HP - ENVY TouchSmart 15.6" Touch-Screen Laptop - AMD FX-Series - 6GB Memory - 750GB Hard Drive - Natural Silver

Purchased the HP Envy Smart Touch about 1 month ago, so I am still learning each day about the computer. I really like the keyboard, the beats audio is really great, and I like the touch screen. The complete look of the computer is awesome. At first I was a little unsure about the computer and asked my manager and a couple of other computer smart co workers and they all agreed that it is a really good computer. So yes, I think the computer is a great computer for anyone!

The touchpad IS infuriating. The wireless speeds ARE slow. The silver plastic, simulating aluminum, looks cheap. The hinges needed to be stronger so there's less flex when using the touchscreen. The lighted keyboard is nice, but perhaps TOO bright. USBs don't insert ALL the way in. For the money, it should have come with 8 gb. RAM, not just six gb. The FX chip and R7 may graphics MAY be enhancing game play as advertised, as all Steam games are playing with little to no lag. Without a comparison laptop, it's hard to know if the extra money spent on the FX upgrade is paying off. Perhaps I should have stayed with the on sale A10/Radeon 8560 version that was $129 cheaper. HOWEVER, customer service in the BestBuy store was EXCELLENT, so there's that.

I bought this product for my school and it is good to use

It's a 'good' computer but I'm not convinced that it's a 'great' computer! The touchpad seemed to be super sensitive when I first started using the computer. Just getting near it seemed to send the curser to some other area of the screen. I could not figure out how to dial it down or disable it with out calling for technical support and even then it took two people to get to the control location and disable it. This should be straight forward and simple to toggle on/off. With less than one months use I began experiencing a black out of the display while on the internet which lasted only a second however when it came back I had a "display driver failure" message. Shortly thereafter when waking it wouldn't power back on until I completely cut power from the computer. After a couple hours with the tech support people and having all the drivers reloaded the problem seems to have been resolved. However I was told that this has happened with others and on one occasion a the display board and mother board needed to be replaced. I'm not feeling very confident in my purchase but am willing to give it time. Unfortunately when the techs reloaded the drivers and did their work the touchpad was toggled back on. Still not being able to determine how to turn it off I called again and the tech I talked to this time merely decreased the sensitivity. This has helped - however there are occasions when I still have to look to see where the curser has disappeared to! I would prefer it be turned off again! Otherwise the system is functioning flawlessly and seems to be a pretty nice computer. I especially like the back lighting on the keyboard. I use the computer a quite often during the night and appreciate not having to turn on lights just to be able to see the keys, I would recommend this to any one - but with the caution that while it hasn't been the rock solid computer I had hoped for, it has been doing all that I need it to do and appears to be working as it should be. Hopefully it will continue to work properly and that I can gain some confidence with it. Then I will feel a lot more comfortable with my purchase!

This laptop is quite nice. I am super happy with the touch-screen. I play online video games though and I keep getting stuck going in one direction. It seems my "WASD" keys are getting stuck. (although they aren't actually stuck) I find that I have to tap the key again to stop moving in that direction. This is very irritating for two reasons: 1) Playing a game and getting stuck going forward while in a fight will get you killed and 2) I've only had this laptop for about a month and this problem has already popped up. I don't even play the online games a whole lot...I'd say 2-ish hours a day (if that). Also, my control zone can't be disabled. I often have to backspace when typing because part of my hand has hit the control zone and put my cursor somewhere else. And lately the control zone wont always pull up my start menu options (like shutting down). Overall, this is a good laptop. I love it but will have to take it in to GeekSquad after only a month of light to medium use.

Keyboard - keyboard is great and leads to smooth typing, making this a great computer to get work done on. Sound - Plays music very loud and manages to keep the quality good. Visual - Clear crisp colors, the HD is great. Touch screen - can be difficult to use the screen to click on smaller items. Overall it's very convenient and it didn't take long to get used to after switching from a traditional laptop. Mouse pad - most of my problems with the computer come from the mouse pad. It's very touchy at times and inconsistent with what it does with you actions. For instance, I will intend on just moving my mouse up to click something and the pad will routinely drag and drop or minimize something instead. Speed - I haven't noticed any instances of the computer running slowly. Internet - does a good job of picking up signal everywhere that there's wireless.

Caught this one on sale for $50 off. The FX processor intrigued me, I have an 8 core FX desktop that I game with, so I grabbed this one. Four processing cores and 6 graphics cores. It was a little poky, once I got it setup and patched, but 6 GB of ram is an odd number.Went to grab an 8 to swap out for the 2 GB stick that was in it (yes you can easily get to the ram) and brought it home. Matched all the specs for what was in it stock. The machine saw the ram, but refused to use it. A bit more digging showed that this machine needs LOW VOLTAGE ram. It will see other ram, even in the bios, but wont use it. Lucked into a sale on 16GB of Crucial, LOW VOLTAGE, on sale the next week and grabbed it. Dragon Age Inquisition and Evolve, on high settings, play flawlessly now. Does get a little warm, after a 3+ hours of playing, but nothing a standard cooling mat can't handle. It's not a gaming rig with the proper venting. But it's definitely worth the coin. I believe my son will be taking one to college with him next year. Yup, ,I'm that old!

I purchased this laptop as I really like HP products. I like the way it looks and the feel of it. However, there is a problem that the mousepad is larger than other laptops. It is very hard to use and often when you left click on something, the pointer jumps to another area of the screen. You have to keep putting the pointer back where you want it. Sometimes when you touch certain parts of the mouse, your screen just goes crazy and windows start opening. I went to the control settings and tried changing the mouse settings. That did not help. I think the computer is just made this way. I'm not sure if I would recommend this to a friend.