Good school laptop

[joefer13]

I have heard a lot of people saying good things about the envy. I am still a skeptic but hopefully that is me assuming to much. If you like it, check it on newegg and go for it

[Orenshi]

Oh I just checked it on Best Buy... the processor is the Intel® 3rd Generation Core™ i7. That's pretty good... Intel's Ivy Bridge processors came out earlier this year. They're supposedly smaller and require lower power requirements. Which means less heat being generated less cooling!

That's a pretty good find. If you're a casual gamer, the graphics card isn't that bad either. http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-H...d.73567.0.html Although, I'd rather have an NVIDIA :3 But that's just me!

I don't really see anywhere how the battery life is though. That's a big thing to consider. My HP Elitebook dies really fast so I'm constantly plugged in. For a laptop it's not very portable haha. Which is probably why I use my MacBook Pro to carry around instead.

[kevinb]

Oh I just checked it on Best Buy... the processor is the Intel® 3rd Generation Core™ i7. That's pretty good... Intel's Ivy Bridge processors came out earlier this year. They're supposedly smaller and require lower power requirements. Which means less heat being generated less cooling!

That's a pretty good find. If you're a casual gamer, the graphics card isn't that bad either. http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-H...d.73567.0.html Although, I'd rather have an NVIDIA :3 But that's just me!

I don't really see anywhere how the battery life is though. That's a big thing to consider. My HP Elitebook dies really fast so I'm constantly plugged in. For a laptop it's not very portable haha. Which is probably why I use my MacBook Pro to carry around instead.

The only gaming I do is on the 360 lol. Thanks for the critique! I couldn't find battery life either.

[kevinb]

I just googled it and it says the battery life is about 5 hours

[SquamishSerpents]

I love my HP, had it for well over 4 years! Runs like a charm.

I would stay away from a 1TB drive if you can


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[kevinb]

I love my HP, had it for well over 4 years! Runs like a charm.

I would stay away from a 1TB drive if you can


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Why you say that?

[SquamishSerpents]

They fail often and when they do, data recovery is hard if not impossible.

My boyfriend has had a handful of TBs fail on him, and I've had my WD 750gig for 4 years and never even had one problem. No bad sectors, nothing! Perfect.

If you're working on things for school you're probably better off with a smaller harddrive anyways so you remember/get in the habit of backing everything up.


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[OhhWatALoser]

They fail often and when they do, data recovery is hard if not impossible.

My boyfriend has had a handful of TBs fail on him, and I've had my WD 750gig for 4 years and never even had one problem. No bad sectors, nothing! Perfect.

This is another case of having a few bad specific experiences and having it speak for something extremely general

I'm still curious what exactly do you plan on doing with this machine? It no doubt has some nice specs, but do you even need them? I ask because you might be able to sacrifice some specs to save yourself some money, or get a better user experience for the same price, something with an SSD for example. Just no reason to pay for it and not use it, thats all. Good luck!

[Orenshi]

They fail often and when they do, data recovery is hard if not impossible.

My boyfriend has had a handful of TBs fail on him, and I've had my WD 750gig for 4 years and never even had one problem. No bad sectors, nothing! Perfect.

If you're working on things for school you're probably better off with a smaller harddrive anyways so you remember/get in the habit of backing everything up.


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What OWAL said .You shouldn't rule out all 1 TB HDs. It really depends on the manufacturer of said 1TB HDs.

I'm still curious what exactly do you plan on doing with this machine? It no doubt has some nice specs, but do you even need them? I ask because you might be able to sacrifice some specs to save yourself some money, or get a better user experience for the same price, something with an SSD for example. Just no reason to pay for it and not use it, thats all. Good luck!

Agreed. You can save some money since you said all your gaming is done on 360. However, what is your major? If you think you will be partitioning your laptop for another OS or even if you are running virtual machines... then those laptop specs can be utilized and really be put to use.

Keep searching and let us know :-)

[Badger711]

^^ Well worded.

Not all TB hard drives are created equal, all that it means is that they hold at least 1 TB of space; Manufacturer has a huge influence on quality. I highly recommend dual booting Ubuntu (Linux) along with Win 7, if it comes with it, because you can recover a forgotten or lost admin password with it. I've had to do it once or twice. I have no clue if you can still due this with Windows 8 (Which I despise, but that's just my opinion).