Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Next Gen Gaming Laptop”.
So when our friends at Omen asked to sponsor this video., I had a big question.. So earlier this year at CES, I took a look at this. The Omen Transcend 14 and it is one of their most lightweight thin laptops they’ve ever made, but the competition in this space is tremendously fierce.. So, let’s take a look to see. Is this any good Inside we have the laptop itself.. Oh, this is the bundle. Okay.
I didn’t know this., So this comes with the HyperX Cloud III wireless.. So there’s a lot of interesting things that the Omen team have done with this device.. It is very thin, while obviously you’re always gon na, be giving up a little bit of top-end performance for something which is super thin and light.
But this to me is the right blend of portability and performance and every single one of these Omens. As far as I know, maybe there’s a configuration I’m missing but as far as I know, every single one of these Omens has the same 2.8K, 120 hertz OLED panel, which ( imitates kissing sound ), OLED baby., Alright. So I’m going to set this laptop up and spend a little bit of time with it.
But the main question I have is really simple: one.. If you are looking for a 14 inch, gaming, laptop and I’ll be honest kind of the best size is. The Omen Transcend 14 worth a look., Because on paper there are a lot of things going for it.. The most eye-catching thing is definitely the keyboard, especially in this white colorway.. It looks sick. Now they’re using pudding style, key caps, which really emphasize the RGB.
And I’ll be honest. It helps the Transcend stand out amongst the excellent competitors in this size class.. Now, if you couldn’t tell already, I love the 14 inch form factor.. In my opinion, it is the perfect balance between portability and functionality..
Now the Omen is using an all metal chassis here that still comes in as the lightest gaming laptop that HP have ever made., But importantly, Omen. Didn’T skimp on power.. You get up to an RTX 4070 and a 71 Watt-hour battery, giving you up to eight hours of battery life.. If that’s not enough, for you, don’t worry, because it also comes with a 140 watt charger, so you can get back to 50 % of your charge in just 30 minutes. Now I’ll give a slight mention to the actual USB-C charger itself.. While the 140 watt works very well and very fast, I actually sometimes like to use a smaller 65 watt charger and I actually found that that did not work on the Omen.. So if I could throw a suggestion to the HP team, if there’s some kind of firmware update to, let me use lower wattage USB-C that would be dope.. The Transcend can also be equipped with up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H, one of the most powerful laptop processors on the market..
Now I actually really like this choice. Most other laptops in this class use either AMD or the Intel HX series. Chips.. Don’T get me wrong, those are both strong options, but the Core Ultra chips have solid efficiency with six high performance cores, eight efficiency cores and two high efficiency cores, which do make a difference for battery life in normal tasks. Same thing goes for the built-in Intel Arc.
Graphics, when you don’t need the RTX GPU fired up and the Intel NPU being on board for AI tasks. Look. I think this was a smart.
Move. Intel also helped co-develop the hyperbaric cooling solution, which is a big reason why the Omen is as thin as it is. Now, if you look at this, like a gaming laptop that thinness and battery efficiency might not sound all that important, but it is a big Reason why you would even think about buying a laptop like this.? No, it is not going to crush 4K Ultra and 120 FPS and a 250 watt TGP.. This is a laptop that is potent for gaming, but it puts an equal amount of weight on usability and creative tasks..
Personally, I think that’s a smart move. That is all very cool, but what is this like to actually use? So this is the mid-spec model, which does come outfitted with the Core Ultra 7, as well as the RTX 4060, as you can see here, is easy to get pretty much any game playable at a very respectable frame rate.. This is Cyberpunk running at the full 1800P resolution, with, of course, DLSS enabled on high settings and 60 FPS is not difficult to hit.. Now, on top of that, because it’s such a thin and light laptop – and they do have that hyperbaric cooling you’ll – find that while yeah, you can certainly hear the fans that it’s actually pretty reasonable.
There we go above 60 FPS.. Now, obviously, we can turn the settings down just a little bit if we wan na fully hit that 120 hertz of the display, but with a device like this there’s always a little bit of compromise involved, but that’s a good thing.. Yes, I could get a larger thicker, heavier laptop. That would gim me a little bit more performance, but I’m sacrificing all of the usability all of the portability that I love about. This 14 inch form factor..
Next up, we’ve got CS2 and I’m using the Cloud III. Wireless headset that can come bundled with the laptop.. The main reason why you want to use this HyperX headset with the Omen is it actually doesn’t need a dongle.? You literally pull it outta the box hit the power button and it is immediately paired.. This is a great game to show this off, because, while a lot of games, I’m probably gon na play like 60 FPS, if I’m honest, but the fact that you’ve got more eSports titles that you can easily saturate.
The 120 hertz refresh rate of this beautiful OLED and you can even run some of these games at the full resolution too, which you normally shouldn’t.. You should pretty much always be running them a little bit lower than 2.8K on a 14 inch display, but it’s nice. Fortnite. Another game that I always like to test is also very playable here, so we’re getting 80 to 90 FPS again running it full resolution with DLSS enabled on high settings.. So what I like about this laptop and one of the things I think is really interesting about.
It is the fact that, yes, it’s got the 14 inch display OLED, it looks terrific, it’s got a good amount of performance, but it’s also good for more than just gaming.. So if I wan na say oh, I don’t know make a sick amount of. Did. I die One thing it definitely has going for is speed., So it does have Windows Hello on board., So it unlocks and gets going very quickly and the inputs are fairly solid.. I think this keyboard looks really nice.. It maybe could use a little bit more of a click, but it’s very standard for gaming laptop keyboards., Something I will say that I’m not a huge fan of are the speakers.. So if we listen to’em a little bit here, ( bright upbeat, music, ) they’re fine, but they lack a little bit of low end and that’s a consequence of their bottom firing. Somewhere..
I actually don’t know.. Oh yeah yeah, they’re bottom firing right here, which is not ideal. Now. The reason why I bring this up is because I always think that, especially with an all new design, there’s room for improvement., The speakers are fine, but could be better and same thing goes with the keyboard.. If it had a little bit more of a click, I think they would actually go a long way toward giving you a little bit more of a better gaming experience and typing experience.. That being said, these are all minor nitpicks that I think could be improved in the future, but none of it really detracts from the overall package here, which I will just say is quite strong.. I don’t want a couple of little complaints to sort of overshadow what they’ve done here, because HP and the Omen team they’ve done something.
That’S quite special like this is something that is far better than it really needed to be.. So is the Omen Transcend 14 worth it? Maybe I’m a little biased since it’s my favorite form factor, but I’m honestly pretty impressed with Omen. HP could have absolutely just phoned it in and shipped a shrunken version of their larger Omen laptops and just called it a day.. But it’s clear that they put real effort in here between the excellent display, eye-catching design and respectable performance. To get a foothold in the market, though the Omen team have to be aggressive on price and I’ll, give them props for that., While the laptop starts at $ 1,600 MSRP and can reach over $ 2,000 when you fully spec it out.
They’Ve got some good deals on hp.com. They bring that base model down to just $ 1,200, which is super aggressive.. The RTX 4060 configuration at just under $ 1,300 in white will be my pick since you’re always going to find diminishing returns when you max out a thin and light laptop just purely from a thermal perspective.. But at the end of the day the Omen Transcend 14.
Is an incredibly solid pick. If you wan na check it out, of course, I’ll have a link in the description. And thank you very much to Omen and Intel for sponsoring this video. Good job y’all.
This thin and light gaming laptop space is absolutely on fire right Now – and this is one of the strongest options out there – .