New portable workstation announced - HPZ1

[Mike Tiffee]

http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/workstations/z1_features.html#.TzrltZhZ0Xd

Could be a great portable Premiere workstation

 

[L. Langer]

The future MacPro desktop will probably be something along those lines if the buzz is true. Of course it would have Thunderbolt and all that. It's a promising form-factor but only time will tell if it can handle the heat from such beefy hardware.

 

[Andrew clemson]

God Damn, I hope the New mac pro goes along the Super-iMac route. If I could only put a rocket in an iMac Id be laughing, at the very least for a decent amount of the work I do if not all of it.

 

[N.D. Paolo]

http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/workstations/z1_features.html#.TzrltZhZ0Xd

Could be a great portable Premiere workstation

At first glance it seems cool, but long-term
I think an HP Elitebook with Quadro 5000 based CPU and Dreamcolor or external monitor
is a better portable, if you can spare the coin.

I hate proprietary case form factors, and if you have room for and budget for 27" monitor,
I hope you have room for a true workstation which is truly expandable
and your choice of monitor.

I'd wait for Intel ivy bridge based machines in April-May 2012 with Kepler based
Nvidia graphics to see some true workstation performance increases for Premiere.

Maybe you might get an Intel Thunderbolt connector at that time also, if
they ever care about volume Thunderbolt business...

 

[Mike Tiffee]

At first glance it seems cool, but long-term
I think an HP Elitebook with Quadro 5000 based CPU and Dreamcolor or external monitor
is a better portable, if you can spare the coin.

I hate proprietary case form factors, and if you have room for and budget for 27" monitor,
I hope you have room for a true workstation which is truly expandable
and your choice of monitor.

I think this form factor is it's #1 selling point. It's built so the internals are easy to access and they WANT you to be able to swap out cards, drives, upgrade internals. I work in live remote broadcasts and there's generally not much room to have a workstation tower, large monitor and drive array in the remote production trucks. Plus with this setup, everything can fit into ONE pelican case. I've edited on an Elitebook and the thing turns into a space heater with the fans running at 100% - very loud. This was designed to pull heat quietly. Plus you don't get PCI expansion slots with an elite book this thing has four. This thing would be great to just pull out of a case and set on a table somewhere on a remote and start editing or processing dailies. Different tools for different uses I guess. i just feel like with this thing you don't compromise on performance and with a Quadro 4000 card - CUDA heaven for the mercury playback engine.

Here's a video showing how it's put together. Pretty cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OAji8R-_jQ&feature=relmfu

BTW - I HATE HP. I swore them off a few years ago and promised to never buy from them again, but this thing may make me change my mind. It's exactly what I'm looking for.

EDIT: another video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5v5ziNp1fk&feature=relmfu

 

[Erick Aguirre]

I wonder, how a quadro 4000 deal with R3D 4k footege in premier pro!!??
anybody know this?

 

[Jim Woo]

I noticed in the specs it has one full length PCIex16 slot... There goes the Rocket Card, I presume... But what about ATTO cards and such?

 

[Carter Cammack]

If someone, ANYONE, would build a real Pro Studio workstation in this sort of form-factor that could run I7 6-cores or Xeons under liquid, had space for two serious graphics cards, a hot-doc, serious drives, and real I/0 capability, it would be pretty useful. Maybe use the stand AND the monitor as the case, with a fold-out keyboard that protects the screen. Make it semi-rugged and put a carry handle on top. Don't baby-step it. The more capacity it has, the more you will sell. First step, though, is to toss the laptop Mobo and guts.

 

[Subhadip Sen]

If someone, ANYONE, would build a real Pro Studio workstation in this sort of form-factor that could run I7 6-cores or Xeons under liquid, had space for two serious graphics cards, a hot-doc, serious drives, and real I/0 capability, it would be pretty useful. Maybe use the stand AND the monitor as the case, with a fold-out keyboard that protects the screen. Make it semi-rugged and put a carry handle on top. Don't baby-step it. The more capacity it has, the more you will sell. First step, though, is to toss the laptop Mobo and guts.

Check out some of the new Sandy Bridge-E laptops. They have full powered desktop 6-core Core i7 39xx, 2x mobile GPUs (Upto GTX 580M or Quadro 5000M), 4x drives in RAID0 or RAID1. EON17-X seems to have the edge, but there are half a dozen more such laptops. For what you get they are also inexpensive. Considering you could get one for a similar price as a similarly performing full tower HP Z800 or Mac Pro - yes, in a laptop. Pretty incredible.

I was never fond of the all-in-one form factor. HP-Z1 is certainly the most interesting this form factor has got. It still lacks the configurability (I know, I know, it is pretty amazing for an AIO, but still...) and it's not really that much faster than their consumer AIOs - it just uses workstation variants of the same hardware.