It’s bright at 399 nits and has great contrast at 1110:1 (we like to see contrast at 1000:1 or more). And yes, you guessed it, this is something the Spectre doesn’t have — although the pen isn’t bundled in with the Envy.Finally, there’s a fingerprint scanner embedded in the keyboard next to the arrow keys that works perfectly.
For example, the I enjoyed this display in daily use. It doesn’t, however, include Windows Hello over facial recognition like spendier laptops do. Compared to the blander Lenovo Flex 5 14 Ryzen, the Envy is the more refined laptop.Connectivity is about what’s expected on a thin and light machine. It did beat out the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5, which lasted just less than eight hours.In our demanding Basemark web benchmark test, the Envy lasted just under four hours.
That’s a $50 upgrade from the standard-power 300-nit Full HD display, and you can spend $60 more for HP’s latest privacy screen technology that blanks out the display from the sides.
At 0.65 inches, it’s thinner than the Spectre x360 at 0.67 inches and a bit heavier at 2.92 versus 2.88 pounds. Better performance for a lower price?
29.1k Followers, 152 Following, 772 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Massage Envy (@massageenvy) In Geekbench 5, for example, it scored 1,101 in the single-core test and 4,485 in the multi-core test. It’s not quite as tight as the Spectre x360, but it’s better than the IdeaPad Flex 5. They have plenty of travel and nice large keycaps with good spacing, and there’s a clickiness to the mechanism that avoids any hint of bottoming out. And compared to the previous version of the Envy, HP did a remarkable job of squeezing more computer into a thinner chassis — the Envy definitely encroaches into the Spectre x360’s space when you consider their overall designs.As a 2-in-1, the Envy x360 feels sturdy in all four of its modes — clamshell, tent, media, and tablet. You’ll find it excellent for demanding productivity work and even some creative apps in a pinch. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. The IdeaPad Flex 5 lasted just eight minutes fewer. Interestingly, I prefer the Envy touchpad’s click to the Spectre’s — it’s softer and evokes more confidence that a button was actually pushed.The Envy x360 has a touch display, of course, being a 2-in-1, and it works as well as always. The Envy Envy x360 13 is a sleek, well-built, and fast 2-in-1 that feels far more premium than its price tag suggests.
That’s not how laptops are usually sold, but that’s exactly what the new HP Envy x360 proposes to do.HP’s Envy line has played second fiddle to the company’s premium Spectre laptops. The Envy Envy x360 13 is a sleek, well-built, and fast 2-in-1 that feels far more premium than its price tag suggests.Copyright ©2020 Designtechnica Corporation. Finally, in our video test that loops a local video clip, the Envy lasted for 13 hours compared to the XPS 13’s 14.5 hours and the IdeaPad Flex 5’s 11 hours. Just don’t plan on gaming — you’ll get performance that’s only a little better than Intel’s new Iris Plus graphics and far less than you’ll get from a discrete GPU.HP equipped my review unit with its low-power 400-nit Full HD (1,920 x 1,080) IPS display. The Spectre x360 13 with a Core i7-1065G7 score 1,164 and 3,981, making the Envy the faster sibling.The Envy x360 13 isn’t the fastest Ryzen 4000 system, but it still beats most Intel systems.Switching to our Handbrake test that encodes a 420MB video as H.265, the Envy x360 13 took just under three minutes, That’s quick, though the IdeaPad Flex 5 was 16 seconds faster. It also supports Microsoft’s newest pen protocol, which promises longer battery life (up to 30 days) and a more natural tilt function to go with the 4,096 levels of pressure sensitivity. It supports Microsoft’s Precision Touchpad protocol, though, so multitouch gestures work perfectly. Bienvenidos a Envy, tu lo vistes, ellos lo quieren, te invitamos a que eches un ojo a nuestros productos. I tried out HP Performance Mode in its Command Center utility and saw the Envy come within five seconds of the IdeaPad. That’s relatively high praise for the Envy, and makes it a great 2-in-1 at a midrange price.The Envy really doesn’t have many weaknesses, although battery life wasn’t its greatest strength and it’s a shame that the pen isn’t included. Home. That’s the one test where the low-power display demonstrated its value.Overall, you’re likely to get close to a full day’s productivity out of the Envy x360 13, as long as you’re not pushing the Ryzen CPU too hard. The Envy x360 is smaller than the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5, which is 0.82 inches thick and 3.3 pounds. Because as far as I can tell, it’s exactly the same keyboard on the Envy x360. There are two drop-jaw USB-A 3.1 ports for legacy support, which is nice to have, along with a microSD card reader and a USB-C 3.2 port (that does charge the laptop, in spite of the proprietary plug).The HP Envy x360 13 also performed well, although not as fast as some other Ryzen machines. Here again, the delta between the premium Spectre x360 and the midrange Envy x360 is smaller than you might expect.Moving on to aesthetics, the HP Envy x360 13 isn’t nearly as extravagant as the gem-cut Spectre, but it’s still an attractive laptop. The Envy x360 13 is equipped with 51 watt-hours of battery life, and it enjoyed a low-power display that’s helped some other laptops to spectacular battery life. By comparison, the Acer Spin 3 with an Intel 10th-gen Core i5-1035G1 scored 1,215 and 3,615, so a little faster in single-core mode and much slower in multi-core mode.