
The Envy 14 looks great and generally runs great, but there are also a handful of minor but frustrating issues that seem out of place on a high-end laptop. If that remains the case, we'd have no problem choosing the Beats Edition if we liked the color better than the standard gray.

Originally, this version included a pair of Beats Solo headphones, and added about $250 to the bottom line, making it a bad deal on paper, if only by a little (Beats Solo headphones will run you about $179 by themselves).Ĭurrently, the Envy 14 Beats Edition is available without the headphones, and we were able to configure an identical-but not entry-level-build in the black Beats and gray standard editions for $1,149 (you can't knock the Beats Edition down to the same $999 starting point as the regular Envy 14). As with the original Envy, there is also a black-clad Beats Edition of the Envy 14, which highlights the partnership with Beats Audio.
