![]() In terms of layout and feel, the keyboard here is very good, with large keys and good spacing, as well as a good amount of travel for a thin laptop. Since I don’t generally use those keys, I like the placement of the biometric sensor here, though I’d prefer if the webcam also worked with Windows Hello - it does not. There’s also a fingerprint reader where you’d normally find the right control or fn key, to the left of the arrow keys. And HP has given the power button a stiffer feel than the surrounding keys, so you should notice if you’ve hit it by accident. While this has been problematic in the past, it’s tough to activate accidentally here because you actually have to press it for a few seconds to initiate sleep or a shutdown. The power button also lives here, to the left of the delete key. HP carries over what it calls its “All-In-One” keyboard here, which puts handy features like the mic mute and camera shutter buttons on the top row. The laptop averaged a score of 7827, while its CPU ran at an average clock speed of 2.6 GHz and hit average temperatures of 76.82 degrees Celsius (170 degrees Fahrenheit). We also ran the HP Envy x360 15 through 20 consecutive Cinebench R23 runs to simulate an extended work session. Any of the best SSDs (at least the best NVMe SSDs) would perform better here. That said, none of these scores are particularly fast. Its speed of 570.5 MBps wasn’t quite as fast as the Spectre’s 580.6, but it was better than anything else here, especially the Lenovo Yoga 7i’s 318.1 MBps. The Envy x360 15 landed just behind HP’s smaller Spectre x360 14 on our file transfer test, in which we task laptops to read and write 25GB worth of files. And the slowest result here, HP’s own Spectre x360 14, took over 10 minutes longer, (18:05). The Envy finished our test in 8 minutes flat, while the closest competitor here took more than 50% longer, 12 minutes and 27 seconds. The Envy x360 15’s multithread prowess carried over to our Handbrake test, where we transcode a test file from 4K to 1080p. But its multicore score of 6,851 is well ahead of everything else here, with the MSI getting closest at 5,727. On Geekbench 5, a synthetic benchmark that measures overall performance, the HP Envy x360 15 was a bit behind the Intel-based competition on the single-core test, at 1,204. And last on the list is HP’s own Spectre x360 14, with an i7-1165G7 CPU and an OLED display that sold for $1,699 in our review configuration. Following that up is the more affordable ($899) Lenovo 7i, with its Core i5-1135G7 (and a lesser 12GB of RAM). There’s the MSI Prestige 14 Evo, powered by an Intel Core i7-1185G7 and selling for $1,149 in our review configuration. And for the most part, it did.īut speaking of competition, there aren’t many 15-inch premium convertibles to pit this system against, so we settled on a trio of slightly smaller (14-inch screen) competitors. Productivity Performance of the HP Envy x360 15īecause of its 8-core, Ryzen 7 5700U processor and 16GB of RAM in our $999 review configuration, paired with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB WD SN530 SSD, we expected the HP Envy x360 15 to stand out compared to the Intel-based convertible competition. That said, unless you work with very fast external storage, or hope to plug into multiple high-resolution displays with a single cable, the speed of the ports here should suffice for most users. And a Thunderbolt 4 or USB 4 port has a top theoretical bandwidth of 40 Gps-four times that of the USB ports here. Most of the Intel-based competition, meanwhile, has Thunderbolt ports. The number and form factor of the ports here is solid, but all of the USB ports are 3.2 Gen 2, which tops out at 10 Gbps. Note also that the USB-C port on the left side can also be used for charging the laptop-if you bring your own USB-C charger. We’d just like to see the AMD-based models in stock a bit more regularly.Īlong the right edge resides an SD card slot, another USB-A, and the barrel connector for power. But we like that HP and other manufacturers (like Asus with its ZenBook 13, and Microsoft with its Surface Book) are increasingly giving consumers a choice in premium laptops between AMD and Intel. Whether it winds up making our list of best ultrabooks will have to wait for testing results and a deeper look at some of the laptop’s features. It’s a potent hardware combo, complimented by a very good keyboard, and a 400-nit, 1080p panel upgrade that both looks good and performed well in our testing. The $999 (eu0097nr) model we’re looking at here sports an 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen 7 5700U, paired with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB NVMe SSD in a pleasing metal chassis that looks and feels premium, without being overly flashy. ![]() Whether it’s due primarily to the ongoing chip shortages, the increased demand for laptops during the pandemic, or just general performance impressiveness, HP’s Envy x360 15 is the latest convertible to launch in both Intel and AMD flavors. ![]()
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