Envy 14t-k000 VS Envy 15t-j000 Quad

What we're talking about is the mSATA SSD.

My envy 15t has 3 user accessible slots:

1. 2.5inch slot - the hard drive in there is an HDD, but it could be replaced by a 2.5 inch SSD.

2. RAM - there are 2 slots here, one has an 8gb card in it. The other can be filled with another 8gb RAM card.

3. mSATA slot - this is a smaller slot that is designed to be used by an mSATA SSD. These are physically much smaller than 2.5inch SSDs. So yes, they are limited in size and that is why they are typically used as "caching" drives. But there are currently mSATA SSDs that are up to 512GB in size. Because of this, there are even people that can run the complete OS off a large mSATA SSD in the "caching drive" slot.

If you for example buy an mSATA SSD that's 64gb in size I believe you can then insert it into the mSATA slot and it should be able to cache the 16GB of RAM.

 

Hey guys. I'm really close to buying this laptop but I am concerned about the glossiness of the anti-glare. Can anyone comment on when it actually is a matte screen? Otherwise I will wait for the Lenovo U430P as I dont really want a touch screen.

 

Its not a matte screen its glossy. Has alote of glare i dont even know why they put anti glare.

 

I apologize for the late response. Work has been very demanding. Yes, for what I used it for that day, that is what I got with the battery. Another day I was just online, web browsing and I was able to use it longer than 8 hours with still 30% battery life left. This also included maybe like an hour of standby time. The whole time I was using it though, it didn't seem like the battery was lowering quickly at all.

 

I have been using my HP Envy 14t-k000 with Core i7 for about 2 weeks now.

I am using this for software development (.net WPF and web) so I have pretty high requirements from a performance standpoint. The first thing I did was open the back up, replacing the harddrive with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD and the 4GB included RAM with 16GB of RAM. Taking the back off was a little more difficult than user accessible ports but it still was very easy, just a lot of screws and then popping the plastic off the metal with a screwdriver. It left no noticeable marks when I reassembled it and everything worked like a champ the first time with the additional RAM.

I have an MSDN subscription and the day I got the laptop happened to be the day they posted Windows 8.1 RTM to the MSDN site so I decided to use that to install Windows on my SSD with. I ran into a few driver issues with Windows 8.1 RTM but ultimately got them all solved. The Intel video driver for 8.1 is still a beta build (will likely be RTM before 10/18 when 8.1 becomes generally available), and once I got the latest on 9/18 of that driver the machine really started working well.

I actually ended up taking a business trip through Europe with it over 10 days, boldly migrating my development environment from my old machine to this new one right before I left. Everything ended up working great. I am upgrading from a first generation Core i7 based Dell E6510 machine. This machine is so much lighter, smaller, sexier, and faster.

The touchscreen has been a surprisingly positive thing, I thought I wouldn't really use it on a laptop but when stuck in an small Luftansa coach seat it's easier to touch what you need to click than contort your elbows to use the touchpad. The touchpad is far better than any I've used on a PC before once I spent some time in the driver software getting it configured the way I like it. I still prefer the eraser tip of my Latitude but I can actually use this touchpad since it doesn't seem to move my cursor as I type the way so many other PC touchpads do.

The build quality is much better than I expected, the machine feels solid, looks great, and seems to be very high quality. The keyboard is also very good, I can type very fast on it and the layout of the keys is ideal. The only downside to such good build quality is weight, it's a lot heavier than it looks like it should be at around 4lbs or so, but still quite a bit lighter than my old Latitude and definitely still comfortable to carry.

Battery life seems ok once I got the Intel driver issue resolved. Before that I was having issues with power management. Afterwards it seems like I am getting around 3-4 hours of battery life during heavy development use with multiple Hyper-V servers running. I'm not sure how long it would last if I were to use it more casually and I haven't spent a ton of time on battery anyway.

I haven't had a single crash in heavy use with Windows 8.1 once I got all my driver issues squared away. This thing is rock solid so far, more than pleased with it's performance and stability.

The only thing I wish was better was the screen. I got the 1600X900 res screen but I wish it was 1080p or even the ultra high resolution that they have promised (3200X1800) but so far haven't made available. It is satisfactory but not "stunning" or "beautiful" the way one would describe a Apple screen. I mostly use a laptop hooked to a monitor so I'm ok with it, and comparing it to my 3 year old latitude it probably is on par with that screen's quality.

One thing I'm uncertain of, I still have the 24G MSATA SSD in there that it came with and it's partitioned in BIOS to use some crazy RAID scheme. I'm wondering if I can unpartition it safely and use that space as a second drive since I have a 512GB SSD in the harddrive slot already. Any thoughts?

I hope this is helpful!

Sean

 

Seems like a decent deal on a specked out i5 Haswell unit @ bottom.

Amazon.com: Buying Choices: HP 14-k010us Sleekbook i5-4200U 8GB 750GB 14" BrightView LED-backlit

 

Perhaps you can try out the guide below.
It's for adding the mSATA SDD to the Envy 15t, which should be the same instructions since we have the mSATA slot on the Envy 14t model.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...a-ssd-hdd-fresh-install-msata-boot-drive.html

 

Thank you very much, Sean. I was wondering about the hyper-v and virtual machine thing on this computer, since I heard some consumer laptops (especially by Sony) lock down the BIOS to prevent virtualization, even though it's supported by the all i-Series processors. This cleared it up.
The battery life also seems very good, if it lasts 3-4 hours of compiling and debugging code. This was exactly the post I was looking for.

Thanks a lot.

Regards.

 

I am wondering what ever happened to the 3200x1800 screen so rumored!!! If this laptop had the nicer screen (or even a few good reviews of the 1600x900 screen) I would be more interested. The laptop definitely has all the specs I like except for the screen. And the only review I can find reviewed the 1366x768 screen which I don't care about. Does anyone know of more reviews of the 14t-k000 or new k100?

 

So I recently recieved my brand new envy 14t. Its a brilliant looking machine and way lighter than I expected. The build feels fantastic and solid. No flex issues for either the screen or the keyboard. Battery is pretty good as well. Streaming videos for about 3-4 hours before needing to plug it in with birghtness set to 50% (also got the 4500 + nvidia so that will suck up more power than the 4200 processor). However I also have the same flickering screen issue. Seems to happen only when the wifi is turned on and only in Windows8/8.1. Might be a nvidia/intel driver conflict issue but could not solve it. Ubuntu seems to be running just fine on it though. Sending it back for an exchange now. If that one also has the same thing then I guess i'm done with HP. But apart from this issue its a great latpop. Also a special thanks to stiphy and Miss Kmarl who's reviews is about the only one on the internet for the this laptop.