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HP Envy TouchSmart 4 Review

This we know: Windows 8 is more usable with a touchscreen, plain and simple. Whether that's a practical scenario for tower-and-monitor setups is arguable, but it turns out that using touch on a laptop comes pretty naturally—even more so than we expected....Read more

Good touchscreen responsiveness; respectable parts; affordable price

Weak screen; touchy touchpad; almost heavy for this class

HP Envy Touchsmart 4 Review

HP's Envy line has always signified premium quality and beautiful design – usually with high price tags as a result. But as the Envy line moved into Ultrabook territory, prices came down to meet the near-$1,000 goal set forth by Intel....Read more

Attractive design, Excellent touchpad, Good performance

Heavy for an Ultrabook, Lots of bloatware, Narrow viewing angles on display, Unimpressive battery life

HP Envy TouchSmart Ultrabook 4t-1100

Now that Windows 8 is here to stay, hybrid designs and touch screens will inevitably become a common sight on laptops. The first of these are just trickling into the PC Labs, and we're still getting used to reaching out to touch the display on an otherwis...Read more

Comes with Windows 8. Standard laptop design with touch screen. Intel Core i5-3317U processor. Sizeable hard drive with flash acceleration.

Hinges too wobbly for touch

HP Envy 4-1030US Ultrabook

The HP Envy 4-1030us joins a suddenly crowded field of Ultrabooks priced around or under $800. All of these machines offer slim designs, more than five hours of battery life, plus an SSD cache paired with a larger hard drive to deliver fast resume and boo...Read more

Sleek and lightweight design; Excellent Beats Audio; Runs cool; Strong overall performance with fast boot time; Smooth and reliable touchpad

Lid can catch on back of chassis when opening; Fingerprints show up quickly on lid; Relatively dim screen

HP's newest ultrabook offers solid performance and a touch-screen Windows 8 experience for a reasonable starting price of $799. But it's fairly heavy, and the display isn't great, though you may not notice behind the glare that comes with the glass....Read more

Attractive design, Responsive, glass-covered touch screen, Backlit keyboard

Glass over the touch screen adds reflection and glare issues, Heavy for an ultrabook, Loose, awkward power plug

Review HP Envy 4-1000sg Ultrabook

We mentioned it earlier: the Core i3 processor is no powerhouse and constitutes the bottom end as far as CPUs in current generation Ultrabooks are concerned. Consequently, we don't expect overwhelming results from the Cinebench tests R10 and R11.5....Read more

HP Envy 4 Review: The Most Stylish Ultrabook Yet

Ultrabooks, for the most part, look the same: skinny, sleek, and an awful lot like Apple's MacBook line. But the HP Envy 4 is different....Read more

HP Envy TouchSmart 4 ultrabook review

The HP Envy TouchSmart 4 is Hewlett Packard's first ultrabook with a touchscreen display. It ships with Windows 8, features an Intel Ivy Bridge processor, and measures less than an inch thick. HP sent me a demo unit to review, and I've been surprised at h...Read more

HP Envy 4 Ultrabook

Like its big brother, the HP Envy 6, the 14-inch HP Envy 4 is an affordable Ultrabook with good looks and sound, priced at £650 in the UK and $800 in the US....Read more

Sexy design, Sounds great, Very affordable, Light and portable, Bright screen

Awful touchpad buttons, Average battery life, Rattling keyboard, No USB 3.0, Integrated graphics

HP Envy 4 Ultrabook review Review

The HP Envy might be a reasonably affordable ultrabook, but it's sadly let down by poor benchmark performance results from older components and an awful trackpad. If you need to watch every penny and badly want the 'ultrabook' name in your bag, it's a pos...Read more

Affordable price, Sleek design, Comfortable keyboard

Outdated processor, Terrible trackpad, Unimpressive screen

Solid 4 egg machine

--Windows 8 can be easily altered to essentially function like Windows 7. I don't understand what all the hullabaloo is about. If you install Classic Shell to replace the start button and turn off edge swiping, Win 8 is very similar to Win 7....Read more

--The build quality is good on this computer, and this was very important to me considering that I carry my laptop with me regularly

--The screen is probably the weak point of the machine but is certainly manageable. First of all, adjusting the graphics settings like other reviewers have suggested is helpful with the dullness of the screen out of the box (I will post the values I used

Its a keeper

A few cons prevent this from being a 5 star laptop for me but i do believe the bang for your buck is amazing. There is a plethora of $600 ultrabooks popping up and this makes a compelling case for itself....Read more

Let me start off by saying that i don't do a lot of reviews but the lack of reviews on this ultrabook almost stopped me from buying it.

not really cons but here are things that i can live with but wouldn't mind if there were improvements

Works great, looks really polished

This is the 3rd HP I've bought in the past 6 years. Not because they break, but because I really like HP! I bought myself a 17" in 2007 and my wife got a 10" in 2010. This laptop is replacing my 17". So far I'm pleased with the screen size. The black and...Read more

I love the HDD/SSD combo. Win8 is zippy and startup takes no time! The beats audio is nice too. Also, it looks really clean and polished. The trackpad is a nice size and I'm glad that HP didn't try to squeeze a num pad onto a 14" ultrabook. Is lighter tha

There is a big sticker to the left of the trackpad. It's not a huge deal but requires some goo-gone to get the sticky residue off. Also, the function buttons operate as function keys secondary.

Great! Great! Great! Love HP.

I have had very good vibes with all of HP products (with the exception of a few Ink Jets). Have had Dell, Lenova, Toshiba and Sony units in the past and I really enjoy HP products! This "Envy" ultra laptop is great!...Read more

Easy To Set Up, Easy to Use, Efficient, Quality Construction, Reliable

None

Nice Ultrabook!

My 3rd HP in a year, not because they are bad, because I trade around computers a lot. This Ultrabook is nice. The only con I give it is that it doesn't come with a little more RAM and that it still has a HDD instead of an SSD....Read more

Easy To Set Up, Easy to Use, Efficient, Quality Construction, Reliable

Good Ultrabook

Screen: My last laptop was a late 2011 macbook pro. Other reviews are saying that the screen is bad and some are saying it's good. Compared to the screen on the macbook it's worse. The screen isn't terrible but it isn't going to win any awards. Keyboard:...Read more

HP Envy Touch Ultra-Fantastic!

Fantastic Windows 8 Touch Ultrabook by HP. Cyber-Monday was the perfect opportunity for this purchase. Our family purchased two of these devices. We would have purchased 3 but there was a limit. This laptop has all the performance and requirements you wil...Read more

" Torpedoed by OS "

I really wanted to like this but HPs and MSs inability to help me install windows 7pro and set up dual boot was disappointing. I should have jumped on a 1030us instead I got an 1130us but I never expected to be so turned off by an OS....Read more

" Lighter than most laptop computers "

I still have not been able to load the Office 13 disk because about half way, the computer hangs up. Wasted hours yesterday. I've gone through all the Microsoft Operating versions and have MS 7 on my desktop but MS 8 on the HP laptop does not impresss me...Read more

A Perfect Blend of Size, Speed, Performance & Value!

A Perfect fit! Size, speed, Performance. Here It is! Lite weight & powerful, easy to carry were it is needed. If U have been thinking about a tablet but need a lap top with a super fast core i5 under the hood this is it! The HP ENVY is what U need. At jus...Read more