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(Pocket-lint) - Now and arguably more e'er before, laptops and portable calculating devices matter. With flexible working becoming part of everyday life, having a solid laptop to get stuff done on is vital. Whether it'due south for at-habitation utilise, or for when you're on the move.

HP's Envy range is a series of notebooks that attempts to be everything to everyone. The Envy fourteen on review here is thin, lightweight, powerful, and has a skillful battery life too. Is there anything non to love?

Our quick take

The one sense we're left with after using the HP Envy fourteen is that it's merely effortless. It lets you do what yous need to do without getting in the way. It'southward fast plenty, the battery life is expert, plus the keyboard is nice to blazon on. It's too attractive, slim and portable. There'due south fiddling non to love.

Sure, it could do with maybe one or 2 more than ports, and could definitely do with a better quality webcam, but those are minor faults in a device which is first-class for the most function. What's more than, it'due south set at a sensible price. It'southward not cheap, merely it'southward non pushing into numbers that would brand your eyes water.

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HP Envy 14

iv.5 stars - Pocket-lint recommended

For

Attractive and portable design
Speedy operation with minimal fan noise
Good bombardment life
Lots of ports
Overnice display

Against

Webcam is bad
No full-sized SD card port - microSD of limited use
Could practise with additional USB-C port
Audio is a bit harsh

Unproblematic design

Ports: 2x USB-A (5Gbps, 1x USB-C (Thunderbolt 4), 1x HDMI 2.0, 1x 3.5mm port
Dimensions: 313 x 224 x 18mm / Weight: 1.5kg
Aluminium trunk and lid

Over the past few years nosotros've seen PC makers adopt a much more premium approach to design. Plastic and bulky devices have been ditched in favour of sleek and attractive metal. The challenge, notwithstanding, has always been to make a notebook that'southward piece of cake to carry effectually - meaning slim and light - without losing whatever important functionality.

With the Envy 14, HP has taken a sensible and bonny approach, without any real compromise. You get a sleek, portable machine - but y'all don't take to surrender many precious ports. It has virtually everything you need built into its angled chassis, and at that place's lots to like here from an aesthetic standpoint also.

The footprint of the Envy 14 is minor, thanks to not having excessive borders around the keyboard and the display. You get a total-sized keyboard, but with only a slim gap betwixt that and the edge of the case. The speakers run along the top of the keyboard, hidden beneath a grille of machined micro holes arranged in a repeating triangular blueprint.

That design fits in with the overall motif, with the Envy featuring virtually zippo curves anywhere. It'due south all flat lines and angles, including on the underside where you'll run into the body slanting upwards towards the flat edges, hiding 2 more triangular grilles for additional speaker sound.

On the underside y'all'll also find two long and slim rubber rests. These are designed and so that when you place the laptop down on a desk-bound or table, it sits at a slight angle and leaves a little gap between the bottom of the automobile and the surface information technology'southward sabbatum on. That ensures there'southward airflow underneath the large rectangular grille to help with cooling. There is also a vent along the inside of the laptop brandish hinge, equally is customary for most laptops.

That swivel is adaptable to a high degree also. It's not 180-degrees, so you can't prevarication the screen completely flat, but it goes far enough back that you'll never complain nearly its position. And this holds a screen/lid that'south impressively slim, and a display with attractive black framing around all iv sides. While not completely edge-to-edge, the framing is slim plenty that it forms a minimal and unobtrusive bezel effectually the panel.

There are other subtle details nosotros like also. The wrist rest and touchpad existence at the same level every bit the tops of the keys, then when the laptop is shut its keys aren't beingness pressed downwards. And that ways HP hasn't been forced to put in a too-thin keyboard. Instead, the keys have adept travel and a subtle clicky response that'south among the quietest nosotros've used. Information technology'southward like shooting fish in a barrel to type on, and won't annoy anyone working in the same room equally you.

Everything about the way this laptop has been design seems very purposeful. In that location's no devious particular left unconsidered. Even the pocket-size lip that exists all the way along the front end edge, to make opening the laptop easy.

As for ports: at that place are a few of those. There's a iii.5mm headphone/mic port, a full-sized HDMI 2.0 port, one USB-C/Thunderbolt iv port, and two 5Gbps USB-A ports. You also become the proprietary charging port for fast-charging speeds - 50 per cent in xxx minutes - and a microSD card slot.

If nosotros were in a complaining mood, we'd say we'd like to come across an additional USB-C/Thunderbolt port, plus Ethernet and full-sized SD card slot. It would have it from having most useful ports, to being a zero-compromise offering. But and so few laptops are like that these days - at that place are far more expensive devices out at that place with fewer ports than this, so we shan't complain.

14-inches of colour

14-inch IPS LCD
16:10 aspect ratio
1920 ten 1200 resolution
400 nits peak brightness
Touchscreen pick available

While information technology might not set your heart racing with the top specifications - in terms of resolution, frame charge per unit and brightness - the 14-inch display on the Envy 14 is nonetheless very expert. It's a Full HD resolution panel, merely because information technology's a 16:x aspect ratio (rather than 16:9) it maintains the pixel density right across that width. That essentially ways you lot go on the sharpness and gain a petty extra elevation.

That actress acme is useful if simply because information technology helps the screen feel like it's non but for full-screen video watching. It gives you the breathing room your content needs to display the taskbar and various toolbars without eating too much into your actual content. It'south too a more visually pleasing ratio, ensuring the screen doesn't accept that elongated or squashed look to it.

As screens get, it'southward great for pretty much anything. Colours are vibrant without being oversaturated and dynamic range is good too. That means it's ideal for watching movies or getting in some casual gaming or photo editing. Viewing angles are good, and information technology doesn't lose much effulgence or colour at all when viewed from different angles.

The just real downside of the screen is that it doesn't have the pin-sharp appeal of a 4K or QHD resolution console. It's defective that crispness you get from those higher-resolution displays, then edges of fine elements like text and icons on screen await a tiny bit fuzzy compared to those.

Still, it'south detailed plenty that it's not distracting. Similarly, for things similar scrolling upwards and down lists, it could do good from having an ultra-smooth refresh rate, rather than standard 60Hz. Merely both those things would push button upward the otherwise reasonable pricepoint and, we suspect, cutting into the battery life practicality also.

Equally always with HP laptops, there are various configuration options - and that includes the screen. There'south a touchscreen option, which is on the model we reviewed. Information technology's one of those handy-to-take features - but not necessarily an essential one. It's useful for quickly placing the cursor or selecting an item on screen.

Everyday features

Fingerprint sensor for login
720p congenital-in webcam
Windows 10 Pro 64
Backlit keyboard

There'south no nice way to say it, but the 720p webcam in the bezel of the HP notebook is bad. Details are ropey and it struggles with exposure and colours. So if your job involves a lot of video conferencing, and you care nigh how you look, yous may want to look elsewhere - or buy a dissever accessory.

With that said, the Green-eyed 14 does include a few nice security features that not all laptops possess. Along the function row keys there are two dedicated buttons for switching the camera and mic access on or off. With the camera you tin can actually see a pocket-size white dot appear when yous disable the camera, blocking the lens and making it unusable. Both keys have LEDs on them so that yous can tell when they're activated, just like the mute button and the Caps Lock cardinal.

Then on the lesser row there'south a fingerprint sensor which makes logging into the laptop quick and secure. Because it's the aforementioned colour and shape as the other buttons, it doesn't look out of place either and sits in a position that's easy to attain with your right index finger. It works with Windows Hello, so you never have to type in a password or PIN.

Creativity, longevity

11th Gen Intel Core i5 or i7 processor
NVIDIA GTX 1650 graphics
512GB/1TB/2TB M.2 SSD
8GB or 16GB RAM
63.3Wh bombardment
90W charging

It's unlikely whatever gamer is going to be looking at the HP Envy to satisfy their gaming needs, but in a world where more people are creatives and needing a auto that can comfortably whip up a social media graphic, or edit photos, even standard laptops need to exist more than capable than they ever have been. The Envy xiv caters for those.

Regardless of whether you go with 512GB, 1TB or 2TB storage, yous'll become Thousand.2 SSD with fast read and write speeds. In everyday use that means when y'all transfer files, or install apps and programmes, information technology'll practise so relatively quickly. Using UserBenchmark to test those speeds we got results above 1500MB/s for sequential reads and over 1100MB/s write speeds.

That fast storage is backed up by a pretty speedy Intel Core i5 or Core i7 processor. Our own review model is the 11th Gen Core i7, which kept upwardly with pretty much all of our daily tasks. Unplugged, with the laptop in its "better bombardment" setting, information technology was more than enough to keep up with daily work.

In this way nosotros edited, cropped and adapted big JPEGs in Affinity Photo for reviews, and found it coped without a struggle. And that'south without it being in its highest operation setting. Then, plugged in, you can go a bit more oomph, to aid with more intensive tasks like doing a derisive spot of coincidental gaming.

We were comfortably able to play games similar Train Sim World 2 and Proficient Life on Xbox Game Pass. However, there were obvious signs that the Envy fourteen isn't a superlative tier gaming automobile. Panning or moving through a scene chop-chop would often issue in a little frame dropping and aliasing on the screen where y'all see lines equally the animation is trying to catch up with the motion.

In its 'best operation' way we'd find the fan would boot in - something that otherwise rarely happened when unplugged. Information technology's only really when plugged in and playing games that you lot'd ever actually hear the fan. And well-nigh of the time it'due south relatively quiet.

Battery life is similarly reliable. We institute we could easily sit and piece of work for 4 hours and still have a more than than half of the bombardment left over, and that's without it beingness in its nigh battery efficient setting. Without doing too much intensive piece of work, nosotros have no doubt a total battery could comfortably get usa through a full day's work.

To recap

The i sense we're left with after using the HP Envy 14 is that it'south just effortless. It lets yous do what you need to exercise without getting in the way. It'south fast enough, the battery life is good, plus the keyboard is nice to type on. Not to mention that it'south an attractive, slim and portable auto. There'due south little not to honey.

Writing by Cam Bunton. Editing by Stuart Miles.