Display and design
The HP ENVY TouchSmart 15-j171nr (E7Z54UA) Laptop poses a 15.6-inch Full HD BrightView LED-backlit display and supports a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1080 Pixels. The supreme display architecture gives you an enriching visual environment, with wide arrayed colour spectrum and good brightness and contrast levels. The laptop comes decked in a glossy silver outfit with a waistline of 27.9 mm and weighs 2.2 KG. The input devices hosted beneath the display are - Clickpad with Multi-touch Gesture Support , a Full-size island-style backlit keyboard with numeric keypad and a fingerprint scanner.
Processor and OS
For a well balanced and optimized performance, the laptop is empowered with a 4th generation Intel Core i7-4700MQ processor clocked at 2.4 GHz and sits on a Intel HM87 Express chipset. To elevate the performance further, the CPU is boosted with a 8GB DDR3 RAM placed in a 1 x 8 Gigabyte memory layout and with a speed of 1600 Mhz. The memory can be further expanded up to 16GB via one DIMM memory slot. This laptop is a blessing for the gaming freaks as it comes with a dedicated external 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M graphics processor. It sails on the latest 64-bit Windows 8.1 Operating System.
Camera, storage and multimedia
The new laptop from HP is armed with a HP TrueVision webcam and mated with an in-built microphone it provides a good quality video call experience to the users. HP ENVY TouchSmart 15-j171nr laptop comes with a 750GB SATA hard disk to store in multimedia files and documents. The Beats Audio quad stereo speakers with two subwoofers are quite good in providing entertainment with next- gen quality sound.
Battery and connectivity
The laptop is juiced by a good quality 6 Cell Li-Ion battery. On the connectivity front the device houses options like - Ethernet, Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.0, four USB 3.0 slots, one HDMI port and Digital Media Reader.