Customer Ratings & Reviews

Amazing device very powerful for gaming but if you are using it to edit high-quality camera footage, it will run slow

Amazing laptop does everything I want on it if you are willing to go the distance you can probably play anything on it!

Ive had my computer for a couple of months now and its a prerty good gamkng laptop it gets what you throw at it

HP's newest laptop joins the growing segment of portable laptops in the 14-inch category. From a glance, HP has come out swinging and for the most part, they do land some serious blows. Quick speck glance: 14-inch 120hz VRR IMAX, EyeSafe Certified OLED Panel 2880x1800 Resolution Intel Ultra i7 Processor with support of Intel AI Boost RTX 4060 (65w) 16GB of Soldered LPDDR5X Ram 1TB NVME Drive that can be upgraded Omen Tempest Cooling Technology 140w Compact USB C Charger with quick charge from 0% to 50% in 30mins. Four Zone RGB Keyboard Designed it’s a good-looking laptop, and as for the build quality, it’s a solid aluminum build. Overall I like the design style HP went with. There is a decent amount of port selection. You get x2 USB C Thunderbolt, a full-size HDMI port, and x2 full-size USB A ports. The keyboard does have this translucent look to it that you either hate it or love it. I do like the looks of it but with the darkened keys it does make it hard to see some of the keys. The RGB is divided into 4 zones for RGB color customizations. As for the typing experience the travel depth is decent, but the keys just feel slippery, which I end up making more mistakes. For gaming, they should be fine. As for the built-in speakers, they do sound nice but overall volume output could use a boost. There’s not much to say about this beautiful display that hasn’t been said about good-quality OLED displays. I believe this might be the first OLED panel to support VRR which leads to smoother gameplay. Compared to my Asus Zenbook which has an OLED panel the Omen 14 has a brighter panel that you can tell right away. For the Asus, I would need to increase the brightness to around 65% for it to get as bright as the Omen which is around 50%. Battery life is where HP ends up stumbling. In balanced mode I was able to get right around 6 hours of battery of mixed usage of browsing the web, watching YouTube and Netflix videos. I had high hopes with Intel's latest chips but so far they’re not as efficient with battery life even with the AI capabilities. One of the games I downloaded right away to see how capable the Omen 14 Transcend is was Forza Motorsport. This game is GPU extensive; even with high-end cards like 4090, it’s brutal. This is one of the games that is confusing at first to adjust the settings and depending on some settings you end up with poor performance. With everything max at the internal resolution it was barely reaching 30fps. After tinkering with it for a while, I found a good compromise between quality and performance with a near-constant 60+ fps in performance mode, with balanced mode hovering around 50+ fps for races that have intensive effects like heavy rain with the daytime set in the evening The only time I did experience some dips was when multiple cars were present in the screen, like at the beginning of the race or passing multiple cars that would end causing some frame dips. I was impressed with the CPU temps staying below 90c in performance mode, and balanced mode same settings hovering around low to mid 60c. GPU temps were even much lower usually hovering around 65c in performance mode with balanced mode right around 55c. All while the majority of the heat is around the top row of keys going towards the back of the laptop, with no side vents you don’t have to worry about having your hand being warmed from the blast of hot air from the right side since all of the hot air is being pushed out from the rear vents of the laptop. For less demanding races without intensive graphical effects like weather effects expect even lower temps and higher fps. I’m sure of could have achieved higher fps by dropping the quality even lower and the resolution, but I’m satisfied with 60fps. The dips weren't significant enough for me to noticed. I think it’s a good compromise that gives you a good gaming experience. As for fan noise, they were around 50db in performance mode and balanced mode coming in right around 45db. It’s still loud but tolerable in my opinion. If you tend to game with headphones on you won’t notice the fan noise at all. For less demanding tasks you barely will hear the fan noise at all. Forza Motorsport Graphics Settings: Dynamic Render Quality: High Resolution: 2560x1440 Nvidia DLSS: Balanced Performance Target: unlocked frame rate Anisotropic Filtering: 16x Raytracing Quality: Full reflections + RTAO RTAO Quality: Medium Shadow Quality: Medium Cebemap reflection Quality: Medium Car Model Quality: High Car livery Quality: High Windshield Reflection Quality: Medium Mirror Quality: Medium Track Texture Quality: Medium Particle Effects Quality: Medium Motion Blur Quality: High Lens Flare Quality: High VRAM Usage: 5,888/7,972 MB Overall I’m very happy with the Omen 14 Transcend it’s a good-performing laptop that is not going to run everything at max settings, but if you take the time to adjust the settings you can achieve some great results without having to sacrifice too much quality, especially for this gorgeous OLED panel. As I said before battery life is a disappointment, I did expect more from the Intel Core Ultra 7 1555H. It’s a powerful CPU but hopefully, with a couple of updates, it can be optimized to increase battery life. Technology has come a long way to see this type of performance on a thin laptop that years ago would have been held back by thermals, or weak CPU/GPU chipsets to keep it from burning itself up. If you’re looking for a thin light portable laptop that won’t be a burden to carry around, but can still game with an ok battery life the HP Omen 14 Transcend is worthy of consideration.

The 14” Transcend is a powerhouse of a portable gaming laptop with a clean, high-end aesthetic. It has an all-aluminum metal exterior with smooth rounded edges that is quite thin at a little over 0.5 inch, and it weighs just over 3.5 lbs. While the black matte finish picks up and holds onto fingerprints easily, it’s also available in white which may not show them as readily. There are also a few different build packages, and this is the mid-range configuration. This build runs on the 115H Intel Core Ultra 7 Series processor with 16 cores, 4.8 GHz max, and 24 MB of L3 cache. It comes with a 1 TB Gen 4 NVMe SSD pre-installed and 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM soldered to the motherboard (not upgradable). The discrete GPU is an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 with 8 GB GDDR6 RAM. These specs are decent for gaming at mid to high quality settings and would work for non-gaming applications as well, though I personally find the screen size a bit cramped for creative work like video editing software. Interestingly, there is no MUX switch option to use only the discrete GPU, just hybrid or integrated graphics mode are available, though this omission helps to extend its battery life. On a full charge, during casual use for web browsing, work, and watching streaming video content, I was able to get just under 4 hours of use on battery power in 'hybrid' mode. While gaming this was cut down to 1 to 1.5 hrs depending on the quality settings. The laptop handles itself well for most games but may feel a little sluggish at ultra video settings. In first-person shooters like Counterstrike 2 I was able to achieve 100-120 fps consistently without running into performance issues like stuttering and frame drops, though in RPGs like Path of Exile the framerates generally ran between 60-80 fps without exceeding that threshold. On the right-hand side of the laptop are two USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 ports in the back corner with one featuring sleep charging. On the left hand side is a Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) port and combo mic/headphone jack. Along the back is a second USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 port and HDMI 2.1 output port. The HDMI and Thunderbolt ports can both be used to connect external displays. As well, both USB-C ports can be used for charging with the 140Watt adapter or with Power Delivery chargers. Allegedly, you’ll get better charging performance out of the port located at the back of the laptop where it’s neatly out of your way, however, in my testing, I was able to get about 50% charge in just 30 minutes using either port. On the underside, two rubber feet span the width of the laptop at the front and back and two exhaust fans cool the device off during heavy usage. While the grille vent appears to cover a large portion of the base, the intake cutouts are only located above the fans and vent out the back of the laptop. The fans do a great job at keeping the laptop cool during heavy usage and aren’t super loud either, which means you can actually use the onboard speakers during gameplay and still hear them. The stereo speakers are positioned on the bottom towards the front corners and while the sound quality is pretty good, I feel they sometimes sound a little muffled. For that reason I prefer using headphones with this laptop. The edge-to-edge OLED screen has a 14” diagonal with thin bezels, 120Hz max refresh rate, 500 nits max brightness (HDR), 2 ms response time, and max resolution of 2880 x 1800 (2.8k at 16:10 aspect ratio). The screen quality is the standout feature with deep, true blacks, and vibrant saturated colors across 100% DCI-P3 or 99% sRGB colorspace. While the glossy finish makes glare and reflections worse in bright lighting, it’s not an issue in a darker environment, plus it’s easy to overlook that in favor of the fineness in detail, sharpness, and accurate colors of the 240 PPI display. As tempting as it is to tap the screen though, it is not touch-capable. Connectivity-wise, it supports WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 for super-fast connections to external wireless devices like headphones and mobile devices and when used with headphones experiences lag-free syncing with video content. Download speeds were fast and reliable providing an excellent and smooth online/networked gaming experience. It has a 1080p front facing webcam with dual-array noise canceling mics, perfect for streaming, video chat, and meetings. The full-sized RGB-backlit keyboard has 4 customizable lighting zones and the keys are all edge-lit for easy visibility and a cool gamer aesthetic. The keys are responsive but have a high actuation force albeit with a soft landing, so they don’t make a lot of noise and snap back pretty quickly. The trackpad is generously sized and responds to multi-touch gestures, but the buttons take a beat to disengage, so alternating left and right mouse clicks very quickly isn’t possible. I strongly recommend using an external mouse. One feature I found interesting was in the ability to create custom key assignment for macros in the OMEN Gaming hub. This is not only useful for executing quick actions or a sequence of keystrokes while gaming, but also has general utility for other applications like automating repetitive work tasks or creating shortcuts. You can also enable some on-screen overlays with stats like CPU temp, framerate, and RAM usage. I was unable, however, to toggle on NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience in-game overlay. Overall, the Transcend 14 is a powerful lightweight gaming laptop with a gorgeous OLED display that delivers a satisfying gaming experience and excellent visuals for content consumption. It’s fast, responsive, and ultra-portable making great for on-to-go work or play.

Let me start with this the build quality on this laptop is amazing. It’s thin, it’s light, it’s quiet and has great performance. It has an amazing looking screen. In most cases I would say this is the perfect laptop but it has a couple of flaws that really drag it down. Let me start with the negatives and we will end on the positives. The first is the speakers, and let me say they are not good if you are in a quiet environment they are not bad but if you start some games and the fans kick on it can be hard to hear, and the kicker is the fans never get too loud unless your really trying to max out the laptop. The next issue I had is the screen reflectivity it’s not great, it can be hard to see if you have a light source in front of the screen. I have trouble using it in my kitchen because the sunlight causes massive glares. The screen gets decently bright and in darker environments it looks great. But it can be hard to use in very bright areas. The last issue is the battery life and yes I know this is a gaming pc, and that is true but that is where the small size of the laptop I think affects this one over a bigger one. They have to cram so much and think about the thermals that it ends up with a smaller battery where you do feel how fast it drains. Doing work related tasks or just watching media I was able to get about 5 hours of battery life. Now let’s go on to the positives, the size and portability is awesome it’s a big enough screen that you can comfortably work or watch but small enough to fit in a backpack, it’s also pretty light so you don’t feel like your carrying a brick around. The screen is amazing the colors and picture quality looks great. I ditched my tablet to start watching movies on here because it looks so good. And the last thing is performance this thing is powerful for how small and compact it is. Very game I tested played great, it’s not a very loud laptop also which is great. If you are someone that tends to just use your laptop at home and it’s somewhat dark in your house this is definitely the laptop I would recommend.

The HP OMEN Transcend 14 came in a simple box containing the laptop itself along with a 140W USB-C power adapter. The build quality seems excellent. It is very light, compact and solid with little to no flex and wobble. Aesthetically, I think it’s a beautiful laptop that can pass as a productivity laptop if you turn off the keyboard RGB lights. The internal components are all first rate. Intel Core Ultra 7 155H with Intel AI Boost Neural Processor and integrated Intel Arc Graphics Samsung LPDDR5 K3KL8L80CM-MGCT 16GB memory SK hynix PC801 NVMe Gen4 1TB SSD nVidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz External ports are decent. On the left side, there is a Thunderbolt 4/USB-C port and a headphone/microphone jack. At the back there is another USB-C port along with an HDMI 2.1 port. You can use either USB-C ports to charge the laptop but when I tried to use the left side USB-C port for charging, I got a notification that I should charge using the rear USB-C port for full performance. Charging the laptop was also very fast compared to my other laptops. Finally, there are also two USB-A ports on the right side for other expansion needs. The web camera is excellent. Image quality is extremely sharp and has very good low light performance. I think it’s one of the best laptop cameras I have ever experienced. The built-in Windows Camera app also supports features such as automatic framing, eye contact and background blurring which I suspect are enabled with the Intel AI Neural Processor since these features aren’t available in my other computers. This would make a great laptop for video conferencing and work. I got excellent wireless performance and stability with my home network. Link speed is reported to be at 2402/1922 (Mbps) using my TP-Link DECO AX4300 Pro mesh routers. I am also getting full speed with my Xfinity internet service (940.49 Mbps download and 23.68 Mbps upload with 15ms ping). During my use, the laptop has been rock solid. I did not encounter any weird problems. It just works. The 2880 x 1800 OLED screen is gorgeous. Images are bright, crisp and clear and text is super sharp. The colors are so vivid, it makes watching videos and playing games such a great pleasure. The sound is also pretty good as far as laptops go. The sound is clear with a fairly decent soundstage and can get adequately loud but is somewhat lacking in bass as is typical of all laptops. The HP OMEN Transcend 14 comes close to perfection for me. It is the laptop with the fewest compromises that I have owned. I have laptops that are great game machines but are too heavy and big to carry around all the time. I also have light and thin laptops that are easy to carry but they can only play light games. The HP OMEN Transcend 14 is a lightweight, compact, and thin travel laptop that can also play AAA games. With the nVidia RTX 4060 laptop GPU, I was getting 30 to 70 fps at 2880 x 1800 at very high settings when playing games like Baldur’s Gate, Warhammer 40K Chaos Gate, and Marvel’s Midnight Suns. What is even more amazing is that the fan noise is very quiet compared to my other laptops when gaming. You can hear the fans spin but it’s very subdued compared to the jet engines from some of my other laptops. This laptop seems to have the best thermals and fan noise of any laptop that I’ve owned. I’ve been really impressed with it. This laptop also offers an interesting option with its integrated Arc graphics. I’m a big fan of the discrete Arc graphics cards and I was super curious about its integrated versions. You can use the integrated Arc graphics if you want to conserve power usage while still being able to play games. When playing Marvel’s Midnight Suns, I was getting about 21 fps at 2880 x 1800 using the integrated Arc graphics compared to 70 fps with the nVidia RTX 4060. I can get even more performance by lowering the resolution. When using the integrated Arc graphics, I didn’t notice any fan noise. With the new Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, this laptop is also a powerhouse for productivity. Visual Studio 2022 Community with a full workload installed in about 13 minutes and felt very zippy for my software development. Web browsing, watching videos, and general office productivity work (word processing, Excel spreadsheets, and using Quicken for balancing my checkbook) all went smoothly. In my opinion, the only major compromise this laptop has is in future memory upgradability. It only comes with 16GBs of very fast soldered LPDDR5 memory and it is not user upgradable. The advantage of having LPDDR5 memory is that it is usually much faster than user upgradable SODIMM memory. However, LPDDR5 memory is always soldered into the motherboard and is not user upgradable. The internal 1TB SSD is upgradable, however. 16GB is now the bare minimum for me. It is enough for most games and tasks but for more serious software development work, I sometimes would like to have a little more memory when I’m dealing with large datasets. Hopefully, in the future a new memory standard will arrive that will allow super fast memory to be user upgradable in a thin and compact laptop. As for now, I can strongly recommend anyone looking for a new laptop to give consideration to the HP OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14. It has one of the best displays of any laptop that I’ve ever seen. It’s lightweight and easy to carry when traveling yet powerful enough to do AAA gaming and any productivity tasks you might need. It has the most impressive thermals and fan noise of all my other laptops and is the quietest laptop I have ever used when gaming. The HP OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14 could be the best laptop I have ever owned. For me, it’s close to perfection.

Out of the box, we are getting a 140W USB-C charger. Out of the box my laptop had no charge, but I would say I was able to get 50%ish in 30-40 minutes, which is not bad. The body itself is aluminum, which is not to look at, but it does attract fingerprints easily, but tbh, to me its not that big a deal. Some it is. On the front we have a simple OMEN logo. Overall, it does not look like a gaming laptop on the outside, but when you open it up, the keyboard is a nice bright RGB setup, which I enjoy. So, you are getting simply on the outside, gaming on the inside. The screen itself is a beautiful OLED screen, which if you have not played on OLED yet, this is a great first OLED laptop. You get 16GB of RAM (bare minimum these days, but it will suffice for most games) and a 4060. In my testing, I was able to get 60-90 frames med-high setting on most games I played. The trackpad is average. I feel a bit of a wobble on my unit when utilizing the trackpad, which I am not a huge fan of, but most people now a days have a mouse, so its not THAT big a deal. Overall, I have had no issues with the laptop. I would like to be able to pick if I want to use the integrated graphics or dedicated 4060, but currently the OMEN software does not allow this. The laptop is built well for the most part, and gaming wise (which is what it was built for), I have had no issues.

Powerful performance for sure, easily able to game or do work on this with no problem, OLED screen looks fantastic as well as the above average frequency on the RAM modules in this system. One big problem I have right now is how you are unable to set your own custom profiles for power draw, and refresh rate. So far I've only found 3 profiles that you are stuck with from the Omen Gaming Hub. Because of this, if i want to save battery, I must use the Eco mode, which sets the refresh rate to 24hz, and I must go into windows display settings > advanced, and set the refresh rate to my desired one. Although semi-quick to do, every time the laptop sleeps or I switch back to balanced/performance, I am met with the same process once I go back to eco. Thankfully balanced and advanced modes do not set your refresh rate after each change, so I typically stay in balanced mode. If you made it this far, customization is my one big need for laptops like this, I typically have had Asus Laptops, and am used to being able to make very specific power usage and refresh rate profiles for my needs. If you know this won't be a bother to you, then this laptop is especially thin, light, and powerful when turned up all the way. I would say 5-6 hours in Balanced mode, which is good however I'm picky and again, want my customization. I am sure in the future HP may add more options, and profiles for these features, but so far it doesn't exist from what I've seen.

It’s a pretty good laptop, and I love how the keyboard looks. It runs very smooth, the fan is pretty loud depending on the game though. So, you might want to get some good gaming headphones. Only reason why I’m give it 4 stars is because you CANNOT install more RAM into the laptop, had to find out the hard way. The Geek Squad people said that they were about to install some RAM I bought for the laptop, but when they opened the back, they couldn’t. Something about how the original RAM in the computer was welded in, and there was no room for more? So if you planned to get 16 GB of RAM and then later upgrade to more, don’t. You might as well drop a few more hundreds and get the laptop that had the 32 GB of RAM already it in.

Great laptop, runs well, quick, and the screen quality is amazing. Really nothing to complain about, the battery life isn’t amazing but that’s to be expected with a gaming laptop, especially one that has the hardware that this one does.

Bought this laptop to keep up with some games while on a long vacation. This laptop is great. The display is beautiful, keys are great and it’s not heavy at all. Can play pretty much run everything current @2k and get 60FPS or more in many cases. Heat distribution is pretty good compared to other laptops I’ve used/owned. Unfortunately for me, 2 days into my vacation my power brick stopped working. I have no way to charge my device for the rest of my vacation in secluded Maine. I will most likely end up returning this when I get back home.

The laptop was solidly built. I did like the oled screen. Performance in games was expected for a 4060. Both this laptop and my G16 (Asus) have a weird colorful blue/green tint when exposed to direct sunlight. The finish looks somewhere in between glossy and matte, but is mostly glossy. I wish the direct natural light reflection was handled better or at least had a neutral color instead of making the entire screen look like a pair of sunglasses, so expect to mostly use this indoors. Another perk were the quiet fans, which makes the laptop nice to use for productivity. Con is it isn’t Gsync, and no easy option to get 32GB with a lower end config with the soldered ram. I ended up returning and getting the Zepherus G16 and I think I like it better overall. The 240hz screen and the higher config spec with 32GB and 4080 were worth the money.

I used the laptop to run Elden Ring, to building websites, to normal day to days school work. The ine thing in common for me with this laptop, is that I can do all of these things without the laptop glitching, lagging, or crashing like I had with my last Dell. I’ve owned this for a few months now and I still have no issues.

The size is this laptop is convienent, its fast and reliable.

Really good laptop the best one I have ever had so far, powerful, reliable, and most important thing easy to travel with, very light and small!

I’ve really been enjoying my Omen gaming laptop since I’ve gotten it! I’m mainly a sims person so this is a perfect pc to play it on! And the customer service when I was buying it was amazing towards me they explained everything and how to use it since it was my first time with something like this.

Laptop preforms really well but the HDR does not work for some reason. More than likely a single unit issue

Computer for an engineering student, it turned on and will know how capable it is in the fall

Was unsure on buying it myself, that be a new laptop in general, but I can't complain now. It works wonderfully, and considerably a lot better than my old one.