Light Gallery render. 

I've compared the xw8400 with the 8730w, since both systems have four cores. The xw8400 had a Quadro FX 3500 video card, albeit with a mere 256MB RAM. All I have to say is, Wow! Even after taking the differences between XP and Vista into account, and the presumed discrepancies between SpecViewPerf 9 and 10, the numbers are still amazing, especially where Maya performance is concerned. What a difference a couple of years make!

Conclusion
If you do the kind of work that demands color accuracy, but also mobility, the EliteBook 8730w is the perfect solution. With its amazing DreamColor LCD, powerful processor and video and full numeric keypad, it's the perfect mobile workhorse for Toxik experts. If you don't need color correction, you can get a model without the DreamColor LCD, which would work well for those in the oil and gas industry. If you want a powerful mobile workstation with all the bells and whistles of a stationary workstation, look no further than HP's EliteBook 8730w.

Bryan Hoff is a web designer, digital artist, writer and animator. His credits include movie and television effects, online games, 3D corporate animation, Flash and traditional website design. His writing credits include articles for LinuxWorld, Element K Journals and InformIT, covering such topics as Photoshop effects, Linux 3D graphics applications, web and HTML design, RSS feeds and painting with a graphics tablet. Hoff has also written e-books on blogging and website creation for beginners and co-authored the book, Moving from Windows to Linux.