Technical white paper HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation Expand your creative capabilities On the go creativity knows no limits with a vivid 17.3" diagonal HP ZBook 17 G2. Showcase your best work in the office or on the go and take advantage of HP’s most powerful processing, graphics, simple scalability, and blazing-fast connectivity to perform and collaborate at the speed of creativity. Table of contents Display options......................................................................................
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation Display options As a mobile workstation customer, we know that viewing your work precisely is critical to your success. You need the right display in order to accurately and efficiently get your work done. Our HP ZBook 17 G2 offers different display options, so that you can get the best visual experience. On top of that, our mobile workstation allows you to dock and take advantage of our HP Z Displays.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation issue is caused by the contrast ratio dropping dramatically, something related to the viewing angle of the screen that refers to the degree which you can view the display from an angle without image degradation. When you tilt a TN mobile workstation display up and down, the screen will gray out. Similarly, when you look at the TN screen from angles to the left and right, the colors displayed will shift, as shown in Figure 1 below.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation Aspect ratio The proportional relationship between an image’s width and height is referred to as its aspect ratio. Aspect ratio is usually written in the form width:height. The old common standard was a 4:3 format. However, with the advent of widescreen displays that new standard is 16:9 which is the aspect ratio used for High Definition television.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation Resolution types Many different resolution displays exist and they all have different titles. The difference in all these displays and names is simply the amount of pixels that the screen can display. Table 1, shown below, outlines the differences in the names and resolutions of displays offered in the market. Table 1.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation HP Z Displays While our HP ZBook displays offer so much, we know that you aren’t always going to be using them. Many of you will be using a docking station to connect to our HP Z Displays at your desk or office. HP Z Displays offer great expandability to the HP ZBook. With sizes ranging from 22" to 30" diagonal displays you can find the perfect size for your work.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation HP ZBook 17 G2 without a docking station HP ZBook 17 G2, without the use of a socking station, supports up to a maximum of four independent displays on SKUs with NVIDIA® graphics and five on SKUs with AMD graphics. These four displays include the internal panel plus three external displays connected to the VGA, the DisplayPort (DP), and the Thunderbolt™ 22 Port connectors.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation Table 3. Multiple displays with DP 1.2 Hub and/or DP 1.2 MST Monitor Displays without a docking station and DP 1.2 Hub HP ZBook 17 G2 with Hybrid Graphics enabled HP ZBook 17 G2 with Hybrid Grpahics disabled Up to 6 displays may be active. A maximum of 2 of these are from group A and 4 from group B.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation Multiple displays management On the HP ZBook 17 G2, users may also use NVIDIA® Control Panel to manage multiple displays. (The screen shot for NVIDIA® Control panel is listed below). Tip: A quick way to enable all displays connected (up to the maximum supported) in extended desktop mode is to use Windows presentation key and choose “Extend” mode. 1) Connect displays; 2) Press Windows logo key + P; 3) Select Extend.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation What happens if the power supply is too low in wattage? The HP ZBook 17 G2 can be configured in the settings to run at full use, balanced, or power saving modes that can be selected by the user. When the mobile workstation is connected to a landline, it will pull all of the current it needs from the wall, up to the rating of the power supply.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation HP Total Test Process The HP ZBook 17 G2 is intended to provide our users with a reliable product wherever they go, under many conditions. In the design phase, we start with the HP Total Test Process. This is a multi-tiered product validation process with comprehensive, end-to-end diagnostics and a minimum of 100,000 hours of testing per platform, ensuring you get a reliable and durable notebook that can go the distance.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation Test 2: Comer Drop Test (Continue to run Comer drop on the same sample if it passed Test 1 planar drop) A typical or normal drop of an entire, functional, fully configured system (on four corners) to a linoleulm over concrete floor is performed at a drop height of 36". The four planes of testing are: • Top left • Top right • Bottom left • Bottom right Shock test There are two types of shock tests performed in accordance to the MIL-STD-810G.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation Sand/Dust test The dust test is performed in accordance to the MIL-STD-810G, Method 510.5 Procedure I. These test parameters were set so that the notebook was dusted with Arizona Road Dust for six hours while being operated. Humidity test The humidity test is performed in accordance to the MIL-STD-810G, Method 507.5 Procedure II.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation How does the HP ZBook 17 G2 measure up? Below is the ZBook 17 G2 MIL-STD testing report. The ZBook 17 G2 passed all 13 test and all tests were performed from a 3rd party to ensure accurate testing results and no bias in the reports. Table 4. This outlines the tests that were passed by the HP ZBook 17 G2 in 2014 MIL-STD-810G reference Drop Method 516.6 Procedure IV Functional shock Method 516.6 procedure I Vibration Method 514.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation Why the transition from SATA to PCIe? Today’s SATA HDDs and SATA SSDs have reached a performance ceiling. HDDs are limited by the mechanical nature of the devices, while SATA SSDs are limited by the 6 Gb/s (600 MB/s) ceiling of the SATA bus. Furthermore, the SATA-I/O working group made a strategic decision to not enhance the performance of the SATA bus, instead opting to shift focus to the multi-lane capabilities of PCI Express.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation M.2 benefits and features • Maximizes usage of card space –– Physical dimension specification comparison between mSATA and M.2 Board Area (mm) mSATA M.2 30 x 50.95 22 x 30, 22 x 42, 22 x 60, 22 x 80, 22 x 110 ––Longer modules and double-sided components population allows double the storage capacity within the footprint of mSATA SSD devices • Four PCI Express lanes and one SATA 3.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation The chart below shows a comparison of storage device performance measured in MB/s. Through direct connection to the PCIe Bus the HP Z Turbo Drive is able to considerably exceed previous performance capabilities.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation Summary The transition from SATA to PCIe protocols for Solid State Devices enables customers to change their use models and how they allocate their spending on workstation platforms. Continued cost reductions in SSD devices will drive growth in usage. Additional growth is driven by the performance improvement obtained with the move from SATA to PCIe protocol enabled by the M.2 form factor.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation BIOS and UEFI background As computer technology has advanced, the BIOS has expanded to handle new components, larger and more complex chipsets, add-in cards, and other enhancements. This expansion has made the BIOS increasingly intricate. Development of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is the computer industry’s solution to BIOS limitations.
Technical white paper | HP ZBook 17 G2 Mobile Workstation Resources, contacts, or additional links HP ZBook Mobile Workstations hp.com/go/zbook More information on Secure Boot HP Consumer Support: Secure Boot (Windows 8) More information on Custom Integration Services HP Personal Systems: Configuration Services Learn more at hp.com/go/whitepapers pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362046,00.asp itdonut.co.uk/blog/2013/02/what-screen-resolution-and-why-does-it-matter-0 gizmodo.
