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The graphics card is an Nvidia Quadro 1000M, with 2GB of dedicated video memory. This is a mid-range workstation-quality adapter that supports Nvidia's latest GPU-acceleration technology, CUDA 5, and comes with ISV certifications for a range of professional applications in areas such as CAD, 3D modelling, video editing, animation and data visualisation. Z1 models are available with more powerful Quadro 3000M and 4000M cards, or less capable Quadro 500M or integrated Intel HD Graphics P2000 and P3000 GPUs.
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As well as wired Gigabit Ethernet, the Z1 has wireless connectivity in the shape of Intel's Centrino Advanced-N 6230, a half-length Mini PCIe card offering dual-band (2.4GHz/5GHz) 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 3.0+HS.
Ports, connectors, buttons and LEDs are plentiful, if not always ideally located (see above). On the right-hand side, from top to bottom, is the power button, a hard drive activity light, an eject button for the slot-loading optical drive, the optical drive itself, the aforementioned media card reader, a 6-pin FireWire (1394a) port, two USB 3.0 ports and a pair of audio jacks (microphone and headphone). Hidden away at the back (see earlier comments) are the audio ports (line-in/out, subwoofer and S/PDIF), 4 USB 2.0 ports, the RJ-45 Ethernet port and a DisplayPort connector, along with the power input. The DisplayPort connector allows you to use the Z1's 27in. screen as a monitor for another system, if necessary. Conspicuous by their absence are eSATA and Thunderbolt ports, which some potential buyers may see as a drawback.
The Z1 is not overburdened with bundled software, coming with a collection of HP tools and utilities, Office 2010 Starter, Cyberlink YouCam and Corel WinDVD SD. Obviously the professional users at whom this system is aimed will want as clean a platform as possible for their particular applications.
With a quad-core Xeon CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 2GB Quadro 1000M GPU, we expected good performance from HP's Z1 Workstation, and that's what we got. Its Windows Experience Index (WEI) is 5.9 (out of 7.9), with the lowest-performing subsystem (which corresponds to the WEI) being Primary hard disk (Disk data transfer rate). The remaining scores are all very good or excellent: 6.7 for both Graphics (desktop performance for Windows Aero) and Gaming graphics (3D business and gaming graphics performance); and 7.6 for both Processor (calculations per second) and Memory (RAM) (memory operations per second).