HP packs most of the ingredients of an excellent mobile workstation into the 8730w. It has a fantastic screen, is powerful and well featured, and if you do need to take it out there are plenty of options for extending the battery life. However, it is very expensive and despite the massive price tag it does lack a few small but obvious things, like a DisplayPort or DVI video output. As such we won't recommend it outright, but if it fulfils your needs it shouldn't disappoint.Read full review
Overall
8/10
By Andy Vandervell
Reviewed 30 April 2009
Updated 05 February 2011