HP used a folding Ethernet jack on the left side of the chassis to keep this Ultrabook as thin as possible. There are also two USB 3.0 ports and a sleep-and-charge USB 2.0 port. You’ll see a 4-in-1 media card reader (SD, SDHC, SDXC, and MMC), headphone and microphone jacks and HDMI, but no VGA port for older external monitors and projectors. The 14-inch ENVY 4 TouchSmart features most of the major ports you expect to find on a modern laptop on the left and right sides of the chassis with no ports on the front or back edges. This Ultrabook uses two standard RAM slots and a 7mm hard drive as well as a mSATA SSD slot, so upgrades are possible … you just have to be prepared to remove all 13 Phillips head screws so you can get inside. The bottom half of the notebook looks clean with no quick access panel for removing the hard drive, RAM, or other components. If you take a quick look at the bottom of the ENVY 4t, you’ll see it’s pretty standard for an Ultrabook. While we’re talking about the screen, it’s also worth mentioning that since this Ultrabook was designed with the understanding that users would regularly touch the screen, HP moved the majority of the internal weight (battery, hard drive, etc.) to the front half of the chassis beneath the palm rests so you won’t have to worry about the laptop “flipping over” even when you are pressing on the screen. The screen lid is strong and we didn’t see any screen distortions or “ripples” when we applied pressure to the back of the screen. The previously mentioned aluminum covers and rubber-coated plastics should make the ENVY 4 more than durable enough for average home and student use. Again, this Ultrabook is still thinner and lighter than most of the laptops that people are currently using. The ENVY 4 could be a little slimmer and lighter if it used a standard display instead of one with a touch-enabled surface, but the minor increase in thickness isn’t likely to be noticed by most consumers.
The notebook itself is just 23 mm (.9 in) thin with the screen closed and weighs only 2.1 kg (4.77 lbs) so it’s actually as small or smaller than most 13-inch laptops from a few years ago. Like the rest of the Ultrabooks in the HP lineup, the ENVY 4 TouchSmart is about as thin and light as it can be. Although the bottom half of the notebook is plastic, it is covered in a “soft touch” rubberized paint which gives this Ultrabook a more premium look and feel compared to the lower-priced HP Pavilion notebooks. This laptop is wrapped in plastic with brushed aluminum plates covering the screen lid as well as the top of the chassis around the keyboard and palm rests. HP engineers have been pretty consistent with the design philosophy for HP’s line of Ultrabooks and the ENVY TouchSmart 4t is no exception.
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