HP ENVY 15.6" Intel i5 TouchSmart Laptop

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HP ENVY 15.6" Intel i5 TouchSmart Laptop
Price: $499.99
Shipping Options:: $5 Standard
Shipping Estimates: Ships in 3-5 business days (Tuesday, Aug 05 to Friday, Aug 08) + transit
Condition: Factory Reconditioned

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Previous Similar Sales (May not be exact model)
5/12/2014 - $599.99 (Woot Plus)
4/23/2014 - $599.99 (Woot Plus)

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HP ENVY 15-j152nr Support Page

HP ENVY 15-j152nr Maintenance and Servicing Guide

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Check out this review over at techradar.com
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It could really use Windows loaded on an SSD drive, and use the SATA drive only for user storage. Skip the whole Windows-loads-slow issue. Oh well.

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Been window shopping for a cheap laptop. But this time, I am specifically looking for one that can be turned into a Hackintosh (10.9 at least).

Anybody had success on these for Mavericks or Yosemite (Retail), or any Niresh flavors?

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CPU Benchmark

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The “Features” tab states that the CPU is a quad-core. The “Specifications” tab however, states that it is a dual core. Do you know which is correct?

[MOD: Good catch. It is a dual core. Sale has been fixed ]

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It has 2 cores & 4 threads – Hence the “M” in Intel Core i5-4200M

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Solid deal for the money. I can’t emphasize how much better 1920x1080 is compared to 1366x768, especially in a 15.6" panel. Set the two side by side and it’s no contest, full HD FTW.

http://cpuboss.com/cpu/Intel-Core-i5-4200M

Good performance, but don’t expect a battery sipper here. I’d guess about 3-4 hours max.

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Has anyone purchased refurbhised laptop from woot, last time i purchased refurbhised neato it was all wrong and had to return it

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[QUOTE=kulkarniash, post:11, topic:425455]
Has anyone purchased refurbhised laptop from woot, last time i purchased refurbhised neato it was all wrong and had to return it
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My daughter and I just bought this in the AMD A10 version that was on here a couple of weeks ago and we have been really impressed.

Pros: Thin, lightweight, she likes that it looks like a Mac but doesn’t have the price tag of one. Screaming fast system (will be even better when I swap the HDD for SSD). I was impressed that HP hasn’t loaded this one down with too much bloatware… I only had to remove 5 or 6 programs versus that 20-30 from other makers.

Cons: Only one I have seen is the screen doesn’t go back much past vertical. I’m sure this is to protect the small hinges, but it is a minor annoyance.

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Anyone know if this model includes an additional HD bay, to put in a SSD in addition to the included hard disk?

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Awesome, I’ve been wanting to get a value laptop (but still with good quality) and swap out for a SSD - not necessarily for speed, but for less Power and Heat. How would you go about migrating everything over to one?

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I have the AMD model, which is just a little bit better for gaming. I have played around with the Intel model. The only other major difference between this and the AMD model it’s that the keyboard support base is supper flimsy, which gives a weird feedback when typing. The AMD model came with 4 more gigs of ram.

The SSD upgrade works and it’s noticeable difference but not that much.

The trackpad is useless on this, thankfully the touchscreen makes the whole experience tolerable.

The speakers are amazing and crisp. The aside from the intel keyboard issue, the rest of the built is solid.

If you use chrome make sure you grab the canary edition (64 bit), so you utilize the most out of this working horse.

Genuine Windows 8.1 (64-bit), It’s good but you will have to do some extensive tweaking if you are wanting you computer to behave like a desktop rather than a tablet.

*The big offenders on that are the High DPI settings. If you do not disable this all non-8.1 apps and programs will be blurry. You can tweak under the hood by messing with registry, but I played it safe and just edited each individual app.

Bloatware is strong with this one, thankfully is really easy to remove. McAfee is annoying, but some models come with Norton which even worse.

This is my first laptop where the finger scanner is useful and it actually works on every finger scan.

If you don’t care about gaming, I would say stick with this model. It’s quieter and better at some tasks like batch rendering and editing.

How ever if you are mainly interested in gaming, or would like a cheaper model then I would say to go with the AMD model. It was 480$ shipped and it came with 250Gb of more storage, 4GB of extra Ram. Also the AMD model can throttle on and off, being able to give you 8GB of gaming graphics, unlike the this one (intel) which can only give you 2GB.

Both of these models are workhorses. I had the choice to get this (AMD version) vs a refurbished Mac book PRO, I still went with this.

9/10

Oh and Ubuntu (GNU/Linux) works well with it too.
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My word of caution is that I still have not figured out how to make a external backup OS Image. there is an internal one that you always reset on, until the day that the turds hit the fan.

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[QUOTE=zatxwoopyoax, post:12, topic:425455]
My daughter and I just bought this in the AMD A10 version that was on here a couple of weeks ago and we have been really impressed.

Pros: Thin, lightweight, she likes that it looks like a Mac but doesn’t have the price tag of one. Screaming fast system (will be even better when I swap the HDD for SSD). I was impressed that HP hasn’t loaded this one down with too much bloatware… I only had to remove 5 or 6 programs versus that 20-30 from other makers.

Cons: Only one I have seen is the screen doesn’t go back much past vertical. I’m sure this is to protect the small hinges, but it is a minor annoyance.
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Lightweight??? This is a beast at 5.62 lbs. This is not a travel unit folks.

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Most Ultrabooks that are just 10-13 inches weigh between 4.54 to 2.30, Most of them have SSD and.

This is a 15in, making the weight understandable.

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What about warranty comes with 90 days only, is this enough, is it worth buying additional warranty

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My experience with refurbished laptops is that if they don’t show a problem in the first 90 days, chances are you are not going to have a problem later on. I am a technician and since a refurbished laptop has been gone over a second time by the manufacturer, your odds are low of having a problem beyond the 90 day warranty. Then again, anything can happen, but the odds are low. That’s why exteded warranty Companies are so profitable. The most likely thing to go on it would be the HDD, and those are reallly cheap to replace these days. I’d spend the money you would have spent on an extended warranty on an external usb backup drive and would image the hard drive instead. You can download an imaging product like “Macrium Reflect” for free. The cost of the external hard drive will be about the same as an extended warranty. From my experience, the other components outside of the Hard Drive are very unlikely to fail. Just exercise the Laptop a lot during the warranty period.

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Thanks for input
Just sitting on edge, there is tax for FL, which kind of sucks, if i buy from ebay or other company outside FL can save that 35 $ :slight_smile: