HP Compaq 8710w
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Average of 4 scores (from 7 reviews)
Reviews for the HP Compaq 8710w
(Office Power)². The HP Compaq 8710 series is especially designed for graphics and CAD professionals. Being equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 CPU with 2.6 GHz and a nVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M graphics card, the 8710w notebook is thereby today's most powerful notebook of this series. Furthermore, the 17 inch WUXGA display ensures due to a resolution of 1920x1200 pixels maximum clarity.
Source: Inside HW Archive.org version
If you are the one that can use full potential of HP Compaq 8710w than price of this notebook (around 2600€) shouldn’t be much of a problem. Bear in mind that with HP Compaq 8710w (KE191ET#ABH Model) you don’t pay for fancy design or sticker of some well known and established brand name (such as car manufacturer), but for performances. One thing is for sure: for your money you get extremely powerful premium quality notebook.
Leistung sehr gut, Preis gut
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/30/2008
Rating: price: 80% performance: 90%
Source: Notebookreview.com Archive.org version
The 8710w has all the qualities that make it one of the best desktop replacement workstation notebooks in the market. It is the perfect professional mobile workstation for those who demand top performance and reliability, coupled with business class support.
Verarbeitung exzellent, Display exzellent, Leistung sehr gut, Preis schlecht
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/19/2008
Rating: price: 40% performance: 90% display: 95% workmanship: 95%
Source: Tech Advisor Archive.org version
The HP Compaq 8710w is an updated version of the nw9440 mobile workstation, and HP has done more than just plumb in Intel's Santa Rosa motherboard-chip-wireless combo. The HP Compaq 8710w boasts an innovative touchpanel, a new graphics chip with an HDMI output and the option to run Windows Vista.
The HP Compaq 8710w is still an ugly sister to the 17in MacBook Pro's Cinderella, but its matte grey flash is an improvement over its predecessor's dull black and HP has kept the HP Compaq 8710w's best case-design feature: icons for all of the ports around the keyboard, making it easy to find the right port without moving the laptop. The HP Compaq 8710w has a responsive keyboard with a numeric keypad, and a choice of trackpad - with three buttons and a vertical scrollbar - or pointer (not that we've ever met anyone who actually prefers a pointer to a trackpad).
(von 5): 4, Preis/Leistung 4, Ausstattung 4, Verarbeitung 4
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/20/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% features: 80% workmanship: 80%
Source: Notebookreview.com Archive.org version
The HP 8710w Mobile Workstation is HP's top-shelf desktop replacement notebook for business. It is based on the new Intel Santa Rosa Centrino Pro platform and features a powerful Nvidia Quadro FX 1600M graphics card. The 8710w is not a flashy machine and nor should it be. It has clean lines and a professional business class look. Up close the 8710w looks sophisticated yet simple. Everything on the machine is there for a reason. The 8710w is one of the slimmest and lightest 17” notebooks around – it starts at 8.5 pounds and has a chassis only 1.3” thin. The 8710w is constructed out of durable plastic with an inner shell of magnesium. The outside of the lid, the palm rests, and the area directly below the LCD are of a silky smooth yet durable slate gray. All of the other areas are of heavy-duty granular black plastic. It is extremely difficult to get any part of the 8710w to flex - it is one of the most solid machines I have come across. Although the chassis is quite thin, it hardly moves when twisted.
Leistung gut, Display sehr gut, Mobilität sehr gut, Verarbeitung ausgezeichnet
User Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/02/2007
Rating: performance: 80% display: 90% mobility: 90% workmanship: 95%
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Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy - 5-6/08
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 04/18/2008
Rating: performance: 90% emissions: 40%
Source: Notebookcheck DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/04/2008
Rating: Total score: 89% performance: 93% display: 88% mobility: 73% workmanship: 86% ergonomy: 89% emissions: 80%
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/13/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 80% features: 50% display: 50% mobility: 90% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 70% emissions: 80%
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M: This is a highend workstation graphic chip (for CAD and 3D programs optimized) with DirectX 10 and good OpenGL support - based on the GeForce 8700M GT graphic card.
Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).
The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.
T9500: Upper middle class laptop CPU for Santa Rosa based laptops (FSB 800). The T9550 offers only a slightly higher core clock, but features a 1066 FSB.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
17.10": This display size is a standard format for desktop replacements (DTR). The DTR laptops are heavier to carry, need more power, but texts are easy to read and high resolutions are no problem. DTR are mainly intended for stationary desk use, where weight and energy hunger don't matter. In return, you enjoy the advantages of high resolutions (more details, better legibility).» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
3.379 kg:
A laptop with this weight is comparatively heavy and less designed for mobility than for use at the desk. Therefore, the devices tend to shine less with battery life than with a large screen and higher performance.
HP: Founded in 1939, the US company is a major server and printer manufacturer and one of the leading IT companies in the world. Until 2015, the company was called Hewlett-Packard Company. After a split, the computer division was renamed HP Inc.
In 2023, HP had an approximate market share of 22% of global PC sales, making it number 2 after Lenovo.
87%: This is an above-average rating. Nevertheless, it should not be forgotten that about one fifth of all tested models receive a better rating.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.