HP Envy x360 13 Review: $700 Ryzen Mobile powered ultraportable

Curious, little put off by the battery life but it’s not the end of the world. My question is, can I use an external thunderbolt GPU? If not then I personally would stay away.

I do a lot of travelling and have decided to get a laptop and pair it with an external GPU. The improved Integrated GPU would make this attractive as would give me a few more gaming options when abroad. But Ryzen APUs are not good enough for a home gaming setup in my eyes - hence the want for an external GPU.
 
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This is pretty awesome for the price, have to admit the battery is a little weak but for 700 not bad.

Hope we see a flood of these devices come on the market from lots of vendors
 
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The test results show that it's throttling under longer load, am I right?
Aside from that it's pretty tempting device. I wonder if ryzen mobile linux support is good..?
 
Sausagemeat said:
Curious, little put off by the battery life but it’s not the end of the world. My question is, can I use an external thunderbolt GPU? If not then I personally would stay away.

I do a lot of travelling and have decided to get a laptop and pair it with an external GPU. The improved Integrated GPU would make this attractive as would give me a few more gaming options when abroad. But Ryzen APUs are not good enough for a home gaming setup in my eyes - hence the want for an external GPU.
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I don't see why not considering it has USB-C. I would ensure they are "Full Bandwidth" though first.
 
Looks like a decent system. I'd prefer a thicker body with a bigger battery and 16GB of RAM with ryzen 7 though. Why do OEMs always have such bizarre limitations on AMD systems?

I also forgot how awful the HP website is. You cant seem t buy the laptop right now. You can view the specs, which takes you to a page with the pictures lined up vertically like junior's first HTTP page, but there is no option to configure or buy the machine. "see offers" doesnt work on any laptop on the linked page. The configuration for the laptop is on a completely different page.

Never change HP, never change.
 
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I don't see why not considering it has USB-C. I would ensure they are "Full Bandwidth" though first.
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I thought external GPUs needed to be certified with Thunderbolt 3 for external GPU techs to work? Intel has made this open certification and this is available on AMD hardware but it appears it’s up to the motherboard manufacturer to implement it. Apologies if I missed this in the article.

I’m do some more research whe I get home, if this thing costs around £699 in the UK and has thunderbolt 3 I will be tempted to buy it this evening!
 
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CaptainTom said:
Sausagemeat said:
Curious, little put off by the battery life but it’s not the end of the world. My question is, can I use an external thunderbolt GPU? If not then I personally would stay away.
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I don't see why not considering it has USB-C. I would ensure they are "Full Bandwidth" though first.
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As stated in another comment and as per the article:

"I/O is decent, you get two full-sized USB 3.1 gen 1 ports plus a USB-C 3.1 gen 2 port, no Thunderbolt 3"

Unfortunately I don't think this will support eGPU as it only has USB 3.1 gen 2 and thats limited to 10gbps and Thunderbolt 3 has bandwidth of 40gbps meaning eGPU would most likely be bottlenecked by the USB protocol.

Remember, having USB-C only means it will have the flippable endpiece, its the protocol that matters.
 
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As stated in another comment and as per the article:

"I/O is decent, you get two full-sized USB 3.1 gen 1 ports plus a USB-C 3.1 gen 2 port, no Thunderbolt 3"

Unfortunately I don't think this will support eGPU as it only has USB 3.1 gen 2 and thats limited to 10gbps and Thunderbolt 3 has bandwidth of 40gbps meaning eGPU would most likely be bottlenecked by the USB protocol.

Remember, having USB-C only means it will have the flippable endpiece, its the protocol that matters.
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Yes, this is as I have discovered. Disappointing. Also this thing is £999 in the U.K. also disappointing.

Oh well.
 
Sausagemeat said:
pawel04 said:
As stated in another comment and as per the article:

"I/O is decent, you get two full-sized USB 3.1 gen 1 ports plus a USB-C 3.1 gen 2 port, no Thunderbolt 3"

Unfortunately I don't think this will support eGPU as it only has USB 3.1 gen 2 and thats limited to 10gbps and Thunderbolt 3 has bandwidth of 40gbps meaning eGPU would most likely be bottlenecked by the USB protocol.

Remember, having USB-C only means it will have the flippable endpiece, its the protocol that matters.
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Yes, this is as I have discovered. Disappointing. Also this thing is £999 in the U.K. also disappointing.

Oh well.
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That price in the UK is insane
 
I think the battery life could be A LOT better. For that kind of battery life in terms of gaming or otherwise, I would have preferred a real gaming laptop or a "normal" laptop for productivity, which lasts about that range, anyway.

And I don't like "clicky" keyboards.
 
Nice review, but I was hoping for gaming benchmarks. When I watched the Hardware Unboxed review and heard 'this carries across into GPU-bound games' and 'in some cases like Fortnite it’s actually possible to play the game comfortably on the 2500U where the 8250U is simply not fast enough', I was hoping the gaming figures are not included simply so the video review won't be too long, and that they'd appear in the TechSpot review. So I find it disappointing that they aren't, especially since it's obvious that you did run games. (I was reminded of this because someone on Reddit asked about games on this laptop, and I love putting TechSpot as a reference, but it's unfortunately unhelpful in this case.)
 
I wish somebody would review the version with the anti glare display with privacy screen.
I am afraid it may be less bright than this...
But impossible to find in any shop.

Could anybody compare this to the Lenovo Yoga 730? I am heavy multitasker, a huge amount of tabs open, plus other things. So I wanted 16gb ram. With the yoga I can have 16gb and the i7. The graphics will not be as good as the Vega 8 but the rest much better.
I don't play videogames but would like to do some vlogging and photo edit.
 
I got one in ryzen 3-2300u configuration, the battery life is sucks for an ultrabook standard, Hp say it can last till 12 hours but as I observed it maxed out below 5 hours under normal usage
 
HP 360? If I had it to do over again... I wouldn't. Ability is not really better or worse than the general competition and HP has a bad... VERY bad customer service ethic. Construction is poor. Laptop overheats. Footpads "melt" off the bottom and then, when want to replace them you have two options... either forget about it and deal with the peeling pads or send your computer off for two weeks so they can replace the little strips. At first I assumed my laptop was an exception but, since my pads fell apart, I have discovered others have the same problem. This shows very poor planning or awareness on the part of HP, and the fact that they won't send replacement pads but you must give up your laptop to them for ten days to two weeks for them to peel the tape on two new pads to stick on the laptop only to have them peel off again in a few months due to the overheating issue..."

Yeh. If I had it to do over again? I most certainly would not buy the HP 360 and because of this gross lapse in service and quality, I would not buy HP but another brand.
 
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