At its 2025 Amplify Conference in Nashville, Tenn., HP announced a wide range of new consumer and commercial laptops, some of which I saw in person prior to their unveilings. I spent a little time with one of HP’s mightiest, head-turning products: the ZBook Fury G1i, available now for the first time in a giant 18-inch size.
HP’s Fury brand is one of the most potent workstation lines around—see our reviews of laptops like the ZBook Fury 16 G11. We saw refreshed AMD Ryzen-based ZBook systems announced at CES 2025 earlier this year; in the case of this big new Fury, the “i” in the product name denotes Intel processing, and these “Arrow Lake” chips will combine with Nvidia’s fresh professional RTX Pro 5000 GPUs, based on its new “Blackwell” architecture.
This should be an extremely potent combination, not to mention my first look at a laptop packing an RTX Pro 5000 (just revealed at Nvidia’s GTC show), in contrast to the gaming-centric GeForce RTX 50 series. Read on for a closer look and my impressions of this super-sized mobile workstation.
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When you’re talking about this class of workstation laptop, the word “mobile” mainly differentiates it from a dedicated desktop. Of course, you can take any laptop with you when you leave your home or office, but “mobile” doesn’t mean particularly portable, in this case: The Fury G1i’s new 18-inch screen option precludes portability. (It’s also available in a more manageable 16-inch size.)
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Mobile workstations are overkill for the average office worker. They pack power (more on that below) at a level meant for the most demanding professional tasks that will strain even top-end CPUs and GPUs. This laptop likely won’t sell in especially high volume, targeted at users who will appreciate the performance, such as CAD designers, software engineers, and professional VFX artists.
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At this screen size, the Fury is a significant and hefty system that will likely serve to replace a desktop entirely, or at least substitute for one when away from the office, transported only when really needed. That’s because the system measures 1.1 inches thick and weighs 7.78 pounds to start. (This can rise, depending on the configuration.) The Fury is pretty unwieldy to move and handle in person, but it is well-made, and for an 18-inch workstation, those dimensions aren’t entirely out of hand.
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Connectivity on the Fury includes dual USB Type-C ports, an HDMI connection, and an SD card slot on the left side, while the right edge holds another USB Type-C port, a USB Type-A port, and an Ethernet jack. The two USB-C ports on the left edge support the speedy 80Gbps Thunderbolt 5 standard, while the one on the right supports 40Gbps Thunderbolt 4. This should be exciting news for professionals transferring large amounts of data or media.
The 16-inch model was also on hand at HP’s preview event. Of course, the 16-incher is more in line with general-use laptops, though still thicker and heftier than most. HP says the 18-inch has roughly a 30% greater digital workspace than the 16-inch, though the laptops are otherwise similar.
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HP’s frame construction is high-quality—it feels like a luxurious and substantial product. The Fury has an especially roomy touchpad, a comfortable keyboard, and a full number pad. Access to the laptop’s innards is also relatively straightforward, thanks to sliders on the bottom panel, so I was able to open it up.
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A Peek Inside: Intel Arrow Lake and Nvidia Blackwell Bring the Fury
Intel’s “Arrow Lake” Core Ultra HX chips power the processing in this behemoth, capable of the top-end speeds you’d turn to a workstation for. You’ll find a range of specific Core Ultra 200HX processors to choose from, leveling up from the Core Ultra 7 255HX or 265HX to the Core Ultra 9 285HX.
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The two Core Ultra 7 chips house 20 cores (eight Performance cores and 12 Efficient cores), while the Core Ultra 9 touts eight Performance cores and 16 Efficient cores for 24 total. These are not AI and NPU-centric processors—the on-chip NPU pushes only 13 TOPS (trillions of operations per second, one measure of AI performance)—but you can pair them with a powerful GPU to really crush AI workloads.
On that front, Nvidia’s RTX Pro 5000 “Blackwell” GPUs are at play, and the Fury is the first system I’ve seen that will use this platform. Details on these GPUs are scant as of when I saw this system (and we haven’t tested any Blackwell-based mobile GPUs yet). Regardless, these should be potent graphics chips for engineers, animators, editors, those working with large-language AI models, and other demanding pro users.
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As a workstation, this laptop can work with as much as 192GB of memory and a total of 16TB of solid-state storage while running up to a 200-watt TDP. A unique three-fan “Vaporforce” system (plus the thick chassis with extra thermal headroom) will help keep these parts running efficiently in what HP claims is the most powerful workstation available.
A mobile workstation is one of the most sensible types of laptops to undergo the 18-inch screen treatment. This form factor adds more workspace but also more room for cooling hardware to push components to their maximum. HP has not yet issued any pricing or release timing information for the ZBook Fury G1i 18, so I might need to wait a while before seeing whether this powerhouse laptop can set any new records on our benchmarks.
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About Matthew Buzzi
Lead Analyst, Hardware
