HP Envy 17 appears briefly on HP website, tells us what to expect

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The HP Envy 17 and its overview/specifications pages recently appeared on a HP website, and thanks to that, we now know a whole lot more about this 17 inch “luxury” performance notebook. First off, there really IS a number pad on the right side of the full-sized chiclet keyboard (turns out the info sent by the guy who apparently “bought” an Envy 17 two months ago was right, huh?). Also, in more keyboard-related news, those annoying quick launch buttons in the additional row to the left of the keyboard (found on the Envy 15, and annoyed the heck out of me) are gone on the Envy 17! Nice – now I can finally crouch in games (Ctrl button) without accidentally pressing the stupid calculator button and bring up Left4Dead’s command console (~ button) without hitting the e-mail client button.

Other than that, there’s also:

• Choice of Intel Core i5 dual core and Core i7 dual and quad core processors (as you’d probably expect)
• Up to 4 DDR3 RAM slots (presumably on Core i7 models; we’ll probably see just 2 RAM slots for Core i5 models like on the Elitebooks)
• 1 GB of GDDR5 ATI Mobility Radeon 5850
• NO optical drive (but that’s not an issue for some people like me)
• Thin profile

What’s strange is that the Envy 17′s front lip looks a whole lot like that of the Envy 13 with just two small grills for the speakers in front (the Envy 15 had big, large air intake vents on the front), which either hints to improved cooling efficiency that HP could remove those big (ungainly looking, to some) vents OR the Envy 17 will be a nice and toasty 17 inch frying pan! Hopefully it’s the former, and not the latter. More Envy news as it comes out… I’m sure now that the Envy 17 page has made a short appearance (HP has since pulled down the page), the Envy 14′s pages should be hiding somewhere around too…

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  By John A., April 23, 2010 @ 2:35 am

  Just a quick question (so you don’t have to post this as a comment)…

  Is there a reason the ads on the page seem to be going away and then coming back? It’s almost like your page is being hacked with the ads. If you really need the ad revenue, that’s fine but I think having the block of ads once on a page (and NOT multiple times – once per story on the front page) would be enough. Right now, the ads are very intrusive since they take up so much space.

  Not to mention that the ads for the HP ‘Envy’ stories are quite inappropriate or irrelevant!

  Thanks for listening.

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  By bullit, April 25, 2010 @ 10:57 pm

  I have a DV7 and unfortunately it puts the fan on even on 800mhz. There is no justification at this time in that industry that a notebook needs to put the fan on when working in office applications.
  All manufacturers should make a long look at recent Asus G73 chassis configuration.

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  By bullit, April 25, 2010 @ 11:00 pm

  I didn’t got any ads John A., unless the HPfansite took them down it’s an issue in your side.

  Another issue i don’t like in industry is the glossy displays that make impossible to use a computer outside and the options are all half backed.

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  By Brad, April 29, 2010 @ 8:33 am

  @bullit and John A, our ads are served thru just one ad network which is Chitika Inc. I generally limit things to 1-2 ads per page, though the types of ads served are not my decision and based off what content Chitika ‘detects’ in my articles.

  @bullit the last generation of HP Pavilion and Compaq consumer series (those usually black/brown glossy notebooks with the large speaker ‘grills’ above the keyboard) have been known for their pretty sub-standard cooling abilities thanks to their design (the air vent blows downwards, and is located on the upper-left back side of the notebook, and also partially obstructed by the LCD lid hinge). However, HP seems to be tackling the cooling issue with their newer models (Envy 13, Pavilion dm3, Compaq CQ42/G42,etc) with improved and more sensible placement of air vents – a little bird told me to expect huge and numerous air intake vents on the bottom side of some newer notebooks (Not sure how much it will help though).

  I took a look at the Asus G73 when it first came out, and cool and fast as it may be, it’s also a huge (literally) machine. Quite a bit bigger than the dv7 I would think, and certainly way thicker than the Envy 15 (Envy 17 is likely just as thin)

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  By John A., May 5, 2010 @ 12:51 pm

  They’re here!!!!

  PC World: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/195614/hp_gives_amd_boost_with_new_business_laptops.html

  snippet: “HP also introduced the Envy laptop with a 17-inch screen, which is capable of storing a whopping 2TB of data through two hard-drive storage slots. The laptop also packs the latest technologies, including a Blu-ray hard drive, and an ATI Radeon graphics card to bring DirectX 11 gaming capabilities to the Windows 7.”

  - J -

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  By John A., May 5, 2010 @ 12:52 pm

  Also see

  PCmag: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2363364,00.asp

  - J -

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  By veterinary technician [--], July 4, 2010 @ 10:48 am

  nice post. thanks.

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