HP ENVY 15-3200 Update with Intel Ivy Bridge Shows Up

The update to the popular HP ENVY 15 line with Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processor has showed up on HP Korea meaning the world release is likely imminent by either the end of this month or early June. According to the product specs page (screenshot below) the ENVY 15-3200 series will be available with an Intel Core i7-3612QM 2.1GHz processor and have a standard 8GB of memory. The graphics will be updated from the current series AMD 7690M to the new AMD 7750M. The configuration listed on the Korean site comes equipped with a 256GB SSD, but that’s likely an upgrade and will not be standard. And it looks like the 1920 x 1080 Radiance display is still an option, let’s just hope they’ve fixed that “red looks orange” issue this time around.



The design and features in the updated ENVY 15-3200 series appear to be the same as the earlier ENVY 15-3000 that’s currently available still, there are no cosmetic differences, at least as far as we can tell from the product shots offered. One slight difference noticed is that it appears there will be three USB 3.0 ports instead of the previous two. Nothing to do flips over, but we’ll take any incremental improvements on an already great machine.

As far as gaming performance and improvements that might be seen, the AMD 7750M is not available at the moment and has not been benchmarked, but speculation is that it will be on par with the Nvidia 650M found in the HP dv6t-7000 series. The Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7 series that will be available with this are all Quad Core based and will offer about a 15% processing improvement over the earlier ENVY 15-3000. We were duly impressed when reviewing the ENVY 15 earlier this year so this update will only improve upon a great offering.

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