HP Z is a series of professional workstation computers developed by Hewlett-Packard. The first-generation desktop products were announced in March 2009, replacing the HP 9000 xw series. The product line expanded to mobile with the announcement of ZBook in September 2013, replacing HP's EliteBook W-series mobile workstations. The Z workstations mainly compete against Dell's Precision workstations, Lenovo's ThinkStation and ThinkPad P series workstations, as well as Apple's Mac Pro and MacBook Pro.
Desktop workstations[]
| Position | Form Factor | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry-level
(Pentium Gold/Core i/Xeon 3000/E3/E/W-1000 series) |
Tower | Z1 Entry Tower G5 | Z1 Entry Tower G6 | Z1 G8 | Z1 G9 | |||||||||||
| Convertible
Minitower |
Z200 | Z210 | Z220 | Z230 | Z240 | |||||||||||
| Microtower/Tower | Z228 | Z238 | Z2 G4 | Z2 G5 | Z2 G8 | Z2 G9 | ||||||||||
| Small Form Factor | Z200 | Z210 | Z220 | Z230 | Z240 | |||||||||||
| Mini | Z2 Mini G3 | |||||||||||||||
| All-in-one | Z1 G1 | Z1 G2 | Z1 G3 | |||||||||||||
| Mid-range
(Core i X-series/Xeon W3000/5000/E5/W_2000) |
Tower | Z400 | Z420 | Z440 | Z4 G4 | Z4 G5 | ||||||||||
| Rackmount | ZCentral 4R | |||||||||||||||
| High-end
(x1 or x2 Xeon 5000/E5/Scalable/W-3000) |
Tower | Z600 | Z620 | Z640 | Z6 G4 | Z6 G5 | ||||||||||
| Top
(x1 or x2 Xeon 5000/E5/Scalable/W-3000) |
Z800 | Z820 | Z840 | Z8 G4 | Z8 G5
Z8 Fury G5 | |||||||||||
First generation[]
The HP Z800, HP Z600 and HP Z400 were announced in March 2009, offering Intel Nehalem-based Xeon processors and a new chassis design. An entry-level model, HP Z200, was announced in January 2010 at CES 2010. A small-form-factor version of the Z200, along with Intel Westmere Xeon processor refresh, were introduced to the lineup in March 2010. Z210, the successor of Z200, was announced in April 2011 with Intel Sandy Bridge Xeon E3 processors. An all-in-one workstation Z1 featuring Sandy Bridge E3 processors was introduced in February 2012.