HP - ENVY TouchSmart Sleekbook 15.6" Touch-Screen Laptop - 8GB Memory - 750GB Hard Drive - Silver

It's a great laptop for the entire family whether you are at home , or taking a trip on the road. It's very light and can be carried easily in your hands or in a back pack, even my five year old son carries it for me. This laptop is very easy to access, even by kids. It's great and definitely your money's worth.

I should of really thought about buying this laptop before and brought It my first choose was a Apple.

Like other reviews have said, the touchpad feels lopsided and uneven. Upon closer inspection though, I realized that it is not the touchpad but the area in front of the touchpad is sloped by design. Thought it would bother me but it hasn't. I did have to go into the touchpad settings and adjust them to my liking because the double finger scroll and swipe right were finicky. I don't like the feeling of the touchpad at all. That took the longest to get used to. In the center area that you use mostly to move the cursor around, there are a bunch of concentric, circular grooves. I don't know what their purpose is: maybe they are meant to provide resistance, maybe improve accuracy or maybe just to indicate where the Windows 8 gestures stop and the normal usable area begins. Either way I would prefer a smooth surface because it felt a bit little nails on a chalkboard to me. I LOVE the touchscreen even though I try not to use it all the time because I end up with horrible fingerprints over the screen which is a bit mirror-like. The back-lit keyboard is fantastic and the extra numeric keys are great because I use them all the time. The pc ran very fast on first setup and is even faster now that I got rid of all the unnecessary apps and programs. Even after installing Adobe CS4, it still runs like a dream. The WiFi was a really bad problem for the first 3 weeks. It would not stay connected for more than 3 minutes even though I was sitting in the same room as the router so I found myself having to push the WiFi button to turn it on and off to reconnect. I tried uninstalling the driver and re-installing but it kept putting the same driver back until I used the Intel updater which seemed to take care of the problem. It cured my remaining touchpad glitches too. Battery life is incredible and is such an improvement over the days of the DV4 which I would get at most 2.5hrs out of with light internet use. I easily get 9 hrs with this thing going back and forth between the internet, Office and the occasional hulu/netflix viewing. I optimized the settings and adjust stuff like the backlight, wifi and brightness which seem to prolong battery life. On one of my heaviest days of use I still got 5.8 hrs so I am satisfied. The design makes it feel lighter than it is at 5 lbs and the material they used on the underside feels luxurious and silky to the touch especially when sitting on my legs. Cool sense keeps this baby nice and cool ... have sat with in in my lap for hours comfortably. All in all a great piece of machinery for the price and it packs in quite a few desirable features.

Very nice computer, easy keys to type with and very fast booting up and shutting down. This computer has a beautiful large screen. I only wish it had a dvd/cd player. The sales guy said that a lot of the laptops are not coming with the dvd players in the laptops to make them lighter, so I gave in and decided to buy this one and purchase the external dvd player. I did a lot of online research to finally come up this this purchase and I was tired of looking for the perfect one in my price range (6-7 hundred). The only other negative, would be that I don't really like the touchpad. When I try to scroll down it doesn't seem to be responsive at times, and I miss the left/right buttons that I was used to. I have now been using a mouse, which makes me feel like I took a step backwards, since not all programs I use are large enough to use my fingers on the touchscreen. I can maneuver faster using the mouse clicking.. than the screen or the touchpad. Another issue I didn't think of before buying an HP since my old laptop was a Toshiba, was that my old printer was not compatible. So I had to purchase a new HP printer the 7520 photosmart. I feel that after I spent all this money on all three items, I could have purchased the Apple laptop which I felt I didn't deserve such an expensive computer since I wasn't a student or needing it for work that much. The Apple would have had a dvd player and no touchscreen Windows 8 newness to get used to. Plus it is no heavier than this Hp laptop. I deleted the Norton virus protection in the add/delete programs to keep the laptop fast, because another reviewer mentioned this in his review. Don't get me wrong, this is a beautiful computer, sleek silver and beautiful color screen. I am mostly using it as a windows 7 after downloading Mozilla firefox and bookmarking all my favorites like my old laptop. I rarely use the touchscreen except to swipe up to turn it on and swipe from right to turn it off. Everybody is different in what features they like and use, so for me, it works fine once I fixed it up and use it the way I want.

I currently have a MacBook Pro and bought this computer to take with my back and forth to school. It's a nice computer. It looks very similar to the Mac and the keyboard is very comfortable to use. The mouse pad on the other hand is horrible. I already bought a mouse and refuse to use the pad. I adjusted the pad settings and everything but its difficult to use. Rarely ever does the command you're trying to do. Battery life could be a little bit better. My MacBook Pro is a 17" and lasts longer. Other than that is gets the job done. Also, the BEATS audio on this is just a scam. My MacBook speakers are 10X better. Not a bad laptop- lightweight and easily portable.

Bought a USB cable online for $5.49 thru Best Buy online. and am waiting for it to arrive so I can install additional programs that I use for craft and hobby projects. I would recommend signing up for the Windows 8 email tips. Windows 8 is a bit different, but the touchscreen is worth learning how to use it. After several hours of use the touchscreen does show finger prints but only when you turn it off and the screen goes black. Easily wiped off with a small microfiber cloth. This laptop does not heat up like previous laptops I have had. A definite Thumbs Up !

I bought this laptop for college. It looks so pretty compared to the other laptops I was looking at and had all the specs I was looking for. The touchscreen is great and if you don't have a touchscreen laptop you are definitely missing out. It works very well with the windows 8. im not sure if I like windows 8 or not but It comes with just about every new computer now so I have no choice. I wish it had a CD/DVD drive since I love watching movies. But it is very thin so I had to compromise. I had a problem staying connected to the wifi which got me very very frustrated. it wouldn't stay connected for more than like 15 minutes which was not very good when I was doing classwork online or watching videos online. I downloaded something from Intel online and it seems to have solved the problem. Otherwise I am completely in love with this laptop and I would definitely recommend it.

I have been using a Mac mini as my primary machine for the last two years and really liked it. My work and life has gotten more "mobile" though and this required pulling out my XP Dell from 2005. Just booting up or performing simple tasks was beginning to try my patience. I also had a growing list of applications that would not run on either the Mac or the old laptop. I had been told that for Windows 8 you really should have a touchscreen and I tend to agree. This machine is very much a MacBook clone and I really like it for that. So many non Mac machines are creaky plastic and this one feels very solid. I actually prefer the keyboard with the nice backlight and numberpad. This version is perhaps a little slower than the AMD, but I was encouraged by the reputation and reliability of the i5. I have fairly high expectations of the longevity of a machine (remember that 9yr old Dell). Overall it seems well sorted and any hiccups could easily be blamed on the OS. This seemed to be the best combination of features and quality at this price point. HP has a very similar version were the touchpad is behind the keyboard and the screen pulls forward. I was intrigued by this and I think it would make touch screen use much more natural. However it was another $100 and after using Win 8.1 for a little bit I don't think it is quite ready for a touchscreen only experience.