Review: HP Elite Book 8760w
Category : Notebooks / Tablets
Published by Marc Büchel on 17.10.11
HPs top of the range models regarding their business line-up are called EliteBook. The 8760w we got for review features an IPS panel, a 256 gigabyte SSD as well as a Quad Core CPU. Furhtermore the use of a NVIDIA Quadro GPU underlines the professional field in which this high quality product feels home. 
The EliteBook 8760w from HP is available with different configurations. The most basic model is shipped a CHF 2'299.- price tage and features an Intel Core i5-2540M CPU, 4 gigabyte memory, an AMD FirePro M5950 mobile GPU, 500 gigabyte hard drive and Windows 7 Professional. The model we've tested comes with an Intel Core i7-2630QM CPU, 8 gigabyte memory, a NVIDIA Quadro 3000M mobile GPU, 256 Gigabyte SATA-II SSD from Samsung an pre-installed Windows 7.
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Specifications / Chassis
| CPU | Intel Core i7-2630QM (2.0 GHz Standard, 2.9 GHz Turbo) |
| Operating System | Windows 7 Professional |
| Chipset | Intel QM67 Express Chipset |
| Memory | DDR3 1333 MHz, 2 x SODIMM, 8 GByte Total |
| Display | 17.3'' Full HD LED Backlight, 1920 x 1080 Pixel |
| Graphics card | NVIDIA Quadro 3000M |
| Hard drive / Drive | 1 x 256 Gigabyte Samsung SATA-II SSD |
| Video Camera | HD Webcam |
| Connectors | 2 x USB 3.0 1 x USB 2.0 1 x USB 2.0 (Laden) 1 x eSATA/USB 1 x VGA 1 x DisplayPort 1 x 1394a 1 x Mic 1 x Headphone 1 x Power Plug 1 x RJ-11 1 x Gigabit LAN 1 x Docking Station 1 x Connector for second battery 1 x Express Card/54 1 x Smart Card Reader 1 x SD/MMC |
| Audio | Integrierte SRS Stereolautsprecher |
| Battery | 75 Wh 8 cell |
| Dimensions | 416.5 x 272.7 x 37.4 mm (W x D x H) |
| Weight | 3.47 kg |
Chassis / Design / Build quality
Already at a first glance one can see that with the EliteBook 8760w, HP has a very high quality business-line product in its portfolio. The design is plain and simple and very pleasing. HP understood it to combine aluminium and plastic in a clever way, that in the end, it generates an attractive and homogenous overall picture. Furhtermore the case is also very stable and offers a high level of stiffness. A closer look at the displays hinge-joints reveals that they're mad of massive aluminium which guarantees a long lifespan. These connection pieces also prevent annoying lupping of the display. It is also quite remarkable that this huge notebook "only" weight 3.47 Kilogram. We've seen lots of gaming notebooks which are both, heavier and wieder. Therefore the 8760w could not only be used as a desktop replacement in the executives office it can still be carried from one meeting to another.
Simple and with a certain amount of understatement, that's how HP put this notebooks name - EliteBook Workstation - in place. The orange colored writing, perfectly suits the different shades of gray and silver that the materials are kept in. We also like the connectors design very much. The frame they have, looks really nice.
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Display / Input Devices
Display
Most certainly, the display is about the best part the EliteBook 8760w has to offer. HP put an IPS panel in place which offers highly vivid colors, an exceptionally good contrast ratio and an equally good level of brightness which in this case is 270 candela per squaremeter. This 17.3 inch display definitely belongs to the best we've ever seen. Also the viewing angle is very good. What makes it comfortable and pleasing to look at, is the fact, that HP decided to make use of an anti-glare-type display. Nevertheless the black level still is very good. The full HD resolution offer plenty of workspace although the predecessor of this notebook came with a 1920 x 1200 pixel display. Why do we mention this? The answer is simple: this display is that good that you simply can't get enough of it.
Input Devices
With the input peripherals HP again did a perfect job regarding the EliteBook 8760w. The keyboard for example allows a highly comfortable typing. The surface of the keys is a little bit rough and offers a very pleasant user experience. The key strokes go easily but still there is a release point which is well chosen. Furthermore HP decided to equip the 8760w with a full size keyboard as well as a numberpad right next to it.
Even the touchpad is perfect. The user experience is very comfortable and the surface is just how any manufacturer should do it. Even two-finger-scrolling, like you might know it from Apples multi touch touchpads goes easily and without an effort and this really is something only a handful of manufacturers a capable of offering. In total there are six buttons located around the mousepad which once again are very nice to use and the release pressure is perfect. Furthermore they produce almost no noise when pushing them.
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Test setup
Regarding our notebook reviews we use a practical approach. To get a detailed impresson of the device the tester uses it to work with. In case of gaming notebooks it replaces the testers gaming PC during the time of the test. These methods allow us to provide detailed user experience to you.Regarding performance benchmarks - which are listed below - we don't go very deep. What we do, is that we use benchmarking software which over the years have established as standards for reviewing purposes. Furthermore the specific game benchmarks give insight to the playability of recent games.
Benchmarkprogramme
- Futuremark PCMark 7
- Total Score
- Video playback and transcoding / Video playback Score
- Video playback and transcoding / Video transcoding - downscaling Score
- System storage - gaming / System storage - gaming Score
- Graphics - DirectX 9 / Graphics - DirectX 9 Score
- Image manipulation / Image manipulation Score
- System storage - importing pictures / System storage - importing pictures Score
- Web browsing and decrypting / Web browsing Score
- Web browsing and decrypting / Data decrypting Score
- System storage - Windows Defender / System storage - Windows Defender Score
- Total Score
- Futuremark 3DMark 11
- Total
- CPU
- Physics
- Futuremark 3DMark Vantage
- Total
- Grafik
- CPU
- Unigine Heaven
- High / Extreme / 16x AF / 8x AA / Max Resolution
- Resident Evil 5
- High / 16x AF / 8x AA / Max Resolution
- Far Cry 2
- High / 16x AF / 8x AA / Max Resolution
- Battery Eater
- Classic
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PCMark 7 - Video Playback / Downscaling / Transcoding / Storage
PCMark 7 is a benchmark suite which consists of 20 different workloads. The following results reflect the PCMark 7's standard selection, which provides a good insight regarding overall system performance. For a comfortable presentation we chose to split the results onto three different sites.| Futuremark PCMark 7 | Punkte |
| MSI GT 780 | 3'805 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 3'720 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 3'074 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 3'015 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 2'966 |
| ASUS G74SX | 2'500 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 2'261 |
| Sony Vaio S-Serie VPC-SB1S1EW | 1'693 |
| Video playback and transcoding / Video playback | fps |
| MSI GT 780 | 23.14 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 23.13 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 23.12 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 23.11 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 23.10 |
| ASUS G74SX | 23.04 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 23.01 |
| Sony Vaio S-Serie VPC-SB1S1EW | 22.62 |
| Video playback and transcoding / Video transcoding - downscaling | KByte/s |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 5'285 |
| ASUS G74SX | 5'251 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 4'948 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 4'912 |
| MSI GT 780 | 4'905 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 4'923 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 4'870 |
| Sony Vaio S-Serie VPC-SB1S1EW | 2'472 |
| System storage - gaming / System storage - gaming | MByte/s |
| MSI GT 780 | 14.40 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 13.83 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 7.93 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 7.21 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 7.09 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 4.46 |
| ASUS G74SX | 4.34 |
| Sony Vaio S-Serie VPC-SB1S1EW | 3.23 |
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DirectX 9 / Image Manipulation / Importing Pictures
| Graphics - DirectX 9 / Graphics - DirectX 9 | fps |
| MSI GT 780 | 50.55 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 50.37 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 49.74 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 47.51 |
| ASUS G74SX | 48.96 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 32.92 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 30.67 |
| Sony Vaio S-Serie VPC-SB1S1EW | 16.51 |
| Image manipulation / Image manipulation | Mpx/s |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 9.13 |
| MSI GT 780 | 9.04 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 8.88 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 8.86 |
| ASUS G74SX | 8.80 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 8.72 |
| Sony Vaio S-Serie VPC-SB1S1EW | 8.72 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 8.66 |
| System storage - importing pictures / System storage - importing pictures | MByte/s |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 23.94 |
| MSI GT 780 | 21.06 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 11.08 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 9.75 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 9.55 |
| ASUS G74SX | 6.30 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 5.96 |
| Sony Vaio S-Serie VPC-SB1S1EW | 4.74 |
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Web browsing / Data decryption / Windows Defender
| Web browsing and decrypting / Web browsing | Pages/s |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 14.82 |
| MSI GT 780 | 14.08 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 13.36 |
| ASUS G74SX | 10.66 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 10.63 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 10.26 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 9.8 |
| Sony Vaio S-Serie VPC-SB1S1EW | 7.3 |
| Web browsing and decrypting / Data decryption | MByte/s |
| ASUS G74SX | 55.94 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 54.14 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 48.14 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 47.63 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 47.22 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 47.20 |
| MSI GT 780 | 46.27 |
| Sony Vaio S-Serie VPC-SB1S1EW | 40.32 |
| System storage - Windows Defender / System storage - Windows Defender | MByte/s |
| MSI GT 780 | 5.12 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 5.06 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 3.29 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 3.22 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 3.11 |
| ASUS G74SX | 1.40 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 1.20 |
| Sony Vaio S-Serie VPC-SB1S1EW | 0.99 |
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Cinebench R10
| 1 CPU | sec |
| Intel Core i7 990X | 170 |
| Intel Core i7 2600K | 145 |
| Intel Core i5 2410M | 195 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w, Core i7 2630QM | 193 |
| Intel Core i7 2630QM | 199 |
| X CPU | sec |
| Intel Core i7 990X | 30 |
| Intel Core i7 2600K | 37 |
| Intel Core i5 2410M | 94 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w, Core i7 2630QM | 52 |
| Intel Core i7 2630QM | 52 |
WinRAR
| Integer Test | KByte/sec |
| Intel Core i7 990X | 4'131 |
| Intel Core i7 2600K | 4'108 |
| Intel Core i7 2630QM | 3'656 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w, Core i7 2630QM | 3'638 |
| Intel Core i5 2410M | 2'318 |
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Futuremark
| 3DMark 11 Total | Punkte |
| MSI GT 780 | 2'025 |
| ASUS G74SX | 1'980 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 1'971 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 1'781 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 1'653 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 1'032 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 997 |
| 3DMark 11 GPU | Punkte |
| MSI GT 780 | 1'814 |
| ASUS G74SX | 1'773 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 1'766 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 1'593 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 1'463 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 910 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 879 |
| 3DMark 11 Physics | Punkte |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 6'318 |
| MSI GT 780 | 6'253 |
| ASUS G74SX | 6'208 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 6'093 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 6'073 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 6'006 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 5'941 |
| 3DMark Vantage Total | Punkte |
| MSI GT 780 | 9'316 |
| ASUS G74SX | 9'029 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 8'834 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 8'134 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 7'789 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 4'516 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 4'405 |
| 3DMark Vantage GPU | Punkte |
| MSI GT 780 | 8'055 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 7'781 |
| ASUS G74SX | 7'770 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 6'904 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 6'577 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 3'620 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 3'527 |
| 3DMark Vantage CPU | Punkte |
| ASUS G74SX | 17'575 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 17'573 |
| MSI GT 780 | 17'560 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 17'482 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 17'473 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 17'413 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 17'367 |
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Gaming Benchmarks
| Unigine Heaven Benchmark | fps |
| MSI GT 780 | 10.3 |
| ASUS G74SX | 10.0 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 9.8 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 9.0 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 7.1 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 4.9 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 4.8 |
| Resident Evil 5 | fps |
| MSI GT 780 | 51.3 |
| ASUS G74SX | 51.0 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 47.1 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 44.4 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 43.6 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 24.2 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 22.9 |
| Far Cry 2 | fps |
| MSI GT 780 | 39.83 |
| ASUS G74SX | 39.07 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 37.99 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 34.48 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 33.80 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 19.10 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 18.72 |
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Battery Eater / Power Consumption
| Battery Eater Classic | min |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 2 h 20 min |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 2 h 16 min |
| ASUS G74SX | 1 h 33 min |
| MSI GT 780 | 1 h 29 min |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 1 h 25 min |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 1 h 22 min |
| Sony Vaio S-Serie VPC-SB1S1EW | 1 h 19 min |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 1 h 13 min |
| Power Consumption Load | Watt |
| Sony Vaio S-Serie VPC-SB1S1EW | 81 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 116 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 128 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 139 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 143 |
| ASUS G74SX | 145 |
| MSI GT 780 | 148 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 150 |
| Power Consumption Idle | Watt |
| Sony Vaio S-Serie VPC-SB1S1EW | 12 |
| Toshiba Qosmio F750-10L | 20 |
| HP EliteBook 8760w | 30 |
| ASUS Lamborghini VX7 | 37 |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 - 107 | 40 |
| ASUS G74SX | 42 |
| MSI GT 780 | 46 |
| Sony Vaio F-Serie VPC-F22S1E/B | 55 |
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Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| An elegant case, a fantanstic display, excellent input peripherals, low operating noise, a powerful CPU and a big SSD, what do you want more from a workstation notbook? Probably an HDMI port right next to the slightly antique VGA port. But really that would be it then. In a market which is dominated by plastic cases, glare type displays und bad input peripherals the EliteBook 8760w really is a warmly welcome alternative. We cannot put in words how much we would like to see more of the elite books style and manufacturing quality in HP Pavillon series notebooks. | - Case - Display - Input Devices - 256 Gigabyte SSD |
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| Display / Input devices | + | - | |
| We haven't seen a better display then the one HP put into the EliteBook 8760w. It simply doesn't matter if you look at the contrast ratio, brightness, colors or black level. The answer is always the same: excellent. It is a rare occasion that the gaming benchmarks looked as vivid as they did on this display. For the input peripherals it is about the same. The keyboard is very comfortable for writing and the touchpad leaves us with no wishes. This is how a manufacturer has to build input peripherals. Everything else is a compromise. |
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| Performance / Battery Life | + | - | |
| Equipped with a Core i7-2630QM quad core CPU that has eight threads, clocked at 2.0 GHz and an NVIDIA Quadro 3000M mobile graphics chip, there is plenty of performance. Thanks to the Quad-Core-CPU there is plenty of power for 2D Applications. Regarding the 3D benchmarks we see what we expected. The performance is ok, but there really isn't much sense in using a Quadro GPU for gaming purposes. Furhtermore a customer who can afford such a notebook will also be able to buy a separate gaming PC if he should have an affinity to PC gaming. A first glance at the raw figure might suggest that the battery is the achilles heel of the 8760w. Considering that this is a workstation notebook it would be inadequate provide this point with too much weight. |
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| Recommendation | + | - | |
| If you should be looking for a high quality workstation notebook then the HP EliteBook 8760w is exactly what you want. | - Desktop Replacement | ||
| Rating | |||
| We give the EliteBook 8760w from HP our maximum rating of five out of five stars. | |||
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