HP ENVY 15-q000 Slim Quad Laptop $724.99 + tax

The HP Home and Home Office Store has the HP ENVY 15-q000 Slim Quad Notebook PC (K0B71AV) for US $724.99 + tax after coupon code AUGUST175, which can be applied during checkout. Free standard shipping.

US $874.99 + tax - $175 off coupon AUGUST175 = $724.99 + tax

HP ENVY 15t Slim Quad Laptop Best Value | HP® Official Store

NOTE: This coupon cannot be applied on discounted pricing through HP Academy or HP Employee Purchase Program.

Specifications:

• Windows 8.1 64
• 4th generation Intel® Core™ i7-4712HQ Quad Core Processor + 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M Graphics
• 15.6-inch diagonal Full HD WLED-backlit Display (1920x1080)
• 8GB DDR3L System Memory (1 Dimm)
• 750GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
• No Additional Office Software
• 6-cell 47WHr Lithium-ion Battery
• No Internal DVD or CD Drive
• Backlit Keyboard
• HP TrueVision HD Webcam with Dual Digital Microphone
• 802.11b/g/n WLAN [1x1]

A great review of this notebook is available here on NBR (thanks T2050): http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...q-nvidia-gtx-850m-haswell-maxwell-review.html

(Deal source: Slickdeals - HP Envy 15t Slim Laptop: i7-4712HQ, 8GB DDR3, 750GB HDD, 15.6" 1080p, Win 8.1 $725 + Free Shipping)

 

Great Deal! See this post on installing and using the mSATA slot for the boot drive if you so choose: http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...a-ssd-hdd-fresh-install-msata-boot-drive.html

 

WOW, really good deal., for gaming laptop.

 

i would call it multimedia not gaming but still good deal

 

a gtx 850m will play every modern game in medium to high settings. I would say its a mid range gaming laptop.lol

 

maybe at 720p but not 1080/1200p.

 

What do you mean? 850m is just a slightly underclocked 860m, which can manage pretty much all games at med to high settings at 1080p. Heck it manages BF4 at 60FPS at high. You should be able to bump the clocks of the 850m to at least a stock 860m with little to no impact on heat or power. It just seems to be limited by voltage.

Most of these benches are run at maximum/ultra settings and still runs well over 30fps: http://forum.notebookreview.com/sag...clevo-w230ss-review-htwingnut.html#benchmarks

 

I see the same arguments in another forum about this exact same laptop. I think it is mostly people who spent $2000+ on their ASUS/Alienware-super-gaming laptop that are mad that a laptop spec'd this good is less than half of what they paid. This will play any modern game at great graphic settings. Maybe not smoothly at Ultra, but that mode is reserved for the people that spent $2000 or more on their rig. Expecting that level of play from a $725 piece of hardware is just dumb. This is definitely a decent gaming laptop and to call it otherwise is being kind of blind. Most people I know will play at 720p anyways, just for the extremely smooth frame rate. And at normal viewing distance and in the heat of gaming, you can hardly tell the difference between 720p and 1080p. Only the spec nuts with their magnifying glass 3 inches away looking at a static screenshot can really tell the difference. Sorry, but in my opinion, this is a very good deal on a very good gaming capable laptop. It is one of the best price versus performance deals I've seen lately. So much so, that HP killed the $175 coupon by changing the laptop price (it will still work on laptops $899 and above).

 

So is there no way to add a second hard drive to this thing? Such a bummer, was really hoping I could use my old SSD/hard drive, now its looking like if I go with this I'll have to pay for a large SSD :/

 

sorry when you say high that is max to me. I started gaming before there was low, medium, high, very high, ultra, max, epic, and uber graphics settings. Because my 7970m can't max out a ton of games so i doubt an 850 can either.

 

Well it's typically low, med, high, ultra... People who want to play "ultra" do it solely for bragging rights, because most games don't benefit much from it and also unless you have an absolute top end system, it will run like a dog. The 860m is probably comparable performance to the 7970m in most cases.

 

go look at results of tests...it isn't but its surprisingly not a bad card. It is faster than i thought. But still considerably slower.

 

A laptop with a GTX 850m is definitely more of a gaming laptop, than a multimedia laptop.

Gaming= 850m or better
Multimedia=840m,830m,820m

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdsGjIUkzQQ

GTX 850m Plays BF4 in ultra and 1080p= Definitely gaming

On a side note: I bet this HP Envy deal pissed off a lot of people who spent 1200-1700 on laptops with the same specs.

 

4x AA rofl. Also what is FPS? still slower than 7970m and that is 2 years old or 2.5? Anyways i still don't count it as a gaming laptop but whatever. Also i doubt anyone is pissed. Its nice to see mid level cards show some good promise. I'll still gladly rock out my 1300 dollar M17x R4 though AAFES woot woot.

 

The point is the price, $725<$1300 Gives you $525 to spend on anything else and the 7970m is not worth $500 more.lol Obviously if you're a millionaire then you can spend whatever you want. This laptop is for a budget conscious individual such as student, that also want very good gamin performance at $725, you get an amazing value.

 

A reminder that the 850m/860m overclocked can rub elbows with the 870m at stock... which beats the 7970m at stock.
(granted that is the GDDR5 version, the HP has DDR3)

There is a whole thread of how potent the 860m/850m is...

The vast majority of this forum would consider that adequate for gaming. (HF is the odd man out on this one.)

Let's face it... there is a valid reason to buy that $1300 laptop... the screen, storage options, and other features likely add on top of the 7970m stock advantage.
However, for $725, that's a nice chunk of mobile gaming potency at 56% of the cost.

May jump on that one myself for some ESO time on my frequent hotel stays.

 

lol dumb lol rofl. i ahve also had this for over 2 years rofl rofl.

Take that 725 dollar laptop 2.5 years into the past and i will say good for you and an awesome deal and a true gaming machine but you can't

add that i have been enjoying this for over 2 years makes 500 bucks nothing. See how that laptop fairs in 2.5 years lol

I have not said anything that this isn't a solid deal or a worth buy. Just that i don't count it as a gaming laptop. Considering my 2+ year old GPU is faster and in current gen speaking that still is a mid maybe mid high end laptop card at best, which doesn't count as a gaming card in the grand scheme of things. I don't really count a the 7970m a gaming card in current day tech but at the time it was a gaming card. It is like saying a 6990 today is still a gaming card -_-

 

Relax. It's a good deal. Just matter of course. Every couple years top end cards are bested by mid range ones. Just a fact of the silicon community. I would consider it a gaming laptop considering it can play pretty much every game out there with reasonable detail at 1080p. It's not like it limps along hoping for 30fps at 720p low details or anything.

 

Im just wondering how you managed to get a M17x R4 for $1300 in 2012, when the msrp was $2599.99 in 2012. Was dell running a 50% off coupon that I missed?

 

AAFES mothers day deal. Plus after that deal for months it was on ebay for like 1400.

It was 1226 IIRC I added 3 year warranty because everything breaks on me.

 

So I actually purchased this. I think I was the first person to purchase this laptop from HP. HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED.
Be me
Order laptop with amazing coupon.
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First day, receive email, order is canceled.
Call HP, they blame credit card. Doubt it.
Call Credit card, no issues.
2nd day, Call HP. "Oh, shipping and billing are different, we were waiting for you to call and confirm"
ME: "why did it not say that in email"
HP repsonds with ridiculous nonsense read from a screen and "youre all set it will ship, wait 24 hours for email confirmation"
3rd day: 23 hours 45 minutes later, no email. Call HP. "it hasnt been 24 hours. Looks good though.
Me: I will call you back in 15 minutes then. HP responds with ridiculous nonsense read from screen.
Get frustrated. still patient though.
Call back 15 minutes. On phone for 2 hours.
3 way call with credit card, HP tech yells at credit woman for no reason. Hang up. Call HP.
FINALLY get a helpful tech.Finds out the 175$ coupong CANNOT be applied to this laptop. System error.
2 hours later he works with a manager to give me a variety of discounts and credits to get me back to the "couponed" price.
I am still waiting for it to move past "in production" I ordered this on the 12th............
Sigh.

 

Wow, Make sure you have the correct credit card number when you order it and double check it, I had almost exactly the same problems when I mistyped one of the numbers on the credit card.