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