Appearance: red and black passion
We call HP Envy 4? Passion is red and black? In addition to being light and unique, the black metal top cover echoes the bottom of the red resin polymer material, which makes Envy 4 perfectly combine the rigor of business with the publicity of personality. Stacy Wolff, HP's vice president of industrial design, said: The black top cover keeps users from appearing abrupt in a business environment, and the red bottom cover gives users a window to show their personality.
▲ Metal brushed top cover
▲ Resin polymer bottom cover
Envy 4' s top cover is made of brushed metal, and HP logo is located in the upper right corner of the top cover, and the overall style is tough and simple. Hewlett-Packard uses resin polymer material on the bottom cover of Envy 4, so that users will not feel too stiff when holding the product (the strength of resin polymer material is equivalent to that of metal, with good heat dissipation and lighter weight). Envy 4' s bottom cover adopts integrated design, and users need to open the whole bottom cover when upgrading.
Interface: I have everything I need.
After reading the top cover and bottom cover of the product, let's take a look at the interface of Envy 4. In order to be thinner, giving up some interfaces commonly used by users has become the biggest problem in ultrabook design. HP fully considered this issue when designing Envy 4.
▲ The names of the two founders of HP are printed on the back of the wedge angle.
The whole rear part of the fuselage is reserved for the cooling air outlet, which first increases the area of the cooling air outlet, and the space on the left and right sides of the fuselage is fully reserved for various interfaces. By the way, many editors like the wedge-shaped angular design adopted on the back of Envy 4 fuselage. Angular design? HP? These words are the names of the two founders of HP. Sure, what are their abbreviations? HP? Yes
▲ Interface display on both sides of the fuselage
▲ The layout of the left interface is compact, which has a slight impact on the use.
Ok, now let's look at the left and right interfaces of Envy 4. Simply put, Envy 4 has the mainstream interfaces that users need in use.
▲ Network cable interface display
As for the cable interface that occupies the most thickness of the fuselage, HP Envy 4 adopts the design of pull-down interface, so that it also appears on the fuselage. However, the problem that the cable bayonet is downward caused by the pull-down cable interface will make the user need to gently lift the fuselage when pulling out the cable.
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Operating platform: brushed touchpad, Beats sound effect.
▲ Opening and closing angle and rotation axis
▲ HD camera at the top of the screen
When you open the HP Envy 4, you can feel the damping force of its sinking shaft, but the user can punch in with one hand. Envy 4 maximum opening angle 150? Envy 4 adopts 14 inch 1366? 768' s high brightness screen, and the top of the screen is? TrueVision HD？ HD camera and matrix dual microphones.
▲ chocolate floating keyboard
▲ Trackpad mouse adopts metal wire drawing and rotary polishing process.
The keyboard area of HP Envy 4 is concave, and the chocolate keyboard is suspended. After trial, the resilience of the keyboard is better, but the area of a single keycap is slightly smaller. Envy 4' s touchpad mouse adopts metal wire drawing and rotary polishing technology. There is an obvious dividing line between the left and right buttons and the touchpad, but there is no obvious dividing line between them. The trackpad mouse supports various gestures with up to three fingers.
▲Beats Audio Wisdom Magic Sound System
Above the keyboard is the sound box of Envy 4, which adopts Beats Audio magic sound system, which will bring users more perfect listening effect and entertainment audio experience. There are triple woofers in the speaker configuration. The speaker at the top of the keyboard spans almost the whole body, and the bass reflex speaker at the bottom of the notebook makes the surround sound better.
Weight and thickness: less than1.8kg, only 20mm.
▲ Weight is less than1.8kg.
▲ The thickness is only 20mm.
For 14 inch stand-alone notebook, if the thickness is about 30mm and the weight is about 2.5Kg, we will think it is completely acceptable. But this figure is absolutely intolerable for the designers of Envy 4, because according to their standards, Envy 4 has been reduced to only 20mm thick and weighs less than 1.8Kg, which brings better portability to users.
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Whole machine configuration and performance
As Intel's next-generation Ivy Bridge low-power processor has not yet been released, the HP Envy 4 selected the combination of the previous-generation Core i3 2367M+ the next-generation HM77 chipset, equipped with 4GB DDR3- 1600 memory and HD7670M discrete graphics card. The graphics performance of the whole machine is better than that of HD3000 core graphics card, but SNB's low-power i3 processor is relatively low.
Hp Envy 4
Parameter name parameter description
processor
Intel Core i3-2367M
chip set
HM77
internal storage
4 GB DDR3- 1600
display card
AMD radium HD 7670M (supports dual graphics card switching)
hard disc
500GB 5400 rpm +32GB SSD
class monitor
13.3 inches (resolution 1366? 768)
wireless card
Broadcom 43 13GN
Wired network adapter
Realtek gigabit Ethernet card
Notebook size
34 1? 236? 20.49 ~ 21.08mm
price
5999 yuan
The choice of hard disk is limited by the cost of the whole machine. Like most ultrabooks with the same price, HP Envy 4 also adopts the solution of SSD+ mechanical hard disk, which not only provides sufficient storage space, but also improves the wake-up speed of the notebook and reduces the waiting time for the notebook to start.
▲ Processor performance is not high.
In CPU performance, we tested it with CINEBENCH R 10. In this test, the low-power i3 2367M of HP Envy 4 still lags behind the mainstream standard voltage core processor, and its overall performance is relatively weak. However, from a practical point of view, the performance of i3 2367M can fully meet our daily operations such as word processing, web browsing, watching high-definition videos and image processing.
▲3Dmark test scores
Although the body thickness of HP Envy 4 is very thin, in order to provide a better gaming experience, it is still equipped with AMD Radium HD 7670M discrete graphics card, equipped with 1GB DDR3 memory, and the memory bit width is 128bit. In the test of 3Dmark VANTAGE, it was scored as E 10762, among which GPU item 19 190 was in the middle level in mainstream notebook graphics cards. However, due to the weak CPU performance, the overall gaming performance of ENVY 4 is slightly lower than that of notebooks equipped with standard voltage processors and the same discrete graphics card, but the overall gaming ability is quite good.
▲ game measurement
As can be seen from the above game test screen, the HP Envy 4 with a unique display screen can smoothly run mainstream 3D games such as Dust 3, Mission 8 and diablo 3, and the picture quality is medium, which is not available in other ultra-thin notebook locks equipped with core graphics cards. It can be said that HP Envy 4 is a model with strong game performance in Ultrabook.
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Calorific value and noise
Slim body and high-performance discrete graphics card make us worry about the control of Envy 4' s calorific value. So we copied the machine with AIDA64 for half an hour, and then photographed the surfaces of the following two Envy 4 with infrared thermal imager. The redder the color, the higher the temperature here, the bluer and the lower the temperature.
▲ Surface temperature of fuselage
Judging from the overall heat distribution, the part of HP Envy 4 keyboard with high calorific value is at the top left of the keyboard, where a large area of orange appears, and the highest temperature reaches 48.3℃. Long-term use will make you feel like baking your hands. As for the bottom of the fuselage, it can be clearly seen from the heating diagram above that the color of the bottom is very red, and the highest temperature here has reached 56.6℃. This is because HP Envy 4 has a lot of cooling holes in the upper part of the bottom to ensure the heat dissipation of the whole machine, so that the heat inside the fuselage can be dissipated in time. Of course, if you put it on the table at ordinary times, there is no problem, but don't put it on your legs or on a soft surface, so as to avoid burns or crashes caused by blocked vents.
▲ Noise test
In terms of noise control, for Envy 4, when the fan is turned on and left standing, the noise generated during normal operation is about 33.2dB, which is not easy to detect in a quiet environment at home. After half an hour's reading, the calorific value of Envy 4 is greatly increased and the fan speed is faster. At this time, the noise is about 44.9dB, which can be clearly heard in a quiet environment at home, but it will not have much impact on us.
Startup speed and wake-up speed
As mentioned earlier, due to the cost limitation, HP Envy 4 adopted the solution of SSD+ mechanical hard disk, which not only provided sufficient storage space, but also accelerated the boot speed. Through our actual test, the startup time of Envy 4 is about 22 seconds, which is 10 seconds faster than that of ordinary mechanical hard disk, but there is still a certain gap with the pure SSD model.
Evaluation summary and viewpoint
On the whole, HP Envy 4 still meets the purchasing needs of most consumers. It is between ultrabook and traditional notebook, with ultra-thin body, and has a very good performance in 3D games.
Hp Envy 4
superiority
1, stylish and beautiful, ultra-thin body.
2. With ATI HD7670 2G discrete graphics card, 3D game performance is excellent.
3, using Beats Audio intelligent magic sound system, the audio experience is more perfect.
deficient
gross calorific value
Nowadays, consumers are pursuing lightweight, portable and powerful performance when buying notebooks, but few products can combine these two points in a balanced way, and HP Envy 4 has done it. With a thickness of only 20mm and a weight of 1.8kg, it is very convenient to move. The combination of i3 processor and HD 7670 discrete graphics card provides powerful performance. At the same time, the addition of Beats Audio sound system also makes it have a more perfect audio experience. Therefore, HP Envy 4 is an ideal choice for mobile entertainment enthusiasts.
However, the slim body and excellent performance also doomed HP Envy 4 to encounter heating problems. After long-term use, the maximum temperature on the surface and bottom of the keyboard can reach more than 50 degrees, which reduces the operating comfort.
HP Envy 4 is a solution of SSD+HDD hybrid hard disk with low cost control, so the price is more advantageous. At present, the official minimum price is 5499 yuan, which is reasonable.