HP Envy Sleekbook 6 (2012): Full Review – Part 1

HP’s new ultra-thin Envy laptop is out with a surprising price tag. The new HP Envy Sleekbook 6 is the cheapest super-slim laptop in the market. That moniker was recently held by Sony with its new Vaio ultrabook priced at $799. However, for $599, HP trades off the Ultrabook label in the Envy Sleekbook 6 that its sibling with the same design.

The new SleekBook 6 can be confused with an ultrabook but it is not. The ultrabook label is officially given to the laptops that fulfil Intel’s pre-defined requirements in hardware and design. Moreover, they should have Intel’s processing units in them whereas, the SleekBook 6 does. This new Envy has AMD’s A6 processor coupled with the graphic card. AMD touts it as an APU, Accelerated Processing Unit.

The new notebook, though compromises on some of the performance attributes housed by Intel-based devices, has a sleek design which makes it easily a fauxtrabook. This however, is the only strong point in the notebook. The overall performance of the Sleekbook 6 is does not take the market by a storm. However, it should not be taken as sub-standard performance mark.

Sleekbook is a name that HP has given to this new iteration of Envy to not to confuse it with ultrabooks. Its sibling Envy 6 that comes with an Intel Core i5 Ivy Bridge processor is the official ultrabook. Both have the same design with the main difference under the hood.

Design

The Envy brand has been unknown, since its official start in 2009, for the premium quality in terms of design and hardware. The new Envy Sleekbook 6 is, on the other hand, a device that has been made cheaper by cutting corners on several of its design and hardware features.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Jul 14 2012. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.