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 =(
