HP ENVY 13-1030NR 13.3-Inch Magnesium Alloy Laptop (Windows 7 Home Premium)
- Intel Core2 Duo Processor SL9400 (1.86 GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 1066 MHz FSB)
- 3 GB DDR3 System Memory (1 Dimm) (expandable to 5 GB)
- 250GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive
- Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, Up to 17.25 Hours of Battery Life
- 13.1″ Diagonal High Definition LED HP Radiance Infinity Widescreen Show (1366×768)
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 Graphics M92LP with up to 1757MB total graphics memory with 512 MB dedicated
Meet your business-class seatmate: Precision crafted from the highest quality metals; super portable starting at 3.74 lbs. and less than 1-inch thin; all-day and into the night battery life. Each ENVY 13 notebook is individually crafted from aluminum and a magnesium alloy then artfully inscribed with a subtle design. Each is built with best-in-class components then individually tuned for maximum performance.Experience full-throttle graphics and superb performance. And up to 16.25 hours of batt
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Best Laptop I have ever owned,
I currently own 5 laptops. They range from small netbooks and tablet PC’s to a 17″ HP Entertainment laptop. As a contractor I used the 17″ for all my meetings and it served its purpose well. The problem is I wanted something smaller, and a longer lasting battery.
I had looked at the envy 15 but it runs hot even while idle. I just did not like the heat on my palms as I typed. After much research the envy 13 seemed to meet all my requirements. ITs a very portable laptop and even with the slice (extra battery) attached its thinner and lighter than all my other laptops.
Even when playing graphic intensive games it does not break a sweat. As for the battery/s I’m getting about 11 hours of constant use with Bluetooth on and wifi off. With wifi and Bluetooth on and streaming movies I get about 7 hours of constant use.
The laptop is small so the IO ports are at a minimum. It only has two USB ports so I bought a Microsoft Bluetooth mouse and it works perfect. The included external DVD drive gets its power from the USB and also acts as a USB hub supplying 2 ports.
There does not seem to be any user accessible panels on the laptop so you can’t change the hard drive of update the memory. Even though the laptop has only 3GB installed it does have windows 7 64-bit installed and can handle up to 5GB. But currently I see no way to upgrade.
One thing I noticed is that the laptop has an accelometer installed so it can detect movement. When on the battery it will park the hard drives if you pick up the laptop. This is indicated by a small orange LED that turns on in place of the normal white hard drive LED.
The speakers are probably the weakest point on the laptop. They just don’t have any output for most movies so you will have to use earphones or buy a external speaker set. I got a pair of those tiny USB powered HP speakers and they have plenty of volume and are small enough to keep in my laptop bag.
As will all laptops there is quite a lot of bloteware installed. It took me three solid days to get rid of all the crap but now the machine runs at between 0-2% CPU usage when idle.
Would I buy the laptop again? The answer is certainly YES.
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|Nice but not fantastic.,
I really expected more from HP. I read fantastic reviews about this laptop, and most of them were right on the money: A excellent attempt to a different breed of PCs but falling small on key points.
I was close to send it back but i kept it at the end mainly because of the size and weight and also because i needed a sturdy laptop. These are the key points that prevented the HP Envy from being a magnificent machine and a right contender against Apple:
- Battery life not even close to 5 hours nor 16 with the additional battery: HP really oversold the battery capacity here. Expect to get 2 hours at the most when using wifi. With the extra battery you probably could get 5 to 6 hours but that’s it. And then the weight goes from 3.8 pounds to 5.3 so, not so light to get more juice. My wife owns a MacbookPro that she uses for 5 to 6 continuous hours with no sweat and certainly less strain on her arm.
- Trackpad: The worst ever. I thought that because of the product age (about 6 – 7 months now) they had come up with a better driver for it. Nope. It still stinks. Clicks are limited to a tiny area in the trackpad. Why did HP make such a huge trackpad with no buttons (a la Mac) but limit the area where you can click? Doesn’t make any sense to me at all.
- Price: If you are conscious about money and need to save some money look elsewhere, this is not worth the money you pay. Again, I kept it only because the magnesium casing was vital to me but you probably can find something similar from Asus or Dell where you can save some dough.
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|Very pleased with this laptop!,
I’ll start by saying that i’ve been searching for this laptop at an affordable price since the Envy 13 came out last year. When i finally got one i was impressed by the overall look and packaging that it came in. It was like unboxing a gorgeous present which was a phenomenal experience. When i opened the box it came with the computer wrapped in it’s own cloth casing. It also came with a 2gb Sd card which was also very useful. The laptop itself is very gorgeous. It’s thin and lightweight and has a very solid feeling to the magnesium alloy chasis.
Turning it on was also a fantastic viewing experience. For example, even the images describing the steps in setting up the os and the HP ion menu was a fantastic HD viewing pleasure. This computer allows u to access the web, webcam and dvd without loading into Windows 7 which is excellent if u don’t have time to wait for it to load up.(called the hp ion) Be also prepared to go through about 20 minutes of set up time when first loading up Windows 7. All the updates and restarting took a small bit of time.
When that was done, I started by loading a dvd into the external drive. What i first realized was that the audio speakers are average at best. I could barely hear the quality sound that people had been bragging about on this laptop. Out came the headphones and omg that was phenomenal! You could literally hear all the bass sounds and high tones in the movie i was watching. Although it was just a normal dvd the picture was very excellent. I felt the dvd didn’t really test the HD screen much so i started using the web. I couldn’t believe how wonderfully clear and bright the screen was! To my pleasure i was pleased with my web experience. I haven’t fully explored the track pad’s extra functions yet so i just set on a normal function and that worked fine.(no pinching or zooming) Next i tried playing some games on the laptop. Wow, Civ 4 looked awesome especially in HD. (had to set it to 1366X768) So far so excellent!
The webcam was average to excellent for this laptop. It comes pre-loaded with Skype on the HP ion but i haven’t figured how to activate the webcam during that mode yet, otherwise works just fine in windows. The battery life was just slightly above average. With the extra battery slice the envy gets around 4 and a half hours when i did intense gaming. I’m pretty sure u could eke out a few more hours if you’re only surfing the web or doing some simple applications. This laptop has been a fantastic mutimedia experience for me and if you can find it for 900 dollars or less go out and get it….u won’t be disapointed.
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