14-inch gaming laptops are the new hotness,
and this right here just might be the best one.
This is the HP Omen Transcend 14, and it's, oh, not how I thought the box was gonna open.
And it's got headphones in the box. Here we've got the HyperX Cloud 3s,
and there's actually an integrated wireless dongle inside of the Omen Transcend 14.
So these right here you compare without having to put in a stupid little
take up your USB type A or anything like that. That said, though, this is an optional extra.
Okay, laptop can go over here. Sit in here.
Oh! Plug in the laptop, hit the power button.
You're good to go. For the charger, we get this 140-watt brick,
and it is delivering that power over USB type C,
which I really appreciate, although I also would appreciate if this was just a little bit smaller.
This is a really heavy brick. All right, let's have a look at the main event here.
Oh! This does come in both black and white,
and I would really recommend the white one just because, look at this.
Look at that. Wow!
They're using the same coating that Razer has,
meaning that it's just, oh my God. You touch this thing just for a second,
and it looks gnarly. All right, 3.68 pounds, not too bad.
Or 1.67 kilograms. What is quite decent for a 14-inch gaming laptop
is the IO. On the right here, we have two USB type As
to make sure that the wire always hits your mouse if you're using a wired one.
On the back, we have a USB type C that has display out and power delivery,
and HDMI 2.1 that's wired directly to your dedicated graphics card for extra FPSes.
On the left, we have a single Thunderbolt 4 and a headphone microphone combo jack.
One thing I am noticing here is they have a lot of heat sink in the back of this.
It isn't quite like some of those ASUS ones that go all the way across,
but it goes pretty much all the way across.
I do have to say, this is quite a good-looking little laptop.
It's made out of all aluminum on the chassis. It is very, very solid.
I can really reef on it right here. Display, oh, also very solid.
The whole laptop's walking instead of that bending. It does really have that razor blade look,
although I'm not 100% if I'm sold on the look of the keyboard.
This has sort of a toy-like experience, especially once we turn it on,
but overall, I do think they have done a really good job. Let's do every laptop maker's favorite test,
or I just push on the laptop really hard. It's a little bit soft there on the left of the trackpad.
That's actually quite a bit of a deflection. Doesn't really matter there.
Keyboard, though, is really stable. Everything around the keyboard, excellent.
There's almost no space between these keys, which makes it really nice and smooth.
So just run your finger across it. Looking at the specs, we have quite a quick little machine on our hands.
So for processing, that is handled by an Intel Core Ultra7 155H.
That is six performance cores, eight efficiency cores, and two low-power efficiency cores.
For memory, we have 16 gigabytes of DDR5, running at 7467 mega-transfers per second.
So that is wicked fast, and also means you definitely cannot upgrade it.
For an SSD, we have a one-terabyte joey from WD.
Intel Wi-Fi 7, love to see that.
NPU, because everybody needs AI, and an RTX 4060.
Now, this does come with up to a 4070, and there's a 4050 available as well.
And I am a little bit sad that they didn't give us the 4070 model,
so that we could really apples-to-apples compare it with the G14 that we have here.
So maybe in the future, we'll look at those side-by-side,
but for now, we cannot verify HP's claims
that this is the best-cooled 14-inch gaming laptop.
But we can verify those that the screen is sick. Top-down, it doesn't look nearly as good
as it does with my eyeballs. I am seeing a lot of glare, too.
I can really see my shirt. Well, you're just surprising, because it's also very bright.
This thing right here goes up to 650 nits,
and that is full-screen window brightness,
which is just incredible. I say this every time that we have OLED in here.
Oh, that just looks really fricking good, and this is no exception.
It also goes up to 120 Hertz, and down to 48,
although sadly, it does not have G-Sync. It's just doing power saving with dropping the frame rates.
It's not actually making your games nice and smooth like you would get on the G14.
Now, our Labs did test this display, and it's a little bit interesting.
We weren't able to find any color profiles for it, so by default, everything in SDR is pretty oversaturated
as it just kind of moves out into the much larger color space
that this thing is able to produce. But that said, if you just whack her into HDR in Windows,
it's great. Even in SDR content, the accuracy is way better
when you have Windows in HDR, and your HDR content is some of the most accurate
we have ever seen on a laptop. What might be my least favorite part of this laptop, though,
is the keyboard, which is very unfortunate,
and not because it's bad. It's actually absolutely fantastic.
We'll get to that in a sec, but it looks stupid. I shouldn't say that, I shouldn't say that.
It looks kind of like a toy.
I thought this was like a $800 laptop,
and then I actually felt it, and I was like, oh, wow. That's aluminum.
Those keys are great. It has an OLED screen. Oh, this is actually really nice.
It's just unfortunate that that very first thing that you see are these jellybean-looking things.
The good news is, though, it's fantastic to type on.
It's not my favorite keyboard that I've ever typed on.
Before a gaming laptop, it is excellently tuned. You can be wicked fast on these keys
because they have a nice low actuation force,
and you can just absolutely rip.
For peer typing, I would give it a very solid A,
and when you factor in that this is a gaming laptop, the lightness of those keys brings it also,
well, it's still an A, but I really, really like it.
The trackpad that's below it is also fantastic.
It's sort of just a trackpad. There's nothing stand out about it,
but at the same time, it hasn't annoyed me at all. The tracking is accurate.
It has a nice satisfying click here, even if it isn't like a new force touch fancy thing.
It does the job. Before we start gaming, I just want to do my PSA of turnoff enhance point precision.
It makes you worse at gaming. This right here, the 4060 clearly is not the most powerful
thing that we have ever had in this office, but at the same time, it's doing a pretty decent job.
This laptop is nice and quiet. We're able to get 77 FPS in cyberpunk,
113 in F1 2023, and 58 in Total War Warhammer.
Now it is too bad that we aren't able to really compare this because it has the 4060 and other laptops of similar size
of 4070s, but at the same time, seems pretty good overall.
All right. The whole laptop's vibrating. It's kind of fun.
That's pretty solid. It gets pretty nice and low. I can hear the highs and the mids and the bass all at the same
time, which is kind of rare on a laptop.
This seems really quite excellent.
Omen transcend, then.
All right. Yeah.
MacBook's way better. That's not surprising. The MacBook's really good.
If they had a touchscreen on this, I would recommend it over all of the other gaming laptops,
but what I can recommend though, look at that contrast ratio.
Frickin' OLED. Love it. The webcam on here is 2.1 megapixels, 1080p,
and also has Windows Hello up in there so you can log in with just your face.
And my face looks pretty good. Just your face.
And my face looks really red on this, actually,
and now blown out. It's not super well exposed,
but I look sharp and I look very shiny. I am completely blown out here,
and I don't think that my face looks like that at all.
Of course, we do have Windows Studio Effects in here because AI, so we can blur the background.
We can have it so I'm always making eye contact with you,
even though I'm actually not. And we can do automatic framing so I can go over here
and maybe, yeah, it zooms in on me. Just like that so you can see, oh, wow.
The colors look kind of correct, way over here for some reason.
Okay, it seems like it might just really struggle with that light.
No, I'm out of the light and I still look like a tomato, just darker.
Four Philips head screws later, and we can get in and see that
absolutely massive vapor chamber. I still got it warm.
They call this the Omen Tempest Cooling Go.
And it has a fair bit of dust in here,
actually, given how long this thing has existed. Look at that.
I guess it's fine because it's gasketed, so it's just staying in here
instead of going all through your device like it probably would otherwise.
In here, we do have an SSD that is removable, and according to C31415,
he has commented that many times,
seeing if I can fit a double-sided SSD in there, and so let's try it out.
Okay, okay. I guess this is a good test because that's what it should be doing.
We just fought like that, and then if we take our double-sided SSD,
chuck it in here, it go boing.
Not ideal, but if you really want to force it, you can. All right, buddy was correct.
Don't leave this SSD here. Try it in the future. Now, besides the SSD, you can upgrade nothing.
The Wi-Fi card, unaccessible, RAM, not accessible.
What is great in here, though, is the battery.
In our Labs testing, we are able to get 10 hours and two minutes
out of this thing, which is absolutely fantastic on a gaming laptop like this,
especially one with an OLED screen. That is that beautiful. Now, if you do fully load it,
you can get just under an hour of battery life,
but you probably aren't doing combustor all day. So if you have a laptop that you want to just do
all of your gaming and going to school,
it's nice and light, keyboard's great, screen's fantastic.
This is a really good jack of all trades, 14-inch laptop.
And what is also pretty good is the price. The one that we got right here that came with the headphones.
These guys right here is $1,809,
although if you don't want the headphones included, this will be $1,600.
It also has been going on sale already,
so maybe you can get a good little deal on them. So overall, HP Omen Transcend 14,
I think it's an absolutely fantastic laptop.
It is going to struggle a little bit differentiating itself
from the competition, but at the same time, it's pretty fricking good
if you get one. But of course, it's not as good as you, my dear viewers.
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