The ZBook mainly competes against PCs such as Dell's Precision and Lenovo's ThinkPad P series.

The HP ZBook workstations feature Nvidia Quadro and AMD FirePro ISV-certified graphics cards and Thunderbolt connectivity.

Laptop storage combinations (excluding WWAN slot) Laptop memory The ZBook family originally comprised the following models: All models featured Intel Haswell dual- and quad-core processors, AMD or Nvidia professional graphics and up to 32 GB of RAM, except for the ZBook 14, which was limited to 16 GB of RAM.

Features include Intel Skylake Core or Xeon E3-1500M v5 family processors, AMD FirePro and Nvidia Quadro graphics, and Thunderbolt 3.

The following fifth-generation models are either discontinued or have been replaced by sixth-generation models: This generation of ZBook workstations feature Intel Whiskey Lake quad-core CPU with integrated Intel Gen9 GPU and optional AMD Polaris 23 GPU for lightweight models, and Intel Coffee Lake R quad-core, hexa-core or octa-core CPU with integrated Intel Gen9 GPU and optional Nvidia Turing GPU for performance models.