Gaming

Left 4 Dead maxed out on Elitebook 8730w

By Brad Feb 24 2009 add comment

BUSTED! Left 4 Dead works nicely with all settings maxed out on the HP Elitebook 8730w Mobile Workstation PC. The unit I used for testing had a T9400 2.53 GHz Intel Centrino 2 processor, 4 GB of RAM, 1 GB of graphics (Nvidia Quadro FX3700M), Windows Vista Ultimate and a lovely 17 inch Dream Color display. And the game settings were as follows:

1920 x 1200 full HD resolution, played on full screen
Film grain – Maxed out
Anti-aliasing – 16X MSAA
16X anisotropic [...]

Features, Gaming

Gaming on the Elitebook 8730w

By Brad Jan 3 2009 add comment

Besides running Photoshop CS4 and other heavy duty applications, I’ve found the HP Elitebook 8730w Mobile Workstation fairly adept at gaming, to a certain extent. That’s what I’ve been doing throughout most of last month: gaming on HP’s Elitebook 8730w.

Before I go on, let me give you guys a run down of the specifications on the one I managed to test out:

Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 2.53 GHz
4 GB of RAM (2 X 2 GB)
17 inch Dream Color display (1920 [...]

Gaming

HP Firefly “Mobile Blackbird”

By Brad Jan 3 2009 add comment

If you thought huge notebooks like the HP Elitebook 8730w or HP HDX “Dragon” were huge, you can add another notebook from HP to the list: the HP+Voodoo Firefly concept aka the “Mobile Blackbird“. This thing features a main 17 inch display AND a secondary 4.3 inch display below the main one. In addition, the Mobile Blackbird packs a Core 2 Extreme processor, 5.1 speaker system, dual ATI graphics card and what looks like FOUR headphone jacks in [...]

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