HP Envy 4 Series

HP Envy 4-1150ec

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HP Envy 4 - 14'' v tenkém provedení
Source: Notebook.cz CZ→EN Archive.org version
Positive: Quality mechanical design; comfortable keyboard; standard Ethernet and HDMI ports. Negative: Whirring fan; no backlit keyboard; below average speakers and problems with Beats Audio.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 11/13/2012

HP Envy 4-1180SF

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Average Score: 70% - average

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60% HP Envy TouchSmart Ultrabook 4
Source: Digital Versus Archive.org version
The HP Envy TouchSmart Ultrabook 4 is a 14-inch ultrabook that sells for around £800. This is a sleek ultrabook with a quality chassis and great processing power for the asking price. But until HP decides to put some effort into the screen and audio—which, after all, are some of the things it's advertising—it will never catch up with Asus and Apple.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/17/2013
Rating: Total score: 60% performance: 70% display: 20% mobility: 60%

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80% HP ENVY TOUCHSMART 4-1180SF
Source: 01Net FR→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 12/14/2012
Rating: Total score: 80%

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HP: Founded in 1939, the US company is a major server and printer manufacturer and one of the leading IT companies in the world. Until 2015, the company was called Hewlett-Packard Company. After a split, the computer division was renamed HP Inc.

In 2023, HP had an approximate market share of 22% of global PC sales, making it number 2 after Lenovo.

Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards.

Intel HD Graphics 4000: Processor graphics card in the high end Ivy Bridge models. Offers a different clock speed in the different CPU models (ULV to desktop quad core) and therefore a different performance.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

Intel Core i5:

3317U: Ivy-Bridge-based ULV-CPU in Q2 2012. Offers a core clock of 1.7 - 2.6 GHz and an HD 4000 GPU (350 - 1050 MHz). The TDP is rated at 17 W.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

14.00:

14 inch display size represents a middle ground between the small subnotebook formats and the screens of the standard 15 inch laptops.

The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, provides good resolutions with usable detail sizes, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact. 

In the past, 14-inch devices were very rare, but now they are the standard for laptops after the 15-inchers. 

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

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70%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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