HP ENVY 15-K000 2014 New model

Looks like the new hp envy 15 will have a NVidia gtx850m

NVIDIA Graphics Driver - HP ENVY TouchSmart 15t-k000 CTO Notebook PC | HP® Support

 

Nice find. I'm in the market for a new laptop lately, and I've been eyeing the Envy 15 for a while now. Do you think they would also come with a Radeon graphics version? I'm curious whether they'll put in an R9 M2xx inside the Envy.

 

I hope not, Nvidia 840M and 850M is new gen Maxwell, where as the R9 M2xx is just a rebrand of the 7000 and 8000 parts with aging GCN.

 

I only saw NVidia.

Also the new envy will have a i7-4710HQ processor, and a blue ray drive. I saw the specs on the HP store website(out of stock of course), but it looks like its deleted now.

 

Pretty sad that no one is hyped up about this. Hopefully it retails under 1000 with the 850m and hp will include asds on its customization page. Something to go up against the n550jk.

 

Yup I'm pretty hyped up as well If this includes a optical drive then it would take the cake.

Aside from gigabyte P35G v2 (not very good looking) and asus n550, over past few months of search, I have not been able to find a single laptop thats not huge, looks good, 15" and includes bluray.

It's all about usability for me, music cds and some old movies on disc, optical drive is a must. It's pretty disappointing to see high end laptops like Dell XPS, MSI ghost pro, etc etc without optical drive. Really hoping this HP does it.

 

Seams like I found its official images: HP ENVY 15-k000 Notebook-PC
As the specs seams superb the display hing on this particular model seams literally awful due to some space between the screen and hinges.
Other possible changes on this model includes fingerprint sensor on left side rather than on right side, some minor changes in tochpad design and they just cutted of 1 usb port so I believe it has 3 USB ports rather than 4 due to large space accumulated by optical drive. Headphone/Mic combo jack seams on right side now.
Pricing also seams quite suitable.
So in short terms you can call it N550JK copy except Design because of having optical drive and only single usb port followed by it same as of N550JK except combo jack.

 

I bet these don't sell as well as the older ones. Design is key, and the hinge design looks bad. I know I could've designed it better!

 

I read that these are going to be Haswell refresh e.g. i7-4710MQ. Not sure what chipset will be used, but can reused HM87 chipset with theses refresh. We pretty much know that they will be 840M and 850M.

Time this model is out for purchase, probably best to wait a bit more just a few months and pick it up with Braswell, that will more than likely have a new chipset to go with it. Possibly a die shrink Maxwell.

Trackpad looks heaps better, if glass coated will work better.

The hinge does look like it could be more sturdy hopefully, as the 2013 model is very sloppy.

 

Rummaging around the HP site got some high resolution images of the new 15t-k000 and 17t-k000 laptops:

New HP Envy - Imgur

 

Thank you so much for the images. It looks like they shrunk the vents on both the 15 and 17 inch Envy series when you compare them to last years model. It makes me a bit nervous that it may get hot with the GTX 850M. The 850M is around 40W, but when you combine that with the CPU it may get hot. Maybe their are vents at the bottom or something. The MSI GE60 uses a small vent and the temps from reviews gets pretty warm even with the Maxwell GPU in it. I hope HP goes with the GDDR5 version, but if they go with the DDR3 version I will settle with it. Stock 850M DDR3 is similar performance to the GTX 765M but will run cooler so I will be fine with it if it's only the DDR3 version. It looks like HP has modified the touch pad in the new model compared to last years model. Hopefully HP has made improvements to the touch pad. I don't need a notebook until September so I will wait to see what the reviews say about the Screen, touch pad, temps etc before I pull the trigger on the new Envy's coming out.

Here is an image of the vent used for the Apache pro GE60
http://www.powernotebooks.com/specs/images/MSI-GE-Apache/GE60/gallery/GE60_apache_08.jpg

 

The first price for the german version with the 850m:
http://i.computer-bild.de/imgs/5/7/9/3/0/8/5/HP-Envy-15-k031ng-1024x576-b57a303d0d49d29e.jpg
DDR3 confirmed...

 

This is disappointing, looks like the Envy has just dropped down another level, now looks no different to last years 2013 pavilion overall design with a few tweaks and better processor with graphics.

Looks like the Envy design is going this way, from the true Envy it once was at the top in 2012 through design downgrades to now 2014.

Design Tier ---- Top end ------------ Mid range ----------- Low end

Was in 2012: Envy 15 (2012) --> HP dv6 (2012) --> HP g6 (2012)

Was in 2013: None (2013) --> Envy 15 (2013) --> HP pavilion (2013)

Now in 2014: None (2014) --> None (2014) --> Envy 15 (2014)

HP Pavilion 15t-n200 Notebook PC (ENERGY STAR) | HP® Official Store

To me it just look like a low end design chassis borrowed from the 2013 pavilion, with a few hardware upgrade to make it a mid range actual spec notebook. This really does give a clear signal that HP are moving away from the market the Envy once was in. Likely a lot to do with the day and age, and possibly HP most recent CEO.

 

Up on the US site now for a couple of days. For some reason the 850m models must be paired with a ULV.

 

Probably to avoid heat / overly noisy fans running too long. They have 2 15" models in the US: HP ENVY - 15t (G0T95AV) and HP ENVY - 15t Select (J3G66AV). They also have a 14" US model that's pretty much exactly the same as far as I can tell: HP ENVY - 14t (J4L59AV).

 

Yeah exactly, the platform is not designed for TDP of both a quad core and discrete graphics. In essence, heat sink and fan can only handle a little bit of heat. Take into account the offered battery is very low on capacity. Thus why only get ULV with discrete graphics, or either a quad core with no discrete graphics.

 

its REALLY crazy that there's so much difference in the 2012 Envy lineup vs now.. they really dumb the whole Envy line up when they merged the DV6/7 series with the Envy 15/17 and introduced those Spectre lineup that went no where (well the Spectre 13/14 had certain solid models)

 

*dupe delete*