HP - Envy 16" WQXGA Touch-Screen Laptop - Intel Core i9 - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 - 1TB SSD - Natural Silver
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Customers recognize the Envy 16" laptop's high performance, responsive touch screen, and ample RAM and storage as significant strengths. Many appreciate its build quality and find the price reasonable for the features offered. However, some users point to the battery life as needing improvement, and others mention that the laptop can be heavy and generate noticeable fan noise during use. The device's tendency to heat up is also a recurring concern.
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- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
First laptop and its pretty good!
I haven’t had a laptop before and I don’t know much about laptops in general so don’t take my word for any of this stuff. Also the grammar and punctuation here is gonna suck because I don’t feel like putting effort into that stuff. I put some pictures but the screen is too reflective so I didn’t put it in. Battery life: The battery life on it is not too terrible and would be good for schoolwork. However if you are playing games on it then it’ll probably last for 1-2 hours before you have to plug in the charger (I don't really mind it though because I have outlets near my desk). Graphics: The graphics are great (to me) but the fans will go crazy if you put everything on max graphics, it also does that when you plug in the charger too. Also I’m not sure if it’s for every laptop but the screen is like 2560x1600 or something so theres a slight inconvenience when trying to find a good wallpaper because everything is too small for the screen and becomes blurry. Speed: I think the speed is pretty fast but I don’t know much so I don’t really have much to say. However sometimes it’s kinda slow for some reason, it might be my internet but i’m also near the router so… Extra: -Yeah it’s a good laptop and I recommend it. -Theres a lot of storage, good graphics, pretty fast speed, good battery life, and theres touch screen (I like the touch screen but I get some people might not like it). -It also comes with 30 day free trial of a McAfee subscription which was nice but it also stressed me out because it had all of this virus scanner and identity protection scanner and personal information scanner and I used all of the perks and it made me all paranoid. I kept scanning for viruses every two seconds. Speaking of viruses the windows thing also comes with a virus scanner and I also download the MSERT scanner thing and everyday I was so paranoid and kept scanning all three at once multiple times. And what made it worse was the MSERT thing said that I had 6 infected files but at the end it said I was good to go which made me more scared because WHAT INFECTED FILES. Then I turned to the internet and realized the infected files is more suspicious files and you should just listen to the end results. So I only used it periodically. -Theres like a red light thing coming from the camera hole that scared me because the first time I saw it was when I just started playing the Sims and the battery warning popped up and for some reason the screen turned black so I tried pressing the power button to turn it back on again and I guess the facial recognition scanner turned on and created the red beam thingy but I didn’t know so I scared me. So if you see it then its just the face id hing because the red light comes up every time you do face id, so don’t be scared. -If your playing games then the laptop the part on top of the keyboard can get very very hot but usually that only happens when I play while charger because I guess the fans can’t take it both lol. -The laptop is pretty big and the box it comes in is unnecessarily big. -Also one last thing about the delivery, it said I was going to get 1 day delivery but there was some problem and it came 4 days late. It probably wasn’t the fault of best buy but it also might be. Conclusion: It’s good but a little pricy but it’s good and I don't really care. I’ll use this until I graduate in a few billion years.
Posted by ONCE
- Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Very powerful laptop for a decent price
Overall, solid product with a few hardware and design complaints. I use this for intensive computations at work and also at home for some mild gaming. pros: 1. I got it on sale and the price is a steal compared to similar laptops 2. Great graphics card and i9 core is more than sufficient 3. Large, clear display 4. lots of storage cons: 1. touchpad malfunction: I had to get the first HP Envy I ordered exchanged because the touchpad glitches and made the device impossible to use. likely a hardware issue 2. The laptop is pretty heavy for its size 3. Laptop gets pretty hot and the fan can be loud 4. Display could be brighter
Posted by LedaM
- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent value when on sale
I have put in weeks of research to find a laptop that could meet my needs as a video creative for 4k and 5k Drone videos and photos. I am coming from a 2018 i5 MacBook Pro with 16 GB Ram and 512 GB hard drive. I was dead set on getting either an M2 Max 14 inch MacBook Pro or M1 Max 16 Inch MacBook Pro which would have cost me about $2,600 from the Refurb Apple Store. I decided to see what 13th Gen Intel had to offer and research various benchmarks and YouTube reviews of different laptops with 13th Gen i9 processors. Then I found this HP Envy 16 Inch on sale for $1,299. The benchmarks for the i9 13900H is on par if not better than the M1 Max and with the RTX 4060 GPU on this HP Envy 16, it exceeds the performance of the integrated M1 MAX GPU. This laptop has the power and performance for a lot less than it’s Apple competition. Where this falls short is the overall brightness which is 400 nits where the Apple is 500 nit average and up to 1000 nit peak. Also, the battery life is about 6 to 7 hours of watching content, productivity, email, surfing the web, etc. If you are gaming or doing power intensive tasks, the battery last about 2 to 3 hours. The MacBook Pro is going to be closer to 16 hours or more. You will have to determine if spending an extra $1,000 or more is worth a brighter screen and better battery life. A couple things to mention that is not clear in the product description, YES you can easily upgrade this laptop. It is NOT based on the Evo platform where the RAM is soldered on. You can upgrade this RAM to 64 GB of DDR5, and you can add a second NVME Drive. The included drive is a MICRON 3400 with a Read of 6,600 MB/s and a Write of 5,000 MB/s. You can also swap out the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth adapter if you want. This has the Intel AX211 NGW. Another thing is, you CAN charge this laptop via USB-C and I was able to get 91 watts of charge consistently. You will probably get a message saying to use a higher watt power adapter for full performance though. So don’t expect to get full CPU/GPU power using USB-C charging. I do want to highlight the following, Windows Hello works great and reminds me of how well Face ID works. Start up from power off to being logged in using Windows Hello takes about 15 seconds. When you restart from power on, it takes about 25 seconds to be logged back in. The speakers for me were TERRIBLE at first. Be sure to go to the HP website and download all of the latest drivers and update the BIOS to the latest version. That fixed the speaker problems for me which was low volume. Last thing I want to mention again is that if you want the FULL power this laptop has to offer, you will need to have it plugged in to outlet using the included 200W adapter. Apple products give you the full power plugged in or not. Hopefully this review gave you the insight you were looking for.
Posted by Rayviator
