*HP ENVY 14 & Envy 14 Beats (1XXX series) Owners Lounge, Part Deux*

Well, no need to time it, there is a count down timer when the next level loads. With my GTX 260m I usually have 5-6 or more seconds left on that countdown timer before the level starts. With the HD 5650 the countdown timer has either already expired or at best 1-2 seconds left.

 

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/mobile/10-6_mobility_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc.exe

that link will get you 10.6 CCC + 10.6 drivers.

 

Has anyone found a fix for the optical drive making a garbage disposal noise & the 2-3 second delay when coming out of sleep?

 

shiz, there was a post before talking about tigerdirect and vaio z and big cashback. I can give you a brand new (its coming in a week) envy 14 if you can go to tiger direct /w big cashback comes out to 1500 and ill give you the 128 gb SSD that comes with it so about (200-300) which becomes 1200-1300 and trade (specs are below without the 256 ssd)

 

Im laughing at this software, didnt think it worked, but it does work good. I installed it onto my Envy. Thanks for the find, guy.

 

@markik

Thought I'd let you know you don't need 8 gb of ram to game.

Seriously, you are fine with 4gb.

 

Nice find, added to first page.

 

The fact that I got the lower res screen is really bothering me. Can anyone cheer me up?

 

Well, 1366x768 on a 14 inch panel wasn't that bad. I used it on a Dell Vostro 3400 for about a week.

If it makes you feel better, your games will run better than ours.

 

Yes. It might not be too late to cancel and come proper.

 

*Takes a bow.

Trick has worked on HP notebooks for years.

 

are you interested in my offer?

 

Ok, thanks. I got everything working. I dropped back to the 10.3 drivers. Still didn't work, so then I updated Direct X and everything worked fine after that. Then upgraded to 10.7. Strange though, I thought there was an earlier rev. of Direct X that came with Windows, but maybe not. No error messages either, it would just crash.

 

Thanks. I found one that looks like it has both 32 and 64 bit in it. I'll try this one though see if it matters.

 

Did you try turning off bluetooth? Did it stop? If so , I installed the latest bluetooth drivers and I dont have the whine anymore. I have clean installed and always have bluetooth on as I use a bluetooth MS mouse.

 

Whine catalyst varies from mother board to mother board, you are lucky.

 

The only reason I got the 720p screen is because the $200 dollar upgrade for the 900p screen would have put me over my budget. If only I ordered ONE day earlier

 

Haha thanks but no thanks

 

Call and haggle with HP for an upgrade?... Or maybe $100 back?

 

Ooo yeah, exactly, you could call HP and get them to give $100 back.

Even the radiance screen alone is enough argument,

Or reference an online one from recent that had the cheaper screen. Seriously they toss out cash at HP left and right, when I went to RMA mine, they offered an addition $50 credit instead, you could use that too. I easily could have gotten $150 credit back lol.

Also, location [adult swim] no capitals

 

damn the battery life on the envy 14 is really not that good..im getting lik 2 and a half hours on full brightness just web surfing, youtube videos, and music...pretty dissappionting

 

Well... You are running at full brightness.

 

Same, but i know that I have a lot of bloatware running thanks to HP, slowly cleaning it out, but I've had 3 1/2 hour battery runs+ so...

yea idk mayb I'll break down and do a reinstall at some point. Just don't want to run into the problems other people had after reinstalls. Not that I cant handle it, it'll just interrupt my everyday use.

EDIT: doesnt help that my buddy downloaded a trojan while installing warcraft addons. Avira scrubbed it off it think, but for all I know the trojan invited other stuff onto my PC. Now I remember why I don't let other people touch my computers! (now... to unhack my WOW account... )

 

true..im not trying to be a mbp fanboy o anytin...but its true they get 8 hours right?..on full brightness?

 

I think 6-7 is more accurate, but still pretty nice.

 

Well, MacBook Pros have a significantly larger battery inside of them, along with the fact that OSX has very aggressive power management, which is something Windows needs.

The MacBook Pro 13 certainly is capable of getting those kind of battery times.

 

Yes. I called and got $50 off the $200 "upgrade" for the 900p screen. I guess my dad will be surprised when he sees his credit card bill haha.

 

What are you guys getting for WEI graphic scores?

I have 6.7 for both

 

Noted. Haha

 

So they gave you an upgrade to the 900p screen for $150 instead of $200?

Yeah, I'd take that if I were you.

 

yea im going to college next year and im now looking at the base model mbp15...but im gonna miss the 8gb of ram and ssd =(

 

Ugh. I would never buy the MacBook Pro 15 at the price it's at.

It's not worth it, it's exorbitantly expensive and has an underpowered GPU.

The MacBook Pro 13 is the only one I would consider.

 

/Agree the simple fact that they MAKE a model with 1/2 GPU RAM is a disgrace to the company and an insult to customers. Then they force a 2k$+ bill on you if you want the full version.


and yea, MBP 13 gets 8 hours for sure. 15 would be a tad less.

 

why the mbp 13?

 

I'm currently using a MBP 13". Let me tell you this, when i'm on excel and making a graph, it's so laggy you have no idea. Specs are2.26 ghz 4gb ram 256 GB SSD. This is why im going to the envy now.
I play dota occasionally and I get lag spikes all the time. ITS ANNOYINGGG. it should be able to handle dota. I placed it on LOW settings also -___-

 

The purpose of the 13 is battery, it does that very well without pretending to be anything else.

15 is a scam of sorts if you care about the GPU at all.

 

One of the things I was looking forward to the most about this computer was the screen and to be honest I would have paid full price for the upgrade if it didn't put me over my budget. I'll take $50 off though

 

So what sorts of things are people using to keep their E14's screen clean? As much as I love the computer, the display is an absolute magnet for dust and other crap. I have no idea what sort of cleaning product to use on a glossy non-glass screen like this.

 

Well I'm glad to hear you were able to get the 900p screen. It's definitely something that made me want the Envy 14.

It gets great battery life, solid build quality, and okay performance.

The MacBook Pro 15 is a joke in terms of price/performance. It gets better battery life than most laptops, but the GPU is junk for what you're paying.

 

Has anyone notice that on their laptop sometimes the brightness controls just dont work? you can manually adjust the brightness, but the keys dont work. Someone said update the bios but that did not fix it. i have to shut down my computer to get it to work again. the problem usually starts when i un-plug/switch power options. Any help?

 

arite thanks for the feedback...if i do return the envy i already setup norton and lojack...anyone know if they will give me the money back on that also?

 

same thing happens to me...it seems it works when it wants to

 

guys should i stick with a crappy uk standard brightview display or get a radiance one in Canada while i'm there at the cost of a bilingual keyboard???

 

Easier and cheaper to replace the keyboard later than the screen.

 

The Envy14 being sold at Best Buys in Canada still has the ty 1366*768 screen. Also, they are crazy expensive compared to what you can get in the States

 

Also, I just got my weekly Future Shop flyer, and they're advertising a DM4 with a 1GB HD 5650 video card... I thought this was weird considering that you can't even customize it with that on the HP USA website... /boggled. In any case, I'm going to investigate tomorrow when the flyer comes into effect. (Sadly I'm quite positive it's still the 1366*768 screen)

 

Why do people feel the need to add "p" to resolutions for computer monitors. Computer monitors have been non-interlaced for years now.

 

Well, you either say "1366x768" or "720p."

You don't say "Yeah I got the 900 screen," that's extremely vague. It's just nomenclature.

 

Wow!! the envy is extremely expensive when it comes with the radiance screen now!! thats crazy. so glad i bought it early.

 

LOL wow, I hadn't checked the E14 CTO site since I bought mine (for obvious reasons, duh) but damn...they basically raised the price of the E14 they promised before launch by 100$.