition of hardware has to undergo the same exhaustive testing that the drivers for the new piece of hardware is not going to destabilise the system. Laptops even workstation laptops are a total outlier for these companies. 99% of design engineers will be using Dual or quad Xeon Workstations with the top end Quadro GFX and silly amounts of ram and storage driving massive monitors. When I left the oil services company I worked for the total cost of a workstation for one of these guys was well over £12,000 not including software costs. It sounds a lot but these workstations are truly at 100% performance all day everyday and sometime 24/7 if the contract is time critical. They are crazy over-engineered workstations. I have nothing but respect for HP's workstation division having worked on them since they were PA-Risc machines back in the 2000s. Buying a workstation laptop and not using it for a certified software product is a waste of money. That's what you are paying for. Luv and Peace.

Hi I have Zbook Fury G7, I9, and in windows i see higher CPU core temp. All cores oscilqtes 70 - 100 degree. Understand that G8 it' s a little better regarding CPU temp. G8 stay witout any app started, in 80 degree for cores ?

Wow! Can you do a review for Asus Vivobook pro 14X?

September 2022 the price is 2300$

I don't get it. Why will anyone not want a wifi card? Wifi means internet connection, right? Why will anyone remove it and replace it with ssd?

I don’t get it .. You’re reviewing a laptop power house and you don’t test it’s capabilities and limits and so on?

i been using it for a while. It cannot provide a good gaming environment, which means it will become hot and cpu down to 0.8ghz when you play videogames for about 20min. I tried a lot of ways but nothing work.

I still think that 3d modeling not really need quadro unless you working with insanely complicated and huge object like skyscraper with full interior or complicated simulation .

The selling point is that it does it all quietly...

I got the legion 5 Pro with Same specs as yours but you got 25 minutes on Mozilla Firefox compile test whereas I am getting 18 minutes. So is mine cherry picked out something

Something something I will not spend that amount in a decade on laptops

I work as a computer vision engineer just to say that I need the likes of that quadro card but frankly, that thing is not even worth it. I can't even see a use case for it aside from wasting money, using the cloud is a lot cheaper and building your own desktop will be cheaper/more powerful so it is stuck in this weird place between useless and expensive. I wouldn't buy it or recommend it to anyone.

FINALLY! A laptop that won't catch my STDs...

HP going crazy with pricing here..

So how much is it for the 120hz option tho 🤔

For Non-Americans, 7 pounds is 3.2 kg

So the price is for the security and durability features........ I get it now, why I saw Jeff Bezos using an HP laptop in one of his picture....

These models do come in & fly off.

ayo matt , after long time

M1 Pro 16 inch MacBook Pro or MSI GE76 RAIDER, which do you recommend for 3d animation and VFX?

How many kidneys?

I do like these monsters (I have a precision 7740), but when (if?) ARM revolution comes to windows they will die out.

How to buy this in India??? 🇮🇳

Hello everyone. I wanted to purchase a new laptop for some time now and currently stuck between 3 model. I Would really appreciate if anyone colud help me to pick one: 1.Hp ZBook Fury G8 (Xeon W-11955M,Rtx A5000, Full HD Display) 2.Hp Zbook Power G9 (i7 12700h, RTX A2000, 4K Display) 3.Hp omen 16 2023(i9 13900HX,RTX 4060) -I wolud be mostly using it for machine learning and LS-Dyna,Abaqus, etc...

Just curious, does Thinkpad offer something like this?

Get the base MacBook Air M1 and call it a day.

is it always with touch display?

Might be a good deal if they discount it on Black Friday🤔

720p webcam, 4 hours of battery life, OK trackpad, 60Hz display.... unimpressive benchmarks.... that all sounds so... average.... 😬😬😬

Why do i feel like the composition is skewed

1:06 - Rhyme intentional? Nice one!

Thanks

The z in the middle is sassy They’re using a magnesium chassis

My job just upgraded me to this laptop

Security features? ...for 6 Grand you don't need them. You've already been robbed.

i can buy this after 10 years of labour

Touchpad is enough for me NOT to buy. I'll stick with zbook studio g3