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Hewlett-Packard Envy 15 – there is something to envy?

Envy – a new product Hewlett-Packard. However, the company stresses that this does not rule – this is a new sub-brand. It is positioned in such a fashion is now the premium segment and has set a high standard of quality and functionality, causing the envy of others. Hence the name – the word Envy is translated as “jealousy.” By the way, this is also the name of one of the deadly sins.
At this point in the line there are two models differ greatly in positioning, with screen sizes 13 and 15 inches. The main feature of the 13-inch model is a portable, 15-inch – performance. We have been testing for a great laptop.

Housing
Housing 15-inch model produces an impressive impression: it is completely metal, the cover is made with a raised structure. HP Envy 15 is strictly rectangular, with rounded corners and edges. The laptop is designed for large and matrix with a 16:9 aspect ratio, so it seems highly elongated body. All sides are dotted with ventilation grilles. Bottom fastened to the body an extra battery … Wow! C it weighs Envy, as a concrete block of the same size.

If you detach an additional battery, the body becomes at once a subtle and elegant, but so much easier to handle …
The test laptop has got a scratch on already with the corner, so that I can say – the case is scratched. At least part of silver, of which the sides and bottom are made (he also rubbed the battery). But the cover, I think, do not scratch for no reason, except that if you drop a laptop from a height onto a concrete floor (this test but we decided not to pursue).
Open the lid and see how the HP Envy 15 is in working condition. The cover is held by the force loops (front and center – this is not a button its opening, and a card reader for cards SD). Hinges are very tight and it moves with great force, but the body is so heavy that it is not necessary to hold. Maximum angle of opening the lid criminally small – only about 100-110 degrees.

Open the laptop produces no less impressive than closed. In the keyboard panel (She also metal) bowl-shaped depression is made, where is the keyboard. And it’s made in fashionable style with separate keys. The frame around the screen is glossy, like the matrix. The color combination of elements of the body is good, the color of the keyboard panel simply beyond praise – thanks to his laptop gets really classy and refined look. The photographs are not very shade managed to convey (the more so on their own LCD monitors are calibrated differently), but live warm shade looks very nice. Do not let us down, and keyboard made of high quality and beautiful plastics.
Probably a sample, which we had in testing, has been dropped. Angle left the keyboard panel loose, when you walk in the housing panel and squeaks. Also goes a little corner of the plastic edging on the right above the screen (it feels when you open the laptop). On serial samples, according to the manufacturer, this does not happen. Well, it happens. At the same time to check what the consequences of stroke.
Finally, there are problems with the ergonomics of the case. The most significant to me – the front side of the keyboard panel. It is made sharp and not sidetracked down. When typing, the wrists are based precisely on this sharp edge, it is terribly cut wrists. So long to print on the laptop is not possible, have to put it down (on his knees, a coffee table) and keep your hands in the air.
From design point of view of the laptop is made of a very high level. In my opinion, looks very well fall in positioning: HP Envy 15 looks stylish, expensive, and technologically.
Navigate to the location of ports and start with some facts here: a 15-inch laptop no optical drive. The first time I turned the laptop for a long time in hand, trying to understand – where is he drive? And have not found … Marketers explained by the fact that optical drives – already outdated technology, and modern advanced active users will enjoy digital media. However, it seems to me that in many cases, optical drives are still needed. For example, legal movies (including the current Blu-ray) except with the drive and do not see. And legitimate copies of games often attached to their own disks.

The front panel only reader (while it did not come to work, I thought it was a button opening the lid) and two large grids – for ventilation. In general, given that the entire bottom of the housing occupied by the battery, the entire ventilation should be carried out through the lateral edge of the notebook.

The rear panel is also empty, because it overlaps the lid open. For all ports and connectors are the lateral faces.

On the left, however, is only the power supply and, in the middle, lonely indicator to the hard drive. To see it you have to put a head on the table next to a laptop or a mirror. In general, about the existence of this indicator can be forgotten. Closest to the front – speaker grille Beats Audio.

All connectors are available are concentrated on the right side wall of the housing.Here you will find: a port for a wired network, output HDMI, two USB, a combined port eSATA / USB, a single audio jack and closest to the front, Kensington lock port (can not imagine how it will look coming from it an iron wire). And also a vent grid and speaker grille.
In general, the impression that the notebook is designed for a minimum connection of external peripherals. The power cord is to the left, this is the most convenient location for him. All other ports on the right edge of the huddle and very crowded. At the same time to enjoy them very uncomfortable.
I would like to note that HP Evny 15 for their size, thin, making him the honor, especially considering the complexity of configuration and with the heat sink. Just on photographs taken with an additional battery buckled, it seems noticeably thicker than it actually is.

Here is an extra battery. It is fastened by four snaps in the corners of the case, the latches are released two nepodpruzhinennymi sliders (ie, the battery itself is not zaschelketsya). Illuminated LED indicates the battery level (ie the battery is charged at 25% and below, when the battery is completely discharged, the LED blinks), only four of them. They light up when you click on the button next to them.
HP Envy 15 – very nice, classy and expensive looking laptop, for adherents of this style it would be a good buy. The laptop looks very nice in an expensive interior.
But at the same ergonomics is average, there are some serious flaws.

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