I bought an HP Envy laptop in 2017, and it has been my daily driver for 8 years

12 July, 2025 - Categories: PCs - Tags: HP

By Steven Rosenberg

I bought this HP Envy 15 laptop 8 years ago, and it's still running very well.

I run Fedora Silverblue and OpenBSD on it with no issues. I pulled the spinning Windows drive years ago, and it now contains two SSDs (NVMe for Fedora and SATA for OpenBSD).

The rubber strips on the bottom fell off (front) and were pulled off (rear, to get the case open for upgrades) years ago, and since then I use those little clear stick-on rubber/plastic feet from the hardware store to keep the metal case from scratching tables and woggling around.

(Aside: Are metal laptop cases better than plastic? NO.)

I have replaced the battery twice. The most recent one has lasted a long time.

Keyboard, touchpad and screen are fine.

It shipped with 16 GB of RAM, and that's still a decent amount. I thought it's 1080p screen would be a thing of the past in maybe a year or two, but today most laptops still offer the same 1920x1080p resolution.

It could die any day, but it shows no sign of doing so.

All in all, a good purchase.