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    Can somebody tell me why HP does not make gaming laptops anymore?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by garfiola, Jul 30, 2013.

  1. garfiola

    garfiola Notebook Guru

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    I just heard they released haswell envy but they put in a crapy geforce 740M

    Why is this happening.

    I still have ENVY series 1 and it still rocks! I am really dissapointed about this because I need to buy a gaming laptop and I would gladly buy new envy, but they put a middle class graphic card in now

    why they dont put 8870 ati like in Samsung chronos?

    They dont want to earn money?
     
    garfiola, Jul 30, 2013
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  2. Jarhead

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    HP's consumer-class division hasn't been doing all that well these past few years (HP even threatened to sell off the entire division a year or so ago).

    Why not check out other laptop OEMs?
     
    Jarhead, Jul 30, 2013
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    joel99081 Newbie

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    Given that ENVY and higher-end Pavilions (dv6/dv7) have been merged into a single product line, as well as the lack of new Spectres as of yet, it's possible that HP's found the premium/gaming segment to be less than profitable. On the other hand, it's only been bit about two months since Haswell's release, so HP might have something new up their sleeves as we speak.
     
    joel99081, Jul 30, 2013
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  4. Prolixious

    Prolixious Notebook Deity

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    HP would make for good competition. Though most of its laptops aspire to be Macbooks, they have pleasanter aesthetics and designs than similar offerings from Dell. Elitebooks vs. Precisions is the token example. If any company can offer better gaming laptops than Alienware, it's HP: it has the money and infrastructure for a good warranty and customer service, decent and functional designs, good screen options, and some of its consumer-grade laptops seem decent unlike Lenovo's... It still needs to work on cooling, customer support venues, and upgrade-friendly chassis.

    Of course, I don't think that HP will enter that market.
     
    Prolixious, Jul 30, 2013
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  5. garfiola

    garfiola Notebook Guru

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    they use haswell already in new envy, but with 740 geforce, a grandpa of graphic cards
     
    garfiola, Jul 30, 2013
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    Don't know about you but I am more than impressed the 750M and the i7-4702MQ combo, this thing games pretty hard and can run bioshock infinite on ultra. For the price range it's pretty hard to beat. Just to bad that you can't buy it built to order, it sold other places word wide in a pre-built model. CPU and GPU must be in this combo otherwise any other CPU is overheat it.
     
    T2050, Jul 31, 2013
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