HP Envy 23XT Beats Special Edition 2015

HP Envy 23XT Beats Special Edition Review: Perfect design with speakers louder

HP Envy 23XT Beats Special Edition 2015-Positive (HP Envy 23xt Beats presents a clear audio and has an attractive design that stands out. Negative (a glossy coating made of highly reflective display in direct light, and the lack of discrete graphics limit gaming potential). Important (Hp Envy 23-inch all-in-one is built for entertainment, offering great speakers and striking appearance. But the shiny, reflective screen throws a spanner in the works).

HP Envy 23XT Beats Special Edition All-in-one PC Review

Do you like the color red? HP Envy Beats 23xt Special Edition is available exclusively in the red color is so bright and bold, but it is a bit flabbergasting, although appropriate in the signature style of Beats headphones. Lack of alternative colors for us, a little lost opportunity here. But do not misunderstand: We like the color red. And maybe you will like the bright, aggressive attitude of the all-in-one is taking the appeal of many passers-by at the office E-News, of course.

In the United States hp envy 23txt beats all-in-one pc sold at a price of $ 1049, this model is not available in the UK or Australia. The same model, with the same screen and the same specifications, is HP Beats Edition 23-n011na, which sells for a base at a price of £ 799 in the UK, and HP Beats All-In-One 23-n100a, which will set Australia back at a price of $ 1,698.

You need to remember, if you skip this model, probably nothing else. After the purchase of brand Beats Apple earlier this year, HP is only able to develop new products with Beats branding and cutting-edge technology through the end of 2014, and may continue to sell existing products, such as this one, until the end of 2015.

Attractive appearance is worsened by the glossy coating that makes too reflective, and integrated graphics rather than a discrete card means you can get rid of high-end gaming. But good looks coupled with decent performance for casual gaming and streaming media. For music lovers, the 23-inch HD screen sits on a large set of speakers, and HP includes a little custom music and DJ mixing application for amateurs.

Design and Features

You will see, there is no compromise with four speakers and a subwoofer along the bottom of the screen. Beats headphones have a bit of a reputation for being expensive and flashy, but we will leave the discussion with experts style. We prefer a thick, almost aggressive grille, and these speakers sounded impressive as they look, pumping out a clear, rich audio that will easily fill a room with sound. For their distinctive style Beats bit bass-heavy, but there is Beats Audio configuration tool buried in the pre-installed applications that offer the equalizer you can tweak to your liking.

PC is otherwise relatively light on bloatware. McAfee Antivirus rears its head, but it can be silenced if you like your virus protection slightly less naggy. Portal WildTangent Games that seems to appear on every purchase of a new PC is also here. An application present Vevo music videos from the Web, and there are some applications pre-installed music, including Edjing, which contains music files on your PC and the screen turns into a pair of faux turntable. All told, relatively unobtrusive preloaded apps - except for McAfee, which still bothers us to sign something and easily removed.

That leaves a lot of space on the drive to 1TB of storage. It is a model 5400 rpm relatively slow, but for an extra $ 35 on the US site HP you can get a model with 1TB solid state hybrid drive (sshd), and it will be worth the upgrade. You can also spend a little more to replace the DVD burner with a Blu-Ray drive. I would recommend bringing your own keyboard and mouse though. This pair is a bundled cable, and for a while not bad, is not very good as well, just your standard, generic pack-ins.

Hp Envy 23-inch touch screen PC has a 1,920x1,080-pixel resolution and better image quality. Colors are reproduced faithfully, and looks bright too sharp on the screen. More importantly, we see a shift in color or contrast degradation when we look at the picture on the screen. The text looks sharp, which makes it to be a great reading experience. The video quality is as strong as well, and looks sharp HD movies.

There is a problem here: the glossy coating that makes the display screen is very reflective. In a bright environment, you will experience a lot of glare, and often stared right back at your reflection. We find and get it to adjust its position in the table, but some may not have that luxury.

PORTS AND CONNECTIONS

HP Envy 23xt Beats Special Edition
Video	HDMI
Audio	Stereo speakers, headphone jack/ microphone
Data	2x USB 3.0, 4x USB 2.0, SD card reader
Networking	Ethernet, 802.11b / g / n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0
Optical Drive	DVD burner

Connection and Performance

Selection of the PC port is relatively low: a pair of USB 3.0 ports located on the left side, joining a multiformat media card reader and headphone jack. Theres also an HDMI input button, which you can press to switch between PC screen, and whatever is in your device is connected with an HDMI cable. Youll find an HDMI port on the back, along with four USB 2.0 ports and Gigabit Ethernet adapter. Thats not a bad distance, because you will have four remaining ports in the keyboard and mouse cables. This PC also offers 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, although 802.11 ac Wi-Fi is available as an optional extra.

HP Envy is powered by 1.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i5-4460T, with a capacity of 8GB of RAM. This machine has trouble dipping about the application via the Web, and will handle less demanding tasks such as word processing and even edit photos with ease. It also performed well in casual games: our test consists mostly of playing Halo Spartan Assault and Asphalt 8 Airborne. Both of these games generally have weak hardware, and HP Envy 23xt shine there. The touchscreen is really responsive, and we did not notice any lag when we swiped through a menu or directing a super soldier and a souped-up sports car. Fruit Ninja game that might make more sense to play on the touch screen, and it also works well here.

PC relies on Intels integrated graphics, so you can not expect too much more. If you are really looking for a little extra oomph, you can change the PC up to quad-core 2.2GHz CPU cores i7-4785T, and also add capacity up to 16GB of RAM. There is no option to upgrade the graphics on the HP website, so your gaming performance remains bottlenecked.