Introduction and design
HP has made one of its thinnest laptops yet. The Envy Notebook 13-d002na clocks in at a measly 12.9mm high undercutting the fat edge of a 13-inch MacBook Air by some margin – 4.1mm to be precise, and this HP offering is also only 10 grams heavier.
Under the hood there’s the new Skylake i7-6500U processor, just one below the flagship CPU in the fleet, the i7-6600U. For £800 (it’s priced at $1,050 in the US, which is around AU$1,500) this is not to be sniffed at. Dell’s XPS 13 with a similar configuration (boasting an i7-6500U and a 250GB SSD) is considerably more expensive at £1,280 (around $1,836). Admittedly the Envy doesn’t include a touchscreen but many workers and students who just require a solid, reliable and hard-wearing laptop can save money by plumping for this.
It is however more pricey than the much coveted Asus Zenbook UX305 which also features a full HD screen, but with a much improved battery – this machine teeters around the £530 mark (around $770, AU$1,100). Of course, much of this is due to the CPU – the Asus we reviewed features a …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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