*HP ENVY 17 & 17 3D (1XXX series) Owners Lounge*

[Meever]

Someone! Anyone! Battery life? Switchable graphics?

[jason1466]

I will not be getting mine as well on time.

You are going to here about this HP!
6-3-10 8am Fed Ex tracking reads=
Ship date Jun 1, 2010
Estimated delivery Jun 4, 2010 by 4:30 PM

9am revised now reads=
Ship date Jun 3, 2010
Estimated delivery Jun 9, 2010 by 4:30 PM

Date/TimeActivityLocationDetails=Jun 3, 2010 8:53PM Picked upSHANGHAI CN Package received after FedEx cutoff Jun 1, 2010 3:31AM Shipment information sent to FedEx

Looks like they sent out PHONY Shipping info to go with the build date they promised.

Exactly same dates on my FedEx tracking page as of just now, but at least we made it pretty close to the June 1 estimate, and the rest is just FedEx from China. I have had a similar HP notebook order arrive a day or two early when going over a weekend, so we might get them Tuesday, maybe. On the other hand, I also ordered a DV6se with TouchSmart Edge2Edge screen with SSD, and that one got a 10 day delay with the $25 coupon yesterday. It was ordered 5/19 with 25% Bing, but that delay could be either the SSD or the Touch screen I guess.

[Nerdofamnesia]

Just ordered!!!
HP Envy 17
Intel Core i7-820QM
8GB Memory
2x 320GB HD
Full HD
Blu-ray
(also ordered 80GB Intel SSD from Newegg!)

estimated ship date June 15.

[pedromartinez]

Just received my replacement unit and guess what, it's got problems...there is a high pitched buzzing sound only when windows has loaded, doesn't occur when in the BIOS. Sound comes from under the "I" key or there abouts. Happens with power plugged in or on battery. Ran hdd and mem tests and they passed, did a power drain. Looks like another DOA for me lol, third time lucky maybe?

I hope my Envy 17 doesn't have any problems. If it does, I'm returning it and purchasing an Alienware M17x. This laptop is wayy too expensive to settle for anything less.

[pedromartinez]

Just ordered!!!
HP Envy 17
Intel Core i7-820QM
8GB Memory
2x 320GB HD
Full HD
Blu-ray
(also ordered 80GB Intel SSD from Newegg!)

estimated ship date June 15.

Nice specs! I wonder what kind of SSD the 160 GB drive is? That is the main reason why I bought the Envy 17.

[pedromartinez]

If these shipments are coming from Shanghai. We could get the shipments "faster" if they shipped it to the east coast through Europe. I mean they are shipping it a day behind us by going through Alaska, etc. No wonder why all the shipments are delayed. I know it may cost more fuel on FedEx's part, but if they were really concerned about these 2-day shipments, they would go back in time, not catch up to time. lol

[nohm]

YES! High pitched morse code is a great description of what I am experiencing. It's not there if I am just in the BIOS or in Windows Safe Mode. It's there in HP QuickWeb and if booting Windows normally.

My first Envy 17 did not have this issue though so it is definitely a fault that they should be rectifying.

Argh, I was hoping that was a problem only pertaining to the Envy15... As far as I call recall, there was no personal fix you could apply to it. It may go away by chance, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Are you going to try and exchange your second one too? I'm not sure if I'll have the energy to deal with making an official complaint about it, and then by bad luck, receive another noisy one after weeks of waiting. At this point, I'll just be glad to even get mine within next week.

[PhatCat]

If these shipments are coming from Shanghai. We could get the shipments "faster" if they shipped it to the east coast through Europe. I mean they are shipping it a day behind us by going through Alaska, etc. No wonder why all the shipments are delayed. I know it may cost more fuel on FedEx's part, but if they were really concerned about these 2-day shipments, they would go back in time, not catch up to time. lol

HP actually tried this for a while but then the volcano eruption in Iceland closed all the airports and packages sat in Kazakhstan for days. Not pretty.

[PhatCat]

You guys will laugh at this... my unit has been shipped off to the repair centre! Nothing wrong with its performance.. the problem was it wasn't sitting balanced on a flat surface. What I mean is it was wobbly on the front right side like the rubber legs wern't balanced properly or something. If you put pressure on the front right panel it would sort of wobble a bit.

I remember something like this from the Envy 15 forum. Turned out that the rubber feet were not properly seated and that removing/reapplying fixed it. May be a different issue in the 17 tho.

[sasjegbruv123]

I remember something like this from the Envy 15 forum. Turned out that the rubber feet were not properly seated and that removing/reapplying fixed it. May be a different issue in the 17 tho.

That's what happened with my envy 15 actually... took someones advice from the 2nd gen envy 15 thread and just took them all out and then screwed em back in.