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Model: The HP ZBook Studio G4 Y6K15EA is a multi-talent laptop. The screen offers enough space for pleasant work or use of multiple applications, and also films or games come into play while being small enough for easy transport. Thanks to its 15.6-inch screen with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, images, and web pages are displayed clearly. When it comes to color accuracy, the optional 4K UHD display with HP DreamColor technology offers 8 million colors and accurate pixels, which means absolutely clear and intense images. Under the hood, the HP zBook Studio G4 Y6K15EA is equipped with a Core i7-7700HQ. The quad-core CPU also meets the minimum requirements of complex programs. The processor also has a turbo mode. In programs which need high CPU performance, the clock rate increases to up to 3.80 GHz. The processor is supported by 8 GB of RAM. This also allows demanding tasks to be carried out. The RAM can be further upgraded and supports up to 32 GB of RAM. The graphics card of the laptop is an Nvidia Quadro M1200. 4 GB of dedicated GDDR5 VRAM support increasing the speed of the graphic card. The HP zBook Studio G4 Y6K15EA has an HP Z TurboDrive SSD with 256 GB of memory. It provides for particularly fast booting, and installed games and programs load noticeably faster.

For design, the laptop has an aluminum body and a magnesium alloy, diamond-cut edges. It is only 18 mm thick and weighs 1.99 kg (4.4 lb). The laptop profits from two fans with active cooling designed specifically for heat dissipation from the graphics card and processor. The HP laptop features Bang & Olufsen HD stereo speakers and built-in microphone to bring bold, crisp and accurate audio. The laptop also has 720p HD webcam for convenience in video calling. The HP zBook Studio G4 Y6K15EA comes with the new Windows 10 Pro. Extensive enhancements and new features keep the operation simple, but it still offer more possibilities than before. In addition, various Windows devices such as smartphones, tablets, and PCs can be managed and integrated into networks more easily than ever before. HP's long-life lithium-ion with 4 cells ensures a long battery life and recharges quickly thank to HP's FastCharge technology. After only 30 minutes of charging time, up to 50% battery charge is available. The HP zBook Studio G4 Y6K15EA offers various interfaces to connect additional devices. There are HDMI and DisplayPort to connect additional monitors. On the sides of the laptop, there are a USB-3.0 port, an RJ-45 ethernet port, and Thunderbolt 3 ports.

Hands-on article by Jagadisa Rajarathnam

NVIDIA Quadro M1200: Mainstream workstation graphics card based on the GM107 Maxwell architecture with 640 shaders and a 128-bit wide memory bus. The GPU is similar to the consumer GTX 960M.

With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

Intel Core i7: The Intel Core i7 for laptops is based on the LG1156 Core i5/i7 CPU for desktops. The base clock speed of the CPUs is relatively low, but because of a huge Turbo mode, the cores can dynamically overclock to up to 3.2 GHz (920XM). Therefore, the CPU can be as fast as high clocked dual-core CPUs (using single threaded applications) but still offer the advantage of 4 cores. Because of the large TDP of 45 W / 55 W, the CPU is only intended for large laptops.  

7700HQ: Quad-core notebook processor based on the Kaby Lake architecture. Besides four CPU cores (including Hyper Threading), the chips also integrates the HD Graphics 630 GPU and is manufactured in an improved 14 nm process.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

15.6":

15-16 inch is a standard display size for laptops and offers the biggest variety of products.

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

2.09 kg:

Usually subnotebooks, ultrabooks and quite lightweight laptops with 12-16 inch display-diagonal weigh as much.

HP: The Hewlett-Packard Company, founded 1935, commonly referred to as HP, is a technology corporation headquartered in California, United States. HP specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, storage, and networking hardware, software and services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices, as well as a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. Other product lines, including electronic test equipment and systems, medical electronic equipment, solid state components and instrumentation for chemical analysis. HP posted US $91.7 billion in annual revenue in 2006, making it the world's largest technology vendor in terms of sales. In 2007 the revenue was $104 billion, making HP the first IT company in history to report revenues exceeding $100 billion. 

Up to 2015, the company was named Hewlett Packard Company. After a split, the computer range was renamed to HP Inc.

 

In the laptop segment, HP was the world's largest manufacturer from 2014 to 2016 with a market share of 20-21% from 2014 to 2016, but they only exceed Lenovo by a small margin as of recently. HP is not present in the smartphone sector (as of 2016).

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.