Testseek.com have collected 43 expert reviews of the HP Envy 13-10xx Series and the average rating is 75%. Scroll down and see all reviews for HP Envy 13-10xx Series.
October 2009
(75%)
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The editors liked
Attractive
Bright display
Big touch pad
Modern design
Slick
Large touch pad
Good display
Beautiful hardware design
High screen resolution
Solid battery life
Classy design
Brightest screen in its class
Excellent performance
Switchable graphics
Superb audio quality through headphones
Phenomenal battery life with both batteries. Extended slice fits flush with the system's base. Metallic design is gorgeous and customizable. Media-centric resolution. Up to 5GB of memory. Very bright screen. Nice typing experience.
Neat audio processing feature for headphones
Great
Mac-like looks
Excellent build quality
Great keyboard
Cool "green" packaging
Looks and solid performance ... what's not to like? Textured palmrest pattern evokes Death Star motif ... like a million voices crying out in unison
Then suddenly silenced.
Premium support services.
Extra-bright 13-inch screen
Solid metal construction
Slim battery slice pushes runtime past 8 hours
Sylish
Magnesiumalloy frame
Excellent LED display
Jetfast benchmark performance.
The editors didn't like
Expensive
Heavy
Keyboard doesn’t have backlighting
Connections and ports are limited
Bulky
Keyboard is not backlit
Terrible trackpad
High price
External disc drive
Temperamental touchpad
Unimpressive speakers
Mediocre battery life (without slice)
Pricey. No illuminated keyboard option. ExpressCard slot would be nice. Only two USB ports.
Annoying bloatware ads
Overly sensitive touchpad
Limited number of ports
Only two USB ports. Bright screen
But hardly an "unparalleled viewing experience." Chiclet keyboard awkward at first. Middling battery life (2 hours
10 minutes). Undersized arrow keys. Higher price than Cypress Hill concert.
Modern design, slick, large touch pad, good display,
Expensive, bulky, keyboard is not backlit, connections and ports are limited,
HP Envy 13 is an upmarket product and the high price should make that clear. The features and performance is impressive. We will recommend you this laptop if you can afford the price. ...
Great, Mac-like looks, Neat audio processing feature for headphones
Expensive, Annoying bloatware ads
If it looks like a MacBook and feels like a Macbook, it's got to be from Apple, right? Wrong! The Envy 13 is the PC's answer for slim, stylish computing. Only more expensive...
Excellent build quality, Great keyboard, Cool "green" packaging
Expensive, Overly sensitive touchpad, Limited number of ports
Without a doubt, the Envy 13 is among the most innovative consumer notebooks that HP has ever created. However, it still feels like HP engineers spent too much time and effort trying to make a “MacBook alternative” and missed the mark completely...
Abstract: We liked the HP Envy 13 laptop when we it was first announced a couple of months ago, but now that we've gotten our hands on one, we like it even more. This 13.1-incher is chiseled out of aluminum on top and magnesium on the bottom, as if it were creat...
Neat audio processing feature for headphones, Great, Mac-like looks
Expensive, Annoying bloatware ads
If it looks like a MacBook and feels like a Macbook, it's got to be from Apple, right? Wrong! The Envy 13 is the PC's answer for slim, stylish computing. Only more expensive...
looks and solid performance ... what's not to like? Textured palmrest pattern evokes Death Star motif ... like a million voices crying out in unison, then suddenly silenced.
Only two USB ports. Bright screen, but hardly an "unparalleled viewing experience." Chiclet keyboard awkward at first. Middling battery life (2 hours, 10 minutes). Undersized arrow keys. Higher price than Cypress Hill concert.
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Published: 2009-10-05, Author: Paul , review by: engadget.com
Beautiful hardware design, High screen resolution, Solid battery life
Terrible trackpad, High price, External disc drive
Overall we're very conflicted about the Envy 13. Hardware wise it's one of our favorite laptops ever, but the trackpad almost destroys all of that good will built up by the other elements -- no matter how great a laptop is, if it's painful to interact wit...
Abstract: Comparisons have been made by the nattering nabobs of Appleism that the HP Envy 13 is just a knock-off of the Macbook Pro 13-inch. This is the cowards way out and I shan’t stand for it. I will look at HP’s latest notebook – don’t call it a netbook! – a...
