First serious 14-inch workstation laptop thanks to Strix Halo: HP ZBook Ultra G1a review

[Redaktion]

HP's ZBook Ultra G1a 14 is among the most expensive current 14-inch laptops in the Windows market, but also one of the most interesting ones. With Strix Halo, it takes on the workstation market with a unique concept. In this review, we are taking a look at the WUXGA and Ryzen AI Max Pro 390 version.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/First-serious-14-inch-workstation-laptop-thanks-to-Strix-Halo-HP-ZBook-Ultra-G1a-review.1031131.0.html

[Dont_Look_Up]

I have a question regarding Geekbench. It seems that it is giving 1.5 times higher score to Apple M CPUs in comparison to any other Intel or AMD CPU than any other benchmark (like CB 23, CB 2024, Blender etc) gives. It creates such a false impression about the Apple M series and many articles use only Geekbench to compare CPUs...

For example in this article both Ryzen halo 395 and 390 are faster than M4 14 core in CB23, but in Geekbench, M4 is faster than the Ryzen 390 by 44% !

It is simply a biased and unreliable benchmark and I don't understand why reviewers use it at all.

[richardnpaul]

That pricing can't be right. I was looking in the UK on HP's own website and that's about the same price as the 64GB 395 with 1TB of storage which is £2,291.99

[Mark Clayton]

The UK does have some import tariffs (a few percent at most), whereas the USA has 20% on kit like this, soon to rise to ???%

UK imports and UK goods are all subject to VAT (like a sales tax as in NY), however businesses can reclaim this against VAT on items or services they sell [even if they keep it to use].

[AlexZ]

I have a question regarding Geekbench. It seems that it is giving 1.5 times higher score to Apple M CPUs in comparison to any other Intel or AMD CPU

Geekbench is crap.  If anything, it's only suitable for comparing x86 CPUs with each other, but not between x86 and Apple M.

[Dont_Look_Up]

Geekbench is crap.  If anything, it's only suitable for comparing x86 CPUs with each other, but not between x86 and Apple M.

Correct, but explain that to people who read articles online comparing Apple to other CPUs based only on Geekbench, The situation is so ridiculous that if you believe Geekbench, a 10W tablet with Apple M CPU has similar score to a top of the line 150W Ryzen Desktop CPU!

Go figure!