HP ZBook Firefly 16 G9-6B897EA
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Primary Camera: 3.7 MPix
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Reviews for the HP ZBook Firefly 16 G9-6B897EA
With the latest ZBook Firefly 16 G9, HP's mobile workstation is available in the 16-inch form factor for the first time and combines an Alder Lake-U processor with the dedicated T550 GPU from Nvidia. Unfortunately, the performance of both components is lacking.
Source: Laptop Media

Support, online available, Short, Date: 05/16/2023
Source: Laptop Media

Unfortunately, HP really sunk its own ships with the ZBook Firefly 16 G9. Its performance is really poor. So much, in fact, that its CPU botches down to 12W of power. The situation with the dGPU is not much better. It only runs at 20W, which is 10W lower than the competition. And this is essentially what workstations stand for – performance and reliability. Other than that, the battery life is good, even though we had the smaller 51Wh battery pack. We got 10 hours of Web browsing, or 8 hours of video playback on a single charge. Honestly, this wouldn’t be enough for a whole workday on battery power, considering the power-intensive nature of the workflow. HP ZBook Firefly 16 G9’s IPS panel has a WUXGA resolution with a 16:10 aspect ratio, comfortable viewing angles, and a good contrast ratio. Thankfully, its backlight doesn’t use PWM for brightness adjustment.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/16/2023
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NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU: Entry level dedicated graphics card for professional laptops based on the consumer GeForce MX550 with 1024 shaders and a 64 bit memory bus. Therefore it uses the Turing architecture without raytracing and Tensor cores. Sometimes also called Quadro T550.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
i7-1265U: Alder Lake based mobile CPU with 2 performance cores and 8 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 12 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks from 1.3 to 4.8 GHz. The TDP is specified at 15 Watt.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
16.00":
15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.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.
82.9%: This rating is slightly above average, there are somewhat more devices with worse ratings. However, clear purchase recommendations look different.
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