This is the 13 inch HP Envy x360.

With Ryzen 7 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 Envy.

It was cool,

but it was not only going to be a much larger laptop.

It was also powered by Ryzen 5.

Ryzen 7 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.

Not only is this going to a 13 inch laptop,

but it's going to be a really thin one at that.

The first Ryzen laptops we took

a look at were fairly low end.

Sorta aimed more at 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 decent specs including an SSD.

So I've been using the Envy x360 for a few weeks now,

and I've gotta say I absolutely love this hardware.

And nothing against the 15 inch version,

but 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 thin.

At 15 millimeters and less than three pounds,

the Envy really stands out as some of the nicest

laptop hardware that you can buy.

You won't find Thunderbolt 3 as 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-C,

which does support DisplayPort, video as well as charging.

Although I will mention that you also do have a normal

charge port if you don't want to take advantage USB-C.

- [Computer] Great us of fir and grass shadings.

- The 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 not only do you have Bang and Olufson

branding on the top speakers,

which are going to be facing directly toward you.

But 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 is 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'm gonna stop talking now.

You're also going to be getting a touch screen

as well as full two in one design.

Now on larger 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 perfect hardware.

It would be nice if it had a few more USB ports.

Especially something like Thunderbolt would've been cool,

but for the most part I've gotta say I'm incredibly

impressed with just how well this is put together.

Especially considering the price.

Unlike basically every other Ultrabook on the market.

This is going to be powered by an AMD Ryzen Processor,

and with this case it's going to be the Ryzen 7 2700U.

This is the top end model with four Zen cores,

which all have Hyper-Threading

as well as the full Vega 10 GPU.

Now no 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 side.

The idea is 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

we took a look at a Ryzen 5 system

it was in a 15 inch chassis.

So with a 13 inch model are we going to have thermal issues?

Yes, yes we are.

Now just purely taking a look at the CPU.

If you run it through Geekbench you'll see that

while no it's not going to be quite

on par with the latest 8th Gen Intel Core 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 graphic side is where things

get a little 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 it underperforms

the Ryzen 5 in the 15 inch version of this laptop.

Even this is going to be the higher

end Ryzen 7 with even more GPU cores.

Hmm...

Look, this things 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 long sustained loads.

When you pair it next to the 15 inch version with Ryzen 5

this guy is going to be significantly slower

and a lot of that is because those

clock speeds have to come so far down.

So technically this could be

running up to a gigahertz or so,

but realistically under sustained load

I was seeing 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 game for more than five minutes.

The thermals and the chassis and how thin this is

really kind of hold back what

that Ryzen chip is capable of.

Open up the Envy 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 once it hits about 65 degrees on the GPU

the throttling is going to kick in.

Now 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 these Ryzen laptops

that are coming out are way, way behind on driver updates.

This guy for example is using drivers from a few months ago,

but there are stories that are some other Ryzen

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.

Why aren't ya gonna throw a little restart it's way.

Um, okay so Fortnite not really a big

fan of running on the system right now,

which is 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 kind of 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.

Well it's not going to be the most

color accurate thing in the world.

It's going to be a little bit on the dim side,

but my biggest issue is just

it's going to be very, very reflective.

Considering that a Intel Ultrabook is generally

going to be about a thousand dollars

or so for this level of hardware.

You're actually going 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 Ryzen 3, 5 and 7 as options,

and based on the level of throttling you get

in this chassis I actually think it's better to

go with the slightly end config with Ryzen 5.

Eight gigs of ram and 256 gig SSD for $750.

The 13 inch HP Envy x360 is one

seriously unique little laptop.

Now no it's not going to be a great gaming machine,

they've 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 what I did was I plugged in a

HP branded USB-C charger to this guy,

which apparently didn't play well with it.

As I heard a little crack it 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 USB-C power.

So for example what I plugged in earlier a 15 inch

MacBook charger it had no issues,

but apparently whatever the wattage or the amperage was

on that other HP charger wasn't compatible.

So maybe stay tuned as I try to

get this repaired or replaced,

because right now kind of dead.