Portable Powerhouse. The HP EliteBook 8530w Mobile Workstation gives you the freedom to work beyond the confines of your desk by providing the portability of a 15.4-inch diagonal widescreen notebook with the power of a workstation.

Features

- Featuring genuine Windows for a familiar and intuitive environment

- Graphically speaking. Your choice of ATI or NVIDIA’s ISV-certified workstation graphics with up to 512 GB of VRAM. Both solutions support OpenGL, DirectX-10, Dual Link DVI (through optional dock) and include HP Performance Tuning Framework (PTF).

- Operating System: Genuine Windows Vista® Business 32-bit; Genuine Windows Vista® Business 64-bit; Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic; Genuine Windows Vista® Business with downgrade to Windows XP Professional custom installed 3; FreeDOS

- Multiple cores. Extreme performance. Enjoy new levels of performance and multi-tasking with Intel® Core™2 Extreme and Quad-Core processors 1 capable of working in a true 64-bit computing environment and support for up to 8 GB of memory.

- Experience life in high-definition. Connect to high-resolution displays with the HDMI port4. Blu-ray Drive[k8] plays HD content or stores up to 50GB on a dual-layer disc. The eSATA port provides a fast connection to an external storage device[k7].

- Upgrade Bay with Dual HDD Support. Easily replace your optical with an optional secondary SATA II hard drive or upgrade to the next-generation optical drive. Having a second hard drive installed allows RAID 1 Mirroring or RAID 0 Striping.