I've had a few clients come to me with HP Envy laptops that they have purchased in the past - and I started to realize that they were all complaining about the same thing: performance
The laptops themselves are pretty good specs - Intel i5/i7 8GB RAM and even a GT740M graphics card. CPU and memory usage looks good, but just using it for average tasks eventually slows it down to a crawl.
What gives? These are good laptops - certainly not cheap entry level units
Simple answer - the HDDs in them suck.
All the laptops that had these problem had one thing a common : a HGST 1TB 5400RPM disk
I have to wonder why HP are selling such laptops with a low spec drive? The easy solution was to replace the drive with an SSD. Thankfully, replacing the drive in these units is very easy - you only need to remove a single screw.
Perhaps quite obvious, but you wouldn't expect a laptop of this level to come with a drive such as this.
Below - one of the offending drives!
The laptops themselves are pretty good specs - Intel i5/i7 8GB RAM and even a GT740M graphics card. CPU and memory usage looks good, but just using it for average tasks eventually slows it down to a crawl.
What gives? These are good laptops - certainly not cheap entry level units
Simple answer - the HDDs in them suck.
All the laptops that had these problem had one thing a common : a HGST 1TB 5400RPM disk
I have to wonder why HP are selling such laptops with a low spec drive? The easy solution was to replace the drive with an SSD. Thankfully, replacing the drive in these units is very easy - you only need to remove a single screw.
Perhaps quite obvious, but you wouldn't expect a laptop of this level to come with a drive such as this.
Below - one of the offending drives!
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