HP ENVY 17 Review: A Great Entertainment PC

HP ENVY 17

Overview

• PROS

  • Great speakers
  • Good backlit keyboard
  • Lots of ports
  • Fair price

• CONS

  • Glossy, reflective screen
  • Weak screen lid
  • Thin aluminum sides
  • Loud fan while gaming

QUICK TAKE

The ENVY 17 is a classy 17-inch multimedia notebook with great speakers, good performance and plenty of extras.

Build and Design

The metal lid protecting the 17-inch screen is both a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that the matte-black finish looks nice and the metal provides reasonable durability while keeping the lid thin. Unfortunately, the metal is so thin that you can easily apply pressure to the back the screen (creating visible screen distortions or “ripples”) and risk damaging the actual display panel. This probably isn’t an issue for people using the ENVY 17 as a desktop replacement, but you should be aware of the potential for screen damage if you plan to travel with this notebook.

Unlike the majority of premium notebooks with aluminum construction, the ENVY 17 is actually very easy to upgrade. Simply slide the battery release switch to one side and the bottom front half of the notebook slides away revealing the two SATA storage bays, wireless card and 6-cell battery. Remove a few more screws and you can remove the entire bottom of the ENVY 17 and access the RAM slots and optional mSATA storage.

Battery specification:

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Capacity:5000mAh(55Wh)

Chemical:Li-ion

Color:black

Property:new original battery

Warranty:9 months

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Our HP ENVY 17 review unit has the following specifications:

• 17.3-inch glossy 1080p “Radiance” display (1920×1080 resolution)
• Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• Intel Core i7-2670QM quad-core processor (2.2GHz, 3.1GHz Turbo Boost)
• Integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics
• AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT discrete graphics (1GB GDDR5
• 8GB DDR3-1333 RAM (max. supported)
• 750GB HDD 7200rpm (Western Digital WD7500BPKT)
• Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN Wi-Fi
• Integrated Bluetooth wireless
• HP TrueVision HD Webcam
• Blu-Ray optical drive
• 2-year limited warranty
• 6-cell Lithium-Ion battery
• Weight: 7.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 16.37 x 10.67 x 1.28 inches
• Price as configured: $1,484.99 (starting price: $1,249.99)

Battery Life
The ENVY 17 lasted for five hours and 12 minutes of continuous web surfing during our standard battery rundown test (Windows 7 Balanced power profile, 70% screen brightness, wireless active and refreshing a web page every 60 seconds). This isn’t as good as some of the less powerful 15-inch premium multimedia notebooks such as the Dell XPS 15z, but it is among the best battery life for 17-inch entertainment PCs. You’ll probably have trouble getting the “7 hours” of battery life that HP claims unless you let the notebook occasionally go into sleep mode, but you should be able to get around six hours of continuous battery life if you turn the screen brightness down and aren’t using the Blu-ray/DVD drive.

Battery life test results (higher scores mean better battery life):

Battery display :

Compatible with Original Batteries:

 586006-321 586006-361

 586006-741 586028-341 588178-141 588178-541 593553-001 

593554-001 HP MU06 HP MU09 HSTNN-CBOW HSTNN-CBOX HSTNN-CBOX(U) 

HSTNN-DB0Q HSTNN-F01C HSTNN-F02C HSTNN-I78C HSTNN-I79C HSTNN-I81C 

HSTNN-I83C HSTNN-I84C HSTNN-IB0N HSTNN-IB0X HSTNN-IB1E HSTNN-OB0X 

HSTNN-OB0Y HSTNN-Q47C HSTNN-Q49C HSTNN-Q50C HSTNN-Q51C HSTNN-Q60C

 HSTNN-Q61C HSTNN-Q62C HSTNN-Q63C HSTNN-Q64C HSTNN-UB1E HSTNN-UBOX 

HSTNN-YB0X NBP6A174 NBP6A174B1 NBP6A175 NBP6A175B1 WD548AA WD548AA#ABB 

WD549AA WD549AA#ABB 

Compatible with Laptop Models: 

Compaq Presario CQ32 Series 

Compaq Presario CQ42 Series Compaq Presario CQ62 Series 

Compaq Presario CQ62-200 Series Compaq Presario CQ62-a00 Series 

Compaq Presario CQ72 Series HP Envy 17 Series HP Envy 17t-1000 Series 

HP G42 G62 G72 Series HP Pavilion dm4-1000 Series HP Pavilion Dm4t-1000 Series 

HP Pavilion Dm4t-1100 Series HP Pavilion DV3-4000 Series HP Pavilion DV5-2000 Series 

HP Pavilion DV5t-2000 Series HP Pavilion DV6-3000 Series HP Pavilion DV7-4000 Series HP Pavilion DV7t-4000 Series

See also:

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