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Our most versatile mobile workstation. The 8560w features high-end professional graphics, robust processing power and a 15.6” diagonal LED-backlit display1 with a chiseled design that radiates performance.
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Whether you’re looking for maximum reliability for your office productivity applications or blazing fast speeds for heavy-duty 3D graphic workflows, the HP Z1 offers a variety of solutions to get the job done. Available for the first time in an All-in-One package, NVIDIA® professional graphics for the Z1 offer outstanding performance and value, complete with an HP designed heatsink to optimize thermal behavior and deliver whisper-quiet acoustics. And for less graphic intensive applications, the Z1 supports affordable integrated Intel Core HD and Xeon HD professional graphics.
NVIDIA® Quadro® Professional Graphics
Offering true workstation-class application performance with fully accelerated OpenGL support, NVIDIA® graphics are 100% certified and optimized with a wide spectrum of industry-leading applications including AutoDesk, Solidworks and Adobe. Compared to non-professional graphics solutions, the new NVIDIA® Quadro® cards deliver exponentially faster performance across a broad range of design, animation and video applications. The NVIDIA® Quadro lineup also offers the ability to take advantage of NVIDIA® CUDA™ Accelerated Applications like Adobe Premier Pro, Sony Vegas and Autodesk 3ds Max.
Complete peace of mind.
The NVIDIA® MXM lineup for the Z1 is designed, built and backed by NVIDIA® to help ensure the highest standards of quality, performance, and reliability. All HP workstation graphics solutions come with a limited 3-year warranty extendable up to 5 years through HP Care Pack Services.9
Dedicated Support
Get the support you need from HP and our graphics vendors to keep your workstation running at peak performance.
Application Certification
Professional graphics cards are optimized and certified for industry-leading professional applications to deliver uninterrupted productivity.
IT Management Simplification
Take advantage of HP qualified NVIDIA® Unified Driver Architecture to ease the management of your Z1. Providing all around compatibility between systems with different NVIDIA® graphics solutions, it allows the same software package to be deployed across all your Z desktop workstations.
Whole-system engineering helps ensure the processor, memory, graphics, operating system and applications work together seamlessly to deliver maximum performance.
LightWave 3D 9.6 HP EliteBook 8560w vs. 8540w
This chart compares an HP EliteBook 8560w Mobile Workstation running an Intel® Core i7-2820QM 2.30 GHz processor with NVIDIA Quadro 2000M graphics card to an HP EliteBook 8540w, running an Intel® Core Q820 1.73 GHz processor with NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M graphics card. All systems are running the Microsoft® Windows® 7 64-bit operating system. Testing is based on SPECapc benchmark.
Autodesk Maya 2009 HP EliteBook 8560w vs. 8540w
This chart compares an HP EliteBook 8560w Mobile Workstation running an Intel® Core i7-2820QM 2.30 GHz processor with NVIDIA Quadro 2000M graphics card to an HP EliteBook 8540w, running an Intel® Core Q820 1.73 GHz processor with NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M graphics card. All systems are running the Microsoft® Windows® 7 64-bit operating system. Testing is based on SPECapc benchmark.
AutoCAD® 2011 HP EliteBook 8560w vs. 8540w
This chart compares an HP EliteBook 8560w Mobile Workstation running an Intel® Core i7-2820QM 2.30 GHz processor with NVIDIA Quadro 2000M graphics card to an HP EliteBook 8540w, running an Intel® Core Q820 1.73 GHz processor with NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M graphics card. All systems are running the Microsoft® Windows® 7 64-bit operating system. Testing is based on Cadalyst 5.3 benchmark.
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