Did HP make a Dell XPS 15 killer??? - Envy 15 

For the turbo nerds here is some more stuff I learned about the OLED display verifying my findings with some experts: -The pixels on this display aren’t what you’d see on a lot of traditional Pentile-type displays, which have double the amount of G subpixels compared to R and B (because your eyes are more sensitive to green). -The B subpixel area is twice that of either the R or G subpixel area. That is not a surprise: Considering that blue OLED decay is much faster than that of R or G, use of twice (or more) area on B enables half or less J (current density, mA/cm2), which reduces the B aging rate. -We were curious if the B subpixel pairs were independently driven or if Samsung cheated when making the panel and driving them together, effectively giving you 1080Ps worth of B pixels. An image was created with a single white pixel on a black background and we verified that the B subpixel pairs are independently driven with the microscope. -It was speculated that the screen might look weird because the blue pixels aren't on the same center line as the red and green ones. I looked at a totally green screen but the dirtyness was still there, making the screendoor effect theory more solid. -Part of the “dirtiness” is mediocre “Mura correction”. Since each individual pixel is emitting it’s own light on an OLED panel it is important that it is properly calibrated so the brightness of each pixel is the same. This information gets baked into the firmware of each individual OLED display, and if the calibration wasn’t done the whole thing would look horrible. -Certain vision astigmatisms will make you a lot more sensitive to pentile layouts, it is possible I'm just really sensitive to this and you might be fine. -These Samsung OLED panels are basically impossible to properly colour calibrate. There isn’t enough power to run the whole thing at max brightness, so the colours/brightness of the scene can change depending on the total power draw of the panel. -All of these artifacts are imperceptible if you’re about 2’ away from the display, but are noticeable at about 1.5’ (fairly typical for using a laptop). -I was able to see the individual subpixels with my naked eye on the XPS 15’s IPS display, but had to get uncomfortably close. Anyway, if there are any display nerds with more info hit me up @AlexTheGreatish, this was a fun little rabbit hole. -AC

The Pixel Layout needs to be in a video on LTT discussing screen quality. This was extremely cool.

I love how almost every other host uses the LTT theme(I can’t remember the name) for audio testing, but Alex uses Crab Rave

Alex: * casually brings out a microscope * Linus: "I do not understand the economic of this channel"

Alex: It has so many ports My old laptop: Oh really

There is something odd about that display ... brings out a microscope. Thats why I like this channel.

2:15 Note for the editor: Maybe you can put the rated speeds of the USB ports on their listings? It's kinda hard to track what all the different names mean without a cribsheet to hand.

one of the best thing i like about this channel is that even though i can't afford these laptops ever, its quite satisfying to watch these reviews and unboxing

Someone has to say it, the same laptop with an AMD CPU would be much better.

8:20 - "You're not actually gonna be able to see it because it's like looking at a screen, through a camera, on your screen that's probably not an OLED.." That's savage... but true.

When I saw the Envy 15 specs I just goes, "Damn, that's the office looking version for the Omen 15"

imagine if nothing else this was a 4900HS instead of a 10750H. literally everything else was the same how different this would be

Alex: "This one is $500 cheaper" *My eyes light up* Alex:: "It's $1,500" *Disappointment sets back in*

Alex: "Can't complain too much" Obviously hasn't checked the comments yet

Fantastic video. I love you getting into the technical details vis a vis screen artifacts.

Love Alex’s un-boxing’s and reviews. Great work.

Is that a gosh darn Fearless Flyers shirt? I love Alex more and more.

Yeah... Good thing you noticed that OLED image quality issue. I was wondering how the heck they managed to squeeze in a 15" 4K OLED touch panel in a $1500 laptop when you can barely get IPS screens with 4K touch at that price point. This old tech explains it. But this laptop with a normal IPS LCD seem to be a good bargain in todays ridiculously priced market space.

"I'm not going to do any benchmarks," he said after using a microscope on the oled panel :D

Love the pixel peeping. Learned something!

AMD would’ve been killer in the laptop Instead of intel

Alex, you are a great and very thorough presenter. Love all your videos, LTT is lucky to have you!

Omg! Just noticed credits at the end! Cool! Thanks guys for making this video! :)

My Dell XPS 15 from 2019 has a gorgeous OLED display, no grainyness or reflections.

I got that same shirt! The Fearless Flyers are amazing.

Love the editing work from “who’s dis?!”

The fearless flyers shirt... What a man of culture

I love how Alex casually brings microscope and discuss screen quality also Brandon's voiceover for just an unboxing video. This is LTT and I love it.

"There it is. It's a laptop".

I was honestly hoping to see a Ryzen CPU, oah well

That Fearless Flyers t-shirt though! 🔥

7:22 OMG thanks Alex I was just having the same problem with my new monitor, moving it back on my desk totally fixed it.

Fearless Flyers Tailwinds t-shirt??!?! 😍😍😍

In my experience HP makes HP killers... I've never had one that didn't die before a year of owning. One literally exploded a VRM

the pixel layout is actually legit cool i hope they implemented this in future monitor review

My job has been issuing out HP Envy 15s as company laptops since last year, the build quality on them is super nice. We've had our issues with them, being an enterprise and all, but overall they're not bad. Mine does have a ghosting issue with the backlight/panel, but not many people have this issue.

OH, I see The Fearless Flyers T-shirt, Alex, good taste!

“oh wow, this seems great! “ * an hour later...* “everything about this seems cheap and it’s falling apart in my hands...” The HP experience in a nutshell.

This video suited you incredibly well Alex. Also the screen stuff super important and cool. Bottom line, in general, can you tell about that 'dirtiness'? Because when you did the voice over, you said something about being "too close", but I saw you just sitting there and typing at a "using my laptop" distance. So I'm not sure how much further away they want you to be from... a laptop. I'd say if the screen isn't amazing or you can tell about these things then it's not worth using it.

Great work man. But would have appreciated if you could show side by side comparison like a game play or photoshop usage on both Dell xps and Hp Envy laptop.

Nice fearless flyers shirt, my dude.

My guess before watching is that if this actually killed the XPS, we’d see a review video on LTT first

I dig the review, and I dig the Fearless Flyers shirt too

I could be wrong but I think you are the first to actually put the HP Envy 15 out there. I looked for months, never found anything. I'd ask reviewers if they would ever get their hands on one. Uniform response is HP does not send review units out... so I bought the XPS 9500. Oh and Dell will not even attempt a price match against the Envy 15. Curious to see some benchmarks on it, but overall I'm very satisfied with my XPS 9500.

I almost squealed when I saw the Fearless Flyers Tshirt 🖤🖤🖤

4:35 Just because this doesn't come with a type C charger doesn't mean it can't be charged by type C. As you mentioned earlier, the 200 W charger keeps the laptop from losing power under load and type C can't deliver 200 W yet. The type C ports on this laptop supports Power Delivery (up to 100 W I think). Please do a little more research before saying stuff like this. PD through type C is one of my favorite features and I keep an eye out so when you said it doesn't support it I remember most HP non gaming laptop have it and went online and checked.

The crosshatching effect or screendoor effect is due to the touch digitizer its also present in hp spectre series too

Loved the review.

I love how Alex’s audio tests are alway Crab Rave

I just bought that for an employee that requested a laptop. They love it.

I'm honestly fascinated with this. As someone who used to be a Lenovo guy but have been using Macbooks now for a few years (for both Windows and macOS), I'd forgotten about all the little things that I just don't worry about any longer, like screen quality issues, hinge quality, and all those other little things. Oh, and 200W power bricks... wow. While the additional ports are really nice... now that I've embraced the USB-C world and I've bought all the cables ( and a USB-C dock... which is essential). I'm used to it and in some ways prefer it. You DO have to be more organized but in general... I'm not using HDMI/SD/USB-A all the time ( when undocked ).

Nice shirt! Gotta love me some fearless flyers and Vulf

11:15 "Actually I'm going to take it off, screw it!" Don't you mean unscrew it!

"There it is, it's a laptop" -Alex, 2020

"there it is, it's a laptop". Alex has seen too much

16:9, the moment I closed the video.

I really like the Envy lineup. The x360 is an amazing laptop!

Woah, is nobody gonna talk about the fearless flyers shirt alex is wearing, took me 9 minutes to notice though

Ahhh Alex back at it again with the Crab Rave speaker test a classic

Wow! I really dig the Fearless Flyers t-shirt. That's awesome!

Repping the fearless flyers shirt I see you

I also have a HP laptop, grey keyboard with back light turned on makes it really hard to see what is on the keys. Also my fan ramps up really quickly and it is quite loud.

I like the option of a Barrel connector because if you only have usb c charging you loose a type c port. If they only provide a USB c charger, it would be nice to have an extra usb c port instead of a barrel connector in that case...

Have this laptop right now for 1 Month now. Still stunned by this device and can't really confirm the critic points. What is a bit enjoying for me is, that the buttom cover is not so stiff in the middle, you can slightly push it inside. Otherwise, no problems with heat and fan noise. On battery with few tweaks my fan is not kicking. Battery is awesome COMPARING to my old laptop without optimus. With enabled Battery Saver i can get out roughly 7 hours by doing office tasks.

"the way the pickles are lined up"

The Fearless Flyers... A man with taste, I see

1:26 That shot was perfect for binaural sound... missed opportunity

I have a question. I'm looking for a laptop to do 1080p video editing for my RU-vid channel. I use windows movie maker (yes, still have it 😁) It's easy. So, do I really need a dedicated graphic card or Intel iris xe with I7 and 16gb ram will be enough? Right now, I upload a 15 minutes 1080p video in 20 minutes with my desktop with I7 and older system from 2017. Thinking about buying the Samsung book pro with iris xe or Dell xps 15 with iris xe.. Or should I buy the GeForce rtx 3050?Thanks 👍

RTX off: "HP ENVY 15 2020" RTX on: *OMEN 15 2020*

I'd be very interested to see the real world thermal performance of this compared to the XPS 15.

Sick Fearless Flyers shirt!

Is that a Fearless Flyers T-Shirt ? Awesome.

The bottom looks very similar to omen 15

"Let me just get a microscope..." I love you! 🤣

The charging port is also HP Fast Charge, which apparently charges 50% in 45 minutes according to the HP specs.

Really appreciate the afford on the Screen Laboratory. Good Job Alex

Maybe it's different when you're in-person, but did anyone else think the HP sounded better than the XPS?

Aside from the screen wobble (I'd have to judge the actual screen in person), I like it. Also like seeing they adopted good cooling practices normally seen on gaming notebooks as well. This is generally the notebooks I like - not game focused, no gamer looks, but still capable of gaming in a pinch when called upon.

That new HP logo really works for me

Nice Fearless Flyers shirt, Alex!!!

"There is something going on with screen" *Bring out a microscope* *subscribed*

At that price, get a zephyrus g14. It's better in a lot of ways.

Holy cow! Full sized ports and more than 2?! Well done HP... this is pretty awesome. Would have liked an RJ45 port but I also like the Dock-life. But: Full sized ports and more than two of them! In 2020! I might consider buying HP again... after two of their laptops randomly died on me in the past.

Dude this looks really similar to a Razer Blade 15 White Mercury Edition! Even the insides are awesome like the Blade with the Vapor Chamber

when even the unboxing channel for LTT pulls out a microscope.

> 1600$ laptop > "im just really surprised Hp managed to crowd a vapor chamber in a BUDGET notebook liket this"

HP has been on a roll the last 5 years. I have an older Envy 13 with an MX150 inside - it’s super reliable with a great screen, battery life and MacBook build quality, and can handle the occasional Starcraft 2 game. I’m actually looking at their Omen 27i monitor, which combines color accuracy with a 165hz refresh rate. Even in my office, the workstations with that “cheap” enterprise screens look great. They’ve come a long way!

What a honest and funny review !! Loved it

Honestly HP always disappoints me, when I started uni I needed a powerful laptop for some cad and rendering stuff and I went for the 2019 HP omen 15 because specs seemed good for the price, Long story short first one the gpu dies in 2 days, got it replaced, second one came with a screen issue and a broken fan, and third one came with a gpu with a bunch of artifacts, this over a period of a couple of weeks, so eventually I complained enough to HP that they gave me a refund rather than a replacement, so I went for the ROG Zephyrus 701GWR and that one has no issues. My friend got the 17 inch omen instead and in 2 months he got a dead gpu too, and my father has had an HP ultrabook, I think it was the specter line and that laptop was littered with issues too, HP laptops seem good on paper but in reality they are pretty bad, also customer support is a big pain

I'm just waiting for the day these have AMD processors. It's so close, I can feel it. pleease

09:00 that sound difference is soo noticable lol

I love that Alex always uses the crab song to test sound

Ah yes, "Who's Dis?!", a well known editor of LMG.

Having now used an alternative, lengthened aspect ratio for a couple of years (like 3:2 or 16:10), I'll never go back to a 16:9 again no matter how good or cheap the laptop is. While it doesn't seem like a big difference, in productivity work, it really is.

This looks very nice. I didn't expect that price when you said it. But man, this laptop has a lot. But I seriously want to know what they put micro SD card slots...especially at that size.

I absolutely LOVE that Alex uses crab rave for audio testing.

Is it just me or does the HP laptop look just like the Razer Blade 15???

"a lot of ports" lmaooooo So sad that we manufacturers make laptops so thin and sacrifice cooling and functionality :(

Fearless flyers shirt? That is a deep cut.

Envy 15 owner here.... I believe that the hinge flex shown at 3:52 may be limited to your unit.... I have the 2020 HP Envy 15 and I am not experiencing this issue. That being said, people on reddit have discussed a variety of QC issues with this particular model, even if I haven't experienced any myself. Overall it's a great device, at a great price! The vapor chamber makes a huge difference allowing smooth gaming without the thermal issues that XPS models have had in the past (I used to own a 9550).