Captain Vrungel said that whatever you call a ship, so it will sail. In this case, HP engineers do not have the courage to name the line of ultrabooks with the word "Envy" — this is a serious responsibility. After all, there are already MacBook Air, Lenovo Yoga, Asus ZenBook, HP Specter and dozens of other laptops in this world that cause a strong desire to show off to friends and colleagues.

But HP managed to make an almost perfect modern laptop: stylish, compact, powerful, convenient, functional and at the same time relatively inexpensive. In the profile press reviews they are praised with each other, our testing experience also did not give reasons for disappointment. A typical Envy is sympathetic, starting from the cover: usually, these are moderately strict, but at the same time elegant aluminium laptops with a signature grid-pattern that covers the acoustics from Bang & Olufsen.


In terms of equipment and equipment, HP Envy laptops have always been somewhere between the inexpensive Pavilion and the expensive Specter. At least that was the case a couple of years ago, until HP started a war with Apple, trying to increase the prestige and attractiveness of Envy in the eyes of multimedia content creators. To do this, they took 4K resolution AMOLED displays, unusual for laptops, and equipped them with powerful NVIDIA RTX graphics cards, and then began to stomp competitors with low prices. However, the most popular options cost the usual IPS matrices and entry-level discrete graphics cards.

At the beginning of 2021, the Envy lineup is divided into classic ultrabooks and convertible laptops with touch displays that can be turned in the opposite direction. In 99% of cases, the equipment includes a fingerprint scanner, a comfortable keyboard, the necessary set of ports, fast charging, and an NVMe SSD. The hardware configuration is dominated by Core i5 processors, but more and more models based on AMD Ryzen are entering the market lately.