Professional notebook with 4K touch screen: HP ZBook x2 in review

[15:09 Fri,25.May 2018 by Thomas Richter]

Studiodaily has reviewed HP&s new professional mobile workstation
HP ZBook x2 in the format of a 2in1 laptop. The HP ZBook x2 has a touch screen that can also be used separately from the actual computer.
HP wants to offer creative professionals the best of both worlds: working with a Wacom stylus on a large touch screen á la iPad Pro bundled with the computing power of a mobile workstation that can easily work with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro or After Effects - all at a quite high price.

HP has equipped the ZBook x2 with powerful hardware: optionally a 4-core i7 CPU (or an i5), up to 32 GB RAM, an Nvidia Quadro M620 GPU with 2GB GDDR5, up to 1 TB SSD and (in the best option) an anti-reflective, color-calibrated 14" UltraHD HP Dreamcolor touch display with 10-bit (8+2 FRC dithering) color depth and a brightness of 270 nits. Which covers 100% of the Adobe RGB color space.

The 2.1kg HP Zbook x2 can also be operated with a (Wacom EMR) pen with 4,096 pressure levels. Up to three monitors can be used (the internal plus two external) - with the ZBook Dock with Thunderbolt 3 docking station even up to a total of five (4 external). In addition to HDMI 1.4 and USB 3.0 ports, two USB 3.1 Type C Thunderbolt 3 (DisplayPort 1.2) interfaces are also available.

The battery lasts for up to 10 hours of operation and can be charged in half in 30 minutes via Ultra-Fast Charge. The detachable keyboard is backlit and controlled via Bluetooth and has an integrated smart card reader.

According to the testers, the main attraction of the Zbook is the display: it does not reflect, but is bright enough and displays the colours very well - and the Wacom stylus works very elegantly: the surface of the display is slightly roughened so that you can feel a little resistance when guiding the pen as when drawing on paper.

The system&s performance is rated as quite good - after all, it is not a power workstation, but a mobile device designed for touchscreen operation, which must not be too heavy to be used sensibly. The only thing criticized is the sound, which sounds thin despite its Bang&Olufsen loudspeakers. The end result is very positive: the Zbook x2 combines the performance of a desktop workstation with the mobility of a laptop, the creative possibilities of a graphics tablet - plus a very good display.

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