HP Envy 15 (15.6-Inch, 2021)

Last year, HP did a breakthrough with their Envy 15, paving the surface for powerful content creator devices that are not extremely expensive but look stunning. Now, although we see very little (if…

Sleek metal design;Good input devices;Hardware with a lot of potential;2x SODIMM slots + 2x M.2 PCIe x4 slots with RAID support;Fingerprint reader + electronic camera privacy shutter;2x Thundebrolt 4 + HDMI 2.0a + MicroSD card

Surprisingly bad cooling solution…;…which leads to thermal throttling

It was all going very well… perhaps too well. Until we got up to the temperature tests, we were pretty happy with the Envy 15 (15-ep1000). Well, yes, the CPU benchmarks were nothing to write home about, except for the Photoshop test. However, we...