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The HP EliteBook 8560w Mobile Workstation is a solid, powerful notebook, designed to deliver serious CPU and graphics performance in a transportable form factor. To that end, it has a 15.6in. screen plus the ability to run up to five displays, and plentiful quad-core processor options. Preconfigured models start at £1,065 and rise to £2,032 (ex. VAT).
Design
The EliteBook 8560w is not a notebook you'll want to carry very far or very often: it weighs no less than 3kg with a solid-state drive fitted — more if you opt for a mechanical hard drive. The power supply is also large and heavy by today's standards.
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The weight is indicative of solid build materials, and the EliteBook 8560w is certified as meeting MIL-STD 810G. This means it can withstand challenging drop, vibration, dust, altitude and temperature conditions. So if you do carry it around, or accidentally knock it from a desk, it ought to survive.
The chassis is made from aluminium and magnesium alloy. The lid section is thick and exhibits almost no flex; we couldn't depress the wrist rest area either, no matter how hard we pressed it. Dust protection is a little less obvious, as the ports and connectors are all exposed rather than fitted with protective covers — as we're used to seeing on rugged notebooks from the likes of Panasonic and Getac.
The screen isn't vast at 15.6in. across the diagonal, but our review sample had a native resolution of 1,920 by 1,080 pixels. You can also specify 1,600 by 900 if you don't need quite so much viewing area. HP's DreamColor system is an option if you need precision colour selection and matching from design to finished product.
With its matte finish and high resolution, we found the screen wonderful to work with. If you need multiple displays, then ATI's Eyefinity technology is on hand (via the FirePro M5950 GPU) to cater for up to five monitors, although you'll need a docking station to implement this feature.
The keyboard has an isolation-style design with well-spaced keys. The travel is minimal, and the keys make a rather loud banging sound when pressed — even light-touch typists will notice this in quieter offices. There's room for a full sized number pad to the right of the keyboard. The keys are backlit, the light automatically kicking in when any key is hit. There's very little light bleed around the keys.
There are four buttons to the top right of the keyboard that are bright lozenges of silver against the dark-grey chassis. One toggles the mobile wireless connections, the second mutes the sound, the third launches Internet Explorer, while the fourth calls up the Windows calculator for easy and fast use with the physical number pad. The power switch is also above the keyboard, on the left-hand side.
HP includes both a pointing stick and a touchpad with the EliteBook 8560w. The orange stick stands out against the dark grey of the surrounding keys, and has three large buttons sitting below the spacebar, for left and right mouse clicks and scrolling. Scrolling efficiently takes a little practice as you only need a gentle amount of pressure on the stick to scroll though text at a sensible reading speed — push too hard and it goes far too fast for reading. We found the pointing stick a little too hard to manipulate for our liking, although it may bed in over time.
The touchpad is large and very responsive. Beneath it are three more buttons, again for left and right mouse clicks and scrolling. Each of the six buttons around the touchpad is large, raised proud of their surroundings. Some may see them as clunky, but we appreciate their size and their definite action.
Three rubber lozenges sit on the wrist rest, helping to keep screen and keyboard apart when the lid is closed. They don't look very pretty, but they do an important job.