The new AMD-powered mobile offers impressive performance gains for such a small machine, promising benefits for AI development in particular… but it’s not without trade-offs
(Source: HP)
Having evolved rapidly from a relatively niche market served, today’s mobile workstation market is both broad and dynamic. Where an OEM like HP might have had just one or two models in years past to serve the range of users, today it counts more than seven. And in 2025, that number is expanding not only in breadth but in DNA. In fact, we’d say that the company’s introduction of its new ZBook Ultra G1a is one of the most intriguing models the market has seen in a while.
Upon review and testing, we’ve found the Ultra G1a offers impressive performance and price/performance in a svelte 14-inch package. It does make a trade-off for those looking for absolute top-end performance, but it’s a sensible one for virtually everyone else considering a mobile workstation at its price point. And only those who will push their machines to the max on more traditional hardcore workstation computing might notice the compromise.
An in-depth review of this machine can be found here.