Introduction

With the continuous development of science and technology, notebook computers, as a new type of computer application tools, are widely used in people's life and work; Various types of notebook computers can be seen in the living room, office or some leisure places at home. People use them to replace the traditional large mainframe box for video entertainment and processing office documents. "More thin, faster, cheaper", these three "one points" have become the mainstream competitive elements of businesses. Xiaobian believes that only the portable size, beautiful appearance and powerful processor speed can be competitive in the market of similar products and be favored by consumers.

This ultra-thin notebook computer ENVY 13-d023TU built by HP has many advantages among many similar competitive products; The overall dimensions are extremely small, and the full body metal material is even more beautiful, which is quite similar to Apple's Macbook. In terms of hardware, it is equipped with I5 6200U quad core processor, 4G DDR3 memory, and 128G solid state disk. The screen uses 13.3-inch 1920 * 1080 ultra HD screen, and built-in 45Wh lithium ion polymer battery. As the main business notebook product concept, ENVY brings users not only beautiful visual effects, but also practical performance experience.

Open box display

The product is packed in a silver gift box, which looks very businesslike at first sight. In particular, the surface of the box is unfolded with a laptop as the logo of the letter V "ENVY", which highlights the theme more. We know that "ENVY" means envy. What on earth makes us envy this computer? Let's continue to look down.

The side of the packing box is a brief description of the computer model and main hardware configuration, so that you can have a general understanding of the product before unpacking. We can't wait to open the package to see this silver white HP ENVY ultra-thin notebook computer. The filler inside seems too simple. Xiao Bian is worried about collision during transportation.

In addition to notebook, accessories also include power adapter, power cord, warranty card and setting instruction manual; On the whole, the parts are up to standard, there is nothing special. In the user manual, there are detailed instructions and introductions on the use precautions and related parameters and performances of the notebook. The small editor recommends that you read carefully before use to avoid misoperation during use.

HP ENVY13 It looks very similar to Apple's MacBook from the front, back and side, but this does not mean that it is deliberately imitating the latter. ENVY has its own characteristics in terms of appearance and configuration. In terms of appearance and material, the expensive reinforced aluminum material is selected to cover the whole body. The design makes this super extreme temperament refined and shows the aristocratic flavor; The 12.95mm ultra-thin body is only as thick as the superposition of two iPhone6 phones. It is very easy to carry whether you are on a business trip or making a speech in the office. In order to help you better understand this product, I summarize the main hardware parameters as follows:

CPU : Core I5-6200U quad core processor 2.3GHz

Memory: 4G DDR3L memory

Hard disk: 128G SSD

Graphics card: integrated Intel GMA HD 520 graphics card

Display screen: 13.3-inch FHD IPS anti glare WLED HD display screen; Resolution 1920 * 1080

Interface: 3 USB 3.0; 1 HDMI interface; Power input interface; Two in one connector for headset and microphone

Fingerprint recognition: HP SimplePass Fingerprint Identifier

Speakers: stereo speakers

Battery: 3-cell 45Wh lithium ion polymer lithium battery

Size: 326.5mm * 226mm * 12.95mm; 1.36kg

Detail display

HP is the most famous brand in the world. HP has a good reputation in the field of printers, digital imaging, computer products and software. This ENVY series ultra-thin notebook is his favorite work, and I believe that it will bring users an extraordinary experience.

Keyboard is very important for notebook computers. It has a great impact on users in terms of typing, office work and game experience. ENVY13 notebook adopts the mainstream full-size chocolate keyboard in the current market. The key stroke and spacing design of the keyboard keys are very good, with strong elastic feedback force; With the frosted coating on the surface of the key cap, the knocking and touching feel is very textured.

The protruding height of the key cap is relatively high. For users who are accustomed to using mechanical keyboards, it may be a bit unnatural at the beginning. It is worth mentioning that the ENVY 13 keyboard has a backlight design, which can be used even in dark environments.

ENVY 13 The HP Imagepad touch panel used in the notebook brings users a new touch experience. It not only supports the multi-point touch gesture function; At the same time, compared with the products with separate buttons, there is no physical left and right buttons of the mouse. Instead, the two sides of the bottom are integrated with the touch pad, which is very simple in appearance and can also provide a larger operating area. After using it for a while, I felt that the keys were a little stiff, perhaps because of the new machine.

One of the highlights of the product is the use of Bang&Olufsen audio from Denmark. As the world's top audio-visual brand, its sound quality effect is by no means groundless. It is installed on the left and right sides of the notebook. Whether playing audio files or watching movies and auditioning, it is more surround and stereoscopic than traditional audio. Many ultra-thin notebooks tend to pursue thickness and CPU configuration too much, ignoring the sound quality effect that users also care about. ENVY solves this problem from the perspective of users.

Another detail is that ENVY 13 is equipped with HP SimplePass fingerprint identifier, which allows users to unlock different programs and passwords through different fingerprints, effectively protecting user data; As a business notebook, the protection function of fingerprint identification is more important.

ENVY 13 In order to pursue miniaturization, the screen part of the notebook does not use the 14.1-inch screen of conventional notebook computers, but uses the 13.3-inch (resolution 1920 * 1080) IPS anti glare display screen; It supports 1080P high-definition display, 330Nits high brightness, 72% color gamut reduction, and the picture quality is gorgeous whether watching movies or playing games. The outer ring of the whole screen extends outward for a certain distance, and the computer plays a buffer role in the process of the box cover to prevent damage and abrasion to the screen.

The HP TrueVision HD webcam with integrated dual array digital microphones on the top of the screen has good voice clarity and camera imaging quality, which can meet daily video chat, voice calls, etc. The drawback is the lack of an LED fill light, which is inconvenient for users to use at night or in dark environment video.

The connectors on the left side of the fuselage are the security lock slot, the memory card reader, the USB3.0 interface and the headphone/microphone integrated connector. On the right side are the power indicator, two USB3.0 interfaces, HDMI interfaces and power input ports. From the figure, we can see that the body at the bottom of the ENVY 13 has nearly reached the narrowest frame that the USB interface can bear. We have to say that this pursuit of extreme technology will definitely impress consumers. In terms of quantity, three USB 3.0 interfaces can also connect external devices such as mouse, keyboard and USB flash disk at the same time, eliminating the trouble of plugging back and forth.

Anti slip rubber pad is designed on the back of the fuselage, which can prevent shaking during use. At the same time, the bottom of the computer can be propped up a certain distance, so that the fan of the radiator can send out heat in a timely and effective manner.

The heat dissipation of ultra-thin notebook computers has always been a hard injury. Because of their pursuit of extreme thinness, many similar products emit heat through the metal body, but the effect is usually very ordinary; Although ENVY 13 is only 12.95mm thick, there are still two small cooling fans and thermal conductive copper chips built into the machine, which will be shown in detail in the following disassembly display.

ENVY 13 The metal fuselage uses 0.8mm strengthened aluminum plate to ensure the strength of the fuselage. In terms of appearance, the design of large angle smooth transition is adopted, and the fuselage is integrated with 12 stamping processes; On the one hand, it makes its appearance more friendly, on the other hand, it can more intuitively show the tight fit of the whole body, and the workmanship is very exquisite.

Comparative display

Next, I compared this HP ENVY 13 ultrathin notebook with another domestic ultrabook, Daoker K1-4G. Daoke is a newly listed brand in China and has a good market sales. Of course, the purpose of comparison is not to distinguish the good and bad of the two products, after all, the prices of the two products are different; I just want to show you more outstanding advantages of ENVY 13 notebook through comparison.

First of all, in terms of appearance design, the shell materials of the two laptops are all metal body designs, which have good visual impact. There is no big difference from the back cover of the computer. The same is the cooling air hole and anti-skid rubber pad, even the position is almost the same. However, there is no cooling fan inside the Swordsman computer, and the heat is completely dissipated through the metal body, which also causes the hardware temperature to be much higher than ENVY during use.

In terms of body thickness, ENVY 13 is 12.95mm thick, and Knife Maker is 12.2mm thick. It seems that the Knife Maker computer is thinner. The two notebooks are nearly the same size and weigh about 1.3kg, both of which are highly portable. Even girls can easily hold it in their hands and carry it in their schoolbags.

Open the A panel of the two computers and see that the layout structure inside is also very similar. The screen part is the 13.3-inch IPS high-definition display screen, which also integrates the microphone and camera configuration; The keyboard layout is similar, but the only difference is that the key switch of the power supply is built into the keyboard for the Blades computer, while the traditional power switch key mode is used for the HP computer.

The layout of the side interface of the body is essentially different from that of the other two. In addition to the power supply and headphone interface, there is only one USB interface on both sides of the Blades computer, which is inconvenient to use; There are three USB 3.0 interfaces designed on both sides of the ENVY 13 laptop, which can connect multiple external devices at the same time. Compared with the swordsman, it is more practical. In addition, the added HDMI interface can connect the computer to TV projection and other display devices, providing real convenience for business office speeches.

ENVY 13 The keyboard cap of the notebook is a certain distance higher than that of the swordsman computer, and the key stroke is also a little longer. The hand feel is frosty, and the typing speed and typing comfort are very good. What is more prominent is that ENVY keyboard has a backlight design, which can be used normally at night. The swordsman is much inferior in this respect.

The operation area, size and function of the touch control panel are the same. In terms of experience effect, the buttons at the two bottom corners of the touch control panel are stiff and have a poor feel. Another difference on the surface of the machine is that the ENVY audio is placed on the front of the notebook, while the swordsman is designed on the bottom. In terms of sound quality, I think ENVY is better.

In terms of hardware configuration, ENVY's Core I5-6200U CPU has much higher performance than the Blades' Celeron N3510 processor. In addition, the 128G SSD is much faster than the Blades' 64G HDD. In general, the two super laptops have a good price performance ratio. For HP ENVY, they have many outstanding features, such as keyboard backlight, fingerprint unlocking, top audio quality, rich external interfaces, high-performance CPU, etc. Of course, the official price of 4999 is not low.

user's experience

Sit in a quiet coffee shop, have a cup of hot drink, a piece of music and this slim laptop, and enjoy the good time of afternoon tea. The wrist bracket design of the computer is also very reasonable, which can support both hands well in the use process without affecting the typing operation on the keyboard; The wrist will not be placed in the air, so even if it is input for a long time, there will be no abnormal feeling.

The touchpad of multi touch gesture combined with Windows 10 operating system can serve users more efficiently, such as pinching and zooming, single finger tapping, and two finger sliding browsing.

The connection part between the screen and the host uses a metal shaft with high hardness, and the tightness is moderate. The notebook can be automatically fixed with ease during the opening and closing process, and it will not appear too tight when the screen is turned over and lifted together with the base; The user can make any adjustment according to actual needs. The maximum opening angle of ENVY 13 notebook screen is about 135 degrees.

Xiao Bian has mentioned the ultra-thin thickness of the computer many times in the article, and 12.95mm is just a vague digital concept. We can see that the thickness of the entire notebook is only half the diameter of the one yuan coin by comparing it with the one dime coin. The streamline and radian of the body can bring visual beauty to users. Even if it is not applicable in ordinary days, this laptop can be well integrated into the household style elements at home.

Demolition display

The super thin laptop with such powerful functions and beautiful and fashionable appearance makes Xiao Bian feel a little itchy. He can't help taking it apart to find out. In addition to unscrewing several screws on the back of the notebook, it is troublesome to pry off the back cover with a sharp blade. Personally, I don't recommend the user to disassemble the new machine, because Xiao Bian has a deep knowledge of desktop computers and laptops, and he only disassembled the machine out of interest.

When screwing the screws, pay attention to that there are still two hidden under the anti-skid rubber pad. Do not use brute force to open the back cover. After opening, you can see the internal structure of the machine. The main board, battery, audio and other hardware are very compact, and the integration is quite high.

Next, the fixing screws of the battery were removed. It was found that the thickness of this 45Wh lithium polymer rechargeable battery was very thin, and its size was also much larger; The battery surface is marked with a voltage of 11.4V. Through calculation, we can roughly calculate that the battery power is about 3940mAh. The battery life can last about 3 hours for video playback, and 4.5 hours for daily office work and web browsing.

The metal frame around the touchpad is exquisitely made, and the bottom is not fastened with screws. Users can have good elastic resilience when clicking the left and right buttons of the mouse.

As mentioned earlier in the article, although the ENVY 13 laptop has an ultra-thin body, it still has two cooling fans and thermal conductive copper plates on the left and right of the motherboard, which can reduce the temperature of CPU, graphics card and other high power consumption components in a timely manner. Although this is a business oriented Ultrabook, there is no need to worry about excessive temperature when running some large games for a long time due to the existence of cooling fans.

The laptop's network card and 128G solid state drive are connected to the motherboard in a plug-in manner, and are not integrated with the motherboard like the previously mentioned Knife PC. If the user later feels that the hard disk space is not enough, he can replace the SSD hard disk with a larger capacity by himself, which is still very user-friendly.

The stereo surround effect of the speaker units on the left and right sides of the machine is very good. What is lacking is that the volume needs to be increased, which may be because the power cannot be reached; Even if the sound is turned to the maximum, the effect is not very good in noisy environments.

After all, it is a brand new computer, and Xiao Bian can't bear to continue to decompose it. So far, you can also see most of the components inside the machine. The solder joints of various chip capacitors, IC chips, crystal oscillators and other electronic elements on the motherboard are quite good, and the board materials are also high-end products.

performance testing

Master Lu's hardware inspection shows the detailed configuration of this machine, including Core I5 processor, 4GB DDR3-1600MHz memory, Samsung 128G solid state disk, and Intel HD Graphics 520 integrated graphics card; The overall performance score of the computer is 102613, which is just a little different from the I7 CPU desktop computer used by the small editor.

The I5-6200U ranks 65th on the processor ranking list, and performs well in terms of processing speed and occupancy in the actual use process; Even running some large-scale online games with high configuration requirements is very leisurely. However, the integrated graphics card ranks a lot lower, which is also a common problem of similar super products. Sometimes, when playing games, the picture will get stuck.

CPU-Z A CPU detection software, from which you can see the manufacturer of notebook processors, threads and other multi parameter information in detail; Of course, there are cache, motherboard, memory, graphics card and other information queries, which can provide a detailed understanding of the configuration of the notebook, and is also a commonly used detection software.

First, the SSD performance is tested through HD Tune Pro, a hard disk health diagnosis testing tool. It can detect the transmission rate, burst data transmission rate, data access time, CPU utilization, health status, temperature, scanning disk surface and other hard disk related information. The 128G flash solid state disk used in ENVY Ultrabook, according to the benchmark test data from HD Tune, the maximum reading speed of the disk is 367MB/s, the minimum is 275MB/s, and the average is 336MB/s. From the fluctuation of the trend chart in the figure and the access time (0.11s), it can be seen that the reading speed of this Samsung solid state disk is quite fast.

Pass A again TTO Disk Benchmark test software tests the writing speed of the hard disk. It is a disk benchmark test software that supports reading and writing tests on stability and burst transmission rates. By comparing 0.5K 1.0K、 Data packets of different sizes from 2.0K to 8192.0KB are read and written. After the test, the data is expressed in the form of a histogram. From the chart, it can be seen that the measured reading of the SSD is 500MB/s, and the writing is 110MB/s. The difference is relatively large.

Next, we will use ENVY 13 to install software, play videos, surf the Internet and play games continuously. At the same time, we will use a digital thermometer to measure the surface temperature change of the product to see how the computer heats up. Before the machine is turned on, the measured temperature at the back of the machine body is about 23 degrees, close to the room temperature.

After two hours of continuous operation, the temperature at the back of the fuselage was measured again to be 25 degrees, and the temperature at the vent of the cooling fan was 27 degrees. Judging from the test data, I don't think it's necessary to make too many explanations about the heat dissipation performance of the computer.

Master Lu's temperature detection data shows that the CPU starts to run at about 50 degrees, and the hard disk stays at about 35 degrees. In addition to the contribution of the cooling fan, the metal body also plays a major role in cooling.

I can see the relevant system information of ENVY Ultrabook through my computer properties. It uses the latest Windows10 home operating system, which can be said to keep pace with the times and occupy less memory than the professional version, 4GB DDR3 single channel memory is enough for this computer, but the editor is puzzled why not use better dual channels?

I'm used to it The previous Windows 7 operating system still seems to be a little unfit for the sudden use of Windows 10. The system comes with many commonly used software, such as office software and mobile assistant; You can search and download directly through the app store. The multi task window synchronous display function in the system has a great effect. Before, you had to minimize the view one by one, but now you can browse all of them in one interface.

The M2.SATA solid state disk of the computer is about twice faster than the traditional M.2SATA interface, and the broadband speed can reach 10Gbps. According to official data, the 6S can be powered on quickly with Win10 system. It is really fast to pass the 360 boot assistant test. The notebook battery can support audio and video entertainment for about 4 and a half hours when it is fully charged.

In terms of game experience, ENVY can easily deal with some stand-alone leisure games, but sometimes it has no pressure to run online games such as CS, World of Warcraft, and Fantasy World. For the operation of large online games such as Jianling and Tianxia, the editor will conduct an actual evaluation later, but it seems that the video card configuration is not up to scratch.

summary

In general, this ENVY 13-d023TU ultra-thin notebook is more suitable for business office use because of its strong portability; The appearance between the light to thin and all metal shell is beautiful and fashionable, which makes users love it. However, during the evaluation process, Xiaobian also found several shortcomings of the product, which are summarized as follows. I hope the manufacturer can consider the suggestions of Xiaobian.

1、 It is recommended to add a controllable LED light on the top of the screen to facilitate users to use video at night or in dark environments.

2、 Although the sound quality of the computer's speaker unit is good, the volume is low. I hope the power of the speaker unit can be increased.

3、 In actual use, the editor found that the three USB interfaces were very tight in the process of plugging and unplugging the device, and it took a lot of effort to pull them out. I was really afraid of causing damage to the interface, so it is recommended to improve.

4. The cooling fan of the computer is lack of dust screen design, and it is difficult to clean the dust after long-time use. It is recommended to add a filter screen.