HP ZBook Ultra G1a review: a business-class workstation that’s got game

An HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop mostly closed and showcasing its lid logo. It’s sitting on a purple cut mat in front of a gray wall with a gold floral design.

Sleeper laptop. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

Business laptops are typically dull computers foisted on employees en masse. But higher-end enterprise workstation notebooks sometimes get an interesting enough blend of power and features to appeal to enthusiasts. HP’s ZBook Ultra G1a is a nice example. It’s easy to see it as another gray boring-book for spendy business types, until you notice a few key specs: an AMD Strix Halo APU, lots of RAM, an OLED display, and an adequate amount of speedy ports (Thunderbolt 4, even – a rarity on AMD laptops).

I know from my time with the Asus ROG Flow Z13 and Framework Desktop that anything using AMD’s high-end Ryzen AI Max chips should make for a co …

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