Jumat, 18 Januari 2008

HP Envy13 Review

Envy may be one of the products of Hewlett-Packard (HP), which was launched to fill their vacancies on the segment's top notebook market. With a very premium price, what is offered by Envy?


Elegant nan Display


Envy13 performed with a combination of color and metal base materials used in the surface of this notebook. The result, Envy looked so solid, thin and elegant on the outside.

Extraordinary appearance was not only reflected on the outer side of this notebook. On the inside of HP touch texture that looks pretty neat and attractive.

The inside also looks simple because Envy only has the power button, on the outside row of the keyboard keys are available, so the impression of more elegant minimalist shine in this notebook.

Apart from the design is quite good, Envy13 also very comfortable when used. DetikINET try to do some of the applications used daily, such as text editors, imaging applications to high-quality film.

The result, all the keys feel so comfortable. Soft, no sound, and its placement is very convenient to be able to minimize typing errors.

Envy13 screen display is quite good even with the picture quality was clear and sharp. However, the screen can not avoid the reflection from light sources in the room, the reflected lights burning in the back was visible on the user's screen.

Screen size was spelled out very thin. Unfortunately, the beauty of this screen a little disturbed because the frame around the screen that 'takes place' is quite big.

Overall, the look, design and use of the Envy13 flavor, reminiscent besutan detikINET on Apple notebooks, MacBook pro.

This is reflected in almost every corner of Envy13, except on the side of the circulation of air. Not like Envy, MacBook Pro does not have heat dissipation holes on the bottom.

Powerful Offal


If the outer packaging so as to appear attractive, HP also designed the 'kitchen runway' Envy 13 with specifications:

* Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile L9600
* Memory: 3GB
* Graphics Card: Intel GMA45 / ATI Radeon HD4330 (switchable)
* Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium
* Hardisk: 250GB

With these specifications, the notebook is certainly adequate to run a variety of mild to medium applications. But how to heavyweight applications such as gaming?

Well, for those needs, there are other features of particular interest from Envy. This feature is the availability of switchable graphics cards can be exchanged alias. Meaning what? This means that in the real Envy offal, there are two graphics cards to choose according to your needs.

For applications that require more kenerja - such as imaging applications, gaming, or watching High-Definition video - users can switch on the card a more powerful graphics (ATI Radeon HD4330) with just one click.

Likewise also when users only use such a light application of Microsoft Office. Graphics card lower (Intel GMA45) can also be selected in order to reduce energy consumption used.

Envy13, also has a special application that allows users to quickly surf the Internet or listen to music without going through the Windows first. This is of course shorten the time of use.

Talk about energy consumption, has given Envy13 adequate battery. DetikINET test this notebook to do if the text document data and image, with the condition of the Internet connected through Wi-Fi. The result? Envy13 able to survive for 6 hours of nonstop use.

If you saw the performance on offer, of course, can be a friend Envy13 adequate way. Whether it's to do the job or just a quiet killer entertainment devices.

However, please note that Envy13 not equipped with an optical drive internal to the media. If the user wants to enjoy movies from DVD or piece of Blu-Ray to bring an external Blu-ray included in the sales package of this product.

In addition to optical drives, Envy also has a separate LAN port, so users must use a USB Ethernet adapter, which also comes in in this product. Quite troublesome indeed.


Only a marsupial For Bold

Both of the designs or specifications of the display has to offer, HP obvious target only portable computer users who marsupial thick through this product.

This is further clarified with the after sales service is pampering its users. HP offers a pickup service for the Envy notebook users.

No wonder if in the end HP membandrol Envy13 with a very expensive price, which ranges from EUR 2.666 or less than USD 26 million.

With the price of it, of course, would be difficult for HP to compete with several other competitors. Call it the MacBook Pro, with specifications that may be compared to Apple's bold membandrol lower prices than the Envy.


Pros:

+ Design of Interest
+ Battery durable
+ Performance is
+ After sales service better

Disadvantages:
- Expensive
- No internal optical media
- A separate LAN port