By Kevin Lee
The HP Envy x360 15 has gotten the usual yearly laptop refresh with a thinner, lighter chassis and new 8th generation Intel processors, but the most interesting wrinkle is the introduction of AMD Ryzen chips. Equipped with the similar ‘discrete-class’ Radeon RX Vega graphics found in AMD’s desktop APUs and Intel Kaby Lake G chips, this could be the first PC gaming worthy convertible to release later this month.
Pricing and availability
Pricing for the HP Envy x360 15 starts at $749 (about £550, AU$990) for an AMD-powered configuration that includes the Ryzen 5 2500U processor, Radeon Vega 8 Graphics, 15-inch Full HD (1,920 x 1,080) screen, 8GB of DDR4 RAM and an 128GB SSD. There’s also a higher end SKU with an AMD Ryzen 7 2700U CPU and Radeon RX Vega 10 graphics that also doubles the storage capacity, but HP has yet to release pricing for this model.
Of course, there’s also an Intel-powered variant that starts at a higher $869 (about £640, AU$1,150) price. Aside from an Intel Core i5-8250U processor, this configuration also features a larger 256GB SSD drive. Although pricing has yet to be announced, users can also bump up their config to an Intel Core i7-8550U with …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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