Will the hp envy 13 get a kaby lake refresh?

[Guest]

I'm thinking of getting the envy 13 for college, because its the cheapest good looking laptop with an intel core processor at the moment.
While kaby lake is not exactly a big upgrade, i would still prefer to get the newest intel cpu, especially since it will be more power efficient (or as they claim).

 

[Ne0Wolf7]

Kabby Lake has a MAJOR issue that prevents me from recommending it at the moment- when you buy a PC with that microarchitecture, you're playing the silicone lottery.
This means that the OEM (in this case, HP) is allowed to overclock or underclock the CPU, play with the voltage, the BLCK multiplier and everything else. Stick with Skylake or haswell this time.

 

[Guest]

Kabby Lake has a MAJOR issue that prevents me from recommending it at the moment- when you buy a PC with that microarchitecture, you're playing the silicone lottery.
This means that the OEM (in this case, HP) is allowed to overclock or underclock the CPU, play with the voltage, the BLCK multiplier and everything else. Stick with Skylake or haswell this time.

All i want of it is better power efficiency and hopefully better battery life or less heat produced, since right now i've heard the only way to actually get decent battery life is to disable fans when idle

 

[Ne0Wolf7]

http://www.zerodollartips.com/laptop-with-longest-battery-life/
The link is a list of notebooks with the longest battery life according to zerdollartips. Chose the one that best fits your budget.
If you won't be gaming or doing anything else that needs some extra grunt, pretty much all of those suffice. If you'll be using special 3D modeling, or video editing software, tell us.