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HP Envy 17 (17.30", Intel Core i7-1165G7, 16 GB, 1000 GB)

HP Envy 17

17.30", Intel Core i7-1165G7, 16 GB, 1000 GB

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8 reviews

  • juhitz

    3 years ago •
    purchased this product

    Keyboard illumination is insufficient

    The legibility of the individual keys is not successful for HP: In non-illuminated mode, the characters are not black enough - lateral incidence of light further worsens the visibility. The illuminated mode is also not usable. If I sit a little further away, I cannot read the key labels. That is very annoying!
    Otherwise, I am very satisfied with the machine.
     

    Pro

    • Performance, speed
    • Memory space
    • Touchscreen

    Contra

    • Readability of the keyboard characters
  • kolaczta

    3 years ago •
    purchased this product

    Very good product.

    Pro

    • fast
    • good screen
    • noble case

    Contra

    • poorly legible key labeling
  • TomasP434

    11 months ago •
    purchased this product

    Poor HP quality

    As usual from HP, the quality of the device is close to "junk".

    It's always been like this with inkjet printers: paper jams, inks that don't print cleanly or are already empty again (cartridges with very little ink in them     so that HP can rip off its customers), there's always something wrong, you can never "just print".

    Now with laptops, too - the casing is nice and light and made of aluminium, but the aluminium is too soft: the casing is already bent at one corner, although I take great care of the device. If you put the device on one knee (knees crossed), it bends the housing so much that the touchpad no longer works.

    The first buttons lose their lettering after just a few weeks. This was already the case with the last and penultimate HP laptop. So either HP is resistant to learning and doesn't see to it that the quality of the key coating is improved, or the poor key coating is a "predetermined breaking point" so that an ugly, worn-out keyboard aesthetically annoys the customers and they buy a new Latop.

    HP seems to be compulsively neurotic about having to change the keyboard layout for every laptop generation. It takes a few weeks for the fingers to get used to it. Those who make/program HTML will curse about the absurd Shift-Fn combo for a ">" or Fn-AltGr for an "\".

    The chipset has no suspend mode, only a low-power mode. This means that if you close the laptop and forget to connect it to the power supply overnight, it will have run out of power by the morning, will be dead and the work you had open on the desktop will be lost. This happens all the time and the laptop is a real productivity killer.

    The laptop has a "Bang & Olufsen" sound system but it whistles like a cornered mouse, no bass. You can watch/listen to music and videos, but that's about as much fun as listening to music over the SBB loudspeaker system.

    This will probably be my last HP.     

    Pro

    • easy
    • beautiful screen
    • efficient
    • does not get warm
    • quiet
    • Battery lasts a couple of hours in use

    Contra

    • - after two years of use, 4 keys are already so worn that you cannot read them
    • the aluminium chassis is too soft - is already bent
    • when connecting to the USB printer, the laptop sometimes makes a short circuit (cold start)
    • Chipset without suspend support, only low-power mode, thus laptop dead overnight
    • Touch screen cannot be folded onto the back of the device, touch moderately useful
    • Touchpad is super unreliable, you click something and sometimes it's a left click, sometimes a right click
    • when laptop is on knees, touchpad bends so much that it doesn't do anything anymore
    • mirrored screen
    • Poor sound (no bass)
    • absurd keyboard layout (">" only accessible via Shift-Fn)
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