HP ENVY 17-j029nr Quad Edition mSSD Windows 8 Notebook PC; 16GB RAM Review

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I'm a software developer and data engineer. I needed to cut down the compile times of a very large project I'm working on. I did 2 things that made this an amazing laptop. #1 I replaced the hard drive with a 512mb SSD drive. #2 I opted to upgrade the 4th gen Intel cpu to 3.7 GHz. It's wicked fast. It's quiet. It's great on battery life. The software shipped with the product installed by HP is not annoying like Dell's software. The screen is beautiful. The beats audio sound system is great. The graphics card runs my 2 monitor setup perfect and is snappy. Whatever cpu you choose, just make sure it's the 4th generation (I'm pretty sure all HP Envy's at the moment are).

It's light-weight and easy to carry. Bonus: when I close the laptop it cuts power to my USP Laptop cooling pad.

I just love it. It's saving me about 1 hour of productivity a day.

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Got this notebook for a month about. In general it is very cool, fast, beatiful and impressive, BUT yesterday WEB-camera stopped working. I had to read a lot of forums about resolving this issue. Half people says that it's software bug but another one says that it is hardware ill. I tried only one option which look more preferable: Turn off PC un-plug battery push power button for 15 seconds put battery back and turn on PC -> issue resolved. I very hope that it will not happen again because I feel myself very unpleased when you spend >1200$ and WEBcamera become unavailable.

Hope this will help somebody.

4 stars

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I wish this had a non-matte/anti-glare screen like they used to have. And that the touchpad was centered to the machine and not the 10key layout.

Those two things aside this was a sweet little machine and a great addition to my equipment. I'm a videographer so I often have programs for movie making, conversion and photo editing open and working at the same time. iTunes or Netflix is usually running too, so its a lot! but the processor is fast and it hasnt crashed or faltered once. Very happy so far.

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Received this beautiful laptop but it had one major defect...the keyboard. The left side was raised up and the right side was flat. When typing with two hands it had an off feeling. This is not the first time I have had this issue with HP laptops in the last year. Returned laptop to Amazon. Very disappointed.

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Battery life : 4 to 5 Hrs for watching videos (offline and HP recommended power mode), gaming Counter strike source 2 Hrs ( high performance mode) 5/5

Fast, build quality Average Keyboard 2/5, other parts 4/5

Sound Good, not sure y there is a subwoofer don't see much of a difference / cant feel bass, 4/5

Screen Non-gloss good 5/5

Overall a good buy for the price.