After 4 years it really was time to get a new notebook. Back in the days at newtelligence we had Alienware stuff. Pretty impressive until Dell bought them and keeps them small (in CPU/RAM/…).  So again (this is the 5th) I decided to go for HP: ZBook 15 G2

Some Specs:

• Intel Core i7-4910MQ 256 GB HP Z Turbo Drive PCIe SSD 15.6" diagonal LED-backlit FHD SVA eDP anti-glare (1920 x 1080) NVIDIA® Quadro® K1100M (2 GB dedicated GDDR5) 4 x USB 3 1 x Thunderbolt 1 x VGA, 1 x Displayport LTE SmartCard reader 2.78 kg

WTF: Hewlett-Packard Company is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. They are not able to ship me a UK-Layout keyboard!

Solution: Go to ebay and search for “HP zbook 15 keyboard backlit US”. There are offers from China that ship within 3 weeks. QWERTY!

WTF: Where did the context menu key go? Power users use the keys not a mouse!

Solution: Download KeyTweak and remap the right ctrl or windows key.

WTF: Why can’t I mount a ridiculous amount of monitors to the normal docking station (not advanced!)?

Solution: Disable the Hybrid Graphics feature in the BIOS and it’s all fine.

Finally I added 2 1TB Samsung evo 840 SSDs to increase the storage amount.