HP Refreshes SMB ProBook Notebooks With Skylake, Carrizo

[alex davies]

Last week saw the announcement of a number of consumer-focused hardware using Skylake chips, and this week HP is the first out of the gate to announce some new business class notebooks using the same.

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[heffeque]

Out of the 3 AMD APUs that are in the list, only the A10 is "Carrizo". The A8 and A4 are both "Carrizo-L" which are very weak APUs in performance AND in features compared to the plain "Carrizo".

Edit: Also no Wifi-AC and no 1080p display option on the AMD versions. What the heck, HP?

 

[alex davies]

Out of the 3 AMD APUs that are in the list, only the A10 is "Carrizo". The A8 and A4 are both "Carrizo-L" which are very weak APUs in performance AND in features compared to the plain "Carrizo".

Edit: Also no Wifi-AC and no 1080p display option on the AMD versions. What the heck, HP?

It does seem strange that HP would not offer an FHD display, SSD or wireless AC on the AMD model, but that is what was on the datasheet we received.

If that information changes, we'll be sure to update the post.

 

[Nintendork]

AMD still don't understand that if they want to have a chance on the mobile market, they need to release notebooks by themselves, maybe create the Fury brand.

No one give 2 cents about them, in fact most of the models seems to be gimped on purpose just to make AMD look bad.

We could have a nice notebook with a 1080p IPS/PLS, 500GB SSD FX8800P with optional d.gpu, USB 3.1 for like $800-1000.

 

[Guest]

AMD still don't understand that if they want to have a chance on the mobile market, they need to release notebooks by themselves, maybe create the Fury brand.

No one give 2 cents about them, in fact most of the models seems to be gimped on purpose just to make AMD look bad.

We could have a nice notebook with a 1080p IPS/PLS, 500GB SSD FX8800P with optional d.gpu, USB 3.1 for like $800-1000.

nice idea. but they don't have enough capital for that.
hope people will do some proper purchasing.

 

[ozicom]

The G2's are horrible notebooks. HP didn't put a window on bottom for HDD change and you have tear everything to change HDD. What kind of a customer don't need to change the HDD of his/her notebook? Please change the design.

 

[Intel999]

Color me surprised! An OEM that, once again, refuses to put a SSD in an AMD offering! Makes one wonder that if the new Intel "rebate" scheme secretly says nothing about limiting the number of AMD offerings but instead says "your rebate doubles if you only offer competitors with HDDs and crap screens"

Why would Intel do this? Could it be because the only difference that your average PC user will notice is in boot times. And 85% of those users think it is the processor that causes the extra wait time. Once in the majority of programs one can't tell the difference between an Intel I7 and an AMD A6.

 

[hst101rox]

Only up to a 1TB hard drive? Unless the supported hard drive form factor is only 2.5" 7mm, it can have a 2TB Samsung M9T 9.5mm laptop drive. I guess HP doesn't like Samsung.