HP Unveils World’s Most Powerful and First Detachable PC Workstation
October 18 2017 - 12:01AM
Today at Adobe® MAX, HP (NYSE:HPQ) will showcase the world’s
most powerful detachable PC1 designed to solve the performance and
mobility needs of artists, designers and digital imaging
professionals who need to push Adobe Creative Cloud® and other
professional applications to the limit. The performance of the HP
ZBook x2, the world’s first detachable workstation,15
increases productivity and allows digital creators and storytellers
the freedom to work when and where inspiration strikes.
HP’s reinvention of detachable PCs began earlier this year with
the introduction of the HP Spectre x2 and the HP Elite x2. Today’s
introduction of the HP ZBook x2 completes HP’s trifecta with its
most powerful detachable solution targeted for the creative
community. With this new offering, HP is extending its PC
leadership by pioneering a new era for detachable PCs that offer
superb performance, elegance and efficiency.
“As the world’s most powerful and first detachable PC
workstation, there is no device better suited to turn the vision of
artists and designers into reality,” said Xavier Garcia, vice
president and general manager, HP Z Workstations, HP Inc. “With the
HP ZBook x2, we are delivering the perfect tool to accelerate the
creative process – with unprecedented power, performance and
natural ease-of-use. This device will make it easier than ever for
creators to do what they do best – bring inspiring new ideas to
life and enrich the world around us.”
Liberating Digital Creativity
The HP ZBook x2 allows designers to effortlessly create with
quad-core Intel® Core™ processors2, twice the memory of any other
detachable PC3 and NVIDIA® Quadro® Graphics that deliver 73 percent
higher graphics performance compared to the Surface Pro4. A quiet,
dual-fan active cooling system is designed to dissipate heat from
the powerful graphics card and processor. To better meet the needs
of the creative community, including Adobe users, HP also developed
customizable, application-aware HP Quick Keys, to provide artists
with 18 time-saving shortcuts.
"At Adobe, our goal is to accelerate creativity. Creative
Cloud is the platform that enables us to deliver powerful
innovation in our apps and cloud-based services supported by Adobe
Sensei with artificial intelligence at the heart of every customer
experience,” said Mala Sharma, vice president and general manager,
Creative Cloud Product, Marketing and Community. “Adobe is thrilled
with our collaboration with HP, which we know will further fuel
creativity and give Creative Cloud members more power and freedom
to create wherever inspiration strikes.”
Today, many creative professionals use multiple devices such as
a MacBook Pro plus an iPad to accomplish the same tasks that can be
done on the HP ZBook x2. Knowing that ultimate mobility is
important, HP created a single device that delivers the same
performance capabilities from inking to docked mode.
HP’s most versatile detachable to date, the HP ZBook x2 operates
in four modes: laptop, detached, docked and tablet.
- In laptop mode, the HP ZBook x2 is a powerful mobile
workstation with a keyboard leveraged from the HP ZBook
Studio.
- In detached mode, it allows users to create on the tablet with
HP’s most accurate and expressive pen while still having full
access to all of their shortcut keys with the Bluetooth®-enabled
keyboard off to the side.
- In docked mode, the HP ZBook x2 can power two additional 4K
displays or five total displays.
- In tablet mode, it maintains full graphics performance allowing
users to capture ideas with powerful NVIDIA 3D graphics.
Using HP’s most natural pen with the HP ZBook x2, users can
create without interruption as the pen never needs to be charged.
The battery-less, HP-designed pen based on Wacom EMR technology,
responds instantly to every nuance of the artist’s hand for natural
motion. The HP ZBook x2 offers 4,096 levels of pressure sensitivity
with multi-directional tilt capabilities and includes a dedicated
eraser.
As a member of the world’s most secure and manageable mobile
workstation family10, the HP ZBook x2 features HP Sure Start Gen311
for BIOS protection, TPM 2.0 for hardware-based encryption to
secure credentials, secure authentication methods through the Smart
Card Reader and HP’s Client Security Suite Gen312 to protect data,
device and identity, including facial recognition and fingerprint
reader.
HP ZBook x2 Highlights
The HP ZBook x2 embodies the intersection of mobility and
performance in a fully-machined, aluminum and die-cast magnesium
body starting at just 3.64 pounds5 and 14.6 mm thin when in tablet
mode, and 4.78 pounds5 and 20.3 mm in laptop mode. The HP ZBook x2
has a stunning 14-inch diagonal, 4K multi-touch display with an
optional 10-bit, one-billion color6 HP DreamColor display
calibrated to 100 percent of Adobe RGB. The HP ZBook x2 has the
world’s most advanced detachable PC display16 and includes an
anti-glare touchscreen allowing users to immerse themselves while
working in any lighting condition. At the desk, it can power dual
4K displays from the HP ZBook Dock with Thunderbolt™
37.
This detachable PC has up to 10 hours of battery life13 for
maximum productivity and ultra-fast recharge (50 percent in just 30
minutes8). The HP ZBook x2 offers up to 4.2 GHz of Intel®Turbo
Boost, 32 GB RAM over dual channels for more responsiveness under
heavier workloads like complex layering in Photoshop. The model’s
HP Z Turbo Drive storage is up to 6X faster than SATA SSD and up to
21X faster than traditional HDD storage. The HP ZBook x2 offers up
to 2 TB9 of local PCIe storage and incorporates a full-sized SD
card slot, perfect for professional photographers. Using the dock
or Thunderbolt 3 ports on the HP ZBook x2, it can transfer large
files from cameras, external storage, phones and other
peripherals.
Designed to go anywhere and handle the toughest workloads, the
HP ZBook x2 mobile workstation is designed to pass MIL-STD 810G
testing14. The HP ZBook x2 also undergoes dozens of tests for
certification and optimized performance with the industry’s leading
software providers like Adobe and Autodesk.
HP ZBook x2 Pricing and Availability
HP ZBook x2 is scheduled for availability in December starting
at $1,749. The datasheet is available here.
About HP
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everywhere. Through our portfolio of printers, PCs, mobile devices,
solutions, and services, we engineer experiences that amaze. More
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Footnotes:
- Based on detachables from vendors as of October 3, 2017. Power
based on processor, graphics and memory.
- Multi-Core is designed to improve performance of certain
software products. Not all customers or software applications will
necessarily benefit from use of this technology. Performance and
clock frequency will vary depending on application workload and
your hardware and software configurations. Intel’s numbering,
branding and/or naming is not a measurement of higher
performance.
- Based on memory capacity of detachables from vendors as of
October 5, 2017.
- Based on Cinebench R15 open GL testing as of Oct. 5th, 2017
using max configurations for HP ZBook x2 and Microsoft Surface Pro
announced May 23, 2017.
- Weight will vary by configuration.
- Optional HP DreamColor display with 1 billion colors is sold
separately.
- Sold separately or as an optional feature
- Recharges your battery up to 50% within 30 minutes when the
system is off or in standby mode. Power adapter with a minimum
capacity of 65 watts is required. After charging has reached 50%
capacity, charging will return to normal. Charging time may vary
+/-10% due to System tolerance.
- For hard drives, GB = 1 billion bytes. TB = 1 trillion bytes.
Actual formatted capacity is less. Up to 30GB (for Windows 10) of
system disk is reserved for system recovery software.
- Based on HP’s unique and comprehensive security capabilities at
no additional cost among vendors as of January 2017 on HP Mobile
Workstations with 7th Gen Intel® Processors.
- HP Sure Start Gen3 is available on HP EliteBook, HP ZBook, and
HP Z Workstation products equipped with Intel® 7th generation or
later processors.
- HP Client Security Suite Gen3 requires Windows and Intel® or
AMD 7th Gen or later processors.
- Windows 10 MM14 battery life will vary depending on various
factors including product model, configuration, loaded
applications, features, use, wireless functionality, and power
management settings. The maximum capacity of the battery will
naturally decrease with time and usage. See www.bapco.com for
additional details.
- MIL STD 810G testing is pending and is not intended to
demonstrate fitness for U.S. Department of Defense contract
requirements or for military use. Test results are not a guarantee
of future performance under these test conditions. Accidental
damage requires an optional HP Accidental Damage Protection Care
Pack.
- Based on workstation market data as of October 11, 2017.
- Based on detachables from vendors as of October 5, 2017
comparing display resolution, color gamut and maximum colors
supported.
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