Customer Ratings & Reviews

The HP Omen Transcend 14 is a new player in the world of 14 inch gaming laptops. The challenge is how do you get a great performing laptop, in a minimal size, and one that won’t turn into a jet engine/heater when hardware is pushed. With the Transcend, there were some great, and some okay/good to one bad feature. Out of the box you get the laptop, a 140 W USB-C power adaptor, and inserts. On my test, I was at about 15% battery life, plugged in the plug, ad had about 65% in about 30’ish minutes, so their claim of 50% in 30 minutes is pretty on point. I never heard of a laptop fast charger, so it was a pleasant surprise. The laptop has a nice aluminum body. I do prefer it over plastic, but it’s still a fingerprint magnet. After one day of use, it has smudges on either side of the touch pad, and on the outside from me holding it to move it to my bag and around the house. I wonder if the white color has this problem. The design of the laptop is almost muted. There’s nothing that screams it’s a gaming laptop. The cover simply has the OMEN branding, and that’s it. There isn’t any RGB lighting on the exterior. You can even turn off the keyboard RGB lighting in the Omen gaming hub. I like this fact. When I’m home and playing in low lighting, I can turn RGB lights on, so that’s a plus. In terms of ports you have a USB-C on the back which is for charging, and a HDMI 2.1 right next to it. One of the biggest disappointments is that you can’t fully use the RTX 4060 on it’s own. On the Omen gaming hub, you have the option of using the integrated graphics card for battery life, or a hybrid for when you need that extra bit of juice. I would have liked to see a way to use the GPU on its own. So using the HDMI 2.1 port to an external monitor is the only way to use the RTX 4060 on its own. The drawback is of course unless you have a OLED gaming monitor, you won’t have that lovely screen to look at. The ports in general were placed well, I would have liked to see one more USB-C port. You get 2 USB-A ports on the right side. I’m glad that companies haven’t completely abandoned the good old USB-A yet. You have 1 USB-C on the left side and a headphone jack. I do appreciate that you have a headphone jack. Unfortunately for me, all my gaming headphones are wireless, so I think in the next iteration, they can remove it and add another USB-C. Considering that this laptop touts the Intel Core Ultra 7 which is more AI focused, I’m surprised that there isn’t even a micro SD card slot for content creators. I get that you can plug in an external HDD or any other alternative, but it just detracts from the whole portability aspect. The hinges on the laptop seem sturdy, but there is some wobble on the screen when opened. One of the key selling points on the Transcend 14 is the OLED screen. It’s a 2.8K OLED. I didn’t even know they made a 2.8K. The screen is absolutely gorgeous. As with most OLED’s, you get the dark distinct blacks, and bright colors throughout. I tested with a few games and a few movies. With movies is where it really shined. The only caveat is that the screen is glossy. I think this is the only laptop I have with a glossy screen, or THIS glossy. In a dark room with the keyboard RGB lights on, it’s a bit distracting, but you can always turn them off. You also have a high refresh rate, but you’ll have to go into Windows setting to set it to 120hz. The screen is also bright. At 500 nits, you see the colors pop. All in all, a great screen. The Hyper X speakers are great, but not excellent. As in most cases, you’ll probably use headphones when gaming or watching a movie, but when it needs recharging, it’s time to get some life out of them. I would say they sound great, but not the greatest bass. The keyboard is comfortable to type on, and it’s not super clicky, so you can remain incognito when out and about at your favorite café. The touchpad is large and responsive. You get multitouch gestures like with just about every other modern laptop. The surface area is responsive. I do wish there was a way to disable it when using a mouse so you don’t accidentally touch it when typing. (Minor gripe). Just about everybody will use a separate gaming mouse so the touchpad becomes a secondary means. The one impressive thing that I found is that even when on performance mode, and hybrid GPU, I don’t hear the laptop turning into a jet engine. There are vents on the back of the base of the laptop, and vents underneath where you can see two of the fans. For most of the my testing, the laptop stayed cool. Even when I cam close to ultra settings on my games test, I didn’t feel the laptop turning into a heater. That’s either a result of great engineering for the cooling and or the fact that you can’t use the RTX 4060 at full blast. I think it was a conscious decision to help maintain battery life and prevent overheating. One of the biggest flaws is that you can’t add more RAM. I guess in a small package, you get limited spacing. Most games still don’t require 32 GB of ram, but this fact does limit the future state of this laptop. The webcam is a good 1080p webcam. You have the option of using Windows hello which I like a lot. The image from the camera is still grainy, and the video recording is limited to 30FPS. Even setting the flicker reduction to 60 hz, doesn’t change much. It’s good enough for virtual meetings or something basic, but for streaming, a nice 4K camera is recommended. The mic is also just good. You get a bit of that echo effect, and once again, it’s good for meetings, but beyond that, your gaming headset mic is probably much better in terms of quality. In my actual gaming tests, I immediately saw some of the shortcomings with the laptop. I couldn’t run any of the 2 modern games from 2023 at ultra settings without losing framerates and stability. On high settings, I was able to get a range from 50-60 fps. Once I turned ray tracing on, I needed to adjust a lot of the settings to make up for the difference in stability. I tested a game from 2015 on ultra high, and I couldn’t get more than 78 fps during a benchmark test so yeah. I love seeing ray tracing in action, but sometimes you just want a great performing game with smooth playability. I mean, the games looked great on high settings with ray tracing, but couldn’t get ray tracing and ultra in the same settings. My other laptop that has a 4070 with 32 gigs of ram, and a mux switch was able to handle the games on ultra with ray tracing, but it sounded like a jet engine was about to take off on the runway, so there’s that. I’m just as happy playing on a quiet laptop that doesn’t turn into a room heater with graphics that still look on par. On a side note, I played a flight simulator, and that’s where I saw the oled screen really shine. In the night time settings, you could see the beautiful color detail against the blackness of the night sky. I had the settings at ultra, and the 4060 handled it pretty well. There were some few occasional frame dips, but nothing that really took me out of the game. All in all, HP’s Transcend 14 is a nice start into the world of 14 inch gaming laptops. The design engineers and hardware engineers have found a nice way to minimize the footprint of the laptop while achieving good cooling and low fan noise. Some of the decisions to include or omit certain ports was a bit of ahead scratcher, and the lack of a mux switch (Mux switch = let’s you use the gpu only) is another missed opportunity. The screen is excellent. The overall build quality is almost top notch. All in all, a great 1st gen entry. For 2025’s HP Omen Transcend 14, I hope to see some more post purchase upgrade options.

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.

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 gaming notebook is among the premium class of laptops that provide a very good gaming experience. The model reviewed here came with the Intel Core Ultra i7 processor with 16 GB of memory, 1 TB of NVMe storage and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card (you can go up to an i9/32Gb/2TB/RTX 4070). In all configurations you'll get one Thunderbolt 4 port, a USB-C and two USB-A ports, a combo audio jack, and an HDMI port, which is more than reasonable for something with a profile as thin as the Omen. Also included is Intel Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4. In addition to its impressive performance, the HP Omen Transcend 14 is also incredibly portable. Weighing only 3.6 lbs and measuring just 0.7 inches thick, it's easy to take with you wherever you go. Whether you're gaming on the go or setting up at a friend's house for a LAN party, this notebook won't weigh you down. Keyboard has a good feel with decent travel and solid feel with no flex. The touchpad is oversize for a gaming laptop and works well. There's a bit of a wobble in the display, however overall build quality is solid -- no complaints there. I found the understated styling very much to my liking. If you choose not to illuminate the RGB keyboard, it looks like any other premium notebook. The sound quality of the built-in speakers is good, though not exceptional. Another great trait of this gaming notebook is its low noise and low heat output. Even during intense gaming sessions, the fans remain relatively quiet, ensuring a distraction-free experience and not raising the ire of anyone who might happen to be nearby. Additionally, the notebook stays cool even under heavy load, proving its cooling system is quite efficient. With 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB NVMe storage, this notebook offers ample space for all your games and files, which is a good thing as neither component is upgradeable as they are soldered into the mainboard. For me though, the standout feature of this gaming notebook is its 14-inch 2.8K OLED display. The display is absolutely gorgeous. With a resolution of 2,880 x 1,800 pixels, it offers stunning visuals that are crisp and vibrant. The display also boasts an impressive 0.2ms response time, ensuring smooth and lag-free gameplay. The screen supports variable refresh rates from 44-120 Hz. While there are many positives about the HP Omen Transcend 14, there are a few potential drawbacks to consider. The first is that the Omen is slightly slower than some other notebooks with this GPU as the RTX 4060 in the Transcend has its power draw limited to 80w TDP (the mobile 4060 has a max TDP of 115w). HP states this is due to the thinner and lighter frame, but my conclusion is that this has something to do with the relative quietness and the lower heat output of the Transcend 14 compared to its competition. I don’t believe it’s enough to change your gameplay experience, but you may see a few FPS less than some of the Omen's competitors in a benchmark test. For example, playing Cyberpunk 2077 with Ray Tracing Low preset and DLSS set to Performance, framerate was around 45 FPS, which for me is fine in this type of game. Ultra preset w/o RT yielded almost the same results. To run Cyberpunk at 60 FPS required medium/no RT preset. Tweaking with custom settings may yield better results, but for me, I didn’t have any problems with the gameplay experience using any of those settings, as the graphics were still amazing, but what works for me may not satisfy everyone. That’s going to be the case with any notebook with an RTX 4060. If you want better, you’re going to have to spend more for something with an RTX 4070. An older game, Far Cry 6 maintained 60 FPS and above at the highest preset. Helldivers 2 was able to run at 60 FPS using the Ultra preset and customizing a few of the settings. I found the battery life was “OK” for a fairly high-powered ultra-portable. HP claims the 6-cell, 71Wh Li-ion polymer battery offers up to 8 hours and 15 minutes of gameplay (or up to 13 hours of video playback). I didn’t tweak it for maximum battery life, and I didn't run the battery down to zero, but I did run a 1 hour 40-minute video at 2K resolution. The Omen’s battery went down from 100% to 79%, which to me extrapolates to around the 8-hour mark -- far short of HP’s claims. Again, tweaking the setting may yield better results. On the plus side, support for fast charging means the Transcend 14 can recharge up to 50% of capacity in as little as 30 minutes. Overall, my experience with the HP Omen Transcend 14 has been a very positive one. The powerful hardware, stunning display, and portable design makes it a standout choice for gamers on the move, and the minimalist design and high portability makes it an effective work and travel laptop. Whether you're a casual gamer, a hardcore enthusiast, or you need top-shelf hardware for creative tasks, the Omen Transcend 14 notebook should be on your short-list to check out.

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.

I got my hands on the HP OMEN Transcend 14″, and right out of the box the 3K OLED screen grabbed my attention—colors pop and everything feels incredibly sharp, whether I’m gaming or just browsing. The Intel Core Ultra 7-155H keeps everything snappy, and paired with the RTX 4060, I’ve been running modern titles smoothly at high settings without any stuttering. I also appreciate the compact design: it’s surprisingly light for a gaming laptop, yet the keyboard still has satisfying travel and customizable RGB lighting that makes late-night sessions fun. Battery life isn’t record-breaking, but I can get a few hours of lighter work in unplugged, and when I’m back at my desk, the 1 TB SSD loads apps and games in a flash. Overall, it’s a sleek, powerful machine that balances portability and performance without feeling like a bulky compromise.

The HP Omen Transcend 14” gaming laptop is a sleek, compact computer that’ll let you easily run the latest video games at high settings, but not without some compromises. If you’re looking for a quick review: I am an avid PC gamer and have been looking for a laptop that can allow me to play my steam library at a similar quality to my desktop without being the size of an aircraft carrier. I am very pleased with the HP Omen Transcend and would recommend it for someone who doesn’t have the space for a dedicated gaming desktop, or moves so frequently that a desktop is not a reasonable solution for them. Setting up the laptop is quick and easy – it’s your standard windows experience. The most immediately striking feature of the lap is the OLED screen. Dark colors are far more pronounced and vivid, making everything you put on the screen pop. The keyboard is satisfying to use, with solid feedback from keystrokes without being too noisy. The RGB lighting in the keyboard is fun, albeit expected for a gaming product at this price point. HP does have it pre-programmed to automatically highlight WASD in separate colors from the rest of the keyboard, which is a nice touch for right-handed gamers. However, once you finish setting up the laptop, the RGB keyboard will turn off, and you will have to set it up in the Omen gaming hub application. HP really wants you to use this app, which is fine – if it indicated to you when you turned on the computer that you should be using that to get the most out of the features it purports to have. The CPU does a lot of work in keeping the computer fast, but only if it’s plugged in. If you’re using it away from an outlet, you’ll notice a significant hit to performance (even in balanced mode). I imagine most people would use it while plugged in, but it’s important to note especially if you’re playing a resource-heavy game. To test the laptop, I played Baldur’s Gate 3 on act III at Ultra settings – easily the most demanding section of one of the most demanding games on PC. While it wasn’t quite at parity with my desktop, it was close. The game ran smoothly, loaded quickly, and looked great all while maintaining 60 FPS. I played it for a few hours and, once my eyes got used to the slight (but noticeable) dip in quality, I forgot that I was not playing on my desktop. The audio quality was also great for a laptop – obviously, headphones are ideal, but if you’d rather forgo them you can still appreciate your games’ soundscapes. I intend to use this laptop primarily for less demanding action titles and MMORPGs, so I am more than satisfied with it based on how it performed with Baldur’s Gate III. It may have sounded like a spaceship while I was playing, but it worked great. Minor quibbles aside, this is a fantastic portable gaming option for people who cannot justify a desktop.

Been using the HP Omen 14 for a while and I love it. Super fast, handles games and creative work like a beast. The 144Hz screen is smooth, the keyboard feels great, and it stays cool even under pressure. Compact, stylish, and powerful — perfect for gaming and editing on the go. Totally recommend it!

This is perfect for college students who want to study and game on a laptop. Light enough to carry to school. It has rgb but it can be turned off giving it that neat, minimal look. Battery life is decent, about 4-6 hours of web browsing and streaming. I love that the power plug is in the back. The audio plug is also on the left so it doesnt interfere with my mouse on the right. Trackpad is nice. Charger isnt bulky. Its type C so i use it to charge my s24 and most other chargers.My laptop accidentally fell from a height of 4ft and it only got a minor dent the size of a grain of rice, so its pretty durable. Great buy for $1299 on sale.

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.

Very efficient, MacBook level build quality, can play most games I’ve ever played at well over 60 fps. For newer titles in ultra it usually stays at around 60fps average. More ram version is worth it! This is a trooper at a reasonable size perfect for school and games and travel. The display is remarkable! Be sure to turn on hdr mode in windows settings. It tested near perfect color accuracy in this mode.

I really want to like this device. The screen is amazing — sharp, colorful, variable refresh rate. The speakers are sufficient. The fan is well behaved — it’s relatively quiet even while gaming in performance mode, and there are no high pitch issues. But mine came with 2 big issues. First, it has a faulty WiFi/bluetooth chip. The WiFi and Bluetooth would drop every 3-5 minutes like clockwork. Sometimes it would turn itself back on; other times it would act like the chip didn’t exist until i restarted the machine. Needless to say, this rendered the machine unusable for gaming, as online games would frequently disconnect, and offline games had my controller frequently disconnecting. I can/did fix this by buying and installing a replacement chip, but I certainly shouldn’t have to do that. On that note, the WiFi chip is buried beneath the heat sink, so tinkerers should be aware that replacing it involves some extra work. The other problem is that this device will not allow me to update its Nvidia graphics drivers through the Nvidia website or GeForce experience. The order tells me I don’t have compatible hardware; the latter insists that I have the latest driver when when I clearly don’t. No measure of troubleshooting was able to resolve this issue. I was only able to update the driver through a third party site, which of course brings with it risk of getting a fake file, corrupted file, virus etc. There are too few reviews to know if this is just a problem with my machine or all versions of it. I certainly hope it’s just mine, because I’d like to replace it (possibly with the 4070 model).

I bought this computer to start my pc gamer journey. I've used it more for wedding planning as of late but it serves its purpose beautifully. The screen is beautiful, the display is great. I'm still learning it but I like it so far. The inclusion of a charging port on the side and back is a great user convenience.

I've bad this about a month and so far I'm loving it! It runs fast, smooth, very clear screen. Exactly what I was looking for!

Very solid laptop that performs well and manages heat great. Screen is gorgeous. Would highly recommend if you're looking for a smaller sized gaming laptop that can handle most modern games at high settings.

Great laptop a giant step up from the nitro; the picture is so vivid I think my next purchase with me the OLED monitor from Omen.

So far so good. It fits my needs well. The screen looks nice. My wife loves the keyboard.

Thin, nice looking. A little heavy but not terrible. Picture quality is great. Quiet. Keyboard is great.