ZBook Firefly G8 Review! 3.8lb Metal Mobile Workstation!

[@sushimshah2896]

HP had been nailing it over the past couple of years imo!! 👍🏻 Just wish they were as good when I bought my Envy back in '14.

[@michalnowacki1489]

Laptops like that are for very specific people that probably don't watch KZbin reviews, but it's nice to see laptops other than the usual gaming laptops. Asus should really borrow this camera system! Also, congratz on 50k!

[@jay-5061]

Interesting product. I’m glad u r diversifying your content :)

[@apoorvappychoudhary392]

Because he is bob of all trades. 🔥

[@ОлесяМарючина-ч8п]

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[@sinnombre5466]

Almost bought a gaming ROG laptop until I saw this and learned about Quadro/T500.. the upgradeability is the icing on the cake 👌🏼

[@scarletpimpernel6813]

Thanks for the review! I had my eyes set on the Dell XPS 17 but started to doubt after reading complaints about Dell's lack of quality control. Problems with the trackpad, battery draining on high-performance to name a view. You cannot go wrong with HP, their attention to detail is second to none and this review re-affirmed that for me.

[@piranha_finance]

Hi, did you end up going for this laptop? If so, how have you found it?

[@theodat]

I work with AutoCAD on a daily basis and the Quattro graphics cards are a must in a workstation

[@ani_mal4]

Will this particular quadro gpu also be useful for 3d rendering softwares?

[@estebanguerrero682]

It's awesome to see lightweight mobile workstations

[@fleurdewin7958]

I had the older Firefly G7 with an i7-10810U . Be careful with choosing the display options, the 1000nits with Sureview privacy screen is bright but the colours are not great compare to screens with no privacy screen built-in. And never ever opt for the 250nits display. It is shittiest around, even in a well-lit office, it still feels dim, especially when I put it side by side against the Elitebook 840 series . The 400 nits option is the best display of the bunch. 4k display is great but the battery drains much faster. As you said, the keyboard is excellent, I even prefer this over the mechanical keyboards that are on many TongFang chassis gaming notebooks. If you don't need that Nvidia T500 GPU, you can opt out of it and save few hundred bucks, get better thermals and battery life.

[@fatmachebbi2942]

thanks a lot for your helpful comment

[@woodybg]

Thank you for the great video, pretty interesting product. Would recommend it to some of my colleagues.

[@rationalistfaith]

Good stuff! Great review! LG Gram 17 is the only "light weight" I would consider given that great/apex screen. My workflow is mostly remoting into my beefier machines (save the recent asus duo 15 se I got and is in RMA -.-)

[@RojsaCom]

Great review as always :)

[@TheMacco26]

A MUX offered here, while not in any Asus Gaming Laptops! How weird it is the world nowadays..

[@fleurdewin7958]

And this ZBook is not even a gaming laptop at all. The display does not support G Sync too. What the heck right ?

[@solitude5501]

The Zbook Create looks very high qualty, but definitely going to cost more for the specs.

[@agatinominotti5232]

wonderful laptop . I am very happy with it .

[@harperead]

looks good to me. maybe I'm getting one, once it goes on sale.

[@TheAnonyy]

I've had one since it came out in August 2020. You will get 4/5 use out of the battery. Chrome as usual will eat it out. Mine has touch screen. They should have made it bend all the way over as I don't see a lot of use for it. The fans will come on and heat increases when plugged in fir charging

[@onlycorner5565]

sorry to hear that it heats up when on charger for me this specific model is a bad deal

[@thetofusaur]

I was also looking into this as I want a laptop with thunderbolt, high end cpu, but low power gpu as I'd rather go for a egpu setup. Also the sure view 1000nit display is a privacy filter that ends up being generally much lower brightness and poor everyday usability as there's no way to remove the filter entirely. The toggle for it just goes from like low/medium to high instead off.

[@2k10clarky]

I have the 4k version for work, nice laptop. I'd prefer a 2560 x 1600 resolution though

[@lucasharr17]

I think there is something wrong with the upload because the 1080p looks like 480p. Not sure if its your end or youtube or what but it looks like a really low bitrate 1080p

[@i3looi2]

Thought was the only one.

[@vanceacata]

Would love to see a review of the HP Zbook fury 15 from you, especially a version with vapor chamber cooling with quadro rtx graphics

[@BasNunnikhoven]

but, can it still be used for gamig? I need a laptop for study, business and meetings. A strong and powerfull laptop is definetly what I need but in my spare time it would be great if I can play some games on it. like GTA 5 or what so ever.

[@RJADHARSH]

Awesome video as usual. But Idk anyone who'd consider a quad core laptop a workstation.

[@ivanbrasla]

The term has more to do with business and enterprise-ready features than the capability of the hardware

[@harinderkohli2928]

Does the Webcam has IR sensing for Authentication.

[@neosrt10]

This kind of HP build laptop quality stamped aluminum with a 5900hs and 3060 could compete with Asus Zephyrus g14/g15 line if they took this chasis and made a slim gaming line other wise right now its a very sleek laptop for non gamers to get everyday work done on the go that doesn't want or need a mac. Hey I mean its got thunderbolt if you wanna get your serious game on. Nice video Bob I wanna see HP do a gaming answer to the Asus G14/15 line with this type of build quality.

[@jegali]

HP states on their website that "NOTE: Soldered down memory is a requirement on configurations that have discrete graphics." And in this machine, the memory is still replaceable?

[@jasimaneesahamed1033]

I have the 15-inch model with an NVIDIA T500, and the memory is replaceable (along with the SSD and WiFi card)

[@ani_mal4]

Will the quadro t500 graphics be good for 3d softwares like sketchup, rhino 3d, blender etc?

[@captainfatbat9557]

Bob dude, you need to go full 4k now. Another great review, but the video quality is messed up a bit.

[@BobOfAllTrades]

I can’t afford to do that

[@captainfatbat9557]

​@@BobOfAllTrades Not if you start reviewing cameras too 😂. BTW your reviews are different and awesome. I believe techies will watch you review anything.

[@epicdude999]

How well would it run games like minecraft? Essentially would it out do a celeron and no gpu?

[@dashcamview814]

Does this model support 2nd nvme SSD?

[@kawaljeetsinghk]

Is there any pin hole above Z on back cover and what is utility bof same, I have pin hole in my model

[@yurekgrin]

microphone

[@dev.ahmedmdeeb]

is support esim ??

[@bfish9700]

God that bezel though. It's like yeah it's lightweight and I like numpads but I honestly thought that was a 17" compared to my g15. As a business user, I'd never buy that, it just misses on too many things.

[@wpietruszewski]

I can't really understand why are the providing this laptop with USB-C power adapter that you stick in the middle of the laptop. If you are right handed then it blocks your mouse. There should be a left hand side port for that in my opinion. Otherwise it's a nice workstation.

[@Reborn_photography]

Can i use it for my photoshop and premier pro edit

[@BobOfAllTrades]

It’ll certainly run those programs.

[@damathdesilva2325]

my fingerprint scanner isn't working in this model, anyone have the same issue

[@Барьти]

The way he describes about Firefly, this Gentleman is working for either HP or from an advertising Agency 🤣🤣🤣

[@BobOfAllTrades]

Neither, I recall it being a good laptop. Perhaps a great one for the right person 👍

[@jeffreyokun2355]

Im using this as my current workhorse and damn the cooling solution and chassis are BAD! The device runs hot and when you close the lid, the screen covers the top intake / exhaust, not quite sure which way it works but laptop has frozen many, many times and needs a reboot while running hot as hell. Horrible solution.

[@BobOfAllTrades]

Oh wow interesting! So as a docking station it’s not ideal. I know when the lid is closed there was a small gap for it to breathe I don’t know if that will cause an issue or not. I don’t have an external monitor to test those things but it looks like there would be enough room for it to breathe considering it was low wattage parts. What spec and model do you have? Or is it this exact one?

[@bjoernhari]

Ive got the Notebook today. Unfortunate i cant open the sim slot. Can anyone help me please?

[@BobOfAllTrades]

It should spring loaded eject by pushing it in with a thumbnail 🤷

[@bjoernhari]

Tried it out but then the slot gut curved and now its nearly impossible to take it out. Think i need to show it to the shop i bought it

[@ronin0829]

Does this have backlit keyboard?

[@BobOfAllTrades]

Of course 👍

[@aviral4080]

Zbook vs MacBook m1 ,which is better ???

[@BobOfAllTrades]

The Zbook has a ton of features that its user should be looking for if this is on the shortlist. Mac is Mac and its M1 is great 👍

[@steamline432]

"quatro's more for precision" lmao as if geforce is less precise. They're made for different kinds of calculations: geforce for the calculations involved in rendering, espicially rtx and shaders and the sort of thing's you'd find in games, and quatro for various other gpu tasks (such as machine learning) --pulled out of my ass so I could appreciate if someone could confirm

[@ArtisticallyEligible]

oh yeah!

[@akinoz]

It is even have MUX wow

[@SergiuSuiu]

You also have case defect around F2-F5 keys ? Please look this video(HP Zbook firefly G8 - factory case deffect) ? In the area of the keys F2-F5 - the case sticks out. In the area of F9-F10 - is a small kink. And you can see that the keyboard is bent (wave). kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqKQgqeZjJqsq9E

[@TheAnonyy]

Couldn't post on your video as you turned off. I don't really see the defect on your chassis? I had a problem with the screen it had a yellow halo at the top of the screen to see it you need to turn off the room lights (sit in the dark) and boot the laptop to see it. It was hideous this was fresh from the factory so I got it replaced. The same issue was prevalent but not as bad so I kept it. There is a problem with it when it turns on the fans and if you are not there to move the laptop to a position where the fan holes are not blocked or limited air flow it can damage the mouse its done this already I got the part replaced but I think there still an issue in its design. Its nice e looking laptop I like the fingerprint access and that it's encrypted. The camera is average in good light but very grainy in poor light night time is impossible.

[@ethannguyen7562]

So much internal space wasted, I wouldn’t pay extra 250$ to upgrade screen for an average chasis

[@BobOfAllTrades]

I thought so too especially around the front edge but upon further investigation the chassis is so thin and narrow that they had to move the battery back the way they did in order to maintain that sleek center aesthetic.

[@catalincatalin3945]

It s not from metal , just plastic