Why no Bluray option with HP 14" laptops?

Seems a missing feature that would do well.

 

I'm wondering that as well. Not sure why. It would be nice to have the option.

 

Many 14" notebooks use a 9.5mm high optical drive instead of 12.7mm standard height, and no 9.5mm high blu-ray players exist. Don't know why, but they just don't. This has prevented me from buying the Envy 14 as well as the M14x.

 

I bought a Y470, since want the smaller size with Bluray. Great laptop, but the display contrast is lacking.

Been nice to have had another option, besides moving up to the larger sizes. Wonder why does the Y470 have a Bluray, since same or smaller form factor than M14X?

Plays great with no heat issues.

 

If the Y470 came with a nice 1600x900 I might have considered that, but it only comes with a mediocre quality 1366x768. Why is it so hard to offer choice? I mean Y470 with RGBLED, IPS, whatever screen option. Have us pay $150 extra if need be. But give us choice.

And I'd be curious about the Y470 drive size. But it's a tray load instead of a slot load.

 

9.5mm tray-load Blu-ray drives exist,

but the 9.5mm slot-load Blu-ray drives don't exist yet...

 

I think that it is more costly for a company to have those as options, even if they charge extra for it. Since the average user doesn't care about display quality, it's a cheaper option for them to go with cheaper displays (that most people will be fine with).

Not to sound like an Apple fanboy (which I am), but the fact that Apple hasn't resorted to using lower-quality displays when all the other companies have says something about them. That's all I'll say

 

Well with Apple you pay nearly twice the price for the same hardware as competitors, so they better include a nice display. At least HP offers a decent 1080p for the 15" machines. For Dell you have to go with business machines to get a decent screen. And Sony and Lenovo rarely ever give you any options.

 

Agreed. I think part of their business model is to limit SKUs / inventory and only offer certain configs. It is a strict approach that they seem comfortable with.

On a 14" display, I have no problem with 1366X768, IF the display has good color, refresh and contrast. Contrast is the issue with the Y470 and looking for settings to improve it. The laptop ROCKS, sans the contrast issue.

 

Well, that's part of my issue. I'm ok if companies only offer a single screen, but then make it a nice screen then. Not some crappy one bad viewing angles, low color gamut, and washed out. It seems to be acceptable too for some reason. For a $300 netbook I can understand, but for any laptop $700 and up, there's no reason for it.

 

I don't know if I've ever seen a good 1366x768 screen. They've all had bad contrast, washed-out colors, horrible viewing angles...even in 13-inch laptops. That resolution would work for that size, but the screens seem to be of bad quality. And what bothers me is that default screens used to have better quality. My old Dell Inspiron from 2006 was an entry-level laptop with basic specs and yet its 1440x900 screen is way better than the default 1366x768 screen seen on some $1000+ laptops.

 

Managed to tweak the Y470 enough to okay, but still no argument that if one display option, it should be good.

Staying on point, HP needs to adopt Blu ray into their 14" laptop options.