That’s why today we are going to compare two very good transforming devices that have 4K screens – the HP Spectre x360 15 (15-df0000) and ASUS ZenBook Flip 15 UX563. Before bedtime, you can flip it into a tablet and you can use the touch panel to play casual games or maybe you can indulge in some creative relaxation, by drawing something for example – there are so many possibilities. In the office, you can use it as a standard clamshell device, at home, you can lean on the chair and watch some videos while the device is in a tent mode on your desk. And eight hours is still a lot of video, more than enough to last you through a transatlantic flight, now that those are starting to be a thing again.The 2-in-1 devices make our lives easier and they can save us money too because of their transforming abilities. It didn't do as well in our HD movie test though, making it just over eight hours and 16 minutes, but this is only about 20 minutes less than the ThinkBook 14s Yoga lasted in its HD movie test. This is a little under five hours longer than the ThinkBook 14s Yoga and about 20 minutes longer than the HP Spectre x360. With a 51WHr battery, we expected it to make it through at least a full workday on a single charge and found it did a little bit better than that, making it just over 13 hours in our PCMark 10 battery test. Battery Lifeīattery life is another area where the HP Envy x360 15 (2021) excelled. The Envy x360 15 also made short work of our Blender benchmarks, chewing through both Fishy Cat and Classroom renders in less than half the time as the ThinkBook 14s Yoga, making the Envy x360 15 a good option for creatives who are working with a really tight budget. No, you really won't be able to run the best PC games on the Envy x360 15, natively, and without issue, but we've played Valheim with worse specs, for sure. We were also surprised to see how well the HP Envy x360 15's Radeon graphics handled both benchmarks and real-world use. That isn't unexpected though, since Intel processors typically do better in single core performance but – as was the case here – AMD's Ryzen processors blow their rival's Intel chips away by 2,000 to 3,000 points whenever multi core processing or integrated GPU performance is measured. The one area where the Envy x360 15 fell short was in single core performance, where it scored 300 to 400 points less in Geekbench, PCMark 10, and other CPU single-core benchmarks against the Spectre and the ThinkBook 14s Yoga. It absolutely holds its own against the more expensive 2-in-1's running an Intel Core i7-1165G7, like the HP Spectre x360 15 and the Lenovo ThinkBook 14s Yoga, beating them both in several areas like multicore performance, and costing much less as well. The Ryzen 7 5500U absolutely exceeded our expectations, racking up impressive benchmark scores and running noticeably smooth and snappy for the weeks we used it. GeekBench 5: 1,194 (single-core) 6,531 (multi-core)ģDMark Night Raid: 14,705 Firestrike: 3,564 Time Spy: 1,412 īattery Life (PCMark10 test): 13 hours 11 minutesīattery Life (TechRadar movie test): 8 hours 16 minutes Here is how the HP Envy x360 15 (2021) performed in our suite of benchmark tests: The configuration we tested here at TechRadar, meanwhile, sells for $999 in the US and isn't available in either the UK or Australia, though you can buy an Australian model very similar in specs to the one we tested, only with a Ryzen 7 4700U, for AU$2,499. The base model for the UK, starting at £850, features a larger 512GB PCIe SSD, but a last-gen AMD Ryzen 5 4500U processor, which will have lower multicore performance than the 5500U upgrade if you have the option and the budget for it.Īustralia's base model uses the same Ryzen 5 4500U CPU as the UK model, but comes with 16GB RAM instead of 8GB and sticks with the smaller 256GB PCIe SSD, starting at AU$1,999. There are lots of configuration options on HP's site to better customize it to your needs, but the starting configuration for the AMD models – which only have the option for the 15.6-inch, full HD (1080p) WLED display, some with only 250 nits of brightness – features an AMD Ryzen 5 5500U processor with Radeon graphics, 8GB RAM, and 256GB PCIe SSD storage for just $659. The HP Envy x360 15 (2021) is available now with both Intel Tiger Lake and AMD Zen 3 mobile processors. Ports: 1 x USB Type-C (Power, Display, Data), 2 x USB Type-A, 1 x HDMI 2.0b, 1 x SD media card, 1 x AC Smart Pin, 1 x 3.5mm combo jackĬamera: HP Wide Vision 720p, Dual-Array microphones Here is the HP Envy x360 15 (2021) configuration sent to TechRadar for review:
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