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HP Envy 13 Review

In many respects, the envy of HP 13 appears as a "new generation" of the notebook PC from HP, or even the industry. Intentional or not more resemblance to the Apple lineup of its predecessors, is part of the first wave of computers running Windows 7 pre-installed, it places an great emphasis on battery life, but still manages a great performance, and is a "luxury" for the PC that actually offers some pretty good excuses its inflated pricetag. We have spent a whole week nice with the laptop, to find out if envy 13 can fulfill its promise after the break.

Hardware

As is our custom, we are writing this review on the laptop itself, which gives us a great view to take all the wins for the team portable and defects. The laptop everything is cold to the touch, especially on the palm rest, which is textured with an odd (but not distracting) pattern excavated squares. The curved metal edge that runs around the laptop comes with a rather sharp edge, similar to that of a MacBook Pro, and is a little uncomfortable, if the dolls are collected largely through it. Ports-wise there is very little track, with a power outlet and an SD card slot on the left (the comes with 13 really envy your user manual in a 2GB SD card, a nice touch), and two USB ports, HDMI and audio hybrid plug for headphones and / or microphone on the right side. Very similar to the MacBook, there is actually a little chance to pinch down on the hinge, but HP chose to vent on the left and right laptop instead of through the hinge – obviously with good results. The fan usually, but quiet enough not to be a nuisance. Part back of the lid is plain brass, with just a little indication that the way is to help find the little lip to lift the screen open – is sustained by a just right magnetic closure. The whole laptop is fairly light "enough" for size, and balances in a turn, and can lead to a fairly open hand relocation facility for impromptu chair to chair (Panasonic kx).

The keys are light weight, dull, square plastic, and cover all the functionality of the notebook – none of those annoying glow powered capacitive or the volume controls here. You really have to hold the function key to use one of the F1-F12 keys for their original purpose, but that's not a loss, and to make a volume adjustment command much more than the archaic function. Unfortunately, the keys feel a bit "weak" for our taste, bordering with the economic sense because of the clunk slightly separate plastic from them. There are a lot of backward writing, making touch typing a little less nice. Not horrible, but not our ideal keyboard – and the lack of a backlight seems strange in this other "luxury package".

We mentioned impressive display, and really can not overstate how good it is. It is very bright and the colors are just ultra-rich – even if the box is a little red color for our eyes. Interestingly 1600 x 900 resolution seemed an ideal, about 13-inches. We have much more information than a regular WXGA resolution at this size, but not the real eye strain in the density of pixels. The glare is annoying, however. At the moment we're sitting far away from the windows in daylight, and some fluorescent totally boring ceiling are providing a major nuisance to be quite a nuisance. Sure, there are plenty of other teams that are so bad, but that does not make it right. There are also auto-dimming of the screen when the battery, which can not be overcome easily with the brightness keys, minor discomfort.

HP has "Beats" trademark sound, which apparently means the artist adopted circuit – although there is nothing special, like a more powerful amplifier, or any component Special added to separate the sound output of a normal laptop. Compared with a Pro, MacBook a Golden Ear friend of ours found a slight to improvement in stereo separation and clarity, along with a touch of "stuck" low. If you are really after this laptop for its sound properties, is better served to test for yourself or find a more detailed discussion of this aspect, but most people probably will not be able to detect a difference in the quality. At least there is nothing wrong, as a buzz out of the 1/8-inch plug as we had with some laptops shoddier – HP Sven.

One of the most interesting aspects of envy section 13 is the optional battery that promises more than double the battery life computer. Even better, it does great harm to the thickness or weight of the laptop – basically, making a thin and lightweight 13-inch computer Portable INCHER "regular" 13 – which is not so bad for compensation. Unfortunately, predictions of battery life, HP is woefully exaggerated compared to what a typical user will no strings attached. For example, we found a full perception of the standard battery in a little more two hours with screen brightness and WiFi on nearly complete, just listens to iTunes and type in a Google document. Sure, there are plenty of optimizations that can be done milk over the battery but we expected a bit more with discrete graphics off by default (when you unplug the laptop, although you can override) and the small screen for power. The stretch more than double the battery life, so we're looking at 5 + hours using this thing full speed, and with a twinkle reduced and WiFi off (as in an airplane), it seems that 8 + hours is totally reasonable. What is reasonable is that HP markets this an "up to 18 hours" Figure (16ish with our setup ULV not like ours) in a moving reference mark – which is like lying. The fact that everyone does not make it right.

And finally we come to the real bone to pick with this notebook: the trackpad horrible. At first glance does not look as bad as it is large, dull and relatively unadorned. Lacking buttons, like the recent Apple MacBook, but that did not end the world or anything, right? Well, someone failed this part bad. HP apparently forgot chopping the buttons that give the means to make sure the software is well designed. And it is not. Synaptics's fault if its drivers or hardware, or HP for configuration, the end of the day, HP is the one selling this for $ 1,700 laptop with a trackpad people basically not usable. The main problem is that the pad is designed to click it when there is a finger on it, so if you're using the index finger and thumb mouse to click, we must raise index finger when clicked. The other problem is that when the thumb is present, has a tendency to throw off the tracking of the index finger. There are also problems sensitivity when it comes to relocation and other gestures, but we are getting better at tracking the movements on the soft touch material – it just requires a steady hand and a little luck. We are sure that some crazy person could become an expert on the trackpad, and we could see how some company executives could be rubber stamping the part after spending 30 seconds with him and stated "it appears that Apple's platform type," but not sure how a computer company that has been building laptops for a couple of decades could actually send a team to the door with a clear conscience, with a device main entrance is the abysmal.