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Opening: At the beginning of August 2021 which was also the start of my summer school Holidays I started to look into a 2 in 1 Notebook to replace the iPad 8 which I was using up until that point since I started school last year in October. Basically I’ve been experiencing really weird bugs that are exclusive to that Device even after hard resetting it like randomly starting a Discord call with one of my friends on Discord after I just booted it up even though I didn’t even open the Voice and Video Chat Application. So because I was already pretty fed up with Apple and wanted to start leaving the Ecosystem I sold off the iPad with the Apple Pencil and type Cover for 607 CHF. Will keep the iPhone 12 mini for now, the Apple Watch SE basically killed itself so am not wearing it anymore. With Watch OS 7 the Battery started to drain itself from 100% to dead in like 4 to 5 hours so it always was a dead useless wait on my wrist at lunch break. I once hit it a bit too hard on the top left Corner and now there’s a white Mark there on the Display and both the Button and Crown are like half broken so you really have to press way too hard to activate them. Anyways I am never gonna give Apple my hard earned money again but at least now I know what it’s like to be in the Ecosystem. It was honestly fun for a while but then I started to realise more everyday what a greedy Company they are and how anti Consumer their Products are designed. They can just kill support for something over night and through planned obsolescence make it completely unusable. Specs: HP Envy x360 15.6" 2021 model in Nightfall black aluminum with Ryzen 5500U (8MB of L3, 6 Core 12 Thread) and integrated Radeon Graphics with 7 Cores, 2x8GB of 3200Mhz Crucial RAM, Seagate FireCuda 520 1TB M.2 SSD, 1920 x 1080 Full IPS Display with multi touch, 400 nits, Corning® Gorilla® Glass NBT™, 100% sRGB, 720p HD Webcam in the top, 51Wh Battery with USB-C PD 65W, Windows 10 Home. What I really like: The Keyboard has good stabilized Keys and is tactile. The Trackpad is so good that I’m never taking my Logitech MX Master 3 to school with it and I can multitask fenomenaly with it. I like the assortment of media Controls on the Function keys, the fact that I can mute it and actually close the Webcam with a physical shutter is awesome. Under heavy load the fans will be noticeable but won’t whine, the chassis will get warm but will never exceed a comfortable surface Temperature. USB C, just the fact that I can charge this thing with a tiny 65W Charging Brick is awesome. Port selection is great for its thickness: two USB-A which are 3.2, HDMI 2.0, USB-C with PD of 65W also 3.2, Headphone jack, Barrel Plug which I don’t use #USBCMasterrace, and SD Card Reader. The HP Tilt Pen has its place at the right corner of the machine where I can grab it easily to do quick sketches and mark important words and sentences in OneNote. The Magnet is satisfyingly strong so that it never falls off on its own. Love the extremely fast built in Windows Hello enabled fingerprint reader. I have to give them points for having decent sized perforated venting holes on the back and rear exhaust. What I really hate: The fact that the Power Button is just like a normal media Button above Backspace. Yes I have accidentally hit it before but luckily you have to long press to shut the system down lol. I always hate to see split arrow keys, they could’ve just shrunken down the right shift key and made space for dedicated up and down arrow keys. Most people don’t use left Shift in my experience. As someone who is used to tall Enter Keys I’m not a fan of the standard seized horizontal one on this Keyboard but I got used to it. I had to buy the HP Tilt Pen separately after painstakingly researching which Pens were now officially supported on this Machine, turns out it's only this one. The Ryzen and AMD Radeon logo Stickers aren’t completely aligned horizontally so it’s a bit off and actually sometimes irritating but it’s a really small nit pick which while using the device is not annoying me. Why do I need two Notebooks ? My XMG Gaming Notebook was bought with the thought in the back of my mind that I’ll also use it for school but as it turns out in my profession you need a Touch and Pen enabled device in school to be able to fill out Worksheets in OneNote and sketch up things so the iPad was first bought and now I switched to the HP Envy which was a really great choice and am happily using it now for all the school work that I have to do. So my recently built Desktop is for all the Computing Tasks and Gaming at Home, the HP Envy for school and the XMG Gaming Notebook for Gaming on the go aka just so that I have a powerful gaming device whilst on Holiday somewhere. The Steam Deck will most definitely shake things up in how I’m used to using a PC, really excited for that. Pics: Vanilla internals: Upgraded internals: Webcam Shutter open: Webcam Shutter closed: My Dream Ultrabook would be a Framework with a Ryzen APU and a Touchscreen, so until then this pretty much is the best option for me. @AluminiumTech has the 5700U Version of this Notebook and has been working on some special sauce Monitoring Software for it so I'll be adding a paragraph about that once he has released the first full Version of his Software. Thanks for reading & Cheers

Within the past week my laptops performance has dropped a shit ton and I have no idea what it is now all the parts still show up, both malware software i use didnt pick anything up, and i ran chkdsk in the command prompt which kept getting recommended to me. I think its a cpu issue because recently its always been at 100% usage where system interrupts is taking about 70% but when task manager finishes loading it disappears. Im using an i7-4710HQ and 12gb of ~1800 mhz ram and a hard drive i don’t remember the exact model laptop i have but its an envy from around 2014.

Hi everyone. I recently purchased an used hp envy 17-3200ed laptop. At the start everything seamed fine untill I tried to play some games, the system would overheat over a span of 30min and shut off. Sometimes It would go up to 80-90 degrees and not shut off. I have cleaned it compleatly and changed thermopaste but that did not fix the problem, also I have tried to reinstall the pc to windows 8.1 and windows 10 several times. Im currently using windows 10 ( note, as far as I have seen it was originaly shipping with windows 7. ) System specs - CPU i7-3612qm , RAM- 8gb ( dual channel ) , GPU - AMD radeon HD 7800M series and Intel HD 4000, SSD - 250 GB Samsung 860 evo , HDD - 500 GB Hitachi , PSU - looks like original 120w charger. Bios: Brand-Insyde , Version F.0B , Date 1/2/2013 Only Battlefield 3 and discord were running when overheating and shutting off Could someone assist me on this , should I maybe try linux since widnows 7 is kinda dead at this point? Thanks for any replies

Hi, so I'm looking for a 2-in-1 laptop which should be able to handle productivity work, note taking, light coding and some light gaming from time to time (CSGO, Minecraft nothing heavy). I found some laptops I like but I have a hard to determine whch is the best for me, the laptops I currently looking at are: (NOTE THAT THE PRICES IM LISTING ARE WITH STUDENT COUPONS) HP ENVY x360 15", AMD Ryzen 7 5700U, 16gb RAM, 1TB SSD for 990 USD (NO STYLUS INCLUDED) HP ENVY x360 13", AMD Ryzen 7 4700U, 16gb RAM, 512gb SSD for 950 USD (STYLUS INCLUDED) Samsung Galaxy Book2 360 13", i5-1240P 12th GEN, 8gb RAM, 256gb SSD for 1060USD Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360 15", i7-1165G7. 16gb RAM, 512gb SSD for 1000 USD Which one of these would you recomend for my needs, and which one gives the most bang for the buck, is there a laptop you would recomend that isnt one of those ive listed?

I've been thinking about the Hp envy with the 3700u and vega 10 graphics, but the 4th gen was just announced and iy seems much better. Much more efficient and more cores. The price ofcourse would be more expensive so I'd be looking at a ryzen 5 instead of a ryzen 7 but 6 cores 6 threads seems betther than 4 and 8. Maybe even the ryzen 5 in the enby would have SMT. I'm planning on engineering and I want the laptop for uni and personal use, and since uni is 5 years here I want something to last as long as possible both durability wise and tech wise (to not he outdated). Don't think I'll need a very powerful laptop especially since I have a pc with 3700x and GTX 1060. Should I wait for 4th gen or will it not matter for my case? I am also concerned about availability and price since the envy laptops suffer from both here in my country (and most ulrabooks and convertibles too). The most demanding work I believe would be on autocad, fusion and inventor. Should I wait? TL;DR: want to buy an envy but don't know if I should buy the 3rd gen ryzen mobile one or wait for the 4th gen. Planning to use it for uni for things like autocad, fusion, inventor and other non demanding student stuff. I have a good spec pc and don't know if I need or will benefit from the next gen. Should I wait?

I have an old HP laptop that I started using again. I did a wipe on the Hard Drive and reinstalled windows. Everything works just fine, except for the fact that the CPU and GPU temps go through the roof when just on idle. CPU is somewhere around 55-70 celsius and GPU in 50's. Also the fan goes to like 100% in 5 minutes of starting up. Is there a way to take care of this? Btw, there is no dust inside the laptop, it's completely clean. Specs: i7 4700mq gt 740m 1TB Hard Drive

hey guys the new hp 13t 2019 now has a 10gen processor, does this mean it will now be supporting tb3 according to the 10th gen cpu specs. Should I buy this laptop for programming and light gaming. hp envy 13t :https://store.hp.com/us/en/ConfigureView?catalogId=10051&langId=-1&storeId=10151&urlLangId=&catEntryId=3074457345619343820&quantity=1

Hey all, I'm a poor dude trying to see if I can stretch out the life of my laptop and avoid replacing it until I can find work (working in retail, have a phd and have been job hunting for 3 years, no luck) that will afford me a real portable computer. My laptop, an HP ENVY TouchSmart 15 Notebook PC, has completely lost the hinge mounting on both sides of the computer. The resulting failure of the motherboard plastic near these hinges has caused the hinges to partially destroy the plastic underside as well, but I care less about appearances, and more about getting a working hinge to support my screen. Currently, the cables connecting to the screen are getting damaged by the hinge movement, so I'm keeping it shut for emergencies, but do not feel safe using it anymore. Does anyone have any ideas what I could do to fix this? Or is it a lost cause? I really don't have the budget to replace it. An equivalent lappy today is about $600. I do not think specs outside of the laptop type are useful here, but will add them as requested.

I just bought a lenovo legion Y530 but I also own a broken HP Envy m6 notebook. My question is which has more accurate colour display? The difference is very noticeable and I use my laptop for graphics so it's very important to me. thanks

Hi Guys I'm a proud owner of Surface Pro 6 (i5 8th Gen/128GB with type cover and pen) which I got as a replacement of SP4 - Thanks to flickergate ;) . I mostly use it for watching videos and for reading purpose (knowing I can go much further than this).Being a software engineer, I use my old HP Pavilion 15 (i5 6th Gen dual core/8 GB/2 GB Geforce 940MX) for programming purpose and rarely casual gaming (got a gaming pc for this). Since this laptop is now over 3 years old and given the fact that SP6 is much more powerful than this, I'm considering a new laptop.Right now I have only HP in my mind (family's 6th HP laptop) and I'm little confused between a mediocre gaming laptop or HP Envy 13(AQ1019TX).Can you guys please let me know your thoughts - Should I get Envy 13 (or something similar) even after owning SP6 or go for a little powerful but bulky machine.I won't be doing any serious gaming on the laptop and I want it to be a bit future proof (should at least last for 3-4 years or so) - Will be mainly using it for a couple of IDEs. At the price of Envy 13, I can easily get a mid-high spec gaming laptop with Core i7 and GTX1650.Any suggestion will be helpful! Thanks in advance and a happy new year!!

Hello, I'm new to this forum so please be patient with me. I recently purchased this laptop 4 days ago and I have a question regarding the fan exhaust design on it. (https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-envy-17-bw0011nr) Despite reading about HP's bad reputations concerning their HP Envy laptop hinges, I have noticed something else that has made me very concerned. The placement of the exhaust fan is pointed towards the screen and often when I am using this laptop, the exhaust fan blows hot air at the screen causing it to heat up significantly. I know for a FACT that this exhaust is blowing hot air out not taking in air to be blown out the bottom. I'm really concerned because this is a 4k display and I know replacing it will be very expensive. Will the hot air blowing at the screen over time damage it? Should I be worried? I have attached a picture as well to give you an idea of what I mean. If it does have the capacity to damage the screen, this has me seriously concerned because it means that HP's engineers have some serous problems. First with designing faulty hinges and then putting the fan exhausts in places they know will break the screen. Also if anyone happens to know, did hp fix their hinge design for this laptop? I am extremely worried. Thank you.

So I have an HP Envy 15-ae000 series laptop, though unfortunately my bro accidentally ordered the variant without the nvidia 950m, so I got stuck with Intel integrated graphics. I was thinking, now that its a few years down the road. instead of buying a whole new laptop, what If i just swap out the motherboard with replacement of the variant that *has* the 950m? (and incidentally an M.2 slot) Then I stumbled accross this: https://tinyurl.com/Envy15ae100 Which was the motherboard for the refresh-model of the very same laptop. (this is the actual board for my model, the one without the 950m, for comparison: https://tinyurl.com/Envy15ae000 ) It seems to be pretty much identical. Has all the same mounting holes, same I/O, same internal cables same everything, but it has a newer processor (i7-6500U instead of i7-5500U) on top of the 950M and M.2 slot. (except maybe also the heatsink. Mine is a single heat-pipe one that only goes the the CPU, and the 950m version has a dual-heatpipe heatsink that each goes the the GPU and CPU, but I can easily get that as well) What do you guys think of this? Seeing that the boards are *physically* identical, and if I get one that would have used the same LDC panel, would there be any other compatibility issues? Everything being virtually the same, I doubt that the motherboard would care what drive, keyboard, track pad and screen I would be using,(lookin' at you APPLE) so I cant really think of the downside here. Do you guys think this would work? EDIT: The teardown was very helpful: http://www.myfixguide.com/manual/hp-envy-15-ae000-disassembly/

Hi. I recently bought a HP Envy x360 15t-bp012dx 2-in-1 laptop in factory refurbished condition with three month official hp warranty. Not long about 2 weeks after using it the imagepad Trackpad began to be incredibly glitchy. Everytime i would move the mouse, it would jump randomly across the screen, randomly highlights text while scrolling, clicks on random things while scrolling, perform gestures that were never intended like three finger tap when there was no third finger on the trackpad , making it almost impossible to use. I have tried downloading the most recent synaptics driver and afterwards the trackpad worked for a little while, then went haywire again. I did complete factory reset from hp recovery options but problem persists. i did windows settings reset from windows 10 options but problem persists. i have clean installed windows 10 but problem persists. i cant figure out if this is hardware issue or just really bad drivers. Guide me if i need Warranty claim. Thanks.

I have an HP Envy H8-1534 (the specs are here) and it is a pretty good computer except it's graphics card is HORRIBLE! I am looking for an upgrade under 100 dollars to play games on average settings and to program with Unity3d.

Hello all, As the title suggests, my laptop has two graphics cards, one Intel graphics and one Nvidia Geforce 840. I ran dxdiag and it seemed to indicate that my default card was the Intel one, which obviously isn't ideal. So, does anyone know how I can switch to the Nvidia card? Thank you!

HI, I use a HP ENVY h8-1414 Desktop PC for my work pc, purchased back in 9/2012. I want to upgrade to a 4k display and also use my 1920x1080 samsung display on windows 8.1, current spec is windows 8.1 I have a Dell 27" 4K Monitor ready to go just collecting dust. The computer Specs: CPU: AMD Fx 6120 Six Core - 3.50 GHZ 10 gig ram with Windows 8.1 64 bit Motherboard: Gigabyte - M3970AM-HP Graphics - AMD Radeon HD 7450 Power Supply - 300W (100v-240v) - Internal ATX What would you recommend for a good video card and upgraded power supply, or should I get a new system? I use this system for work with 2 monitors, mainly outlook and excel, and occasional YouTube videos. This is not for gaming at all. Thank you for your time, Anthony