Isaiah's Tech

HP has kicked off this morning by officially announcing their Envy 14 and Envy 17 notebooks - of course, they still look like MacBook Pro clones. Thankfully, HP has decided to put in optical drives in both notebooks. Engadget points out that the trackpad has improved since the last Envy notebooks. The Envy 17 notebook has an ATI Radeon HD 5000 GPU which supports Eyefinity which can support a bunch of external displays - this is a first in the entire industry. Other specs include Core i5 / i7 CPU options, up to 2TB of HDD storage, USB 3.0 ports, and Windows 7. This one will be priced at $1,399 and it should be available starting on May 19th.

The Envy 14 has an awkward but unique 14.5-inch display and it's apparently 75% brighter than other 14-inch displays out there. It has Core i5 / i7 CPU options, discrete ATI graphics, and the base model will be priced at $999. This will be available starting on June 27th so it's a longer wait than the Envy 17.

Sadly, these notebooks are both missing Nvidia's Optimus technology, which for me is a huge let down.

[Electronista, Engadget]