Cheap HP ENVY 17-j029nr Quad Edition Notebook PC

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Well, this arrived on time and I must say that it's the best laptop for this price (got mine for $1,074 quite cheaper than you'll get from the official HP website). Am a gamer so I immediately loaded a few games into this machine and they all played really fine on high settings. Everything was okay apart from the keyboard, not that it's bad but I think it has a manufacturing problem were the top left seems kinda loose but this doesn't ruin anything.

Everything works just fine, Windows 8 is just AWESOME (I don't know what people were complaining about, honestly), the wifi works well (I wouldn't say it's the best but it certainly is above average), the beats audio is also pretty cool and the speakers are really good. This laptop has a matte finish and the keyboard area is made of aluminium which gives it a premium feel; the rest of the body is made of some tough plastic. Aha!! the finger print sensor is AMAZING! this thing works. it saves time and I just love it, the touch pad is also good, I've had no issues with it so far.

In summary, this laptop easily satisfies all my needs. Oh and the FHD display is BIG and MUAHH!!! 'BRILIANT'. Am happy I invested in this.

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I love the computer probably because I desperately wanted a 17.3 inch which is hard to find now. I must comment on how VERY difficult it is to navigate the right and left clicks with the one touch pad. There's no separate button for them, just pushing on the bottom edge of the touch pad. This was unbelievable to me at first. Surely, a computer this fancy didn't make it more difficult to right and left click. I called support and they didn't know what I was talking about. (I guess the computer was so new, they weren't aware). I wanted to know if there was a way to use keyboard to do these clicks because when I try to drag or highlight something, my thumb (on the bottom edge to "left click) and my forefinger (on the middle) would get cramped with such awkward positioning.

Why HP changed that I have no idea. STICK WITH WHAT WORKS if you can't make it better.

Next, the speakers are awful. I have to mute my TV and shush my dogs if I want to hear something from the computer (and that's with it on maximum sound.) I had read a previous review that the sound system was awful, but I had no idea it was this bad.

I'm going to keep the computer because I like the 17.3 inch screen. Not many better choices out there. I gave Samsung's a try, but I could only find the size refurbished, which was a mistake. Sent that back when the function keys didn't work.

I usually trust HP's computers. I have a cheap one from seven years ago that still performs greatly but it is a 15" screen. I would buy a better HP if they corrected these two problems.

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I like everything on this laptop except screen. It has what is called screen door effect. This means that you can see the pixels as there a tiny visible gap between them..in simple term you can see pixels grid specially on white. Some few people might not observe it. I wonder if others can see it. It's so frustrating for me. I would appreciate other owners feedback on this

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When we first got the laptop we found that it kept dropping the wireless internet connection after a few minutes. After some research we found that we had to go to the intel site and download an update for the wireless network drivers. This was a big waste of time I would expect that a new computer would come with all the latest softwared loaded.