When Envy 17 comes to market, we really expect a performer laptop and god knows that it does perform really well in all the test and we are really happy of Envy 17 2012 model.The ENVY design has always been contentious, and even HP admitted to borrowing more than a little from Apple's MacBook Pro. these new notebooks have strong design hints in their own right, with the gleaming black, silver and red reminiscent of an art deco sculpture. Regardless of where you come down on who originally inspired the last vestiges of HP's Voodoo acquisition, you can't deny that they're lookers.he Envy 17's black matte island-style keyboard features a full number pad with plenty of spacing between the keys. Although we noticed a minimal amount of flex, the keyboard delivered a comfortable typing experience.
The Envy 17 features a spacious 4.3 x 2.7-inch Synaptics clickpad that HP calls an Imagepad. Similar to the Envy 15, an HD sensor enables more accurate control than other clickpads on the market.Touch typists could be thrown off by the Imagepad's location, which isn't centered beneath the G and H keys. Multitouch gestures such as pinch-zoom, three-finger flick and three-finger press were relatively smooth and responsive. However, we experienced some choppiness when trying to execute two-finger scrolls on CNN.com and two-finger rotations on photos.
ne thing the new ENVY notebooks do not lack is port selection - with the possible exception of Intel's Light Peak interconnect, there's almost nothing missing from these notebooks. The left side of the notebooks offer the slot-loading optical disc drive, two SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports, a microphone jack and dual headphone jacks. The right side lets users access another USB port (though just USB 2.0 this time), an SD card slot, Kensington Lock slot, HDMI out, DisplayPort out, Gigabit Ethernet, and the A/C power jack.Old ENVY fans will rejoice to hear that the 3D screen isn't the only change HP made to the display - the company has managed to bring the Radiance panels back from the dead as well. These LED-backlit screens offer superior brightness and contrast ratings to traditional LCDs and many consumers mourned the day HP stopped making them an option on the ENVY lineup.
After streaming a Hulu video at full screen for 15 minutes, the touchpad, space between the G and H keys and the underside kept things brisk at 75, 77 and 88 degrees Fahrenheit, respectively. Placing the notebook on our laps activated HP CoolSense technology, which regulates the Envy 17's temperature by turning on the fan more often. After streaming video for another 15 minutes, we measured temperatures of 84, 88 and 91 degrees from the touchpad, G and H keys and the underside, respectively.
Speaking of 3D, however, it works, and it works well, or at least as well as you'd expect it might. A pair of active shutter glasses gets tossed in the box of every 3D ENVY notebook, and they're nice, too, like the ones we got with the new HP TouchSmart 620 3D desktop. As part of the AMD graphics that power the 3D effects, HP has leveraged that company's Eyefinity graphics technology to enable multiple screen support - up to three external displays can be hooked up to the new ENVY computers, with the notebook panel itself acting as a fourth.
A 3d model is also available...
ENVY 17 3D Specifiations:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Intel Core i5-2340M
120Hz 3D Infinity Radiance display
AMD Radeon graphics
750GB 7200RPM hard drive
Beats Audio with 6 speakers + subwoofer
Slot-loading DVD+/-RW
HP Radiance backlit keyboard + proximity sensor
91 WHr, 1000-cycle battery
8GB DDR3 SDRAM
802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi with Bluetooth 4.0 and WI-Di.
Now lets do some BenchMark's Work.
- Reasonable price.
- Good audio.
- Multiple ports.
- Nice backlit keyboard.
- Good CPU + GPU combination, Really competitive .
- Low battery life.
- Weak lid of screen
