HP Envy retailer?

Hi guys,

Unfortunately, my laptop was stolen from my home the other day, so now I'm shopping for a new one. I like the industrial design of the MacBook Pros, but I also like Windows, so I've heard that the Envy is the best of both worlds. However, I can't seem to find ANY retailers that actually carry them so I can have a look for myself. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm in the Bay Area.

Thanks!

 

The only place I've physically seen them is at Microcenter... not sure if you have any in your area, but the one by me carries the 14, 14 beats, and 17 3D. Apparently, staples carries them in-store as well, but I haven't seen that for myself.

 

Thanks, but none of the Staples in the area seem to have them either. I can't believe HP is touting this thing's "solid build", but it hasn't taken any steps to make sure that people will actually physically be able to SEE them in retail stores. Oh well.

 

Hp allows 21 days to test out the laptop and if for any reason you are allowed to return it within the 21 days no questions asked and your money back w/ no restocking fees or any of that crap. Major selling point for me since i live in mississippi.

Why not (if you have the money) just buy one and see what you think. No risk.

 

I don't think putting the blame on HP is fair here for their lack of physical presence in a retail location, this is a problem of retailers. Look at the selection of Wal-mart, Staples, etc what do you notice? Mostly sub 700 dollar laptops.

I would recommend the HP option

 

Good idea about ordering and then returning if I don't like it...although it'd still take 2 weeks +/- to get (they can't build it until April 4th), but I guess I could wait. As far as putting the blame on HP, I'm just saying that if anyone wants to compete with Apple in this class of laptop, they're going to have to try a lot harder. I'm actually surprised that there hasn't been a company that tries the Apple model for selling high-end Windows-based products (i.e. retail stores and special kiosks at big electronics retailers).

 

Most orders get to the customer before the build date. I've ordered 3 and i've received mine 6 days, 7 days and 10 days from order date. The 10 day one was during the radiance/ coupon fiasco where there were more orders than normal. Good luck whatever you choose to do but it is a great way to actually test a laptop out as opposed to playinbg with one at a store for thirty minutes and basing a 2 year investment on that. Hope this helps.

 

If you want it soon and wanna play with it, then I suggest get quick ship envy model which you should get in less than a week. Then see if it is worth keeping or exchanging by upgrading specs or return it if you dont want to.

You can't do that with apple!