*HP ENVY 15 (3XXX series) Owners Lounge*

[shepdawg]

do you know what brand it is?

It doesn't say the brand on the HP purchase website. Where do I find it?

[foremi]

You'd have to either pop the battery cover off, if you can see the brand from their, or it says in device manager under disk drives, it'll say the brand followed by model.

[stevester]

It's the seagate momentus xt, 99% sure

[foremi]

It's the seagate momentus xt, 99% sure

I was gonna say the same thing, google 750gb hybrid drive and the only thing that comes up is a seagate product...

[zenit]

just picked up one of these from costco as a backup machine.

First impression - very decent computer, and the screen is absolutely fantastic. My only issue with it is that the touchpad is crap compared to the one on my MBP (any trick settings to adjust it?).

Also what are those two red LEDs to the right of the screen?

[chocobo481]

just picked up one of these from costco as a backup machine.

First impression - very decent computer, and the screen is absolutely fantastic. My only issue with it is that the touchpad is crap compared to the one on my MBP (any trick settings to adjust it?).

Also what are those two red LEDs to the right of the screen?

Proximity sensor for the LED backlit keyboard. I shut mine off as it was annoying.

[chocobo481]

I'm having slight issues typing N and B. Sometimes it registers sometimes it doesn't.
Backspace key sometimes doesn't register.

The odd thing is that I had a similar issue to this the other day. It only did it for me a few a minutes though. I tried to recreate it, but I found that I could only recreate the issue if the LED backlighting for the keyboard was on the low-light setting. If it was either off or on at full backlit, the keyboard worked fine for me.

[gameface25]

Hmmm... I was one of the few bragging about my fan noise being non-existent, but after almost a month of use, now my fans are really loud all of a sudden....

[chocobo481]

Hmmm... I was one of the few bragging about my fan noise being non-existent, but after almost a month of use, now my fans are really loud all of a sudden....

Mine was too, but I found it was a program running in the background constantly using my CPU. You might want to check your task manager to see if something is using the power.

[yknyong1]

Just managed to get one unit of ENVY 15-3006TX with no dead pixels. This is the third unit I tested. Experience below.

Two days back:
I just went to the HP concept store and tested the ENVY 15-3006TX A9Q58PA. The keyboard is not as good as on the Series 7; key travel is shallower and feels like hitting your fingers abruptly against something, just like on my ENVY 14. I looked at the screen alone and cannot really tell the difference. When I compared the screen to the other models then it became obvious it is a prosperous orange colour (good way to celebrate the Chinese New Year). The screen ID was LGD0323, same screen used on the SONY VAIO SE. The screen is definitely the best screen in terms of contrast and viewing angle for the current laptops. I decided to buy and asked the salesperson to open one unit to check.

As expected of HP quality (or the lack of it), there was a dead pixel and fibre from the black paper they used to protect the screen was stuck in the speaker grill.

So I waited an hour for an second ENVY 15 to be transferred from the warehouse. To my dismay, this unit also had a dead pixel but now in the centre of the screen.

The high contrast made it very easily to see dead pixels.

It is noteworthy that both ENVY 15 units were quite dusty and had lots of yellow gunk stuck on its body where the ports are. Could be cleaned easily.

Hence the result: No holes in my pocket and the search for a replacement continues. The SONY VAIO SE looks good.

For reference, these are the units I tested. Same batch Factory build date 21 Dec 2011.
A9Q58PA#AB4
CNU1500S67
CNU1500RDV