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welcome to my unboxing is something that's actually pretty exciting now I have to confess this is a bit of a hack because this has been unboxed clearly before also this is a French model so for those English folks in the in the audience this might be a little bit oh no this is well this is English I think on the inner carton it's French okay so fourteen inch diagonal radiance 850 plus infinity LED display so this is a 1600 by 900 display on a 14-inch model which means you've got pretty good pixel density 128 gig MCO solid-state drive although you can get with the 256 4 gigs of ram only one Ram slot so you're pretty much limited to 4 gigs of ram although this is sort of an ultrabook style form factor so you it's not really intended for heavy usage wireless LAN bluetooth second generation Core i5 the dual-core processor at 1.6 gigahertz genuine Windows 7 home premium and let's get this baby opened up so this is meant to compete directly wrong let's not say compete directly this is meant to capture the customers who want a beautiful premium notebook and just aren't interested in OS 10 because or 11 are we up to 11 now I don't know whatever whatever Apple's OS is who cares cuz it sucks right although no offense to the Apple users out there it's just every time I sit down in front of an Apple OS and try to do something actually safe for iOS I can handle iOS I just like horribly break it within a matter of seconds so here's a little diagram in English and French this is a bilingual model of all of the stuff so we're gonna save that because that is a pretty handy reference for people who do unboxings here is a cool little neoprene case that it comes in to keep it from getting scratched and damaged although that's less of a factor than you might think because this whole notebook yes the entire top and I'm sorry see it has fingerprints on it already because it's totally been unboxed before and there we go we'll just fix that this whole notebook top and screen if I could turn it around the right way talk and screen is done in gorilla glass so that means this is one of the most scratch resistant notebooks you will pretty much ever encounter so you can see here we've got an aluminum sort of the looking defect sorry aluminum sort of looking me finish although it is made of plastic on the main part of the shell down here below so this again is plastic as well but it's feels very very solid and one of the reasons for that is probably the fact that it has more glass so there's actually another piece of Gorilla Glass right here and what I like about this is on so many notebooks you go to use the thing you know it looks great the first time you use it but then after a little while you get these horrible ugly like palm prints under the keyboard that just look disgusting and awful and there's no getting rid of them however if you put glass there as well as glass here almost all of the usable surfaces of this entire notebook are going to be completely impervious to just incidental damage especially given that they're made of Gorilla Glass there's also a couple little notes here thank you for selecting HP Envy got a bit about your support there so what's cool about the support for this particular models it has a two year warranty and it's actually what you do is you basically call HP support and if there's anything they can't solve for you over the phone then they will ship you something that you need next day so very very cool comes with a travel adapter as well as AC to DC adapter which hey check that out also includes a little USB auxiliary doodad so that means that you can charge your phone at the same time off the same charger just by having your laptop plugged in without actually plugging the phone directly into the laptop I don't know maybe more or less of a concern to you depending on whether you have a phone or not let's go back to the notebook so let's talk about the external first so this part is definitely aluminum and then you can see it is kind of a sandwich aluminum rimmed two pieces of glass thing and you know what yeah this is totally appropriate in this case so whether you guys like it or not we are totally whipping out the iPhone compared and so you can see the screen here is actually about as thick as just the aluminum portion of the iPhone which is it looks just beautiful guys we've got a litte HP logo right here and I'm trying not to catch them slick in the reflection here but I don't know if there's much that I can do very very black looking and then on this side what's cool about the LED backlit 1600 by 900 screen here is that HP has actually gone with a super slim bezel design that allowed them to put a 14-inch display in what would normally be a 13.3 inch notebook form factor so you get a bigger screen as well as that high pixel density which means that you can do more on the PC now you do have that additional glare that comes with using a glass screen personally I love having glass in front of a panel that's my number one choice followed shortly by Matt screens followed very distantly by shiny plastic screens I think the glass adds a lot of vibrance it adds crispness personally I like it not everyone does I think it's fantastic and if I could upgrade my personal monitor to a glass screen monitor then I would love to but I'm waiting for someone to do a beautiful 30-inch glass panel monitor which hasn't happened yet okay so here we have a backlit keyboard as you can see this is a bilingual layout however if you were to buy this in the US then you would not see the bilingual layout as far as bilingual layouts go they haven't they haven't butchered it too badly sometimes you see bilingual layouts that make it impossible to hit anything but you know both your shift keys are somewhat intact the enter key I always like seeing the bigger entry key but there's not a whole lot we can do about it it's Canadian law and such and I don't know what this does what this does okay you know what let's go into some of the other some of the other features here so cool senses come and eat what cool sense does is it's basically a temperature controlled fan which isn't rocket science we've been seeing this on the PC side on the desktop for a long time but on a notebook what's kind of neat about it is that it keeps your problems from getting hot so that's the way that they've tuned it is so that as soon as the laptop starts to get hot enough that your palms would get that heat and sweatiness factor going on it kicks in the fan so that's kind of neat it also comes with two years of Norton Internet Security so whatever you may or may not think about Norton it comes with two years as opposed to like you know the stupid 30-day trial that insists upon being installed and it takes forever to remove it also comes with full copies of Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop Elements which is like a compelling value add because if you price those pieces of software out they are not cheap and they are significantly more functional than the ones that are included with Windows I mean what like paint and Windows Movie Maker like they're not even in the same kind of yeah whatever okay moving on we have DisplayPort out HDMI out Ethernet check that out full sized rj45 how innovative a solution is that so they've managed to maintain a slimmer than rj45 form factor just using this little hinge right here to allow you to fit in your Ethernet port we've got no they haven't color-coded their USB sorry okay so this guy is USB 3 this guy is USB 2 you can tell from how many pins are inside here's a microphone out SD card reader on the front we got a little beats logo yes this is one of HP's beats notebooks and I will explain more about that on the other side we have a mute button we have a volume switch so this is meant to be fine control volume switch you can see it actually spins an awful lot Wow am I still spinning this yeah I'm still spinning it huh okay check it out there's a little animated thing on the screen we it spins when I spin the dial cool that's this nice little touches this is also another audio control button so what this guy does is you press the button and it comes up with a little oh my wait for it yes comes up with a little you know thing that you could also access if you right clicked and went to playback devices and recording devices down in the system tray but here it is all in one nice little sort of menu for you we've also got our power in over here and that pretty much does it I mean you don't get a ton of Io on these super slim notebooks here we have our ventilation at the back as well as four rubber feet for the whole thing to sit on the battery is big so this is to release the battery and we're not going to release the battery since we're running off battery right now but we've also got speakers here at the front that's pretty much it if we're missing anything so oh yeah it supports WiDi it also supports wireless audio so with supported devices you can actually not just bluetooth but with supported wireless headphone devices you can actually just stream directly to them to do full size pores then bezel backlit keyboard oh yeah the keyboard detects your presence so I haven't actually tested this but in theory when you go away from it for a while and then you walk up to it the the backlight actually actually turns on so that's that's just sort of one of those things that's kind of kind of neat ah yes the robust hinge so the difference between cheap notebooks I mean I know we went over sort of the speeds and everything of this notebooks very briefly however that's not necessarily all there is to it build quality is huge so not all notebooks you can take the hinge and go like this and not worry about something bad happening so between the SSD inside and the robust design of the hinge HP was very comfortable with me doing this demo on this notebook because build quality does mean something so the glass screen the robot hinge the keyboard that has almost no flex to it whatsoever that's one of the marks of the build quality of a notebook walk up to it in the store and go like this like this go like this go like this on the keyboard and see how much flex there is to it if there's a lot of flex I guarantee you it's a cheap plastic shell versus being a higher quality shell I think that pretty much covers it don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and I hope you guys have enjoyed this one about the beats and the spectre now there is a Spectre XT which is a lower end model if you're buying a Spectre I would definitely recommend going with this one because it comes with the scratch resistant Gorilla Glass as well as just being generally a very very sleek looking little notebook slick wanted to show the battery and that was a good idea actually so we just triggered these take this off and here's the battery so HP quotes a nine hour battery life on this on this model if I recall correctly and you can see why because the on the internals here look look look at this see those how the battery goes all the way down to the bottom almost half of the internals of this whole whole notebook are the battery so that's what keeps that Intel dual core running for such an extended period of time in spite of the very very slim form factor