HP Envy TouchSmart 14 Laptop

Think Apple's retina-display MacBooks are pretty cool? Then you might like the HP Envy TouchSmart 14, Hewlett-Packard's new ultra-high-resolution laptop. Boasting a crazy-high pixel count of 3,200 x 1,800, it's 14-inch screen has even more pixels than one on the 15-inch retina MacBook Pro (2,880 x 1,800).

The TouchSmart 14 Ultrabook isn't available yet though since it's waiting on Intel's fourth-generation Core processors, codenamed "Haswell," which should arrive sometime in the next month. HP expects to start selling the ultra-sharp Windows 8 laptop on June 26. It's unknown what the price will be, although the laptop will be available at a lower resolution (1,366 x 768) for $699 if that's any guidance.

Configurations aren't known either, although if you're opting for an ultra-high-res display, you're going to need some serious processing power to drive those pixels the way you'd like. Especially since the screen is equipped with touch, and you'll want that fluid, lifelike response when you tap and swipe.

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The design matches the rest of the HP's new Envy machines, with a metallic finish and stereo speakers equipped with Beats Audio (there's also a subwoofer).

The move toward ultra-high-resolution displays has been a growing trend among laptops since the debut of Apple's MacBook Pro With Retina Display. HP's new TouchSmart 14 is one of the highest-resolution screens announced yet for the category, matching the 13.3-inch laptop Samsung showed off at Display Week 2013. Of course, that was a tech demo and the new Envy will be a real product very soon.

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Hands-on photos by Pete Pachal, Mashable; press photos courtesy of HP