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14-inch gaming laptops are the new hotness,

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and this right here just might be the best one.

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This is the HP Omen Transcend 14, and it's, oh, not how I thought the box was gonna open.

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And it's got headphones in the box. Here we've got the HyperX Cloud 3s,

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and there's actually an integrated wireless dongle inside of the Omen Transcend 14.

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So these right here you compare without having to put in a stupid little

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take up your USB type A or anything like that. That said, though, this is an optional extra.

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Okay, laptop can go over here. Sit in here.

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Oh! Plug in the laptop, hit the power button.

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You're good to go. For the charger, we get this 140-watt brick,

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and it is delivering that power over USB type C,

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which I really appreciate, although I also would appreciate if this was just a little bit smaller.

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This is a really heavy brick. All right, let's have a look at the main event here.

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Oh! This does come in both black and white,

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and I would really recommend the white one just because, look at this.

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Look at that. Wow!

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They're using the same coating that Razer has,

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meaning that it's just, oh my God. You touch this thing just for a second,

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and it looks gnarly. All right, 3.68 pounds, not too bad.

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Or 1.67 kilograms. What is quite decent for a 14-inch gaming laptop

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is the IO. On the right here, we have two USB type As

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to make sure that the wire always hits your mouse if you're using a wired one.

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On the back, we have a USB type C that has display out and power delivery,

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and HDMI 2.1 that's wired directly to your dedicated graphics card for extra FPSes.

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On the left, we have a single Thunderbolt 4 and a headphone microphone combo jack.

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One thing I am noticing here is they have a lot of heat sink in the back of this.

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It isn't quite like some of those ASUS ones that go all the way across,

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but it goes pretty much all the way across.

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I do have to say, this is quite a good-looking little laptop.

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It's made out of all aluminum on the chassis. It is very, very solid.

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I can really reef on it right here. Display, oh, also very solid.

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The whole laptop's walking instead of that bending. It does really have that razor blade look,

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although I'm not 100% if I'm sold on the look of the keyboard.

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This has sort of a toy-like experience, especially once we turn it on,

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but overall, I do think they have done a really good job. Let's do every laptop maker's favorite test,

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or I just push on the laptop really hard. It's a little bit soft there on the left of the trackpad.

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That's actually quite a bit of a deflection. Doesn't really matter there.

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Keyboard, though, is really stable. Everything around the keyboard, excellent.

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There's almost no space between these keys, which makes it really nice and smooth.

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So just run your finger across it. Looking at the specs, we have quite a quick little machine on our hands.

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So for processing, that is handled by an Intel Core Ultra7 155H.

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That is six performance cores, eight efficiency cores, and two low-power efficiency cores.

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For memory, we have 16 gigabytes of DDR5, running at 7467 mega-transfers per second.

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So that is wicked fast, and also means you definitely cannot upgrade it.

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For an SSD, we have a one-terabyte joey from WD.

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Intel Wi-Fi 7, love to see that.

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NPU, because everybody needs AI, and an RTX 4060.

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Now, this does come with up to a 4070, and there's a 4050 available as well.

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And I am a little bit sad that they didn't give us the 4070 model,

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so that we could really apples-to-apples compare it with the G14 that we have here.

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So maybe in the future, we'll look at those side-by-side,

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but for now, we cannot verify HP's claims

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that this is the best-cooled 14-inch gaming laptop.

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But we can verify those that the screen is sick. Top-down, it doesn't look nearly as good

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as it does with my eyeballs. I am seeing a lot of glare, too.

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I can really see my shirt. Well, you're just surprising, because it's also very bright.

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This thing right here goes up to 650 nits,

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and that is full-screen window brightness,

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which is just incredible. I say this every time that we have OLED in here.

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Oh, that just looks really fricking good, and this is no exception.

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It also goes up to 120 Hertz, and down to 48,

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although sadly, it does not have G-Sync. It's just doing power saving with dropping the frame rates.

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It's not actually making your games nice and smooth like you would get on the G14.

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Now, our Labs did test this display, and it's a little bit interesting.

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We weren't able to find any color profiles for it, so by default, everything in SDR is pretty oversaturated

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as it just kind of moves out into the much larger color space

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that this thing is able to produce. But that said, if you just whack her into HDR in Windows,

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it's great. Even in SDR content, the accuracy is way better

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when you have Windows in HDR, and your HDR content is some of the most accurate

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we have ever seen on a laptop. What might be my least favorite part of this laptop, though,

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is the keyboard, which is very unfortunate,

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and not because it's bad. It's actually absolutely fantastic.

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We'll get to that in a sec, but it looks stupid. I shouldn't say that, I shouldn't say that.

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It looks kind of like a toy.

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I thought this was like a $800 laptop,

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and then I actually felt it, and I was like, oh, wow. That's aluminum.

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Those keys are great. It has an OLED screen. Oh, this is actually really nice.

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It's just unfortunate that that very first thing that you see are these jellybean-looking things.

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The good news is, though, it's fantastic to type on.

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It's not my favorite keyboard that I've ever typed on.

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Before a gaming laptop, it is excellently tuned. You can be wicked fast on these keys

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because they have a nice low actuation force,

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and you can just absolutely rip.

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For peer typing, I would give it a very solid A,

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and when you factor in that this is a gaming laptop, the lightness of those keys brings it also,

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well, it's still an A, but I really, really like it.

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The trackpad that's below it is also fantastic.

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It's sort of just a trackpad. There's nothing stand out about it,

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but at the same time, it hasn't annoyed me at all. The tracking is accurate.

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It has a nice satisfying click here, even if it isn't like a new force touch fancy thing.

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It does the job. Before we start gaming, I just want to do my PSA of turnoff enhance point precision.

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It makes you worse at gaming. This right here, the 4060 clearly is not the most powerful

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thing that we have ever had in this office, but at the same time, it's doing a pretty decent job.

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This laptop is nice and quiet. We're able to get 77 FPS in cyberpunk,

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113 in F1 2023, and 58 in Total War Warhammer.

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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

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of 4070s, but at the same time, seems pretty good overall.

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All right. The whole laptop's vibrating. It's kind of fun.

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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

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time, which is kind of rare on a laptop.

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This seems really quite excellent.

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Omen transcend, then.

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All right. Yeah.

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MacBook's way better. That's not surprising. The MacBook's really good.

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If they had a touchscreen on this, I would recommend it over all of the other gaming laptops,

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but what I can recommend though, look at that contrast ratio.

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Frickin' OLED. Love it. The webcam on here is 2.1 megapixels, 1080p,

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and also has Windows Hello up in there so you can log in with just your face.

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And my face looks pretty good. Just your face.

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And my face looks really red on this, actually,

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and now blown out. It's not super well exposed,

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but I look sharp and I look very shiny. I am completely blown out here,

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and I don't think that my face looks like that at all.

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Of course, we do have Windows Studio Effects in here because AI, so we can blur the background.

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We can have it so I'm always making eye contact with you,

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even though I'm actually not. And we can do automatic framing so I can go over here

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and maybe, yeah, it zooms in on me. Just like that so you can see, oh, wow.

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The colors look kind of correct, way over here for some reason.

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Okay, it seems like it might just really struggle with that light.

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No, I'm out of the light and I still look like a tomato, just darker.

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Four Philips head screws later, and we can get in and see that

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absolutely massive vapor chamber. I still got it warm.

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They call this the Omen Tempest Cooling Go.

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And it has a fair bit of dust in here,

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actually, given how long this thing has existed. Look at that.

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I guess it's fine because it's gasketed, so it's just staying in here

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instead of going all through your device like it probably would otherwise.

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In here, we do have an SSD that is removable, and according to C31415,

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he has commented that many times,

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seeing if I can fit a double-sided SSD in there, and so let's try it out.

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Okay, okay. I guess this is a good test because that's what it should be doing.

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We just fought like that, and then if we take our double-sided SSD,

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chuck it in here, it go boing.

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Not ideal, but if you really want to force it, you can. All right, buddy was correct.

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Don't leave this SSD here. Try it in the future. Now, besides the SSD, you can upgrade nothing.

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The Wi-Fi card, unaccessible, RAM, not accessible.

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What is great in here, though, is the battery.

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In our Labs testing, we are able to get 10 hours and two minutes

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out of this thing, which is absolutely fantastic on a gaming laptop like this,

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especially one with an OLED screen. That is that beautiful. Now, if you do fully load it,

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you can get just under an hour of battery life,

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but you probably aren't doing combustor all day. So if you have a laptop that you want to just do

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all of your gaming and going to school,

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it's nice and light, keyboard's great, screen's fantastic.

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This is a really good jack of all trades, 14-inch laptop.

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And what is also pretty good is the price. The one that we got right here that came with the headphones.

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These guys right here is $1,809,

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although if you don't want the headphones included, this will be $1,600.

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It also has been going on sale already,

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so maybe you can get a good little deal on them. So overall, HP Omen Transcend 14,

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I think it's an absolutely fantastic laptop.

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It is going to struggle a little bit differentiating itself

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from the competition, but at the same time, it's pretty fricking good

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if you get one. But of course, it's not as good as you, my dear viewers.

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