HP has actually been fleshing out its Ultrabook schedule as of late, most recently including the metal-clad Envy Spectre XT to the mix, but the company is additionally attending to the reduced end of the market place with its Sleekbook line, revealed back in Might. Confusingly, these thin-and-light systems look exactly the exact same as the brand-new Envy-branded Ultrabooks, with the exception of that the Sleekbooks are cheaper– namely since for one reason or another they do not meet Intel’s Ultrabook rules. One such notebook, the Envy Sleekbook 6z, stands apart from the Ultrabook fold with an AMD Trinity APU– a spec that helps keep the starting price good and low at $ 600.

That’s not to state that all of HP’s Sleekbooks ditch Intel processors, but provided the choice between and AMD – and Intel-based style we rapidly picked the previous. After all, the 6z is the very first Trinity-powered system we have actually had the chance to examination, so we were naturally inquisitive to see just how it stacks up against current Ivy Bridge equipments– and we envision you are, too. So without any type of more ado, let’s get to it.