The outer shell of the screen casing is made of metal, but the inner screen bezel is plastic. Although we don’t recommend it, you can stand on this notebook and you’ll barely notice any flex beneath your feet. The underside of the notebook is also similarly rigid and strong with the exception of the area immediately underneath the notebook’s optical drive. There is no flex in the keyboard, except for a very minor amount of flex around the enter key directly above the optical drive. The base of the laptop feels very strong and would definitely survive many bumps and bruises that other laptops might not. The main body of the laptop is covered in the new “HP DuraCase” and “HP DuraFinish” which is essentially a hard plastic and strong magnesium alloy inner shell much like its predecessor strengthened by a brushed aluminum outer shell that is so scratch resistant you can’t even scratch it with steel wool. The HP EliteBook 8530w is a business workstation notebook, and as such consumers and corporations expect the highest quality of materials and the best features and designs for their money. The notebook that was provided to us is a pre-production unit, and this specific configuration for our notebook did not fit any of the preconfigured models available online, but a similar configuration with 2GB of 800MHz DDR2 RAM and a 250GB hard drive would cost $2,549 if ordered via the HP website. Weight: 6.5lbs without power adapter, 8lbs with power adapter.WiFi, Ethernet, Modem, and Bluetooth Connectivity.4GB DDR2 800MHz RAM (2 x 2GB Configuration).

512MB NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M Workstation GPU.Microsoft Genuine Windows Vista Business.Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 Processor (2.53GHz, 6MB L2 cache, 1066MHz FSB).Our pre-production review unit as configured:

Elitebook 8530p specs