welcome to my unboxing of something that's actually pretty exciting now I
have to confess this is a bit of a hack because this has been unboxed clearly
before also this is a French model so um
for those English folks in the uh in the audience this might be a little bit oh
no this is oh this is English I think on the inner carton it's French okay so
14in diagonal Radiance HD plus infinity the LED display so this is a 1600x 900
display on a 14-in model which means you got pretty good pixel density 128 gig M
SATA solid state drive although you can get it with a 256 4 gigs of RAM only one
RAM slot so you're pretty much limited to 4 gigs of RAM although this is sort
of an Ultrabook style form factor um so you it's not really intended for heavy
usage wireless land Bluetooth second generation core i5 dual core processor
at 1.6 GHz genuine Windows 7 Home Premium and let's get this baby open up
so this is meant to compete directly or
well let's not say compete directly this is meant to capture the customers who
want a beautiful premium notebook and
just aren't interested in OS 10 because
or 11 are we up to 11 now I don't know whatever whatever Apple's OS is who
cares cuz it sucks right um although no offense to the Apple users out there
it's just every time I sit down in front of an Apple OS and try to do something
actually save for iOS I can handle iOS I I just like horribly break it within a
matter of seconds so uh here's a little diagram in English and French this is a
bilingual model of all of the stuff so we're going to save that because that is
a pretty handy reference for people who do unboxings here is a cool little uh
neoprene case that it comes in to keep it from getting scratched and damaged
although that's less of a factor than you might think because this whole
notebook yes the entire top and I'm sorry see it has fingerprints on it
already cuz it's to been unboxed before there we go we'll just fix that
this whole notebook top and
screen if I could turn it around the
right way top and screen is done in
Gorilla Glass so that means this is one of the most scratch resistant notebooks
you will pretty much ever encounter so you can see here we've got an aluminum
sort of a looking um just sec
sorry aluminum sort of looking e finish although it is made of plastic on the
main part of the shell down here below so this again is plastic as well but it
feels very very solid and one of the reasons for that is probably the fact
that it has more glass so there's actually another piece of Gorilla Glass
right here and what I like about this is on so many notebooks you go to use the
thing you know it looks great the first time you use it but then after a little
while you get these horrible ugly like palm prints under the keyboard that just
look disgusting and awful and there's no
getting rid of them however if you put glass there as well as glass here almost
all of the usable surfaces of this entire notebook are going to be
completely impervious to just incidental damage especially given that they're
made of Gorilla Glass there's also couple little notes here thank you for
selecting HP Envy um got a bit about
your support there so what's cool about the support for this particular model is it has a 2-year warranty and it's
actually um what you do is you basically call HP
support and if there's anything they can't solve for you over the phone then
they will ship you something that you need uh next day so very very cool comes
with a travel adapter as well as an ac2
uh DC adapter which hey check that out also includes a little USB auxiliary
dudad so that means that you can charge your phone at the same time off the same
charger just by having your laptop plugged in without actually plugging the
phone directly into the laptop top which I don't know may be more or less of a
concern to you depending on whether you have a phone or not um let's go back to
the notebook so let's talk about the external first so this part is
definitely aluminum and then you can see it is kind of a sandwiched aluminum
rimmed two pieces of glass thing and you know what yeah this is totally
appropriate in this case so whether you guys like it or not we are totally
whipping out the iPhone comparison so you can see the screen here is actually
about as thick as just the the aluminum portion of the iPhone which is uh it it
it looks just beautiful guys um we've got a lit HP logo right here and I'm
trying not to catch SL slick in the reflection here but I don't know if
there's much that I can do uh very very black looking and then on this side
what's cool about the LED backlit 1600x 900 screen here is that HP has actually
gone with a super slim bezel design that
allowed them to put a 14-in display in what would normally be a 13.3 in
Notebook form factor so you get a bigger screen as well as that high pixel
density which means that you can do more on the PC now you do have that
additional glare that comes with using a glass screen personally I love having
glass in front of a panel that's my number one choice followed shortly by
matte screens followed very distantly by
shiny plastic screens um I think the glass adds a lot of Vibrance it adds
crispness um personally I like it not everyone does I think it's fantastic and
if I could upgrade my personal monitor to a glass screen monitor then I would
love to but I'm waiting for someone to do a beautiful 30-in glass panel monitor
which hasn't happened yet um okay so here we have a backlit keyboard as you
can see this is a bilingual layout however if you were to buy this in the US then you would not see the bilingual
layout as far as bilingual layouts go they haven't uh they haven't butchered
it too badly sometimes you see bilingual layouts that make it impossible to hit
anything but you know both your shift keys are somewhat intact the enter key I
always like seeing the bigger Enter key but there's not a whole lot we can do about it it's Canadian law and such and
I don't know what this does I wonder what this does okay you know what let's
go into some of the other some of the other features here so um cool sense is
kind of neat what cool sense does is it's basically a temperature controlled
fan which isn't rocket science we've been seeing this on the PC side on the
desktop for a long time but on a notebook what's kind of neat about it is
that it keeps your pals from getting hot so that's the way that they've tuned it
is so that as soon as the laptop starts to get hot enough that your palms would
get that heat and sweatin Factor going on it kicks in the fan so that's kind of
neat it also comes with two years of Norton Internet Security so whatever you
may or may not think about Norton it comes with two years as opposed to like
you know the stupid 30-day trial that insists upon being installed and you f
it takes forever to remove it also comes with full copies of adobe Premier
elements and Adobe Photoshop Elements which is like a compelling value ad
because if you price those pieces of software out they are not cheap and they
are significantly more functional than the ones that are included with Windows
I mean what like paint and Windows Movie
Maker like they're not even in the same kind
of yeah whatever okay moving on we have
DisplayPort out HDMI out Ethernet check
that out fulls sizee RJ45 how Innovative
a solution is that so they've managed to maintain a Slimmer than RJ45 form factor
just using this little hinge right here to allow you to fit in your Ethernet
port uh we've got uh oh they haven't
colorcoded their USB 3 okay so this
guy's usb3 this guy's USB 2 you can tell
from how many pins are inside here's a microphone out SD card
reader on the front we got a little Beats logo yes this is one of hp's Beats
notebooks and I will explain more about that on the other side we have a mute
button we have a volume switch so this
is meant to be fine control um volume
switch you you can see it actually spins an awful lot wow am I still spinning
this yeah I'm still spinning it huh oh
okay check it out there's a little animated thing on the screen it spins
when I spin the dial cool nice little touches uh this is
also another audio control button so what this guy does is you press the
button and it comes up with a little uh hold on wait for it yes comes up with a
little um you know thing that you could also access if you right clicked and
went to playback devices and recording devices down in the system tray but here
it is all in one nice little sort of menu for you uh We've also got our power
in over here and that pretty much does it I mean you don't get a ton of IO on
these uh super slim notebooks here we have our ventilation at the back as well
as four rubber feet for the whole thing to sit on the battery is Big so this is
to release the battery and uh we're we're not going to release the battery
since we're running off battery right now but um we've also got speakers here at
the front that's pretty much it
see if we're missing anything so oh yeah it supports wiy it also supports
wireless audio so with supported devices you can actually not just Bluetooth but
with supported wireless headphone devices you can actually just stream
directly to them
um fulls size ports then bezel backlit
keyboard oh yeah the keyboard detects your presence so I haven't actually
tested this but in theory when you go
away from it for a while and then you walk up to it the uh the backl actually
actually turns on so that's that's just sort of one of those things that's kind
of kind of neat ah yes the robust hinge so the difference between cheap
notebooks I mean I I know we went over sort of the speeds and everything in
this notebooks very briefly um however that's not necessarily all there is to
it build quality is huge so not all notebooks you can take the hinge and go
like this and not worry about something bad happening so between the SSD inside
and the robust design of the hinge HP was very comfortable with me doing this
demo on this notebook because build quality does mean something so the glass
screen the robust hinge the keyboard that has almost no flex to it whatsoever
that's one of the marks of the build quality of a notebook walk up to it in the store and go like this uh like this
go like this go like this on the keyboard and see how much Flex there is
to it if there's a lot of flex I guarantee you it's a cheap plastic Shell
versus being a higher quality shell I think that pretty much covers it don't
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Spectre now there is a spectre XT which is a lower-end model if you're buying a
spectre I would definitely recommend going with this one cuz it comes with
the scratch resistant gorilla glass as well as just being generally a very very
Sleek looking little notebook slick wanted to show the battery and that was
a good idea actually so we just uh trigger these take this off and here's
the battery so uh HP quotes a 9h hour battery life on this uh on this model if
I recall correctly and you can see why because the on the internals here look
like look look at this see how the battery goes all the way down to the bottom almost half of the internals of
this whole whole notebook are the battery so that's what keeps that Intel
dual core running for such an extended period of time um in spite of the very
very slim form factor