1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,720 We're here at CES 2024 in the HyperX Arena Checo HP's brand new laptop starting with the spectre 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:13,040 and also we have an Omen transcend that looks like a fantastic gaming laptop. This thing right here 3 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:16,720 though man I don't know if you guys remember what the old spectre looked like but it had 4 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:22,080 diamond cut edges all the way along the side that were for one sharp I don't like sharp laptops 5 00:00:22,080 --> 00:00:26,560 and also they just look kind of I don't know it wasn't good it wasn't bad but it was certainly a 6 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:31,680 vibe and this one right here I really like the way that they've rounded it off it feels great to 7 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:38,080 just hold like this but they have maintained that little diamond-edged corner right here so if you 8 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:43,760 look at the IO we have Thunderbolt 4 another Thunderbolt 4 that's at a 45 degree angle they say 9 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:48,320 that's great so you can have your know your charger going off to the side instead of directly into your 10 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:54,880 mouse then on the other side 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and USB type A it has all aluminum 11 00:00:54,880 --> 00:01:00,240 construction so it's a little bit on the heaviest side compared to a magnesium laptop that's 14 12 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:05,840 inch but at just over three pounds it is not too bad and the build quality is absolutely fantastic 13 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:11,680 like if we give her a big old reef on it here you can see this table is a lot less stable than this 14 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:17,360 laptop we had to move because they started playing copyrighted music there's a party starting but the 15 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:26,800 real party is how good is this keyboard let us see it is awesome I would give it an easy A it doesn't 16 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:33,040 quite get the A plus that the dragonfly has but you know when you're making one of the best laptops 17 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:42,080 yeah not an A plus but a solid A which is better than most what we also have here is a new haptic 18 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:47,680 touchpad so this right here is using little force sensors and PZOs so that when you press on it 19 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:53,280 instead of it actually clicking it's vibrating and giving you a little tactile bit now it doesn't 20 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:58,800 feel quite like how I would want it but the wonderful thing about haptic touchpads look 21 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:06,080 at this I can go right down in here change the intensity and now there we go I like it about 22 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:11,520 right there so that's what I love about these force touch pads you can sort of adjust how much force 23 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:18,160 it takes to actuate it and just tune it to how you like love it also what I love this display 24 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:25,840 it is 2.8 k 120 hertz but it goes down to 48 in order to save you battery life and it just 25 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:31,600 looks fantastic did I mention that it's OLED because you would not be mistaking that for something 26 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:37,520 else look look at those blacks handy they say it has up to 400 nit peak brightness which is 27 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:42,880 not the brightest that we've seen but at the same time with that contrast of the OLED man 28 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:50,800 does it ever look good also it's a little 14 inch laptop with 120 hertz display I absolutely love 29 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:55,360 that laptops even like the more professional ones are starting to get high refresh rate and also 30 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:03,280 you can do that if you want I don't but you can now to get into the specter you can use either a 31 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:08,400 fingerprint up on the power button right here best spot to have that or Windows hello facial 32 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:14,560 recognition up top and that is attached to an excellent webcam so this thing right here 33 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:22,800 is nine megapixels in a webcam all right how is this webcam wow this is a challenging environment 34 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:29,040 bunch of direct lights but if I move around here wow that that is sharp you can see that my hair is 35 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:35,040 kind of being a bit strange normally you can't do that with a webcam and it is so good exposing 36 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:41,280 for my face look at Andy he's got the super bright light rig here but we can also still see detail 37 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:47,120 in the black areas and it is always exposing for my face excellent job HP one of my favorite things 38 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:51,600 to do at CES is to ask if I can take it apart everyone always says no and then you ask a couple 39 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:57,920 more times and then you get to take it apart four T five screws later and we can get into this thing 40 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:04,560 right here and see their cooling solution so we have two fans two heat pipes we have them up to 41 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:16,080 an Intel Ultra 7 155 H and also we have up to 32 gigabytes of RAM at 74 67 mega transfers per second 42 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:21,200 that unfortunately is soldered right here but you also cannot get those kind of speeds with 43 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:27,920 sodoms here we have a removable Wi-Fi card that's up to Wi-Fi 7 and a removable SSD so you can't 44 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:33,920 upgrade that in the future here we have our 68 watt hour battery which is absolutely massive look 45 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:39,040 at how much of the laptop that is taking up and they say that it will get you up to 14 hours of 46 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:45,680 battery life and even though a lot of laptop manufacturers I'm like HP is generally pretty 47 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:52,080 good but we will have to test in the lab to know for sure if you want a larger battery though and 48 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:59,840 a lot more power here is the new Spectre 16 this guy right here is essentially the same except well 49 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:06,560 larger obviously we have an HDMI 2.1 on the side in addition to the rest of the IO which remains 50 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:13,280 unchanged and also we have an up to an RTX 4050 in this thing so I could see a lot of content 51 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:18,880 creators being drawn towards this when maybe you're not so happy with what Dell's done with 52 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:26,640 their most recent refreshes also here we have look at the size of this track pad it's absolutely 53 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:32,640 massive now sadly I don't know how many watts the 4050 and this will be able to consume so I can't 54 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:39,200 comment on just how powerful this will be but at the same time if you're looking at this you're 55 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,840 probably not looking for the most powerful laptop you just want something that's nice to go around 56 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:49,760 it's about four pounds feels great track pad again look at this track pad and it also has all the 57 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:56,800 other things that made the 14 fantastic you do want performance though oh we have the Omen 58 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:02,960 Transcend 14 this is a whole new skew every one these days as a 14 inch gaming laptop and this 59 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:08,000 right here in my opinion is one of the best one thing that's kind of strange about it is that 60 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:14,880 around back we do all of the power delivery over usb-c so it comes with a 140 watt usb-c charger 61 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:20,640 and the rest of the io is pretty good around this side they have two usb type a's to make 62 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:25,360 sure that the cord of your mouse goes just directly into it while you're gaming around 63 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:30,880 back usb-c with power delivery and display out although I could not confirm if this is wired 64 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:39,360 up for NVIDIA optimus HDMI 2.1 Thunderbolt 4 and 3.5 millimeter headphone jack now as far as I can 65 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:46,640 tell it's all plastic construction on this thing but the build quality is just absolutely fantastic 66 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:51,440 I'm gonna have to take this apart and see if it's magnesium just because how did they get something 67 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:57,360 that's made out of plastic this stiff like look at that they're even if I if I really reef on it 68 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:02,720 does bend a little bit but you aren't going to be doing that day to day for the display we get as 69 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:09,360 far as I can tell the same panel that's on the specter 14 but without touch so this right here 70 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:15,840 yeah can't be doing any of that but at the same time for a gaming laptop this thing is absolutely 71 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:24,400 fantastic so 120 hertz but it's variable so down to 48 and it has full coverage of dcip3 the other 72 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:30,160 two do as well but that's kind of expected in a business laptop not so much in a thin gaming 73 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:36,240 laptop what should be noted though is that that variable refresh rate is not g-sync so with OLED 74 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:42,160 panels it's very difficult to get variable refresh rates because your brightness is somewhat tied 75 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:46,880 to your refresh rate so this right here would just have several like I don't know what the numbers 76 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:54,640 are but like 48 60 52 blah blah blah up to 120 all pre-calculated for the brightness is to make 77 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:59,120 sure that it works just nice now one thing that I was immediately concerned about when I saw this 78 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:05,440 design was the keyboard because it is a little bit weird just like how they include McAfee on their 79 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:12,640 devices as you can see here though we do have four zones of RGB there is going to be option for 80 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:20,800 individual key RGB as well in the future and my fears that they might have screwed it up based 81 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:27,600 on the zero lattice design were completely unfounded these right here especially for a gaming laptop 82 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:33,200 are some of the best keys that I've felt they have that really nice satisfying travel but also 83 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:37,120 if you look there's no key movement when I'm pushing it like this I can push on the side 84 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:42,640 whole key actuates at the same time it feels actually fantastic this right here is one of 85 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:49,440 the rare gaming laptops where I would like it for both typing and gaming it's maybe even a little 86 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:55,440 bit stiff for gaming but I really like typing on my gaming laptops for performance we get up to an 87 00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:04,400 Intel Ultra 9 185h and an RTX 4070 with up to 80 watts dedicated to GPU with 15 watts of dynamic 88 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:10,240 boost HP does claim that this is going to be the best cooled 14 inch laptop which I'm sure is 89 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:15,920 something ASUS will be very pleased to hear four Phillips head screws later and we are in it oh wow 90 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:23,440 that is one heck of a vapor chamber look look at the size of this guy it just covers the entire 91 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:31,120 thing we cannot see any of like the RAM any of the CPU any of the GPU it is just vapor chamber here 92 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:35,920 how do you guys not have issues with it like drying out with it being so large that is okay 93 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,080 maybe they can say it's the best cooled I don't know we'll have to test it later 94 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:47,360 also in here we can see that we have our SSD which is removable like to see that and a 71 95 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:53,680 watt hour battery that the claim is good for up to 11 hours away from the wall which in a gaming 96 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:59,440 laptop like this means that you can kind of just daily drive this thing for all of your needs and 97 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:04,080 then just be able to game after instead of a lot of gaming laptops where it's like you can game 98 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:10,800 and everything else is pretty bad the Omen transcend 14 is expected to start at $2,000 99 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:19,280 the Spectre 14 1499 we're not totally sure about the 16 yet and they're all available now so 100 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:25,760 you can you can just do it just like I can do the end of this video thank you for watching hit like 101 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:30,720 get subscribed and just have a great old day and maybe you know look at some vapor chambers