Hewlett-Packard has officially killed the Envy 13, a MacBook Air competition that follows the Dell Adamo into the dustbin of wealth laptop history.
HP Envy 13: same the 13-inch MacBook Air and Dell Adamo 13, it has an all-metal chassis.
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Hewlett-Packard)
After agitated the Envy 13 into the blast understanding containerful over the terminal some months, the laptop is officially defunct. This follows the demise of the Dell Adamo.
“We don’t substance the Envy 13 anymore…the Envy 14 essentially replaced [it],” an HP spokeswoman said today.
But the Envy 14 is scarce what the 13 was: at low 4 pounds, it weighed most digit pounds inferior than the 14 and was a svelte 0.8 inches thick, compared to the 14′s earthbound 1.16 inches. (Like the MacBook Air and Dell Adamo, the Envy 13 did not combine an optical drive.)
For those unknown with the Envy 13, it was an manifest salutation to Apple’s metal MacBook distinction and specifically the MacBook Air. (This was addicted by an HP allegoric I crosspiece to at a change exhibit I was present when the Envy 13 was released.)
In fact, the 13 was the canopy help in the example Envy roster declared backwards in Sept of 2009, when HP herb its praises. “The Envy 13′s brawny action is delivered in a diminutive frame–less than an progress anorectic and consideration 3.74 pounds. The exterior’s metal and metal cerebration provides permanence in a smooth design,” HP said at the time.
And it was belike the exclusive top-tier ultra-slim wealth laptop to ingest a high-performance standalone, aka “discrete,” graphics chip: an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330, which gave it stellar graphics action compared to its peers. Even the Air utilised (and ease uses) an desegrated graphics resolution from Nvidia. (For every of you graphics semiconductor aficionados who strength verify omission to that statement, the Nvidia GeForce 9400M, utilised in the preceding edition of the Air, and the GeForce 320M, utilised in the 2010 Air, are desegrated into an Nvidia chipset, i.e., they are not separate graphics chips.)
Where the Envy 13 lapse downbound was the ingest of a accepted 5400RPM hard-disk drive. Though meliorate than the preceding MacBook Air’s slower 4200RPM hornlike round model, it was a mismatch for that modify bourgeois that ultimately, same the Dell Adamo and 2010 MacBook Air, would evaluate on solid-state drives.
There were Intel 80GB and 160GB solid-state intend options for the Envy 13, but these crowd the toll into the stratosphere (a ordinary imperfectness of first-generation ultraportables). The Envy’s example play toll was $1,699 and it apace jumped to more than $2,000 by adding an SSD.
Over the time some months, HP had been commerce the Envy 13 for $999, with a $450 fast rebate. That help included an Intel 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo Processor (SL9300), 3GB of memory, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 Graphics with 512MB of sacred memory, Beats audio, a 250GB (5400RPM) hard-disk drive, an outside SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW intend with threefold place support, and
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
But that haw hit been likewise little, likewise late. Like the Dell Adamo, the first-generation of ultraportables were meet likewise pricey for some consumers to justify.
Here’s a spec-to-spec comparability with the MacBook Air that I did backwards in Nov of 2009.
