My teenager needed a new computer for school work. He wanted to have a computer for gaming. I have tried other companies (both laptops and desktops) and have always enjoyed my HP computers more than the others. The computer came sooner than expected and was very easy to set up. There was none of the usual "free" apps or updates that were needed for previous purchased computers. Within a couple of minutes, he was already gaming. This Envy satisfied both of our needs.
I was hoping that this computer would be a much needed upgrade to my 2013 Dell, however I found it to be very similar. It does boot up amazingly fast and has some great features but aving an SSD drive and a 2TB data hard drive has proved confusing for for the processing. As a photo editor, the 256 SSD drive barely contains the programs I need to use, and the communications to the data harddrive proves to be slow and cumbersome. This PC locks up while processing Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop and has completely crashed several time while trying to process photos. It also had a weird quirk that you cannot wake it up when you step away for a few minutes, sometimes it crashes and reboots or I need to do a complete shutdown and bring it back up.