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HP Envy 13 and HP Envy 15; both official!

Well, they’re official now – HP just announced their Envy 13 and Envy 15 ultra-thin, stylish notebooks. The Envy 13 looks extremely appealing and looks like a good replacement for my Pavilion dv4 notebook… in a year’s time, and if I can afford it by then.

HP Envy 13:

• Intel Core 2 Duo processor
• 13.1 inch LED-backlit widescreen display (16:9 aspect ratio; 1366 x 768 pixels)
• 2 DDR3 RAM slots
• Chiclet style keyboard
• 512 MB ATI graphics card
• Intelligent switching between dedicated ATI HD 4330 and Intel integrated graphics for battery life/performance priority
• 2 USB ports, 1 combined audio in/out jack, HDMI port
• Optional battery slice extends battery life up to 18 hours (think of the super-thin extended battery of the Elitebook 2730p)
• Less than 1 inch thick
• $1699 introduction price

HP Envy 15:

• Intel Core i7 processor
• 15.6 inch LED-backlit full HD widescreen display (16:9 aspect ratio; 1920 x 1080 pixels)
• Chiclet style keyboard
• 1 GB ATI HD 4830 graphics card
• Night vision/Infra red equipped VGA webcam
• 4 DDR3 RAM slots
• Dual drive bays
• Optional battery slice extends battery life up to 7 hours
• About 1 inch thick
• $1799 introduction price

Both HP Envy models also have ‘HP Clickpad’, which is a fancy name for a button-less trackpad ala Apple’s MacBook computers. There’s also an optional optical drive attachment which doubles as a ‘dock’ of sorts with two external USB ports.

Two main things that I really, really, really, absolutely need to find out include:

• Do these two HP Envy notebooks have backlit keyboards?
  UPDATE: Nope, sadly
• Any matte screen option for the display?
  UPDATE: No, again =(