Maxed-out HP Zbook Ultra 14 G1a with 128GB RAM, 4TB SSD and AMD Ryzen Strix Halo costs over $8,000

[Redaktion]

AMD's Ryzen Strix Halo with 16 performance cores and the integrated Radeon 8060S GPU is incredibly powerful, but apparently very expensive, especially in business notebooks. For example, HP is officially asking over $8,000 for the new Zbook Ultra 14 with Ryzen AI Max Pro 395.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Maxed-out-HP-Zbook-Ultra-14-G1a-with-128GB-RAM-4TB-SSD-and-AMD-Ryzen-Strix-Halo-costs-over-8-000.990551.0.html

[vasra]

One can get 16" MacBook Pro with M4 Max, 1TB PCIe SSD and 128GB of NUMA RAM for ~6000€ and it will wipe the floor with that Zbook ULtra G1a even in LLM duties.

Total fail from HP. Priced way too high.

[shawman]

Its cheaper than maxed out MBP M4 Max laptop. But performance wise Strix Halo cannot hold a candle to M4 Max or effiency either.

[Russel]

You're gonna find these laptops at a fraction of that price.
HP's laptops (and Lenovo's) are always on 'sale'. You're really unlucky if you miss these deals 😂.

Anyway, even with such discounts after using those codes, you're still gonna find the asking price to be over 2500 for 64GB RAM and 2TB disk space, which in my opinion, is too much.

HP has some real issues with their professional laptops that they have failed to address since a long time after all..

[will blake]

You're gonna find these laptops at a fraction of that price.

which in my opinion, is too much.

Yeah, and that's the problem. Seems like the entire strix halo launch is mainly geared towards nucs as those are the only reasonably priced options in general, like the Ryzen ai max 385 framework one.

If I'm spending over 2000 on a laptop, might as well get a rtx 5070 Ti with updated dlss4 transformer model.

While the efficiency of Ryzen ai max is good under lighter loads it's not all that much better under heavy load than dgpu laptops it seems. Flow z13 gets like 50 min to 1.5 hours while gaming depending on power profile. RTX 5000 laptops are getting 2 hours and 20 min. Granted it had a bigger battery capacity, but still. What's the point of igpu anymore if it's not substantially more efficient while being just as expensive?

Interested in seeing the upcoming Xbox Asus handheld collaboration as laptops in general seem to be insanely overpriced in EU atm. (Without getting something 5 years old or Chromebook)

[Ypsilon-25]

Total fail from HP. Priced way too high.

Who is the target group of such a notebook that is advertised as a "workstation"?
Companies

What do companies get for high-volume orders?
A quantity discount.

How else do companies benefit compared to private consumers?
They can depreciate the equipment, which reduces their profits and ultimately their tax burdens.

[Tebs]

$8000 won't mean squat if HP can't push AMD's new APU past 120W. But even with that, all the HP-infused additions won't make this device worth that much money - although I loathe Apple, I'd rather get a fully-spec'ed MBP M4 Max for half the price.