Best Cheap Laptop Reviews: Ultrabook HP Envy 6 Full Review

Can not decide whether you need a light and mobile ultrabook or tethered to a wall outlet is big and powerful laptop? Now you can breathe a sigh of relief because there is a solution for you. Ultrabooks a 15-inch form factor while only gaining momentum, but it worked well. Our today's hero is HP Envy 6 - which is powerful and compact at the same time. It is equipped with excellent acoustics Beats Audio and optional discrete graphics card, but the price tag is more democratic than its counterparts in the class of classical ultrabook premium.

The design and feel

Externally Envy 6 is virtually indistinguishable from the younger brother - 14-inch Envy 4 - which is just a little more. Housing ultrabook narrows slightly to the front, while the rear is seen very nice slant that says Hewlett-Packard.

The cover is flat, covered with sheets of polished aluminum with black plastic bg top, under which there are antenna wireless modules. The working surface of aluminum and black, and the bottom is used for plastic burgundy coated soft touch. This solution looks very original amid the mass of monotonous gray ultrabooks.

The display bezel is made of glossy plastic. The maximum opening angle allows you to work comfortably at the table, and with ultrabooks lap. Moderately tight loop, the base laptop will hold the opening. The total mass of the model is slightly more than 2 kg, and the thickness of the shell does not exceed 20 mm. Envy collected six soundly, nothing to complain about.

Interfaces

Set of interface connectors in general standard for today's 15-inch ultrabook, only VGA-port has no place.

Card reader on the left, a pair of USB 3.0, HDMI video output and foldable RJ-45.

On the contrary there is a Kensington lock, two standard audiodzheka, USB 2.0 port and a connector for the power supply to the charge indicator. From wireless modules in the laptop has WiFi 802.11 b / g / n and Bluetooth 4.0.

Keyboard and Touchpad

In HP Envy 6 established a standard keyboard on all of ultrabooks. It is comfortable and quiet, with a clear and informative stroke keys. It is worth to note the special layout, in which a number of standard F1-F12 by default works in combination with the Fn, and the most successful implementation of the cursor block. The backlight is only available as an option.

The touchpad is centered podladonnoy surface in a small recess and slightly raised, so that is unmistakable touch. In the upper left corner of the touch panel shows a small square, a double tap on that enables and disables the touchpad.

Display and Sound

Display of Envy 6 made by technology TN and has a glossy finish, so that glare and reflections in bright conditions are guaranteed. At 15.6 inches diagonal matrix has a native resolution of 1366x768 pixels. The brightness level varies from 10 to 154 cd/m2. Contrast panel is 82:1. In HP the displays clearly save.

But happy excellent acoustics. This Ultrabook equipped with a pair of Beats Audio speakers and subwoofer HP Triple Bass Reflex. The sound is clean and the volume, so to connect external speakers or headphones desire does not arise. In addition, there is a special tool for fine-tuning the sound system.

Functionality

Ultrabooks HP Envy 6 supplied with energy-efficient processor Intel Core i3 and i5, and integrated graphics Intel HD Graphics. As an option, the laptop can be equipped with a discrete graphics card AMD Radeon HD 7670M with 2GB of memory. The amount of memory up to 8 GB, and the storage capacity of the hard disk drive up to 500GB.In addition there are 4 to 32 GB of flash memory for caching.

Our test model is equipped with an Intel Core i5-3317U, 6 GB of RAM and a hard disk capacity of 500 GB, and 4 GB of flash memory. Engaged in integrated graphics processing chip Intel HD Graphics 4000.

The system shows very good results in the synthetic benchmarks. Laptop feels very nimble, no slowdown. Any office applications run entirely free, HD-video playback, games go on low graphics settings.

Standalone device provides removable lithium-ion battery 58 W * h One charge lasts for 8 hours 25 minutes of work in Reading with a muted display brightness turned off and wireless modules. Under load, the battery runs out in 2 hours 20 minutes.

Conclusion

The HP Envy 6 is an attractive and powerful ultrabook. Except for the display well in it all - superb sound system, a great choice of materials and design options in the form of a discrete graphics card AMD Radeon HD 7670M and keyboard light. Besides the cost of the model even in the top configuration does not exceed $1,000.