no why do gamers always get the cool stuff like hp omen and ASUS rog and
stuff they're just like oh you get a 20 80. you get a 20-70 like here's a
300-watt power supply i get two of them screw it
and then like you know the professionals they're like oh we spend so much time on this
beautiful xps 15 but it gets a 1650 so like if you want a game if you want to
do anything that's like more than looking at photos like screw you you
don't have enough power well hp hopes to change that with the hp z
create this thing right here it's apparently you know like pretty
reasonable size like it's half a small one but it's got an i9 and a 20 70 super
so let's let's give her a look this is one of those things that no one
really cares about but every single brand loves to talk about it they've got
this recycled cardboard in here which actually smells pretty good
i don't think this plastic right here is going straight for the landfill
turtle's going to choke on that it's going to be tragic this is z
by hp i don't really get it when
companies do branding like that but whatever it's an hp z create boom laptop
laptop boom so in here what do we have for document we don't have any
documentation is this a pre-production unit there's zero documentation at all
so like we have just a power brick and nothing
else to tell us that it complies with whatever standard which actually
that's one of the things that they said when they were making this they were like
yeah it's really easy to hit all of the certifications for a gaming notebook but
when you want to make it so that it can be given to like professionals and meet all
of those specifications it's a lot harder we have some
construction going on that's um the air compressor lines getting installed
anyway we have a 200 watt power brick it's definitely better than the really
little one that you get with the xps 17. that thing's way underpowered so you
know we've got the classic all-aluminum construction so i think
all of in here is you know cnc'd
aluminum backplate here it's aluminum top that also feels like aluminum yeah
so this version right here i think you can get one that's just under five
pounds this one's just over five pounds thereabout the finish on this edge here
is really great that must be diamond cut it is
that is beautiful but anyway we've got a full-size sd card reader which i love
you will need a dongle though for the mini DisplayPort port that's here but
whatever you've got two thunderbolts right beside it so those make up for that we also have power in
yeah if i really line us that one i always chuck these around and people get nervous
finally bit me and then on this side we get a full-size
usb type a we also have a lot of venting on the side here so i'm
kind of curious how the thermals work in this so we've got
i'm guessing intake here a lot comes out there and then along the
side i guess oh there's also a headphone microphone combo port right there which
i guess we can't take for granted on laptops anymore anyway let's
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i said it before but i'm going to say it again this is the most laptop looking
laptop i have seen in quite some time i like it i i enjoy the look overall and
the build quality is excellent but there's there's nothing special about it
you have this little bit of diamond cut around the trackpad that's kind of fun
besides that it's about as standard beans laptop looking as you can get we
have these nice thin bezels along the sides but it is just plastic
around the rest at the same time like who cares it's a business laptop you're
buying this thing because it's fast not because it's sexy it's not 10 out of 10
sexy but it's good enough hp was like they were
hyping up their new dream color display
and they were like have you heard of it and i was like
is it a good ips and they were like
yeah and they weren't lying it is an excellent ips like it's quite beautiful
yeah i believe it's up to 600 nits brightness and this right here is the 4k
one you can also get i think up to a thousand nits on a 1080p one but that
has the sure view screen which is good for privacy because that's the
one where you like when you're off axis you can't see it
but also apparently those displays are just bad to look at so i don't know
one thing that this screen does not have though
is touch which is kind of disappointing
that said this computer isn't really the
sort of thing that you need touch screen support on so let's take a look at what
we actually have in this so we have an Intel core i9 1088 5h
that's an 8 core CPU it goes up to like i think it's 4.9 gigahertz editor put
the actual number here a 2 terabyte SSD which i think is upgradable the RAM is
not wi-fi six card from Intel excellent
and the little rtx 2070 with max-q
design this right here is available with up to
a 2080. but i wouldn't necessarily recommend that because i do find you're
really constrained on laptops like this by thermals and power
so you're not necessarily going to get all of the advantages of the 2080 in
something like this there also is this is the z book create
line but there's the z book studio line which
is the exact same thing but with quadro so if you need that then
boom go get one of those whatever you're an engineer cool good job the deck on
this computer is insanely stiff
i don't know if you can tell from there but i'm pressing quite hard on this and
the movement that you see is that the table is not flat it's not
the laptop this keyboard is excellent there's
really nothing that i would say to improve it if i'm honest there's
this excellent snap like it's a real
it's a real crispy feeling keyboard but then you have just a lot of key travel
afterwards so you're not feeling like you need to constantly bottom them out
okay that's that's a really good result right there so what i was trying to do is on some
laptops you can feel the buckling point when there's like a bit of a stiff one
at the top where you press it and you get the buckle but it doesn't actuate the actual
key when you do that and that can kind of like you think
you've hit the key but you haven't and then you just kind of have to go slower and
make sure that all of the words are actually coming out this one right here
it's awesome excellent keyboard good job guys the closest keyboard to this is the one
on the xps 15 which i've got right here actually so i guess i can compare them
side by side this is currently my favorite keyboard
on the market and
yeah they're both awesome i really couldn't say
one or the other is better they've both got that excellent snap and then a fair
bit of travel afterwards the z book is a bit stiffer like
if you're kind of a heavy typer you'll probably like this one more i feel like
i might be able to get slightly higher burst speeds than the delve i don't know
they're both awesome excellent job as for the track pad oh we've got another
one of these situations it's it's one of the hand lube needed
track pads it's a real phenomenon some track pads
you know you just need to get some of your hand gunk on there before they work
well so one thing that's very notable
is the size of the trackpad it still is a pretty decent size but i'm not a huge
fan of these laptops where they put the
speakers up at the top instead of along the sides because you just lose that
little bit of space for the track pad that said i think it's big enough it
feels great i'm able to use it with my thumb which is
something you can't always do i don't know how many other people do
that but i really like being able to use it like this and this is excellent for
that use case oh the fans broke up a little bit they're installing chrome hp
did say that they have this you know this newfangled
ai algorithm stuff where they're able to control the power going
to the CPU and the GPU and the fan speed so that you get
basically the best experience that you can so
on a lot of laptops you'll have let's say
100 watts or maybe 80 watts dedicated to the GPU and it's just like
this 80 watts i need it that's mine
don't take it whereas in this right here they're able
to be like hey GPU you're not using all of your 80
watts like you still have priority for that but we're gonna chuck some over to
the CPU so it can do more faster things and then sort of balance between the two
depending on what sort of a task you're doing i think it's cool also the screen
is calibrated from the factory so you can immediately get into photo work
with it
huh
i don't know which one's better uh they're both really good that that's
like a tie in my mind this right here is a tiny bit more bass but it's a bit more
muddy in the center this right here i'd say is a slight bit more like
flat eq but you don't quite get the like burner
so awesome job hp that's like
maybe the best Windows laptop right now
i'm sorry you had to see that oh oh we did it
yes okay it might just be that once it's off
i think this bottom plate's made out of magnesium though which is pretty fun
that's not a cheap part right there it's basically just a vapor chamber so we get
an 83 watt hour battery that's i believe the same as the xps 15. i don't think
they could have put any more battery in here given
how much cooler there is like all
of this is cooler and all of
this basically is vapor chamber i'm gonna take off a little bit more screws
here and see if we can get a better look at it looks like we have a little maybe
aluminum shield here that is probably just to
make it less likely that the heat you know goes down into your lap instead of
out the side in the back i think we've got it yes we did it wow
that is that right there is why this right here
is a 4 000 laptop i haven't really mentioned the price yet
but you know it's a professional laptop you shouldn't be surprised that
it's really freaking expensive respect at i think a bit over four grand
the spec that i would go for you can probably get away with not a two
terabyte SSD you can probably do like one maybe half
and like you know that brings it down a bit at the same time you probably do want
like the 2070 and the i9 if you're going for
this you can probably get something a bit smaller or like you know you can go
for like an xps if you don't need that power oh one more thing
they they were really happy about uh the design of their i think it's a
liquid polymer crystal fan ASUS has been using these in their
zephyrus line for a bit but allows them to make these super small fins and just have so
many of them can you see that there david they're just so small
anyway i think this thing's awesome if you're the sort of person that
needs this kind of power and is doing like you know more creative sort of
stuff it's definitely expensive and if you go for
you know the lineup that has the quadros in it it's gonna be
even more expensive but at the same time just just look at this thing it's wicked
if you guys want to see more hp vapor chamber shenanigans we took a look at
their nv 15 a little while ago which was wicked they just thief the cooling
system from their gaming laptop put it in their professional laptop great idea
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oh jesus just turned on that's really not good oh no you don't
have a cooler uh where's the battery we're unplugging
you there we go uh no more power for you
yes everyone always unplug the battery on your laptop before you take it apart
especially when you shake it this far apart