Less time waiting,
more time doing with HP ZBook,
​optimised by Softsource.

Time
is Money
Calculator

The longer your team is waiting for analysis, renders, calculations, encoding, processing, generation, learning, and compiling, the more your costs are piling up. Professional fees, penalty rates, labour, delays, and opportunity costs add up quickly.

​Find out how much you can save by upgrading from standard PCs and laptops to more powerful HP Z and ZBook workstations with Intel Core Ultra or AMD Ryzen AI, and NVIDIA RTX.
​Estimated performance improvements for the 2026 ZBook range are below.

Calculate Your Return on Investment

User TypeChargeable ProfessionalKnowledge Worker

Users

Annual Working Days

Wait Time in Minutes Per Day

Target Processor Performance Improvement %

Typical Productivity from Recovered Time %

Typical Proportion of Chargeable Employee Time %

Typical Employee Labour Rate and Employment Costs ($/hr)

Client Charge Out Rate per Employee ($/hr)

Workstation Cost Premium over Standard Device ($)

Intended Fleet Replacement Lifecycle in Years

Financial Discount Rate for Accounting %

Annual Waiting Hours

Estimated Recovered Hours

Estimated Productive Hours

Annual Value

3-Year Value

ROI

NPV

How much faster?

HP ZBook workstation laptops offer up to 100% faster CPU performance relative to standard laptops in specialist applications for power users, and several times greater graphics and AI compute performance when equipped with high-end NVIDIA GPUs. 
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​Use the Time is Money Calculator above to estimate savings across your professional workforce by switching to workstation-class devices.

Relative performance for graphics processor intensive tasks on left, and CPU intensive tasks on right.
Entry-level and high-end GPU and CPU options for each model listed.
Longer bar = faster relative performance compared to a standard business laptop. 

Application & usage recommendations

Which ZBook?

Application	ZBook 8	ZBook Ultra	ZBook X	Fury
2D Content	​✓	​✓	​✓	-
Software Dev	​✓	​✓	​✓	​✓
GIS	-	​✓	​✓	​✓
Engineering	-	​✓	​✓	​✓
2K Video	-	​✓	​✓	​✓
4K Video	-	✓	​✓	​✓
VR	-	​-	​✓	​✓
Game Design	-	​✓	​✓	​✓
Arch/CAD	​✓	​✓	​✓	​✓
Data Analysis	​✓	​✓	​✓	​✓
3D/VFX	-	-	-	​✓
Simulations	-	-	-	​✓
3D Modelling	​​✓	​​✓	​​✓	​​✓
Generative and Inference AI	​​​-	​​​✓	​​​✓	​​​✓

Based on typical usage & application workloads plus suitable specification selection for each model (build to order with TLC)

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