HP Elitebook 8740w receives EPEAT Gold rating, puts on weight, and poses for pic?!

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HP Elitebook 8740w on EPEAT's website (click for larger)

There’s a high possibility the HP Elitebook 8740w might be announced later this month, but right now, HP’s elusive 17 inch Mobile Workstation is more official than ever with news of Epeat (special thanks to Casper) giving this unannounced notebook their Gold award and Energy Star certification. According to that page on EPEAT’s website (EPEAT stands for Electronics Products Environmental Assessment Tool, by the way) on the Elitebook 8740w, the notebook was ‘registered’ for green certification not that long ago – barely a week – on February 23 and has since received 21 of 27 Optional Points along with an EPEAT Gold rating.

Elitebook 8740w listed weight on EPEAT site

But hey, how many of us actually obsess over how ‘green’ our notebooks are? Well, not yet… but if you’ve come here looking for other juicy titbits on the 8740w, not just the pride of improving air freshness and reduction of waste landfills, when you dispose your several grand Mobile Workstation one day, don’t fret. EPEAT also lists the weight of the HP Elitebook 8740w under the Materials section of their site – it will come in weighing 7.86 lbs (that’s 3.57 kg based on Windows 7′s units conversion calculator). Okay, you may be thinking “so what? If I could carry the 7.50 lbs 8730w, then what’s a mere 0.3 lbs increase to me?!”. Well, that leads us to become suspicious of WHY the Elitebook 8740w put on that wee bit amount of weight. Could it be that it has two built-in hard disk bays PLUS an optical drive?! Could it be an increase in build quality? Bulletproof plating, perhaps? Nah I’m just kidding about the bulletproof plating, but the various weight fluctuations between 2010 Elitebooks and their 2008 predecessors gives us a good reason to be suspicious – the weight increase in the 8740w could be because of an additional something or two, or nothing at all!

Pic sent by reader T.Y.: Is this the 8740w's lid?

And finally, a picture was sent by a reader going by the initials T.Y. claiming it’s the lid of the Elitebook 8740w. Using some rather primitive yet effective tools in Paint to measure logo distance and area around it, and comparing them to those of the 8440/8540, there is reason to somewhat believe that this may be real… or maybe not. Another one of those things up for speculation, folks.

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  By Chema, March 3, 2010 @ 6:38 pm

  Yeeeeeeeees! Counting down the days for its launch!
  I need more photos from your reader, please!

  However, I’m a bit dissappointed the new model it weights more than the old one (1.6Kg more), but the difference is subtle and it still weights less than its direct competitor Dell Precision M6500 (4Kg+). All in all, the new 8740w will be luggable too as its predecessor.

  Although it will be announced on this month, I’m pretty sure the 8740w will not be _really_ available until April (i.e., until HP can receive orders). As far I know, this delay also has occured in the previous 8540/8440 models.

  Thanks as usual, Brad

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  By Chema, March 3, 2010 @ 6:42 pm

  Sorry, my mistake, the weight difference between the 8730w and the 8740w ONLY will be less than 0.2Kg! That difference is unnoticeable! LOL

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  By HP Fan, March 4, 2010 @ 1:32 am

  Hello HP Fansite.
  I’m just looking into 8740w PDF datasheet. Few specifications for you. Up to 16GB memory (4 slots in Quad core configurations). One primary HDD drive, sadly no secondy HDD bay, only option through up-bay. Graphic options: Ati FirePro M7820 1GB GDDR5, NV Quadro FX2800 & FX3800, Ati FirePro is entry choice, I still can’t find any data to which ati consumer card it compares. All other options are basicaly the same as on 8540w series.

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