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hey guys this is Austin this is the 13-inch HP Envy x-360 with rising seven inside this is either going to be one of the fastest 13-inch laptops you can pick up or it's going to catch on fire you may remember a few months ago we did take a look at a bigger version of the MB and it was cool it was not only going to be a much larger laptop this is also powered by rising v rise instead on the other hand should be a little bit more exciting what really drew my attention to this is just how much power you're getting in such a tiny package Meli is this going to be a 13-inch laptop it's going to be a really thin one at that the first rise in laptops we took a look at we're fairly low in sort of a more the budget market with stuff like mechanical hard drives but now we're actually starting to see some that are going to be much higher end with some properly D suspects including an SSD so I've been using the index 360 for a few weeks now and I've got to say I absolutely love this hardware and nothing against the 50 inch version when you shrink it down to a 13 inch laptop this really does feel like the sweet spot of the Ultrabook market the chassis is entirely made out of aluminum and it is seriously been it 15 millimeters and less than three pounds the it really stands out it's some of the nicest laptop hardware that you can buy you won't find Thunderbolt 3 is this is an AMD system but it does have a decent selection of ports including two USB a ports as well as a full USB see which does support DisplayPort video as well as charging although I will mention that you also do have a normal charge board if you don't take advantage of USB see creating these speakers are straight-up awesome now yeah they do take up a little bit of the space but it is going to be totally worth it so now I do you have banging off some branding on the top speakers which you're going to be facing directly toward you there's also going to be a pair of speakers on the bottom which helps to give you a little bit more of that low-end now no it's not going to be quite as good as something like a 15-inch MacBook that's going to be much more expensive and honestly for something that's this small and this tiny and this portable and this light and this thin and other acronyms and adjectives and other things it's great it sounds really good I need to stop talking now you're also going to be getting a touchscreen as well as I full two in one design now in large the laptops that's not always going to be the most useful thing in the world but considering how small and light this is I actually did find myself using it in tent mode and some of the other modes fairly often now look it's not going to be perfect hardware it would be nice if it had a few more USB ports especially something like Thunderbolt would have been cool but for the most part I've got to say I'm incredibly impressed with stole all this and put together especially considering the price unlike basically every other Ultrabook on the market this is going to be powered by an AMD rising processor now in this case it's going to be the rise in seven twenty seven hundred you this is the top-end model with four Zen cores which all have hyper threading as well as the full vega ten GPU then though it's not going to be any kind of insane overpowered gaming laptop what it is going to do is give you much better graphics performance than pretty much anything on the standard intel sides the idea is that in that same 15 watt TDP you're going to be getting competitive CPU performance and that much better GPU performance but the issue here is that the last time I took a look at horizon 5 system it was in a 15 chassis so with a 13-inch model are we going to have thermal issues yes now just purely taking a look at the CPU if you run it through Geekbench you'll see that well no it's not going to be quite on par with the latest H and Intel poor stuff it's not going to be that far off and importantly in real-world use you're not going to notice a massive difference the graphics side is where things get a little bit more interesting so as you would expect with those Vega GPU cores it is going to be more powerful than the UHD 620 integrated graphics but what's also interesting is that underperforms the horizon 5 and the 15 inch version of this laptop even though this is going to be the higher-end horizon 7 with even more GPU cores hmm this thing straight up thermal throttles now considering that we only have a 15 watt TDP of course there's always going to be some degree of that when you get into the long sustain loads when you pair it next to the 50 inch version with Rison 5 this guy is going to be significantly slower and a lot of that is because this clock speeds have to come so far down so technically this could be running up to a gigahertz or so but realistically under sustain load I was saying anywhere between 350 and 500 megahertz on that GPU clock and that's going to be a big problem now sure for a quick burst it's going to be completely fine when it comes to long sustained loads such as gaming which is going to be pretty common if you know you want to try to gain for more than five minutes the thermals on the chassis and health and this is really kind of hold back what that Rison ship is capable of open up the MV and you're going to find a very basic looking cooler now that is made worse by the fact that HP is pretty conservative with the tuning on this guy so one says it's about 65 degrees on the GPU the throttling is going to kick in that's going to be great if you want a nice quiet and cool laptop if you want to do anything more serious like gaming it's going to mean you're going to be leaving some serious performance on the table there's also the issue of drivers so unlike a traditional AMD graphics card you can't just download them straight from the site instead the drivers should come straight from the OEM in this case HP the problem is all of these rights and laptops are that are coming out are way way behind on driver updates this guy for example is using drivers from a few months ago but they're stories of some other rising laptops that have six seven even eight month old drivers that's just never going to be a good thing for gaming I've played a lot of games I've done a lot of testing on this and of course the second we start recording this happens we're just gonna throw a little restart its way it's dead oh okay so fortnight not really a big fan of running on the system right now we're just disappointing because this does legitimately even with all these issues have a lot more power than other ultrabooks the issue is just that well it kinda speaks for itself I guess the screen is pretty solid so my unit has a 13.3 inch 1080p display although there is going to be a 4k option and while it's not going to be the most color accurate thing in the world it's going to be a little bit on the DEM side but my biggest issue is just it's going to be very very reflective considering that an Intel ultrabook is generally going to be about $1000 or so for this level of hardware you're actually want to be getting a pretty decent deal the problem is is that you're going to be giving up some on the CPU side and definitely on the you know software working side that's an important side in case you were curious HP sells this with rising 3 5 & 7 s options and based on the level of throttling you get in this chassis I actually think it's better to go with a slightly lower end config with resin 5 8 gigs of RAM and 256 gig SSD for $750 the 13-inch HP Envy x-360 is one seriously unique little laptop no no it's not going to be a great gaming machine that definitely tuned it a little bit more on the cool and quiet side versus raw performance but I will say this good luck finding a much more powerful laptop than this in such a small and thin form factor since we finished shooting the video the HP Envy found an early demise so I did was I plugged in a HP brand a USBC charger to this guy which apparently didn't play well with it as I heard a little crack he started smelling bad and not only does it not take any power but it just straight up will not turn on anymore now I haven't opened it up to find out exactly what the issue is I assume something fried but what's weird is this does accept USBC power so for example when I plugged in earlier a 50 inch macbook charger it had no issues but apparently whatever the wattage or the amperage was on that other HP charger was incompatible so maybe stay tuned as I try to get this repaired or replaced because right now kind of did