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ultimate ONSET and 4k editing laptop!

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You guys may want to checkout the HP EliteBook 8730w with the DREAMCOLOR screen, 8gigs of RAM and a QUADCORE cpu for your onset and away-from-home machine for R3D files. Just got 2 of them and they are monsters!

REDCINE: 1/2 in realtime!
Premiere cs4: almost realtime in 1/4 res, thats 1k editing away from home! it drops just a few frames ..very usable...1/8 it never drops

It has ESATA that's fast as hell for editing from a ESATA drive, and the best part is using the FIREWIRE and ESATA to copy so the buss does not get overloaded.

Dreamcolor screen totally ROCKS..I am so sold on this laptop screen that I would never go back to a standard screen. they are that amazing. pure, bright, uniform. nuff said. gotta see one to get an idea of what your missing on a standard LCD.

Ok, just wanted to let the folks know since before this I was on a Dell and could not even get realtime at 1/4 in RedCine.

:yikes:
 
Sounds like a great machine. Particularly because it has esata and the dreamcolor built in. I'd be interested in comparing the performance of the R2E LEMO to eSATA cable with a this built-in esata port vs one of the many express card adapters...
 
Is the dreamcolor screen one of the new LED dynamic backlight screens that HP is building?

Their new LED monitors exceed 100% of Adobe RGB and NTSC color gamut.
 
David Rasberry said:
Is the dreamcolor screen one of the new LED dynamic backlight screens that HP is building?

Their new LED monitors exceed 100% of Adobe RGB and NTSC color gamut.
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Yes it is..at first I thought it was WHITE LED backlight only but HP informed me that it's the same thing as the big professional screen...I am looking at them both right now..BTW the laptop has HDMI out and the HP 24inch LP2480zx Dreamcolor has HDMI in..nice! Anyway they look the same using the same color space...
I wondered if they would match and they do! This means that editing and color work can be done in a dark space with the laptop if that's all you had access to on the road. cool.

:thumbsup:
 
Raffi Kryszek said:
Sounds like a great machine. Particularly because it has esata and the dreamcolor built in. I'd be interested in comparing the performance of the R2E LEMO to eSATA cable with a this built-in esata port vs one of the many express card adapters...
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Yea that would be a fancy test! let me know if you get one and try it!

I forgot about that xpress slot..you could get 2 Esata connections and FLY faster then light with that setup! very cool indeed.
 
This thing is pretty much a full on workstation..First laptop I have ever owned that performs like a workstation. I am personally loving it...no longer does it feel like I can't work away from the "big box" at all...it also has a Nvidia Quadro card for such apps as Scratch and or things like the application for CS4 that speeds up rendering..for it's name at the moment...

Cs4 is working really well using the HDMI to display the Program Monitor on the 24inch screen...again, nice because after a render I can now see full quality R3d files on a big screen with good color that matches the LCD on the laptop.
 
I checked the prices, surprisingly cheap for such a powerful laptop. Under $1500!
 
I configured it and it came out to be over 5k...Obin, what do you exactly have in your machine/Laptop?

Detail breakdown of components.

thanks.
 
Yes please obin post the specs of your machine!

PS:It's possible calibrate the dreamcolor screen of the laptop ? (i mean there is a special utility software like for the desktop model?)

Thanks
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Before you 'hackantosh' I suggest you take a long look
At cs4 4.1 it's a far cry from anything before it. Honestly.

I have been working very close with the team behind the latest
Release and it's turning out to be the best release I have seen
In 5 years with the support of raw and multi resolutions the
Post world is about to change on a large scale.

It's a great time to be a part of this industry!
 
Quad core 2.5ghz 8gigs ram 320gig 7200rpm drive quadro
Graphics card 3700 nvidia. Dreamcolor screen(what a dream it is)
Esata FireWire USB express slot x2

No joke this machine is as fast as my last workstation.

All the post work I do I van now do it on the road or at a
Clients desk.

This is sick.
 
I have been waiting for this thing.... My last laptop was a Dell
E1705 dual core 3 years ago.... It served me well but was never
A 'workstation' class machine..... This one is.
 
Btw I used the 24inch dreamcolor the other day on this laptop as a 2nd
Screen ..... Sent out the playback on that screen and it worked really well
On r3d files... Pretty slick ;)
 
Hi Obin

what about the 17" Dreamcolor Screen?
It's really like the 24?
You can select color space like the 24"?
You can calibrate it like the 24"?(i mean HP calib software?)

Thanks a lot!

PS: when you say "express x2 " you mean 2 slot express card?

Thanks

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yea its really lime the 24 its hyper real colors match the 24 andthe color space selections are the same as the 24!!!!

I'm doing my best to explain the kickassness of this machine.... Are you with me now!?! ;)
 
obin said:
yea its really lime the 24 its hyper real colors match the 24 andthe color space selections are the same as the 24!!!!

I'm doing my best to explain the kickassness of this machine.... Are you with me now!?! ;)
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How loud ist it? I once had a pc laptop and it was so loud (fans) I could only work it with headphones on.
 
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