You're the only person I've seen review this laptop and go into detail about the pen. Every other reviewer passes over the pen as if it isn't one of the major features attracting people to the laptop

Ryzen series is better than the intel competition in the price point and even out performs some i7(s). GO FOR the Ryzen. 5 4600u it's so much better and future proofs your device longer than the Ryzen 3 4300u. If you can afford ryzen 7 4700u is like godspeed if you want something really powerful. And If you don't have the budget go for the Ryzen 3 it ain't that bad

Omg I literally just got this computer for art

I have to say thank you so much, for the past year I’ve been looking for drawing tablets and other digital drawing tools, I have to say you’re reviews are so detailed and you direct people on how to use it and it’s controls! The reason I commented on this video is because it’s the latest and I hope you see this and get a ego boost! You are such a amazing youtuber :p

I actually bought this laptop a bit ago. It's amazing quality and extremely fast (with a 4700u). The tilt pen definitely works better for thirty bucks more. The 13in version is NOT Ram-upgradeable, but the 15in version is. All versions are SSD upgradeable with one slot. If anyone has questions, I'd be glad to answer.

Hell!😀 Yeah we want more reviews of windows 2 in one. I've been commenting to review this laptop for long time. Thanks so much 😀

I have the 15inch version, with the Ryzen 7. In the UK, the rechargeble pen comes included. I have previously used Wacom Bamboo and Intus on a iMac and I liked the Wacom pens. I do actually like the HP pen and the tilt feature. With the 15 inch, the pen has magnets and sticks all over the machine. My pen is different from yours. I had a different drawing experience from you, with no wiggley lines. I also have not had any issues with my palm on the screen. I mainly do pen and ink drawings using ArtRage and Corel software. I think this is very good and I am very happy I purchased it. I now use Windows 10 for work and creative work/drawing, as opposed to the iMac for the latter.

Brad, keep doing videos like this, I have been looking for a laptop that you can draw on it, that does not suck on the specs. Thanks

Man I bought the Envy last year and I thought the drawing experience was absolutely unacceptable, I should've waited another year to get this one! They seemed to have upped the quality and the specs a LOT in just a year

Brad, you got the old pen. The latest pen from HP for their 2020 product is HP MPP2.0 Tilt Pen. The pen tip will look like Apple Pencil tip.

Watching this review on the 15" Ryzen 5 version (just bought it a few days ago). I haven't done any art or drawing but everything - software and apps - absolutely flies. I would absolutely recommend it and agree with everything in this review.

I'd love to see more videos like this because I'm also on the lookout for a good 2 in 1 laptop for drawing

I've been watching your videos for the perfect e-drawing device for a while now. I never bought anything electronic and instead your videos and others led me to getting a sketch book and some nice graphite pencils.

I already have the things I need to make digital art yet I still click on every one of your videos even if I never plan on buying the products being reviewed. Fantastic review as always Brad. Hopefully one day you'll do a live draw of your artwork. I really like your art style.

I'm a couple minutes in at this point and I just wanted to say that the flow of this video is really nice! Great job :) Yee haw my dude

Yes review 2 in ones, especially with EMR Pens. Love the Samsung’s 2 in ones. Looking forward to the S7 full review. Thanks for the reviews.

sketchbook actually has a feature that is the palm rejection, it simply starts drawing when it detects the pen and you can still move around using your fingers

I was checking different channels for this laptop about drawing...and I got your channel..awsm

Excellent review Brad. I hope you can make more videos about windows all-in-ones. BTW, the rechargeable version of the pen does attach magnetically to the Envy's sides, and it also has tilt recognition. Also, you can try one of the Ntrig based pens, like the Surface Pen, or Raphael Pen, since they all use the Microsoft Pen Protocol 2.0. Hope to see more videos!

I've gone for the newer 15in model, it doesn't have the fingerprint scanner, but it looks amazing. It's got a 5625U Ryzen 5 processor, and I'm so excited. I know the model is a year old, but this review has helped me confirm I made the right choice. Thank you! The newer model's pen is magnetic now, so it can stick to the laptop

This one caught my attention recently. I’ll get it soon and I think it’s a great laptop tbh.

i just got that laptop today and it runs super smoothly with gaming and drawing

I love watching brad draw

HP Touchsmart first generation was my first screen tablet drawing type device. It had a screen that swiveled around 180 degrees and then folded under. It was chunky, and heavy, the pen was awful (not that I knew that at the time) and it got super hot. But I loved it. Until the single middle hinge broke. I loved it so much though, while I had it, took it with me everywhere back in college and soaked up the compliments and questions I got. I'd never buy another one, but I've got fond memories of that laptop.

I got this after seeing your review. Amazing laptop.

I’ll take all the reviews you got dude!

I have this laptop which I ordered thru HP's website. This laptop supports the new MPP 2.0 standard for the pen. But the pen they will send you at no extra charge is HP's old pen. But for $30 more, you can upgrade to their new pen that does support MPP 2.0.

Love you channel.. very on point and transparent reviews 👍🏻

I've been using this laptop's quiet mode, which all but stops the fan, and it's been pretty good so far!

My first ever laptop passée on from my mum and I’m so grateful for it!!

I used the ryzen 5 laptop envy and it is fantastic I love the form factor its amazing!

yes more reviews man, I like your reviews very much.

The pen upgrade is $30 on HP’s website is Tilt enabled. Also you can only upgrade the ram on the 15 inch, but you can upgrade the ssd on both.

I’m digging the new music tracks you’ve been using!

5:50 : quick tip- you can easily flip the desktop horizontally and turn the fan-out to point away from you :)

I've enjoyed your review videos! Keep em coming! :)

I bought an AMD Ryzen 7 with dedicated graphics on the laptop about a year ago. Its pretty solid. I customised it to also fit my needs

Nice work! Please continue to review windows devices to draw on.

I already had a surface pro 3 pen and it works great with this computer. 👍

love it!!! I've really wanted to see an artist's perspective of the Spectre x360

I cannot be 100% sure since i dont have the base pen just the older rechargable tilt pen, but its performance seems to be a lot better, it also has an "eraser" button on the back which is nice (the eraser part also works as a capacitive touch surface for devices that dont support pens).

Is it strange that I feel like I could kiss you for that video? This was right what I've been searching for. Thanks for the review, Brad!

Loved this review. Id like to hear you review the Surface 8 with Photoshop, when it comes out

Hey Brad! Great review! Personally exactly what I was looking for as I also am on the search for a 2 in 1 with a more "creator" focus. I'm also looking for one with a strong gpu for 3d work as well. Will you be doing a review on the Acer ConceptD3 Ezel, slated to come out sometime this month? It's a 1400 base 2 in 1 with what looks like MPP and not wacom EMR. Would appreciate it if you were able to review this product :)

have been using envy x360 2023 for about a month now. i have just upgraded from windows 7 to 11 after 10years. it was weird switching from 7 to 11 but i am loving it. i haven't used this drawing yet but its pretty great as professional laptop for university work + i am love with the slim beautiful design of this laptop my only problem so far is it not good in tablet mode, its too big and windows ui isnt developed enought yet to reach the level of androids or ipad

I have the 15" model with Ryzen 7. And it's a beast of a laptop. Especially for CPU related tasks. But... I am a 3D artist. And I chose this laptop because I wanted something more portable than a gaming laptop which are powerful, and a separate pen display. And I really thought this was going to be it. Well it is but isn't. It has decent power and performance for basic 3d sculpting work. And standard 3D poly modeling it handles easily. But, the pen support. The palm rejection is horrid, and the barely 1cm above the screen you have to be for the pen to be activated makes this a pain. I went with Wacom's Bamboo active stylus Best Buy sells people on after looking at some reviews. And the problem I have found is that the buttons on this stylus or HPs own cant be remapped to middle mouse click. And that is important to me as it's the button you normally use in Blender to rotate around your scene. Which is very handy when sculpting and working naturally. I found a work around using HP's own Pen utility by mapping a button to Alt and turning on 3 button mouse emulation in Blender. But over all the device makes me wish I just lugged around my XP Pen Artist 15.6 Pro instead. Because as professionals we want the tools to be out of the way of our creative process. And sadly this just hasn't been it. I will probably sell this laptop and use a basic machine to remote desktop into my workstation at home and bring along a simple pen tablet instead. So close. But yet soo far.

Just got one of these for my son starting TAFE next year and put a 500Gb M.2 in it. A cheap upgrade that just let's you store your stuff.

Man. You got an awesome channel. If you could also make a review on drawing on Zenbook OLED 17 that would be great

I bought the Ryzen 5 variant with 1TB of Nvme M.2 storage a few days ago for 860€ here in Germany and so far I'm really satisfired. Even video editing within Davinci Resolve is no problem and works perfect.

I got this laptop since last year. I love it. The only complaint are the palm detection. Even with the gloves on, when certain seam of the glove touch the screen. It will detect. It is annoying when I am taking notes, sometimes the palm/glove detection will happen at the scroll bar or some other button, making it almost impossible to do notes. As shown in the video. Drawing will always leave the palm/glove detection dots. So prepare to leaen to draw without touching the screen.

Review Lenovo Flex 5 and its pen, please? Thanks!

Great review. I don't suppose you had a chance to try the Surface pen on this since this uses MPP 2.0? I'm wondering if that would make a difference. I think the included pen is one of HP's older pens

Can you check out the Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5. I would like to know your thoughts on it too.

Watching this on my 15.6 inch version. Great for school, notes, and doodling lol

I bought the 15" model with Ryzen 5 3500 U for 550$ (before tax).. I was able to get this back in February.. It's a really good deal.. I bought a Wacom Bamboo ink smart stylus for this and it works fine.. I am a beginner for digital art, but I have to say, its has been a comfortable model to use so far..

Is it just his art style or should I be worried of the wiggly lines 😅

Thank you for your video. You even give a suggestion that fit with the laptop.

exactly what i am currently researching - need a touchscreen comp for some drawing, and running blender 3d for grease pencil animation, plus it needs to handle video production (also done with blender). i had hp x360 once, but i didn't have digiPencil. overall, i was happy with hp, it run linux just fine. thx for sharing, have fun, aum

I have this laptop and use the surface pen with it and it's kinda brilliant

I know there's no excuse for a jittery pen but in SketchBook, artists can use the Steady Stroke command to get very smooth lines at any angle. Just a tip.

I haven't had an HP laptop since 2010. That laptop died from a motherboard design flaw that was common with the laptop model. I found out some time later that there was some kind of lawsuit against HP regarding that. Since then, I've stayed away from the brand. Lately, though, after playing around with a few laptops at Best Buy, I've come to feel their hardware has ticked up a bit in quality since my last experience. Still hesitant to buy another HP, though.

It supports the MPP2.0 pen protocol so you can use other pens, such as the surface pen or the new HP pen with it

Is that wacom aes tech? @edit, for those who are wondering its Microsoft MPP so any surface pro 3+ pens will work. I wonder if they are any better than this hp pen.

Yo estaría feliz de tener es laptop con equipo principal. Tiene mucha versatilidad, performance aceptable y un precio competitivo.

I was deciding between this with a Ryzen 7, 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSD (1000 nits display model) and the Acer Spin which was a Wacom stylus and taller screen but only had a quad core i5 with a base clock of 1,1GHz and half of the storage plus the weaker Iris Plus G4 GPU for more so I went AMD after a decade with Intel... I hope I will not regret it :D

I want to use one of these for my long arm quilter. So ideally, it would be great to be able to leave it in the bracket on the machine folded in half in tablet mode. My question is, is there a way to power it on while in tablet mode, or do I need to remove it from the bracket, set it up as a laptop then turn the power on? So far if I leave it in tablet, I am unable to power it up. I've looked around at settings and haven't found an answer to my question. It's probably something simple that I have overlooked. Thank You for your time in responding to my question.

Yes i would love to see more laptop as art computer reviews!!! Ive always wondered if x360 laptops are a good idea and so far it seems to be a very very mixed bag in terms of doing art

what other pen to go with this laptop would you recommend for a smoother drawing experience?

He always reviews these laptops but his go to is the iPad lol. Great reviews, it's just funny.

What do you recommend for 3D work? (DAZ Studio in particular)

I had this once. Had to return it because of my budget. Loved it tho

Can't wait for the Specter x360 review

I’m a designer and just bought the HP Envy x360 15.4” and it’s the absolute best! 16gb ram 512gb ssd ryzen 7 4700

5:58 that sound going was a bit sudden

Anyone considering this laptop should also look at the Lenovo Yoga. It does a lot of the same stuff and actually has a silo for storing the pen. I bought mine a year ago and really like it.

Don't mention the fact that it can game cause I need this to show my parents

I have the 15inch and it is absolutely amazing! I have the 16gb ram model and it can handle literally anything!

What app do you use to draw? I am bran new to this.. I got this laptop do Christmas 🎄⛄

I can just look at this laptop. My budget is very limited and this can’t go on my list. But if I would have a bigger budget I would definitely buy it.

I drew stuffs on this 15 inch ryzen version. No pen, just finger-drawings on the touch screen. But no pressure sensitivity as a downside, unless you can alternately connect a drawing tablet.

Please do a review of a high-end Lenovo Yoga C940. I would love an artist review of it before committing to such an expensive product!

App?

Hey Brad, could you tell me where you bought it because I am super sad to say my ENVY doesn't include a pen :// I really absolutely love the device though.

Kind of wish you covered a few more of their laptops, I'm needing a new one, and I'm wanting to just go ahead and get one to draw on too, but I'm not sure what to go for

Could you do a review of the new 2020 Acer spin 3? They have them several places, and I know a Costco for $650. Acer collaborated with Wacom for the software and drawing aspects of it. The pen can be store inside the laptop too.

I'm still happy with my samsung galaxy book, the pen is wacom technology and the screen is beautiful, the only problem is the heating in summer

Can you use the stylus to draw and write on screen in a Zoom meeting? The main reason I consider this model is that I've wanted to write on screen, Zoom whiteboard, or draw on screen using a stylus to explain better during the Zoom meeting

AMD Ryzen is actually better than its Intel counterpart for mobile devices, like laptop. Here's a video comparing similarly priced (200 dollars more expensive) Intel laptop with this laptop. Didn't look good for Intel. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/arxjqKVil9O2ook.html

I have the same sentiment on the pen response on my Lenovo C340 as well... Been thinking to replace it with Wacom Bamboo Ink, but the cost of that thing deters me... The laptop alone, already bled me enough. Probably later on...

I received it a week ago. Pretty solid machine even under Linux. Quite nice with 16GB of ram & the Ryzen 4700u. I just purchased the pci-e wifi Ax200 from intel so it gets the nicest wifi-6 from intel. Realtek wifi cards are generally garbage and this one is no exception. For 10$ I highly recommend anyone purchasing this laptop to change it. Note: The 15" does not have the same color accuracy as the 13". So that might be a show stopper for some. I have the 13" and it's the low power screen, quite bright and properly calibrated.

Can you do a review of the newer model?? I really want to see how they have upped their game in the display, pen etc.

Recently got the '22 Yoga 6 (13.3" 1920x1200 Touch 2-in-1 Laptop Ryzen 7 5700U 16GB RAM 512GB SSD 300 nits) for less than $650. I actually got 2, one each for my twins for their school and as budding artists. I brought this up because Yoga 6 is considered in the same class as this HP 13". Wondering if you could do a review on this model or at least assess its ability for the very young artist just starting out (my daughter loves to draw on my Samsung Note on its incredible Super AMOLED screen). No pen is included with the laptop but it is pen capable, so I'm considering the Wacom Bamboo Plus for its tilt capability unless there is a better alternative that you can suggest. Also, what constitutes a good drawing tablet besides raw power and pen quality? Do the touchscreen and its responsiveness come into play? Or are they pretty on par with one another? Thanks in advance!

I stopped my search at the Samsung Notebook 9 Pro 15" from 2017. It's got an AMD gpu and the color accuracy is about as good as a budget pen display - not as accurate as the Xp-Pen I sold it for. However, the laptop uses the S Pen, so I was able to use the Galaxy Tab S4 for it. It's crazy how it's more accurate than my pen displays pen - which is a dedicated device! I got it for $550 - and I could have got the HP Zbook x2 for $660. I probably should have for the 4K 100% Adobe display, but the processor and gpu are weaker and i kinda want to play games too haha. It's also pretty light

3:30 you do not open the back pretty easily because you must pull the rubber strip where it hides more screws & you cannot install more RAM because there are no memory slots (all soldered down). that has same energy with "you can always download more RAM". you didn't check it by yourself, did you?

I can't wait for the tab s7 plus review

I've seen review of this laptop lately, they used the new stylus that looked bit like the apple pencil also, I'd really like to see more budget tab reviews like tab a8 with s-pen not a lot of review of this one

Wait, I thought your name was "Brad Colbow". Why is the channel name "Brad Cowboy" now lololol Anyways, I always wanted your perspective on the HP Envy x360 and its pen experience, and I'm so glad I got it now!

How is it compared to zenbook flip? Have you tried that one yet? Any future review plans for the zenbook?

I would rather do video editing on an amd ryzen processor than on an Intel

hello brad, im kinda new to all this pen, so can you recommend me a pen to start drawing on laptop ? is the surface pen ok and usable on this laptop?