laptops direct a1 refurb they only had 6 i should have bought them all , they are still going for £600 on ebay

How did you manage to get it for that price?

I've been looking for a laptop for a while and as a student I am seriously considering buying this for 589.
It says the FHD version - is the screen THAT much of a difference?
Can anybody tell how they've been getting on? Particularly if they've managed to avoid the backlight bleeding?

i got this machine a couple of days ago, is anyone else's fan always on regardless of what they are doing? it is really annoying. i know you can turn the fan off in the bios menu, but is this safe to do? please advise, thanks

Just so you know, HP are stocking the FHD model (identical in every way except the screen resolution) for £590 in their student store! Given that equivalent specs start at £900ish from other brands, I think I'm going to go for the envy. (And personally, I also can't stand Macs and I don't like Lenovo's keyboard, so that doesn't leave me much choice!)

I don't know how long the deal will be up, but £590 looks very good for these specs!

If anyone is still interested in getting one of these then Misco still have them listed at £626.18 + £4.99 for delivery. 5% quidco cashback at the moment too.

Did anyone manage to get some tcb from this deal?

Price up to £699 from original £629, waiting til today didn't work out! :disappointed:

Received mine today. Very happy. Can't see any issue with the screen. Very tiny bit of backlight bleeding on one spot in bottom right, but only visible when screen completely black. Trackpad works fine, better than my Dell Inspirion actually. Keyboard is solid, no flex. Speakers decent for voice, and good volume. Screen is nice and bright. Solid build. Can't fault it so far. Will see how the battery fairs when it's been charged.

One bad thing. Is the keyboard layout is ANSI and not ISO. Which means small enter key, and moved \ and # key. Which is extremely annoying as I use them a lot. Anyone else got this laptop with the ISO layout? I wonder if the "na" in the name means North America. Wondering if there's an ISO european layout version.

Edit: Battery life seems fine. 30 mins of browsing web over wifi, about 2/3 brightness, battery only went down 6%.
Spoke to HP, and apparently this layout is the "UK" version. So I guess they make one layout and label the keys accordingly. The keyboard is nice. Better than the one on my Inspirion 7537, just a shame about the enter and # / keys.

I went for the FHD matte. Hoping the issue is limited to the QHD screen.

Im still undecided if i like it or not, what are your thoughts?

You can return within 14 days so judge for yourself

i think the vid driver crash might be something to do with firefox. it used to happen on my old HP pavilion aswell

chrome hasnt crashed it once

RE: The random backlight bleeding seems to be an issue, but not one everyone seems to be experiencing.
I've seen 5 (one from online shop, 4 in the shop when wanted to exchange) -> 5 out of 5 HD+ with bleeding... (not my idea of randomness).
The only one OK was FHD matte with 4GB/128GB (cheaper as well about £100)

The random backlight bleeding seems to be an issue, but not one everyone seems to be experiencing. Everything else I suspect is a matter of software issues. Graphics drivers, trackpad, and microphone I'm guessing will be fixable by software updates. As I've had issues like that before and it was a matter of finding the right driver, usually something direct from the maker (eg Intel, Synaptics, Realtek, etc). Will report back when mine arrives in a couple days.
I'm happy to spend a day or so faffing about with drivers if it means I save £600!

Have you had a look at the comments on this page? Majority of issues users have stated, and there really aren't many professional reviews for this laptop.
Anyway what I noticed on mine is as soon as I booted up my new laptop I was welcomed with backlight bleeding,
then you have the not so responsive trackpad. The microphone that Skype doesn't pick up and overhearing/loud issues...
Tbh this laptop is extremely poorly built, don't let the metal housing fool you.
This laptop is like a ford KA trying to be a Golf r32, it just ain't up to scratch no matter what upgrades its packing.
The MBP simply works

What's wrong with it? What little user reviews and the one pro review say is very positive. Not to mention the equivalent macbook pro is double the price! £1,199. Bigger battery in the mac, but thicker and heavier.

I've just pulled the trigger.
I searched high and low for a good spec highly portable laptop, and nothing comes close to this laptop for price/performance. Everything else with the same spec (i5-6200u, 8gb, 256gb SSD) is roughly at least £200 more. Everyone else seems to jack the price up in the hundreds for that jump from 4-8gb or 128gb-256gb.

Latest HP. no problems so far

Code's expired

which one are you using mate? have you had any display driver crashes?

only issue ive had so far is the display/vid driver crashing and recovering a couple times

thats a bit annoying...

Geekbench (trial)
best single-core score: 2868 best multi-core score: 5953

I've decided to return mine, trackpad isn't great & I've struggled to get it to stream successfully to my smart tv - the cast to option just doesn't work.

Has anyone returned one after using it, were HP ok? Did they advise how long a refund would take.

i looked hard for alternatives

and all i found were either the macbook pro or the dell xps 13

was looking at another £300 odd for those though

so far i can live with the negs of the envy

I think im going take mine back because of suspect backlight bleeding and skype issue, battery life isnt as good as expected. I'm going for macbook pro.

gotta say im loving the fingerprint sign in for websites :laughing:

Mine arrived on Tuesday and I'm still on the fence. Build quality seems good and there's no screen problems but I'm moving from a MacBook and Windows 10 is taking a bit of getting used to.

It's not quite as fast as I had hoped (in comparison with a 3.5 year old MacBook Air), the fan comes on too much for my liking, keyboard and trackpad aren't as good and the cast to smart to isn't working yet so a few niggles.

Not sure if I'll keep it or not yet.

No Macbook Air has a retina screen, the Macbook Pro and Macbok 12" do.

OK, let us know what you find please, must be quite a few of us searching for a good deal on a decent ultra type machine at this time of the year, my shortlist has the usual suspects of Macbook Pro or Air (still a bit confused whether the Air has a retina screen version available) or a Microsoft Surface Pro 3,but not averse to the prospect of choosing something from another manufacturer.

This is different to the one at curry's isn't it? Pretty sure the model number is different?

Is there a wy of enabling or disabling the backlit keyboard?

Its just mine isn't lit?

Edit: Figured it out. The F5 key!

Yeah, well using the HP Assistant.

where are you getting the updated updates from? the official hp site?

I think im okay. I had issue with skype but tested on other programs its fine.

There's some backlight bleeding test videos on YouTube, they are basically just a video of a black background, open this in full screen and check for any bleeding, normally on the corners of the screen. If you don't know how it's meant to look just quickly google it and check some pictures

Received this laptop yesterday, first thing I noticed was the backlight bleeding, extremely annoying for me, just a poor build from HP seeming as everyone is having this issue. At first I thought nothing of it and believed HP would recall these models and fix them until I called technical support team literally 10 minutes ago, the guy on the phone told me that this is "in the internal specifications" of the laptop, when I asked where I can view this information because it wasn't stated when I purchased it, he simple replied you cant. No professionalism from HP at all. I've emailed them dozens of times and just received generalised replies, not even answering my questions. HP UK employees seem to have the "so what" ethic. If you're like me and value customer support I would suggest not buying this laptop. As it stands I have 14 days to return it, which I will and most probably go for a Macbook pro instead.
As for the laptop, the trackpad isnt as responsive as I would've liked, tried skyping and my friends couldn't hear me unless I was right agaisnt the mic, tried tweaking the settings but that didn't help.
Screen resolution is good but again with that backlight bleeding issue you will be annoyed 5 minutes into a movie. Not please with my £600 investment. Will without a doubt be returned.

Mine arrived today and three of the corners are almost white when booting up for the first time. The laptop feels snappy to use etc but let down by a crappy screen. Will drop brightness and see how it looks since I rarely use anything on full brightness...

Mine came today too.

No apparent issues for me, in the process of updating Bios/Drivers and Windows. Will look at it properly after that.

Impressed with the look and feel.

Good keyboard, the stroke depth isn't too bad.

ive received mines and gotta say im loving it :stuck_out_tongue:

i guess the above 2 were unlucky, but its to be expected. if a laptop deal goes hot onhere alot of sales will be involved and a few will get sent duds regardless of the brand/model

screens spot on with no noticeable backlight bleeding on mines, trackpad works fine. Screen bezel wasnt as big as it looks on the site pictures. Build quality is very nice

these are just first impressions

im gonna see how i get on with it for a week

My Envy 13 turned up yesterday. It's a great laptop apart from an issue I've had straight out of the box - there is a vertical line of blue pixels running down the screen.

After an hour on the online chat/phone this morning - and a bios update, I'm returning it for a full refund.

Disappointing given that I really liked the laptop. I'm just not willing to risk keeping it with only a 12 month warranty given that I had an issue on day 1.

How will this stack up for video editing?

^ Ditto.
We have a few XPS 13's (incl the one i'm typing on) but the price doesn't seem to drop much on those so this seems a good deal to me if the quality matches up.

im still waiting for some TCB to track but not holding my breath after using the code. im happy with the price i paid regardless

Thanks - brings it down to £597 which is better than a kick in the head :smiley:

Got such a better deal through my work thats how.

Try this one
CQ116HPAF21

site tells me that the voucher code has expired...? :disappointed: maybe deal finished?

mine is arriving tomorrow :laughing:

i agree some people just love to sound great, may as well of said nothing!!

Great contributor to the ever growing hukd society

I have my ways. Had problems with mic whilst on skype call for ages but it decided to fix it self after 30 minutes.

He just said :-p

​where and how did you get it at that price?

Had completely forgotten about the included 2 weeks returns! I like the specs of this, especially portability for lectures etc, think i'm gonna go with it and see how it goes

£548 for the i7 version???

how?

I have I7 version got it for even better pirce than the deal about 548 and been having blast with it. Wait to be seen how long it can last in terms of battery life.

The bezel size on this makes me wonder if you should just get a 15.6 inch. Slightly ridiculous for a laptop meant to be ultra portable

Is it worth splashing out on this or waiting in the hope of a better deal appearing on black Friday? Been looking for a decent sub-£700 laptop for uni for a while now!

Another review - model number may be slightly different, but looks like the same machine. You'll need to use the translate function in browser such as google chrome to read:

http://www.notebookinfo.de/tests/notebooks/hp-envy-13-d020ng-notebook-im-test-neues-ultrabook-nach-alter-schule/716/

is there any laptops with thunderbolt 3 at around £600? I know the xps ones have but they are very pricey

Does this adaptor come with it?

Like the Surface Pro, there will be a USB3 to Ethernet adaotor when you need one :smiley:

I wonder if you'd also get the £100 trade in that Microsoft are offering at the moment. I'm pretty sure the main criteria is that you buy a laptop with W8.1 or 10 and then trade in a working PC that is less than 6 years old.

HP laptops have reliability issues and the Envy is notorious for heat and fan noise issues. Save up a bit more and buy a Mac Air or Macbook.

For 3D CAD I'd be looking for a 15.6" laptop with dedicated gfx. I'd try to find one with the maxwell based nvidia gfx in. They are just starting to come out.

​im not too savvy with these things. would a laptop with more ram or better GPU suffice?

​it should run solid works but don't expect it to be very quick, do much rendering or play with serious simulation. but for most lighter modelling it should be fine

as far as the bloatware mentioned. could i just do a windows 10 reset to clear it all? or am i gonna need my own disc/license to reinstall a fresh copy of win 10

Here's a decent user review;

https://www.reddit.com/r/UltraBooks/comments/3p06t8/hp_envy_13d008na/?

near £600 for 13 inch laptop??? no chance!

its a matte screen

Is this a matt or glossy screen?

I know that HPs don't have the best screens... Any idea what this ones like please.

I was set on the asus Zenbook but now I've seen this!

I'm assuming you'd void the warranty swopping out the original ssd for a higher capacity one. So does anyone know if these are expandable, ie., can you add a second ssd?

ultrabooks are generally worth a bit more because they are really thin and small

if the small screen suits your needs this could be a good 1 to buy

No idea what it's like in day to day use but it looks superb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFfqOTpAF4

1.36kg isn't too bad either. Reasonable cheaper alternative to the XPS 13.

​look on the website.
HP says: this is the thinnest laptop weve ever made.

bought lastnight

there is a 14 day return policy if you dont like it

Been on the look out for something slim and cheapish. Wasn't really willing to pay £700+

Will see what its like when it arrives.

Hah, agreed, tempted but really don't need it, and I'm holding out for the Surface Book anyway.

No network socket by the looks of things, maybe that's normal on ultrabooks these days?

Otherwise it looks like a decent ultrabook for the price.

It's a real shame there are so few reviews of this on the net to determine how good a deal this really is

Will you get TCB if you use the discount code I wonder?

Looks like a decent spec for what appears to be a nice compact (or is that Compaq) ultrabook. Heat from me.