HP - Geek Squad Certified Refurbished ENVY 15.6" Laptop - 8GB Memory - 750GB Hard Drive - Natural Silver

This is a great laptop for the price! Period!!. I was looking for a decent laptop with some muscle for less than $800 and this by far fit the bill. For starters, the 8gb of ram, the 750gb harddrive, and the i5 processor, give this laptop the muscle that I was looking for. I run multiple programs at once with no problem at all. Windows 8, however, was a little buggy and some programs that I previously owned did not work as smooth. I recently updated to Windows 8.1 and so far it's running great, havent had a problem yet. This laptop is very thin and the display is quite crisp and vibrant. I purchased this model as a Geek Squad certified Refurbished and I have no regrets at all. It came in a sealed package, and you couldn't tell the difference from a brand new one. It didnt even have a fingerprint on it. I was always leery about purchasing anything refurbished, but from my own experience buying something refurbished from either the manufacturer or from geek squad, they usually stand behind it with the same warranty as a brand new one, and the best part about it is that I saved about $200 buying it refurbished. It's worked great right out of the box for about a month now. The backlit keybooard, is nicely laid out and the touchpad (which I dont really use that much, I prefer an external wireless mouse) seems to work well. Now for the not so great------ the battery life is about 3 and a half to 4 hours, which a bit below average this day and age. Most higher end laptops get alot more than that. Another small inconvenience is that if you use an external mouse, like I do, and your right handed, the CD rom tray is on the right side, as is the power port, so it can get a bit crowded on the right side. Other than those small things, this is a great laptop at a great price.

Great laptop for the price. It's fast, it's lightweight, great processor and ram. Great display every thing about this laptop is great. Doesn't matter if its a refurb.

I use this computer for work and it is plenty fast. Can't speak to gaming, but I like that it is slim, light, and has good processing speed. Since it was referbished, it was at the same price as a similar new laptop I bought a few months ago that turned out to be junk. Starts up quick and easily handles several applicaitons at once.

I purchased two of these laptops which were supposedly "certified geeksquad refurbished. Yea I saved a little money but......NEVER AGAIN! it's going on three years now and the mother board crapped out on one of them. Then find out that the geek squad technicians overtightened some of the screws and broke the anchors on the top cover. Now it's out of warranty and it needs a new top cover. My advice....buy new and hope you never have to deal with geeksquad

I saw this exact computer on the official hp website for more than 800 dollars and was able to get it a little over half the amount. This is a amazing computer and this price lets you be able to afford it and actually experience it without almost spending 1, 000 dollars

Good computer, lots of memory, good speed, great price. Took off the windows 8 start-up and replaced with a 7-like start-up.

I bought this as a secondary pc to do a little web development and prototyping work outside the home. It's quite fast for a laptop and seems to be perfect for my needs. I'm not a fan of Windows 8, but the apps I need don't work on ubuntu so I'm stuck with it for now.

My only issue was that the laptop arrived with Windows 8 and I loaded some software before upgrading to 8.1. When I went to do that, I could not connect to the Microsoft store. I had to reset the laptop and then do the upgrade which meant I had to re-load the software I had done before.