The Envy 14 Spectre that HP has been teasing for the past week has finally been unveiled at CES and as expected it is a premium Ultrabook. The Envy 14 Spectre has a 14” screen but still manages to stay 0.78-inches thick. The weight of 3.9 pounds is conspicuously heavy for an Ultrabook, but we’re guessing the aluminum build and unique glass lid are adding extra weight to the slim frame of this laptop. You heard correct, the lid has glass on it – which is going to make for one heck of a chore to keep clean, but laptop will look gorgeous when it is clean. Think of the back of an iPhone and how easily that picks up fingerprints and multiply it by about 10 times in size and that’s what you’ve got with the Envy 14 Spectre lid.
The full specs for the Envy 14 Spectre that will be priced at $1,399 are below:
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2467m 1.60GHz
- Screen: 14-inch Radiance display, 1600 x 900 resolution
- Memory: 4GB RAM
- Storage: 128GB mSATA SSD
- Thickness: 0.78-inches
- Weight: 3.9 pounds
- Dimensions: 12.87 inches x 8.7 inches x 0.79 inches
- Ports: USB 2.0, USB 3.0, SD card reader, Mini DisplayPort, Ethernet
- Keyboard: Chiclet, backlit with sensor to brighten when you approach
- Wireless: 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth, WiDi
- Audio: Beats Audio
- Battery Life: 9 hours estimated
The processor is an existing Intel Sandy Bridge family processor so there the release date is February, no need to wait until April for the Ivy Bridge class processors with this Envy 14-3000 version.
For those fans of the older Envy 14 that were hoping for a 14-inch gaming style laptop, well, sorry you’re out of luck. There will be no dedicated graphics for this laptop and quite obviously it’s intended more for those that want a premium mobile laptop more interested in style than frame rates in Batman Arkham City.
There’s no word if this 1600 x 900 display is an IPS variety, but HP is positioning it as a premium screen with excellent viewing angles, so it certainly could be the case. It might be the same screen as the Envy 15-3000 just with a smaller panel size. Another similarity to the Envy 15 is that the Envy 14 Spectre has Beats Audio on board and the same dial type volume control.
The Envy 14 Spectre availability date is set for February 8, 2012 so there’s a little under a month to wait and we’re sure there will be plenty of reviews and feedback on this laptop by that time as well.
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