HP Envy x360 Business, New HP laptop

 

HP Envy x360 Business (AMD Ryzen 5 4500U/8GB/512GB SSD/13.3 inches/Windows 11 Home/ Radeon Vega/Nightfall Black/1.32 kg) Laptop

Model Name✔️ ENVY x360

Brand✔️ HP

Specific Uses ✔️For Product Business, personal

Screen Size ✔️13.3 Inches

Operating System ✔️Windows 11 Home

Device interface - primary Touchscreen, Microphone

CPU Manufacturer✔️ AMD

Graphics Card ✔️Description Integrated

Special Feature✔️ Touchscreen

Colour✔️ Night Fall Black

💲About this item💲

Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U (2.3 GHz base clock, up to 4.0 GHz max boost clock, 8 MB L3 cache, 6 cores) | Memory: 8 GB DDR4-3200 MHz RAM (onboard) | Storage: 512 GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD

Operating System & Pre-installed Software: Pre-loaded Windows 11 Home with lifetime validity | Microsoft Office Home & Student 2019

Display & Graphics: 33.8 cm (13.3") diagonal, FHD (1920 x 1080), multitouch-enabled, IPS, edge-to-edge glass, micro-edge, Corning Gorilla Glass NBT, 400 nits, 100% sRGB | AMD Radeon Graphics

Ports: 1 SuperSpeed USB Type-C (10Gbps), Display Port 1.4, 2 SuperSpeed USB Type-A (5Gbps), 1 microSD card reader | Without CD-Drive | 3-cell, 51 Wh Li-ion polymer, Supports battery fast charge: approximately 50% in 30 minutes

Features: Camera: HP Wide Vision 720p HD camera, Camera Shutter | Microphone: Integrated Dual array digital microphones| Audio: Dual Speakers, Audio by B&O | Keyboard: Full-size backlit keyboard |Networking: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2x2) Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5 combo

I had always wanted to get myself a high processing and high utility laptop, and this was my first big purchase ever.

I am an average 23 year old and I was desperately looking for a laptop which met the following criteria -

1. Light enough to read books for long hours

2. Touch screen for illustrating on Adobe

3. Good computing power with processor specifics that could compile huge code chunks effortlessly

4. A good display and speakers for entertainment

After months of research, I crossed my fingers and went ahead with the ryzen 5 processor (this was a first too, I was an Intel user), and it's been two months since this cutie has been with me and I am not disappointed. This is what I got :

1. Laptop starts within 3 seconds.

2. Brilliant keyboard design - the letters are so big and clear, and backlit, I like how they have removed the unnecessary shift key we don't use with the fingerprint sensor.

3. I absolutely love the x360 feature which helps me illustrate and read with great ease.

4. This also comes with the HP pen, for free, yes! I liked using it given how it easy it made illustrating on Adobe Fresco. But don't take my word, do your research on styluses, if you are a professional.

5. It comes with a camera shutter on/off button, which I really appreciate and I didn't have to tape up the camera like I did for my other laptops.

6. The display is oh so great, it was way beyond my expectations! It's perfect even in 0% brightness, it might be a little uncomfortable for those who use the laptop in dark in the beginning, but you will realise that it's so much better for your eyes.

7. Oh, and did I say - you can also manage to pull off some moderate level of gaming too! I am not a gamer, and there are great gaming laptops out there, but you wouldn't want to settle down with this for core gaming.

8. Multitasking at its best. Absolutely seemless, even in tablet mode.

9. The speaker position is smart, which really makes sense when you flip the laptop in tablet mode. I also use an Elitebook, where the speakers are placed below the screen, and if I were to compare, I would say, Envy could have placed the speakers on top rather than below, but I don't think that's a major issue, because I feel Envy has a better sound surrounding system because it's placed on either side, unlike that of Elitebook.

10. Very sleek and beautiful, I got the black one and it's incredibly light as promised.

I do not regret even once for buying this over MacBook. I got this for 76k during the Great Indian Festival, and I think that's a steal given all its features and performance.

TL;DR -

Build Quality - 9/10

Performance - 9/10

Display - 8/10

Sound - 7/10

Value for Money - 7/10

Thermals - 8/10

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Build Quality -

The laptop's shell is built out of aluminium and feels sturdy. The display is covered with glass all around, has narrow bezels with just a relatively thicker chin, but still looks premium. Overall dimensions of the laptop are diminutive, right there at the the top along with the leaders like the XPS 13, Spectre x360 in terms of compactness. It's very slim and quite light, fairly easy to carry around.

Performance -

The best thing about the laptop has to be the performance with its Ryzen 5 4500U processor. Good performance in day to day tasks, as well as in heavy tasks like Software Development. The NVME SSD (512 GB Samsung SSD) is plenty fast too, with sequential read/write speeds hovering around 3000/2500MB/s. The dual channel 8 GB RAM is non-upgradeable, so stay away if your workload needs loads of RAM. Coming to the thermals, it runs quiet and mostly cool. However, it gets pretty hot on the right side while charging using the supplied 65W adapter.

Display -

The display is sufficiently bright while producing good colours though not completely accurate. Reflection is noticeable in bright ambience due to the glossy display. The display does seem to be a little bit on the warmer side, but the colour temperature can be adjusted using the Radeon Settings. Also, at 13.3", 1080p is fine for most purposes, if you're not accustomed to 4K displays or so. The 16:9 aspect ratio however hinders productivity tasks like Software Development where you might benefit from having a taller display like 16:10. On the flip side, it serves well for the multimedia needs.

Convertible -

Coming to the tablet part, the touch screen is fairly responsive, almost as good as a modern smartphone and it supports 10 finger multi-touch support. Being a 360 degree convertible, it can easily be folded all the way to work as a tablet or be set up in the tent mode for multimedia consumption. It also brings support for HP Pen 2.0 which is really good and feels pretty close to an actual Pen. The latency is acceptably low for a device of this class. The palm rejection however, was not always upto the mark and it would trigger zoom-in/zoom-out or similar actions while trying to draw/write in apps like Whiteboard and OneNote, though this may not be HP's fault.

Speakers -

The speakers on this convertible are not front facing, and the quality and loudness are above average for a Windows notebook but still far from MacBook territory.

Keyboard & Touchpad -

Keyboard and touchpad are decent and should do the job for most intents and purposes. As has been the case with most HP laptops, the keyboard has an extra column of keys containing Home, End Page up/down keys, which is a real bonus when working on Software Development/Coding/Writing.

Network Performance -

Wi-Fi performance was fine and nothing to write home about with the Realtek card only supporting Wi-Fi 5. Many laptops in this range now ship with Intel AX200/201 cards supporting Wi-Fi 6. Bluetooth connection also works as expected.

Battery -

Battery life on this convertible was not an issue and it easily delivered 6-7 hours on mixed workloads consisting of Web browsing, running C/C++ programs using VS Code, playing some YouTube music etc. on 60-70% brightness. Turning up the brightness would quickly start eating from the battery runtime as the display is quite bright at 400Nits.

Extras -

Most of the HP Laptops come with free Office, so that's a definite plus.

Price -

I got it at around 76k for my brother. It would have been a blockbuster had it been priced around 65-70k.

Value for Money -

Good value for money if you manage to get it around 70k.