By Desire Athow
Introduction and design
The last few months have been a bit of a rollercoaster for HP Inc, which together with HP Enterprise, made the HP that we knew.
The split has seemingly been a blessing in disguise for the company as it came up with some stunning new designs and an eagerness to innovate (see the HP Elite X3 or the new HP Spectre) that was sorely lacking just a few years ago.
The HP ZBook Studio G3 laptop was announced back in November 2015 and competes with Dell’s Precision 15 5000 and Lenovo’s ThinkPad P50 series in terms of performance, features, and also mobility.
There seems to be a clear strategy from the main vendors to take the lessons learned from the premium consumer market and apply them to the workstation market. That means having thin-and-light (15-inch diagonal or less) and standard (17-inch or more) form factors living side-by-side.
The Studio G3 easily fits in the Ultrabook category with a weight of a tad under 2kg and a thickness of only 18mm, slightly heavier and a smidge thicker than the Precision 15 5000 but more portable and svelte than Lenovo’s option.
The Studio G3 starts from £1,400 at HP (around $2,020, …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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