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  • - Hey guys, this is Austin.

  • This is the 13 inch HP Envy x360.

  • With Ryzen 7 inside this is either

  • going to be one of the fastest 13 inch laptops you can pick up,

  • or it's going to catch on fire.

  • You may remember a few months ago

  • we did take a look at a bigger version of the Envy.

  • It was cool,

  • but it was not only going to be a much larger laptop.

  • It was also powered by Ryzen 5.

  • Ryzen 7 on the other hand should

  • be a little bit more exciting.

  • What really drew my attention to this is

  • just how much power you're getting in such a tiny package.

  • Not only is this going to a 13 inch laptop,

  • but it's going to be a really thin one at that.

  • The first Ryzen laptops we took

  • a look at were fairly low end.

  • Sorta aimed more at the budget market

  • with stuff like mechanical hard drives,

  • but now we're actually starting to see some

  • that are going to be much higher end with some

  • properly decent specs including an SSD.

  • So I've been using the Envy x360 for a few weeks now,

  • and I've gotta say I absolutely love this hardware.

  • And nothing against the 15 inch version,

  • but when you shrink it down to a 13 inch laptop,

  • this really does feel like the

  • sweet spot of the Ultrabook market.

  • The chassis is entirely made out of aluminum,

  • and it is seriously thin.

  • At 15 millimeters and less than three pounds,

  • the Envy really stands out as some of the nicest

  • laptop hardware that you can buy.

  • You won't find Thunderbolt 3 as this is an AMD system,

  • but it does have a decent selection of ports.

  • Including two USB-A ports as well as a full USB-C,

  • which does support DisplayPort, video as well as charging.

  • Although I will mention that you also do have a normal

  • charge port if you don't want to take advantage USB-C.

  • - [Computer] Great us of fir and grass shadings.

  • - The speakers are straight up awesome.

  • Now yeah they do take up a little bit of the space,

  • but it is going to be totally worth it.

  • So not only do you have Bang and Olufson

  • branding on the top speakers,

  • which are going to be facing directly toward you.

  • But there's also going to be a

  • pair of speakers on the bottom,

  • which helps to give you a little bit more of that low end.

  • Now no, it's not going to be quite as good

  • as something like a 15 inch MacBook

  • that's going to be much more expensive.

  • And honestly for something that is this small

  • and this tiny and this portable and this light

  • and this thin and other acronyms.

  • And adjectives and other things.

  • It's great.

  • It sounds really good.

  • I'm gonna stop talking now.

  • You're also going to be getting a touch screen

  • as well as full two in one design.

  • Now on larger laptops that's not always

  • going to be the most useful thing in the world,

  • but considering how small and light this is I

  • actually did find myself using it in tent mode

  • and some of the other modes fairly often.

  • Now look, it's not going to perfect hardware.

  • It would be nice if it had a few more USB ports.

  • Especially something like Thunderbolt would've been cool,

  • but for the most part I've gotta say I'm incredibly

  • impressed with just how well this is put together.

  • Especially considering the price.

  • Unlike basically every other Ultrabook on the market.

  • This is going to be powered by an AMD Ryzen Processor,

  • and with this case it's going to be the Ryzen 7 2700U.

  • This is the top end model with four Zen cores,

  • which all have Hyper-Threading

  • as well as the full Vega 10 GPU.

  • Now no it's not going to be any kind of

  • insane overpowered gaming laptop.

  • What it is going to do is give you

  • much better graphics performance than

  • pretty much anything on the standard Intel side.

  • The idea is in that same 15 Watt TDP

  • you're going to be getting competitive CPU performance

  • and that much better GPU performance,

  • but the issue here is that the last time

  • we took a look at a Ryzen 5 system

  • it was in a 15 inch chassis.

  • So with a 13 inch model are we going to have thermal issues?

  • Yes, yes we are.

  • Now just purely taking a look at the CPU.

  • If you run it through Geekbench you'll see that

  • while no it's not going to be quite

  • on par with the latest 8th Gen Intel Core stuff.

  • It's not going to be that far off,

  • and importantly in real world use

  • you're not going to notice a massive difference.

  • The graphic side is where things

  • get a little more interesting.

  • So as you would expect with those Vega GPU cores

  • it is going to be more powerful

  • than the UHD 620 integrated graphics,

  • but what's also interesting is that it underperforms

  • the Ryzen 5 in the 15 inch version of this laptop.

  • Even this is going to be the higher

  • end Ryzen 7 with even more GPU cores.

  • Hmm...

  • Look, this things straight up thermal throttles.

  • Now considering that we only have a 15 watt TDP.

  • Of course there's always going to be some degree

  • of that when you get into long sustained loads.

  • When you pair it next to the 15 inch version with Ryzen 5

  • this guy is going to be significantly slower

  • and a lot of that is because those

  • clock speeds have to come so far down.

  • So technically this could be

  • running up to a gigahertz or so,

  • but realistically under sustained load

  • I was seeing anywhere between

  • 350 and 500 megahertz on that GPU clock,

  • and that's going to be a big problem.

  • Now sure, for a quick burst it's

  • going to be completely fine.

  • When it comes to long sustained loads such as gaming,

  • which is going to be pretty common if you know

  • you want to try to game for more than five minutes.

  • The thermals and the chassis and how thin this is

  • really kind of hold back what

  • that Ryzen chip is capable of.

  • Open up the Envy and you're going to

  • find a very basic looking cooler.

  • Now that is made worse by the fact

  • that HP is pretty conservative with the tuning on this guy.

  • So once it hits about 65 degrees on the GPU

  • the throttling is going to kick in.

  • Now that's going to be great if

  • you want a nice quiet and cool laptop.

  • If you want to do anything more serious like gaming,

  • it's going to mean you're going to be leaving

  • some serious performance on the table.

  • There's also the issue of drivers.

  • So unlike a traditional AMD graphics card

  • you can't just download them straight from the site.

  • Instead the drivers should come straight from the OEM.

  • In this case HP.

  • The problem is all these Ryzen laptops

  • that are coming out are way, way behind on driver updates.

  • This guy for example is using drivers from a few months ago,

  • but there are stories that are some other Ryzen

  • laptops that have six, seven even eight month old drivers.

  • That's just never going to be a good thing for gaming.

  • I've played a lot of games.

  • I've done a lot of testing on this,

  • and of course the second we start recording this happens.

  • Why aren't ya gonna throw a little restart it's way.

  • Um, okay so Fortnite not really a big

  • fan of running on the system right now,

  • which is disappointing because this does legitimately even

  • with all these issues have a lot

  • more power than other Ultrabooks.

  • The issue is just that well

  • it kind of speaks for itself I guess.

  • The screen is pretty solid.

  • So my unit has a 13.3 inch 1080p display,

  • although there is going to be a 4K option.

  • Well it's not going to be the most

  • color accurate thing in the world.

  • It's going to be a little bit on the dim side,

  • but my biggest issue is just

  • it's going to be very, very reflective.

  • Considering that a Intel Ultrabook is generally

  • going to be about a thousand dollars

  • or so for this level of hardware.

  • You're actually going to be getting a pretty decent deal.

  • The problem is is that you're going to be giving up some on

  • the CPU side and definitely on the

  • you know software working side.

  • That's an important side.

  • In case you were curious.

  • HP sells this with Ryzen 3, 5 and 7 as options,

  • and based on the level of throttling you get

  • in this chassis I actually think it's better to

  • go with the slightly end config with Ryzen 5.

  • Eight gigs of ram and 256 gig SSD for $750.

  • The 13 inch HP Envy x360 is one

  • seriously unique little laptop.

  • Now no it's not going to be a great gaming machine,

  • they've definitely tuned it a little bit more

  • on the cool and quiet side versus raw performance,

  • but I will say this good luck finding a much more powerful

  • laptop than this in such a small and thin form factor.

  • Since we finished shooting the video

  • the HP Envy found an early demise.

  • So what I did was I plugged in a

  • HP branded USB-C charger to this guy,

  • which apparently didn't play well with it.

  • As I heard a little crack it started smelling bad,

  • and not only does it not take any power,

  • but it just straight up will not turn on anymore.

  • Now I haven't opened it up to

  • find out exactly what the issue is.

  • I assume something fried,

  • but what's weird is this does accept USB-C power.

  • So for example what I plugged in earlier a 15 inch

  • MacBook charger it had no issues,

  • but apparently whatever the wattage or the amperage was

  • on that other HP charger wasn't compatible.

  • So maybe stay tuned as I try to

  • get this repaired or replaced,

  • because right now kind of dead.

- Hey guys, this is Austin.

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