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    ZBook 15 Upgrades

    Discussion in 'HP Business Class Notebooks' started by HodgePodge22, Feb 10, 2014.

  1. HodgePodge22

    HodgePodge22 Newbie

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    Is it possible to add a WWAN card to the zbook 15?

    How about changing from an 1100 to 2100 GPU?

    Also -- how noisy would it be when running a VM in VMWare? My Macbook was quiet, but my SVP sounds like a jet engine?


    Thanks!
     
    HodgePodge22, Feb 10, 2014
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  2. webdev511

    webdev511 Notebook Guru

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    There should be an open slot for WWAN on the bottom. I installed an mSATA, but due to low caffeine levels cannot remember 100% if the extra slot is WWAN, but I'm pretty sure it is. As far as the GPU upgrade goes, look in the HP service guide for the Zbook 15, if the part number for the heatsink is the same for either GPU, then you just need to get a GPU and perform surgery although if you really need the 2100 you're better off just getting it with the machine you're buying.

    I'm running a complete virtual farm in Hyper-V (Windows 8.1 enterprise ed) and when you have three or four VM's fired up the fan does become audible. It's really no different that when you put any other heavy load on a CPU, that heat has to go somewhere.
     
    webdev511, Feb 20, 2014
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  3. skumflum

    skumflum Newbie

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    Hi,

    I'm looking into buying a notebook capable of 32GB RAM. The sole reason for this requirement is that I want to build a portable lab to run nested virtual environment and I stumbled across this tread.

    The Intel I7 CPU I want in the notebook has the Extended Page Table (EPT) feature needed to run those nested virtual machines but I know from experience that some vendors (like dell) won't let you enable it from the BIOS.

    I have asked HP pre-sale but to my big surprise THEY DONT KNOW!

    Since you are running a complete farm have you tried to boot nested x64 VM’s?
     
    skumflum, May 18, 2014
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  4. Tseng

    Tseng Notebook Consultant

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    Answwer to both OP's questions is Yes.

    ZBook 15 has WWAN slot, but it is M.2, so you need to get hs3110 or tl4112 from HP.
    And if you are able to get nVidia Quadro K2100m from 3rd party, yes, you can upgrade by yourself.
     
    Tseng, Jun 8, 2014
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