HP ENVY 17-1011NR 17.3-Inch Laptop

by Hewlett-Packard

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 16.4 x 10.8 x 1.5 inches ; 7.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 14.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B003L780XS
• Item model number: WQ831UA#ABA
• Batteries: 1 Lithium ion batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 5, 2010

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

IDEAL FOR

Precision crafted performance. Engineered for power and designed with the latest materials, the ultra-thin, lightweight HP ENVY 17-1011NR laptop PC has a large widescreen display and can support up to three external displays. See and feel the difference with a stylish metal chassis and backlit keyboard, plus run multiple applications at once with ease. Get more power on the go using the two batteries included in the box.

BEATS^™ AUDIO

Play music the way it was meant to be heard SPECIAL OFFER

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SPECIFICATIONS

Processor Intel® Core™ i7-720QM processor 1.60GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.80GHz Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit Display 17.3" diagonal Full HD HP Ultra BrightView Infinity LED Display (1920 x 1080) Memory (RAM) 8GB DDR3 Hard Drive 640GB (7200RPM) Dual HDD - 320GB + 320GB SATA with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection Weight & Dimensions (w x d x h) 7.51 lbs; 16.38" x 10.83" x 1.25"/2.15" Battery Life Up to 5.75 hours Wireless Wireless LAN 802.11b/g/n WLAN & Bluetooth® Optical Drive Slot-loading Blu-ray ROM with SuperMulti DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support Video Graphics ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5850 Graphics with up to 4091MB total graphics memory with 1GB dedicated Finish Laser-etched aluminum finish in carbon relic

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FEATURES

Blu-ray Disc Drive Watch high-definition Blu-ray DVDs using your laptop PC Built-in HP Webcam Video chat live using your HP ENVY 17-1011NR 5-in-1 Digital Media Reader Transfer photos from a digital camera to your laptop PC without using cables Full-size Keyboard Access common tasks via one-touch and action keys Backlight Technology Reduce power requirements for extended battery life Bluetooth® Save time with wireless synching and printing Beats™ Audio Hear music in crisp, clear sound and deep bass INCLUDED

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EXCLUSIVE HP SOFTWARE

HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection Help prevent data loss due to bumps or short drops HP QuickWeb Access your favorite websites fast HP MediaSmart Create, share and enjoy multimedia entertainment in one stop

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MORE INFORMATION

Datasheet (PDF)

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¹ Download up to 10 songs per month for 6 months. Offer valid with qualifying purchase on 7/18/2010 through 9/11/2010 and must register to receive song credits by 10/11/2010. Registration requires use of Internet Explorer on qualifying PC and installation of ActiveX control. Song credits will expire at the end of each month. Valid in U.S. only. Void where prohibited.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice... with a few sticking points., July 12, 2010

By	Ken Kerang "grublet" - See all my reviews

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This review is from: HP ENVY 17-1011NR 17.3-Inch Laptop (Personal Computers)

At the end of the day performance is the most important measure of success to me and this machine lives up to expectations here - its definately snappy. In regards to games, I've installed Dragon Age, Borderlands, Crysis - all run great at maximum settings. I'm confident this machine will handle my gaming needs for the next couple of years.

Nice fit and finish. Lots of metal bits and overall solid feel. Its not exactly light but for a 17" its respectable. It looks good enough to leave out when company is over. I had some concern buying site unseen because I know the previous envy models didn't quite deliver in this are - but I think overall this version meets the bar. Its not a mac book - but it gets pretty close.

Battery life has been good so far - the extra 9 volt battery is an awesome bonus.

It does have a blu ray drive.

The screen is beautiful - super clear, detailed and bright.

So in the two primary areas that drove me to purchase this vs. other 17" gaming machines - performance and aesthetic - this machine delivers.

I have a few usability complaints though..

The mouse pad. The problem here is that the click buttons are also part of the touch bad - so when go to click on things your clicking finger will move the cursor. This happens often enough to be very frustrating.. maybe a patch will come out that will address. In the meantime I've been having to plug in an external mouse because I can't take it.

The PC does something strange when it sleeps - when you open the lid it will resume but the screen doesn't come back so you have to open and close the lid once again and that will make the screen turn on. Not a big deal but a bug that bothers me. And the lid is a bit of pain to open - no real place to get a good grip and its tight and heavy. Its more like prying it open rather than the nice smooth lid opening experience of the mac book.

Too much cluttering software pre installed and Windows disk not included making a clean install difficult.

The Beats audio is not that exciting - but i didn't expect it to be. Sounds like a laptop to me at the end of the day.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Value + Style + Power available, July 14, 2010

By	Brian Adams (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: HP ENVY 17-1011NR 17.3-Inch Laptop (Personal Computers)

I'll be honest that a laptop from HP was far from my first choice. At the end of the day it was half the price of Apple and Alienware and way more stylish and feature packed than the Asus stealth fighter laptop. Every now and then I do want to transfer 10GB of movies and video's around so USB 3 and ESata ports in a desktop replacement laptop matter, something that Apple and Asus don't seem to care about. Heads up, this is a 17" but with 1920X1080 instead of 1920X1200 that you may have been used to before. This makes the laptop wider than my prior 17" Vaio I had owned... wide enough that it make the laptop feel massive. Enough so that I won't be carrying it around in a backpack anytime soon.

This unit ships with dual 320GB hard drives. First thing I did was order a SSD to replace the boot drive, so my experience is based on that modification. I ended up doing a fresh windows install so I never worried about bloat ware. Fortunately the installation files for everything short of the O/S were in a nice setup folder on the c:\ drive I replaced, so I can always re-install anything I may decide I want later.

At the end of the day this laptop is FAST. The windows experience index for the machine after the SSD upgrade is 7.0 which is good thing. Supreme Commander 2, Assassins Creed 2 both run with full detail at 60fps. There have been reports of unbearably hot palm rests and sub par quality on the assemblies. I had none of those issues. I'm gaming and surfing on a plain table (no cooler) and heat has not been an issue. In a quiet room I can hear the fan but typing the keys on the keyboard is louder.

The extras I like include the backlit keyboard, the status led lights on the mute and wireless function buttons, the led that lights up the RJ45 network jack when plugged in, the tiny led lights in the front left for power and harddrive activity, only having to remove 2 screws to replace the primary harddrive.

The only criticism would have to be the track pad. I've used a macbook with bootcamp and the gestures made more sense. Since the left and right "buttons" are simulated, the act of holding a "mouse" button down and dragging the mouse (when selecting text for instance) makes the mouse move in fits and jerks. I don't know if driver updates can ever fix that, but allowing us to simulate those interactions with just gestures (no physical clicks) would.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beauty and brains, August 13, 2010

By	Wossen Wyatt (Tortola, British Virgin Islands) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: HP ENVY 17-1011NR 17.3-Inch Laptop (Personal Computers)

I've been using this notebook for a few weeks and I'm very pleased with it overall. The system feels powerful and responsive but that power comes at the expense of cooling. Under heavy load the right side becomes very hot. Too hot to touch in fact and you can even feel the heat through keys like caps lock, tab and the left shift and ctrl. That's one of the few caveats of this system. The others are the lack of a FireWire port for capturing digital video and the lack of RAID support. Although the system uses two speedy Hitachi HTS725032A9A364 hard disks there's no option in the BIOS to create a RAID 0 or 1 array with the disks. In my opinion HP missed an opportunity there to squeeze a few more drops of performance out of the system with RAID 0.

Many reviewers have complained about the clickpad being quirky and annoying. HP has released an updated driver that fixes the problem and it's available on their web site. Once you install the update and familiarize yourself with the multi-touch gestures you realize they're very cool and convenient.

Oddly, HP has chosen to make the secondary controls of the function keys active by default. Meaning that if you press the key shared by F7 and volume down, the volume down control will be triggered. You need to press the fn key (between the ctrl and windows log keys on the bottom row) to trigger F7. This is truly annoying at first but a quick trip to the BIOS lets you change it back to the way it should be so the function keys are triggered by default and the fn key is only needed for the secondary controls like volume, screen brightness, wireless toggle, etc.

On the software side, unlike what the PDF specsheet states, this system does NOT come with Office 2007 trial or any other office productivity software pre-installed. The Corel video and image editors are present and accounted for but you'll either need to buy Office right away or install the free OpenOffice suite like I did.

Gaming is a pleasure on this system as you would expect. So far I've played Batman Arkham Asylum on it at 1920x1080 resolution with the quality settings turned all the way up and the game is beautifully detailed and frame rate is completely fluid. Of course the system gets hot as hell during gameplay, but such is life, I guess.

All things considered, I highly recommend the ENVY 17-1011NR to anyone who wants a powerful notebook.