The Laptop I Hate to Love...#Helpful Post

ey 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