HP Envy reliability?

[lagitup]

Hey all,

I've been suggested an HP Envy 14 for college in the what computer should I get forum, but I've heard and experienced some pretty horriblebad things with HP notebooks (dv2000 series, in my personal experience). Can someone with an Envy attest to the reliability or lack thereof of this line?

Thanks!

[sasjegbruv123]

Hey all,

I've been suggested an HP Envy 14 for college in the what computer should I get forum, but I've heard and experienced some pretty horriblebad things with HP notebooks (dv2000 series, in my personal experience). Can someone with an Envy attest to the reliability or lack thereof of this line?

Thanks!

Well... the envy 14's haven't come out yet

But HP claim to have fixed a lot of the issues that were mentioned in both the envy 15 and 13. Personally after seeing the videos I think it looks quite nice and hopefully pricing should be ok.

Youtube vid:
YouTube - HP Envy 14

This is a link to the envy 14 page. High Performance Laptops w/ Free Audio Software | HP Envy Features
and a link to the spec sheet. http://www.hp.com/united-states/pers...vy14_17_ds.pdf

Apparently being released on june 27th in the US. So if you can wait for a while and see some reviews that should help you decide.

[lagitup]

Hmm I was thinking more like over time reliability as in hardware failures and whatnot that seem stuck to the HP brand like an evil Siamese twin - wouldn't the level of quality on the previous Envy models be a reasonably good indicator?

[IKilledYourHamster]

Who made the new Envy 14 and 17?

[lagitup]

HP? By previous Envy I was referring to the original HP Envy 13 and 15, not the Voodoo Envys.

[IKilledYourHamster]

Who is the manufacturer? Is it really HP?

[lagitup]

I think I'm either misunderstanding your question or losing my sanity. Yes, it is the HP Envy? You can buy the HP Envy 17 off their site as of today?

[Pitabred]

Who is the manufacturer? Is it really HP?

Yes. HP bought VoodooPC and retained the engineers, so it's really an HP machine, designed by the guys who used to work for VoodooPC. All flavors of the HP Envy were done this way.

[lagitup]

Yes. HP bought VoodooPC and retained the engineers, so it's really an HP machine, designed by the guys who used to work for VoodooPC. All flavors of the HP Envy were done this way.

Does this mean that they're less of HPs and more of Voodoos in terms of reliability/quality/failure rates and whatnot?

[gdansk]

HP contracts foreign companies (similar to Quanta and Compal) to make their laptops. Also reliability changes by model, so I don't know if anyone can say for certain that the Envy 14 will be reliable or not.