Mobile workstation on the go: PNY PREVAILPRO P4000 in test

Today's PREVAILPRO P4000 is marketed by PNY as a mobile workstation and therefore also sorts itself in the relevant price segment above 4500 Euros and will be available directly in Germany in the foreseeable future.... Opening your notebook What would a notebook review be without Tear Down? On the one hand, the manufacturer does not list all components in detail (e.g. we lacked the exact information about the memory and the installed SSD) and on the other hand needed... System setup What do you actually compare to a mobile workstation, which is actually a normal consumer notebook with additional integrated, mobile Quadro graphics? The built-in Intel Core i7-7700HQ does not support ECC memory and a... Let's combine both CPU workload and real-time 3D graphics output. The emphasis is very balanced on both, as can be seen from the results, in which the actually nominally faster Quadro P4000 Max-Q all too often the afterlife... But we also don't want to be unfair and now we're still questioning what would happen if the Quadro P4000 Max-Q were to operate almost unchecked in the notebook. Then the dedicated Quadro P2000 has in part clearly changed the afterlife. Power consumption The power consumption differs very significantly during mains and battery operation. However, due to the lack of real modification options on the device, we can only measure primarily between the socket and the power supply on the primary side, we remain... Temperatures and clock rates The actual performance does not result from the ideal data of the specifications, but on what can be achieved in the real and warmed-up state of the CPU and GPU. That this is also the... PNY has done almost everything right with the PREVAILPRO P4000 Max-Q. The mobile Quadro P4000 in the Max-Q design harmonizes perfectly with the Intel Core i7-7700HQ. It is true that Kaby Lake as an architecture is no longer the very last s...

PNY has done almost everything right with the PREVAILPRO P4000 Max-Q. The mobile Quadro P4000 in the Max-Q design harmonizes perfectly with the Intel Core i7-7700HQ. As architecture, Kaby Lake is no longer the very last cry and a generation back, but you don't really notice anything about it. After all, Clevo, the ODM for this workstation notebook, relies on a sophisticated platform that can be used as a P955/957 for so many customers as well.

With the exception of the Quadro graphics card and the amount of memory installed, everything is consumer series technology that has proven itself millions of times. ECC-RAM can certainly be dispensed with in such a constellation and a xeon as a drive for a mobile Quadro is not really necessary. Suppliers such as Fujitsu or Lenovo do not do that any other way. A stronger graphics solution would hardly bring anything here and so the CPU and GPU harmonize quite nicely with each other.

Whether you absolutely need an Ultra-HD display for the road, let's face it. Many professional applications, such as AutoCAD, Adobes CC, Solidworks or Creo rely on their own GUI, which unfortunately scales along and is therefore very difficult to recognize and operate. For example, if you trying to install Solidworks in 2015 will probably get the hate. Scaling of 300% for font size does not help if the GUI does not play along and still relies on fixed bitmap elements.

Conclusion

It actually fits together quite well, but you really have to question for what application you really need such a notebook. A traveller in terms of construction and presentation will always be on the hunt for the next socket and as the primary workplace notebook with the interesting takeaway option it is acoustically quite dominant. You will always have to speak a little louder and should also have strong nerves.

On the other hand, it is reassuring how the producer has mastered the cooling. This platform can be used to install even more potent graphics solutions that also win the daily struggle for survival against their own waste heat. The cooling of the CPU is only a side-war scene. Even if the turbo clock of the CPU and the maximum possible boost clock of the GPU cannot be achieved in real use – it never throttelt anything and fast enough (at least for its ratios) the PREVAILPRO P4000 with the Max-Q graphics is also.

For an award, the unique selling points are missing a little, but it does exactly what you can expect from it if you count to the appropriate user group. And that alone makes it quite worth buying, even if we don't award an extra award. If it fits into the concept financially at all, because unfortunately the story is not cheap. In Germany, PNY offers the devices through their partners from approx. 3200 Euro with a Quadro P3000 and from approx. 4500 Euro with a Quadro P4000. The price of course always varies with increasing or falling equipment. Ok, company pays. Anyway, mostly.

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