HP Envy 17 Gets Released With Pricing

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If you were looking for a 3D experience that was a bit more portable than the ordinary, but you didn’t want to settle for those tiny autostereoscopic screens you hear about sometimes, then chances are you were eagerly looking forward to the HP Envy 17, which will make other 3D buffs drool with exactly that. Well, your wait is over, as not only is it now released, but now we know the price tag on this sucker.

You last heard about the HP Envy 17 back in September, so it was high time we got something in the way of updates about it. But first, a bit of refresher about the spec list on this three dimensional beauty.

It’ll be bringing with it a 17.3 inch HD display, an Intel Core i7 processor, ATI Radeon HD 5850 one gig graphics card, your choice of six or eight gigs of RAM (wow, remember when it was a big deal the first time you could get a full gig of RAM?) and a pair of drive bays giving you as much as two terabytes of storage space. You’ll even get some additional niceties like an onboard webcam (that’s also in HD, though it’s probably not in 3D, which is a shame because I’d love to put on the Na’vi skin for my next videoconference call and tell marketing to stay away from the big tree) and a backlit keyboard.

The included 3D glasses, by the way, aren’t a pair of red-and-blue lensed affairs, but rather powered active shutter glasses, which basically allows the glasses themselves to lighten and darken successively over the appropriate lenses of the glasses in sync with the refresh rate of the image being displayed.

And now, of course, the part you’ve likely skipped all the background to get to, the price. You’ll be able to get your hands on this 3D impressiveness right this minute for the shockingly reasonable price  of  $1599 to start. Considering laptops used to routinely sell for that kind of money, it’s not surprising to see that price tag come back for such clearly higher-end models as the HP Envy 17.