*HP ENVY 14 & ENVY 14 Beats (1XXX series) Owners Lounge, Part III*

[jimmyrock88]

are there any reviews for hp envy beats? I mean a user review like the regular envy?

[halejand]

Long time lurker, first time poster here. Finally bit on a refurb envy 14 with Radiance for under 1k . Only problem is that its a french KB layout. Has anyone done a KB swap for this thing? And how easy/difficult is it?

[MagusDraco]

it's not as hard as it COULD be.

but it is a little bit involved and you could accidentally tear the keyboard cables (plural) one for the keyboard itself, one for the backlight.

one of them (or both) are double-sided taped somewhere.


go check the maintenance guide (search for it on the first post) for instructions that are good (but not perfect since HP's maintenance guides tend to have one or two things missing, in this case the double sided tape)

[p51mustang23]

*yawn* Just waking up for a long NBR forums hibernation. My friends E14 has some serious issues, what does he need to do to initiate the warranty process?

-Mustang

[MagusDraco]

sacrifice his first laptop to the computer gods in the sky.



also uh, is he in the US?

866-408-5408

have your product ID and serial number stuff (fn+esc if he hasn't gotten rid of the quicklaunch stuff and/or run the hp support assistant if he has) ready.

otherwise that info is underneath the battery (I think)

[Jaap_98]

Have lived with the HP Envy 14 for 6 months, I feel I would like to share my opinions:

As MAc for me was out of the question and I wanted a small but solid (and cool) laptop, I went for this one.

What a let down! Screen format, useless (my fault, but anyway..) Why so wide? (All reviews at that time were touting the Radiance screen, which was not available when I ordered...

Touchpad; worse than describe elsewhere. Extremely useless, now lugging a mouse with me.
Build quality, feels solid, but HD failure after 1 week, then was returned with a dent. Keyboard flex.
Battery, not great, slice hard to get and too expensive.
After some time with HP products, this was the last for me, either go cheaper (dell) or buy Lenovo.

So I feel better getting this off my chest!

[excalibur1814]

I must admit, the Trackpad on the Evy machines is an acquired taste, but then again once you get used to using one finger you can complete Plants Vs Zombies.

You either get a lemon, or you don't. Shame that you did

[lannmann]

I've had mine since September and I have to say I'm very impressed and couldn't be happier! It's so sad that some people got lemons and as a result are turned off of HP forever

[pez319]

I don't have an issue with the trackpad anymore. I used to not be able to keep one finger on the buttons and move my finger around but now after messing with the drivers and turning off two finger scroll I'm able to use the trackpad perfectly. I don't even use the reil app anymore. I have some pretty bad keyboard flex which annoys me but I'm giving back this laptop because they broke my radiance at repair and getting a new envy 14 with an i580/6gb/256gb ssd all for under $950. I personally wouldn't pay anywhere near HP's actual price for this laptop because its not yet ready to compete with other high end laptops at that price point. But for under $1000 I think its a pretty solid laptop.

[zman420]

lol I guess I never had many problems with the trackpad because I never have a finger resting on it. My experience with this computer has been excellent. I really hope this machine has been built to last, because I hope to be using it for a few years at least.