HP Envy 17t Обзор

Светодиод 1920 x 1080 на HP Envy 17t, безусловно, подходит для повседневного использования, но нельзя сказать, что это лучший из протестированных нами дисплеев. Частично проблема заключается в том, что разрешение 1080p недостаточно для дисплея такого размера, и в результате он выглядит менее четким, чем многие современные ноутбуки. Экран становится довольно ярким при максимальной яркости, но за счет общего контраста, что затрудняет чтение текста и различение мелких деталей на белых / серых элементах. Существует также довольно резкий скачок яркости между максимальной яркостью и шагом вниз, что затрудняет калибровку.

The display loses brightness and contrast fairly quickly when viewed from the top or bottom, which means that you need to orient the display directly at your face in order to see properly. This issue is not as pronounced from the sides, interestingly enough. Glare is a bit of an issue too due to the glossy coating over the display.

Viewing video content on this display was actually pretty decent, provided you aren’t viewing from off vertical angles. The 1080p screen is, after all, the same resolution as most of the media you’re going to be watching, so you won’t be missing out on any additional resolution in these cases. 

The HP Envy 17t is reasonably well equipped in the hardware department, featuring an 8th generation Intel i7-8565U processor, 12GB of RAM, and an Nvidia MX250 graphics card. For a laptop of this price, this is a decent offering. The performance is somewhat marred, however, by the lack of an SSD in the configuration we tested. We noticed that the laptop was particularly sluggish to wake after having been closed, and would frequently hang on the log-in screen after we used our fingerprint to sign in. 

HP does offer configurations with SSDs and even one with a 512GB NVMe M.2 SSD. If you intend to make this your main computer, we strongly recommend springing for one of these options instead of the default 1TB SATA plus 16GB Intel Optane memory configuration. 

From a numbers perspective, our HP Envy 17t registered a 4,063 overall score in PCMark 10. For the price, this is not a bad result, and is certainly aided by the discrete graphics card. In GFXBench, the Envy managed 59.37fps in the Car Chase test, and 59.98fps in the T-Rex test.

The HP Envy 17t will be able to handle some light gaming, but don’t expect any miracles. The Nvidia MX250 graphics card is a step up from Intel’s onboard graphics solution, but only about half as powerful as Nvidia’s GTX 1050 mobile GPU, which is a typical entry point for gaming uses in laptops marketed for gaming currently. 

Like most laptops we’ve seen recently, the HP Envy 17t uses Intel’s Wireless-AC 9560 solution to provide Wi-Fi. This 802.11ac certified chip uses a 2×2 stream configuration to enable up to 1.73Gbps max speeds. We never had any trouble using laptops featuring this chip, and it will likely remain the best option until manufacturers begin to integrate the newer Intel Wi-FI 6 AX200 series chips, supporting up to 2.4Gbps. 

The HP Envy 17t uses the same underperforming 720p/30 fps webcam we’ve seen in most of the laptops that we’ve tested in this category. It’s not really built for much more than simple video conferencing, and it doesn’t really make an effort to deliver more than that. Webcam quality usually doesn’t rank very highly on customers’ list of needs, or we’d likely see better cameras in them. 

The HP Envy 17t does have one trick up its sleeve that is rather nice, and that’s the inclusion of a dedicated privacy button on the side of the laptop. Once switched, access to the webcam is disabled entirely. Firing up the camera app in windows will simply return an error message stating “we can’t find your camera” as soon as this switch is activated. The real question is, will privacy-conscious consumers really be satisfied with a solution like this, or will they still want to put a physical camera block on their webcam anyway?

The HP Envy 17t could use a little help in the battery department. The battery is the same capacity as the one found in the 13-inch variant of the Envy, which translates to great results in that tiny laptop but less than stellar results in this behemoth. Expect around 6 hours of general web browsing before it kicks the bucket, and a little under 2 hours (1 hour, 45 minutes) when running the laptop battery benchmarking tool Battery Eater at full steam. 

These aren’t the worst results we’ve seen from a laptop in this class, but we’ve definitely seen better performance as well. LG’s Gram 17, for example, featured a much more substantial battery despite having no dedicated graphics card to drain the battery faster. 

HP includes a limited amount of pre-installed software on the Envy 17t, such as the aforementioned Bang & Olufsen audio control center. You will also find McAfee LiveSafe installed with a 30-day trial that begins when you first set up the device. HP also includes the HP Smart application that helps you connect a supported HP printer, HP Support Assistant for managing your warranty and accessing support when needed, and something called HP JumpStarts. 

HP JumpStarts contains a rather random collection of articles, videos, and promotions to educate users about functions on their laptop. There isn’t a lot of content here, and HP could have probably done without its inclusion.

Overall, we didn’t find there to be an overly obnoxious amount of pre-installed software, and certainly nothing that would detract from our overall opinion of the device. 

At a price of between $700 to $1,000, the HP Envy 17t is neither a steal nor a ripoff. You do get a fairly reasonable baseline of components across the board with a lot of unique features, but the Envy doesn’t necessarily excel at anything either. If it cost much more, it might be tricky to recommend, but as it stands, this is a pretty decent offering for the price.