Hp envy laptop 13

The HP Envy 13 has a great screen, solid everyday internals, & a good price, especially if you buy its core i5 version. But plenty of competitors are sleeker và sturdy in plenty of departments and more power & finesse is easy khổng lồ find

A solid everyday máy tính xách tay with a great screen, but several rivals are better in several key departments

ByMike Jennings, Contributor

That’s entirely fine for everyday use, but there are omissions too. There’s no HDMI output, and no Thunderbolt 4 either. In fact, there"s not even Thunderbolt 3 as found on the Envy 13 (2020) as the "SuperSpeed USB-C" port is limited to 10Gbps.

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Extra USB-C ports would have been welcome, & the USB ports could be faster, too. There’s no wired internet & while the HP does have a webcam, it doesn’t tư vấn Windows Hello for easier log in.

Build quality is acceptable for everyday use, but this is another area where the HP is ordinary. The base flexes, the keyboard deck bends a bit và pushing the rear of the display causes a little desktop distortion. It’s not a disaster, but a sleeve would be prudent if you regularly take the HP out and about.

The Envy 13 is 17mm thick & weighs 1.3kg, which are fairly ordinary figures too – not bad, but easily undercut by competitors.

Indeed, the Envy faces loads of strong rivals. The Dell XPS 13’s 11th-gen models start at just £849 & US$729, & that machine is sturdy, slimmer and lighter than the HP, and it has Thunderbolt ports but no full-size USB.

The newer Dell XPS laptops start at £1,069/US$969 and have the same advantages. The MSI Prestige 14 Evo is slimmer and lighter & it does have Thunderbolt, but its build unique is mediocre.

The latest macbook Air is always a contender, too: prices start at £999 & US$999 & you get its rock-solid chassis alongside similar dimensions lớn the Envy.

Keyboard & Trackpad

Soft, comfortable keyboard Large keys and good backlight Disappointing trackpad

The keyboard is on the softer side, và that means the buttons are comfortable and quiet – ideal for long typing sessions. They’re impressively large và they’ve got a clear font & a bright, crisp backlight. It’s solid mainstream hardware, but the Dell has a crisper kiến thiết if a keyboard is high up your priority list.

It’s a good start, but the 13in chassis means there’s no room for a numberpad, & the large buttons means the layout is a bit cramped in places. The power nguồn button is installed next lớn the Delete key, and it’s irritating – you’ll kết thúc up pressing it accidentally. The fingerprint reader is slotted next lớn the cursor keys (two of which are half size), và the Return key is only single-height.

Moving on và the touchpad is mediocre – a little too short và with a plastic surface that’s a little too rough. The built-in buttons are soft. For everyday use it’s fine, but every key rival is better.

Screen và Speakers

13.3in IPS touchscreen Full HD, 16:9 Fantastic quality and contrast

The IPS panel on the Envy 13 has a Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution, which is solid for everyday use. It’s a touchscreen, too, which adds versatility. It’s a shame that HP hasn’t gone with a 16:10 or 3:2 aspect ratio khổng lồ deliver some extra height, especially when this machine will so often run website browsers and office apps.

The HP’s 13.3in panel serves up superb quality. The backlight reaches a maximum level of 422 nits, so it’s easily got the punch for outdoor work & the đen point of 0.21 nits is fantastic meaning loads of depth. The resulting contrast ratio of 2,009:1 is a stunning figure for any IPS panel and it lends the HP loads of vibrancy & nuance.

The delta E of 1.26 means colours are accurate và the panel rendered 97% of the sRGB gamut – although it can’t handle the Adobe RGB or DCI-P3 colour spaces. The colour temperature of 6,086K is on the warm side, but it doesn’t cause issues.

This screen is the equal of any rival panel và it’s good enough for colour-sensitive creative tasks. You’ll only get a serious nâng cấp if you spend more cash.

The speakers are good enough for everyday music use thanks lớn a rich mid-range & a top-end that doesn’t get tinny, but it doesn’t have much bass.

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Specs & Performance

11th-gen Intel vi xử lý core i5 & i7 CPUs Up to 16GB RAM & 1TB SSDs Nvidia GeForce MX graphics

Unsurprisingly, the HP has a mid-range specification. The key component is the Intel bộ vi xử lý core i5-1135G7, which is a Tiger Lake CPU with four cores and a peak Turbo pace of 4.2GHz. There’s 8GB of dual-channel memory and a 512GB SSD while an Nvidia GeForce MX450 GPU is a nice surprise considering most rivals runs on integrated graphics.

The HP’s single- & multi-core Geekbench results of 1,37 and 4,486 are fine, & they enable solid everyday performance – there’s enough nguồn here to lớn run Office tasks and loads of browser tabs. It’ll run undemanding creative apps, too. It’s a good thermal performer, with hardly any fan noise and heat present during benchmarks.

There’s little the core i5 part can’t vì chưng in terms of everyday computing, và its PC Mark 10 score is on par with the results delivered by the chip core i7 CPUs in the MSI & Dell notebooks. That’s no surprise in those benchmarks, which concentrate on mainstream scenarios.

Any of the vi xử lý core i7 chips in rival machines will địa chỉ cửa hàng about 1,000 points to that Geekbench result, though, & that’ll give you the extra grunt required for tougher content-creation tasks. The apple M1 CPU inside the laptop macbook Air is even faster.

The Nvidia GeForce MX450 graphics chip core helped the HP to lớn a score of 13,554 in 3 chiều Mark Night Raid. That’s decent, but it’s only a couple of thousand points beyond Intel’s Iris xe cộ core. The Nvidia GPU delivers a bit more speed in casual games & a tad more editing grunt, but it’s not a transformative addition.

See how it performs compared to lớn rivals below including laptops mentioned already as well as the Microsoft Surface máy vi tính 4and Honor MagicBook 14.

Battery life, meanwhile, is decent. The Envy 13 lasted for 10 hours & 22 minutes in a work test, and 14 hours và 37 minutes in a video clip test at 120 nits. Those results are better than the MSI machine và Dell and while you’ll have no problem lasting through a whole day with the Envy, longer battery life is out there if you need it.

Price và Availability

The chip core i5 model I’ve reviewed costs £899 in the UK and US$711 in the US (sale price). In the UK, it’s the cheapest HP Envy 13 available. In the US, you can save cash by ditching the touchscreen & halving the storage capacity. That drops the price lớn just US$599 (sale price). UK buyers don’t get customisation options.

In the UK you can spend £1,199 on a mã sản phẩm with a bộ vi xử lý core i7-1165G7 processor, double the RAM and a 1TB SSD. In the US, that same model costs US$1,049(sale price).

You can also buy it from John Lewis, AO, Amazon & Currys PC World. In the US, you can get it from the likes of Amazon và BestBuy.

In the UK, the core i5 & Core i7 machines use the part codes 13-ba1013na and 13-ba1565sa. In the US, they use 13t-ba100 & 13-ba1097nr.

Check out our chart of thebest laptops to lớn see all the đứng top options right now. If you need something cheaper then head to our best budget máy vi tính chart.

Verdict

The HP Envy 13 is a decent mainstream laptop, but it struggles khổng lồ stand out – it’s got a superb screen, but that’s the only area where it truly excels.

Elsewhere, the Envy 13 has decent design, a reasonable keyboard và good battery life alongside solid performance from the chip core i5 CPU & Nvidia GPU. Negatively, though, its competitors are slimmer & more robust, & the Envy’s connectivity & trackpad are mediocre.

The HP is ordinary in too many areas, & that means its pricier vi xử lý core i7 versions are not worth buying when so many rivals are sleeker, stronger và no more expensive. But if the competition is a bit too pricey, the bộ vi xử lý core i5 model is a reasonable alternative if you’d lượt thích a decent ultraportable on a budget.