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HP has revealed the small print of this 12 months’s additions to its mid-range (and usually fairly good worth) Envy line. This 12 months, the corporate is all in on webcams, fan blades, and… IMAX?

Yeah, I’m not fairly positive both. HP claims that its new HP Envy x360 15 (nicely, 15.6 inches, to be exact), accessible later this month for a beginning worth of $949.99, is the primary “IMAX Enhanced licensed PC”. IMAX Enhanced is a house theater certification program that’s been kicking round for a couple of years, but it surely’s typically utilized to love, TVs and projectors and stuff. Now it’s on a laptop computer, I assume!

Equally to one thing like Intel’s Evo program, units that need IMAX Enhanced certification have to fulfill varied totally different requirements, however the principle one is that they’ve the flexibility to show IMAX-shot content material in an prolonged side ratio. At launch, this will likely be accessible for “choose films and sequences”. Assist will begin with Disney Plus (which is the place all of the Marvel stuff is, so, high-quality) with extra options on the way in which.

The system can even help an “IMAX theatrical sound combine” to “ship a novel and unique totally immersive spatial audio expertise, preserving full dynamic vary at reference stage”. Positive, why not?

Superhero stuff apart, the brand new Envy units (together with a 14 incher that’s accessible now for $849.99 and a 17.3 inch mannequin coming in Might for $1,149.99) have 5-megapixel cameras throughout the road. HP claims that this digital camera, with its bodily shutter and Home windows Hiya help, will make for a “considerably higher digital camera” than final 12 months’s Envy units delivered.

The factor I’m truly most enthusiastic about is {that a} new fan design can even debut right here, with 25 p.c thinner blades, 58 p.c extra blades, and 9 p.c elevated airflow. Extra airflow is sweet! You possibly can by no means have an excessive amount of airflow. That’s what I at all times say.

In case you had been questioning about chips, all three of those fashions will include Thirteenth-Gen Intel Core processors and Intel Iris Xe graphics. The 15 and 17 may also be outfitted with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 cell GPU.

Oh, and the 15-inch model additionally has an AMD Ryzen 7000 mannequin with Radeon built-in graphics. Intriguing! I hope they ship me that one to evaluation.