Is it potential to “have everything” in a laptop computer? To reply that, it helps maybe to begin with some floor guidelines on what constitutes all the things. Killer efficiency—on each enterprise apps and graphical duties—is a should. Add to that an awesome display, glorious battery life, an excellent keyboard, plus a suitable weight and worth given the entire above.

HP’s new Envy 16 doesn’t unilaterally tick each certainly one of these bins, but it surely comes shut sufficient on all fronts to benefit severe consideration in case you’re on the lookout for a powerhouse pocket book PC.

Green With Envy

The Envy 16 is, because the title implies, outfitted with a 16-inch show with a 16:10 side ratio. You can discover sharper screens in the marketplace than the Envy’s 2,560 X 1,600-pixel decision, however that spec is nice sufficient for many customers and most sorts of computing. The OLED touchscreen isn’t amazingly vibrant, however it’s impressively clear, although I discovered it seemed greatest close to its max brightness ranges.

Under the hood, you’ll discover a 2.6-GHz Intel Core i9-13900H CPU (thirteenth era), 16 GB of RAM, and a 1-TB SSD. Those are stable specs, but it surely’s the inclusion of an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q video card that adjustments the sport. Together, these parts gave the Envy 16 a few of the highest benchmarks I’ve ever clocked, notably on the graphics entrance, the place I skilled totally playable framerates on trendy gaming titles and silky clean rendering assessments. On enterprise apps, the unit was off the charts, doubling the efficiency of high-end laptops from a couple of years in the past.

All of this energy should come on the expense of battery life, proper? More excellent news: I used to be shocked to realize simply over 9 hours of uninterrupted video playback on the max display brightness—although that may absolutely be stretched by firming down the efficiency settings a bit.

With its enormous trackpad and spacious, responsive keyboard (a normal island-style design), getting work executed isn’t laborious—and also you at all times have the choice of interacting instantly with the touchscreen if desired. Unlike so many modern laptops, the Envy 16 doesn’t skimp on growth ports, providing two USB-C ports, two full-size USB 3.1 ports, HDMI output, and a microSD card slot. All ports are side-mounted, as all the bottom of the laptop computer works as a single hinge for the display. All of this may weigh you down a smidge greater than 5 kilos, with a svelte 26-mm girth.

Talk of the Town

All work and no play makes for a uninteresting day on the workplace, and the Envy 16’s built-in audio system from Bang & Olufsen give it loads of audio energy, a lot in order that I discovered it uncomfortable to hearken to at full quantity when sitting instantly in entrance of the unit. Music, videoconferenced voices, and gaming results all got here by way of crystal clear, and there’s loads of bass to go round courtesy of the downward-firing woofers.

Machines like this usually should compensate for his or her excessive energy ranges with loud, aggressive followers, however HP has clearly executed some work to maintain issues fairly quiet, even underneath heavy load. Chalk that as much as what HP calls a “gaming class” thermal answer referred to as the vapor chamber, by which airflow is directed by way of all the chassis through two centrally positioned followers. It works effectively, conserving issues cool and, whereas removed from silent, quieter than anticipated.

The mannequin I examined—roughly in the midst of the Envy 16’s configuration lineup—runs $1,750, which feels affordable, although decidedly not cheap. (The top-end configuration hits a whopping $2,685.) For anybody who wants the additional actual property offered by a 16-inch display—and doesn’t thoughts that it’s going to most likely imply upgrading your laptop bag to accommodate it—it’s a standout computing possibility.