Questions about envy 17

Could I get an i5 in it?
With the i7 does it have heating issues?
Is it a good laptop for gaming ?
Does it have issues? Cause I dont want something with lots of problems.

 

anyone know Im planning on getting one.

 

Right now there are only i7s available for the Envy 17.

Most people I have heard from say the Envy 17 with a Quad core i7 gets warm but there is no problem with overheating.

 

Will it last a long time?
And does it have a lot of problems? If I get a laptop I want one with the least about of problems.

 

This question is inappropriate considering it hasn't even been out a year. In essence, no one knows.

Roll the dice. You have a >25% chance of getting a unit with issues. That's just how it is. But the good news is, you have 21 days from day of receipt to send it back to HP - no questions asked for a full refund with HP paying for return shipping.

 

The 25% was for all hp products. The study also concluded that the "premium" notebooks had a lower failure rate on average.

Given that, however, hp provides the best option to keep their products. NOBODY else does the 21 days return for full refund, free shipping returns, no "restocking fee", "no questions asked" (well, they do ask you why you want to, but that's for market research purposes). If the laptop isn't damaged (physically), you get to "borrow" it for 21 days free of charge. You ship it back to them, they re-credit your purchase price back to you.

 

Not referring to "that" study. Just user feedback and thread polls conducted here.

 

I wouldn't trust those feedback and thread polls at all - people on the intartubes generally post things here when they're 'angry' or something doesn't go as planned. I'd wager that relying on those kinds of polls is bad statistics at best, and flat out wrong at worst.

All the poll shows is that up to 25% of the people that post or reply to the thread polls have issues. If the polls were actually a scientific poll (which they're doing a strong disservice in not saying they are), I think you'd be able to actually trust the results of those polls.

Properly reporting the results of a poll are actually quite difficult to do, at least if you want that survey to show meaningful results. There's control groups you have to account for, statistical anomalies you have to account for (and explain), etc. All of that is not easy to do. For the polls that are posted here to be accurate, everyone that has purchased an Envy 17 would have to answer the poll, not just those that show up here and "vote". If the results of the poll are less than 50% of participants, and the analysis of the results of the poll isn't conducted in a scientific way, I'd say the poll results tell you nothing more than hurling a dart 100 feet outside to a giant target would give you.