HP ZBook Firefly 16 Series
Processor: Intel Meteor Lake-H Ultra 7 155H, Intel Raptor Lake-U i7-1355U, Intel Raptor Lake-U i7-1365UGraphics Adapter: NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU
Display: 16.00 inch
Weight: 1.72kg, 1.8kg
Price: 1600, 1800 euro
Average of 1 scores (from 8 reviews)
HP ZBook Firefly 16 G10
Specifications
Notebook: HP ZBook Firefly 16 G10Processor: Intel Raptor Lake-U i7-1365U
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU 4096 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 1920 x 1200 pixels
Weight: 1.8kg
Price: 1800 euro
Links: HP homepage
Price comparison
Reviews
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Short, Date: 10/31/2023
Source: USA Today
The HP ZBook Firefly G10 is a good, perhaps even great, laptop. It’s attractive, well-built, and enjoyable to use. It has a large, tactile keyboard, a beautiful OLED display, and plenty of connectivity. It’s not even slow; performance isn’t a highlight, to be sure, but the laptop handles basic productivity without issue. But none of this matters for one simple reason: it’s far too expensive. Starting at $1,850, and with some configurations that exceed $5,000, the ZBook Firefly G10 goes head-to-head with the Dell XPS 15 and XPS 17, the Apple MacBook Pro 14 and Pro 16, the Razer Blade 16, and the ThinkPad P1, among other top-tier laptops. The ZBook can’t keep up, even with its strengths. It’s not a bad laptop but—absent a huge sale or other discount—you should skip it.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/25/2023
HP ZBook Firefly 16 G10, i7-1355U
Specifications
Notebook: HP ZBook Firefly 16 G10, i7-1355UProcessor: Intel Raptor Lake-U i7-1355U
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU 4096 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 1920 x 1200 pixels
Weight: 1.8kg
Price: 1600 euro
Links: HP homepage
Price comparison
Reviews
Source: Laptop Media
The HP ZBook Firefly 16 G10 left us with a lot of positive impressions. It also has two major cons – the high price and the low performance. A potent hardware is a must for a notebook that is branded as a workstation. Sure, the CPU can maintain high core clocks in short and medium loads, but in longer processor stress, the power limit is just 17W which leads to unimpressive frequencies and that’s a pity for such a laptop. It looks like HP has tuned this notebook for comfort over performance. In CPU-intensive tasks, the fan is unexpectedly quiet and the keyboard is just warm, but not hot. In daily usage, the single fan is almost dead silent. The battery life with the optional 76Wh battery is very long – 25 hours of Web browsing is a great result! The two SODIMMs can handle up to 64GB of DDR5-5200MHz memory in dual-channel mode which is up to the standards for a workstation. On the flip side, there is just one M.2 slot for Gen 4 SSDs.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 10/31/2023
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Short, Date: 10/31/2023
HP ZBook Firefly 16 G11
Specifications
Notebook: HP ZBook Firefly 16 G11Processor: Intel Meteor Lake-H Ultra 7 155H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU 4096 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 1920 x 1200 pixels
Weight: 1.72kg
Links: HP homepage
Price comparison
Average Score:
Reviews
Source: Creative Bloq
A mobile workstation from HP that brings together one of Intel’s latest CPU designs with a pro-grade Nvidia GPU that’s looking a bit out of date, this portable machine could be perfect for a narrow set of creatives, but most will find what they’re looking for elsewhere. It offers exceptional battery life and superb build quality, with a keyboard that’s extremely comfortable to use, yet is likely to be passed over in favour of more up-to-date graphics chips.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 11/20/2024
Rating: Total score: 75%
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Short, Date: 11/05/2024
Source: Laptop Media
The HP ZBook Firefly 16 G11 is a capable business machine that offers good comfort during heavy loads, great input devices, and a modern port selection with two Thunderbolt 4 ports. However, the not-so-high P and E-core frequencies of 1.75 GHz / 1.01 GHz in longer stress don’t correspond to a device in a workstation category where sustained performance is always important. Still, the system responsiveness during normal office tasks seems on point despite the single-channel memory of our notebook. The snappy SSD (WD PC SN810 SDCPNRY-1T00-1006) perhaps also helps in this scenario. The 1200p IPS display (BOE0C31) is suitable for work. The PWM-free unit offers wide viewing angles and 327 nits of max brightness.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/04/2024
Foreign Reviews
Source: Laptopmedia CN
zh-CN→ENPositive: Premium design; metal case; high performance; great display; good ergonomics; decent connectivity; long battery life. Negative: No Wi-Fi 7; average processor; only one M.2 slot; high price.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/04/2024
Comment
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.
With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.
NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU: Mid-range professional laptop graphics card based on the Ampere GA106 chip with 2,048 CUDA cores. Slower than the consumer GeForce GTX 3050 with certified drivers. Available in different performance variants ranging from 20 - 60 W TGP (max. power consumption).
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Raptor Lake-U:
i7-1365U: 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 5.2 GHz. The TDP is specified at 15 Watt.
i7-1355U: 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 1.2 to 5 GHz. The TDP is specified at 15 Watt.
Intel Meteor Lake-H:
Ultra 7 155H: A high-end Meteor Lake chip that debuted in December 2023. This 1st Gen Core Ultra processor has come to replace 13th generation Core chips; it has 16 cores (6 + 8 + 2) and 22 threads at its disposal. Its Performance cores, of which there are 6, run at up to 4.8 GHz while its Efficient cores, of which there are 10 (8 main cores plus 2 extra ones found in the Low Power Island) run at up to 3.8 GHz. The integrated AI Boost NPU offers two Gen 3 engines for hardware AI workload acceleration. This laptop processor's Base power consumption is 28 W while its Turbo power consumption is supposed to stay within 115 W.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
16.00:
This range for display formats was and is a rarity. It is larger than the general standard of 15 inches, but not yet in the range of large workstations. One usually has higher screen resolutions available, but portability suffers from that.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
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75%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
