HP Envy i5 model - any release date?

Totality · 10 Feb 2010 at 23:12

I was in purple shirt land looking a these laptops then got home and read that the i5 version is out soon which has better battery life and a newer GPU.

Anyone know the release date as I cannot find any UK information anywhere!

ninja2000 · 11 Feb 2010 at 08:35

The i5 version is already out in the USA. I have not been able to get a date of HP for a UK release.

By all accounts the i5 version gets about 2 hours battery life and the 5830 is very similar to the 4830 (800 shaders instead of 720 but same speeds)

Aod · 11 Feb 2010 at 15:52

the HP Envys are kind of... meh

CrimsonAvenger · 12 Feb 2010 at 16:48

Aod said:
the HP Envys are kind of... meh

care to enlighten us why you think so ?

Aod · 12 Feb 2010 at 17:16

uncomfortable touchpads, massive heat issues on the palmrests, the port-block sticking out of the smooth chassis, lousy keyboard layout, the limited screen tilt angle and the enormous price

Amp34 · 12 Feb 2010 at 18:06

2 hours battery life? That's terrible! :confused:

rpg · 12 Feb 2010 at 18:19

Aod said:
uncomfortable touchpads, massive heat issues on the palmrests, the port-block sticking out of the smooth chassis, lousy keyboard layout, the limited screen tilt angle and the enormous price

No optical drive either.

Shane5578 · 12 Feb 2010 at 23:38

i owned the envy for a while, and i can tell you its a good laptop ok lol.

i'm having fun it, just installed ramdisk as i had spare memory, it can read 4gigs per second. i stored firefox browser and some games in ramdisk, way cool.

Aod · 13 Feb 2010 at 00:35

rpg said:
No optical drive either.

well, my laptop doesn't have an optical drive either, not that i've missed having one. i have a USB one and i've only used it five or six times for forensics stuff.

rpg · 13 Feb 2010 at 14:03

Aod said:
well, my laptop doesn't have an optical drive either, not that i've missed having one. i have a USB one and i've only used it five or six times for forensics stuff.

While I do agree with you (i.e. it's not that important), it's still a 15.6" laptop without an optical drive - no optical drive is something you usually hear on netbook specs. Also, you'd expect that the extra space available would go to keeping temperatures down, but it seems it hasn't.