OMEN Gaming Laptop 16" WQXGA Intel Core i7 32 GB memory;1 TB SSD Windows 11

Bought my first Omen five years ago and it's still running strong. Loved the sleek design, the power and the solid build quality so much that I just picked up another one. Highly recommend.

I love my laptop. I am an animator so this was perfect for me. I am using it for 3D in Maya and designing in unreal engine. I wanted a laptop that could do what my desktop OMEN can do on the go. It is good qualtity. The design of the laptop feel vintage. I did alot of research before making this decision. The Graphic card was important, the memory, I am an Intel® Core™ i7 girl and the storage. I basically made a list of all the programs I will be using on the laptop and made my decsion. The programs are all adobe product like photoshop, illustrator, 3D substance, indesign, 3D in maya, and unreal engine. I do also have a hard drive as well for saving my projects. Overall this was a perfect laptop for me in this season, as a designer.

Reviewing it after using 1 month. Laptop Build quality is good. Laptop's hardware is also good. I do AI related work so this laptop has NPU and graphic card to support my work. I am kind of impressed my battery life. Usually gaming laptop doesn't have good but it has. For moderate use it give backup up to 5-6 hours. I think it is due to ultra core processor compared to 14th HX processor. It handled all popular games till date very well.

This is exactly what my 18 years old son wanted on a gaming computer. The response to the games and the controllers is excellent, the graphics processor and memory are working great and my son it's been playing on this laptop at home and during our trip to Florida and Back Home in Michigan. His only comment besides how happy he is with this product, it's that it is a large lap-top and some of his friends from school mentioned how much bigger than other lap-tops and Chromebooks are. But he even loves the numbers keypad because he feels it helps him work faster on some of his AP Calculus and AP Physics tasks faster than the school Chromebook.

A powerful laptop with an exceptional design, capable of handling advanced modeling and editing software, as well as AAA games with ease.

I bought this laptop specifically for software development, and I am thoroughly impressed. Even with multiple heavy applications running simultaneously, the system shows absolutely no signs of lagging. Before purchasing, I compared the price with several other brands offering the same configuration, and this was by far the best deal—especially with the offers available at the time. Overall, I am completely satisfied with the configuration, price point, and performance. Highly recommended for developers!

I’ve been using this laptop for a while now, and it has exceeded all my expectations. The heat management is excellent — even during long work sessions or gaming, it stays cool and comfortable to use. That’s something you don’t see often in slim laptops. The build quality feels premium and sturdy, with no flex or cheap materials. The hinge is smooth, the keyboard feels solid, and the overall design has a sleek and professional look that makes it stand out. It’s both stylish and practical — lightweight enough to carry anywhere, yet powerful enough to handle demanding tasks without a hitch. Performance is consistently smooth, multitasking is effortless, and everything from boot time to app switching feels snappy and responsive. The cooling system does its job so well that I never worry about thermal throttling or overheating. Overall, this laptop offers an outstanding balance of power, design, and durability. It’s a great choice for anyone who values quality and reliability — easily a 5/5 experience.

Overall not a bad laptop. I wanted to play AoE4 and expansion pack and Baulders Gate III. Only thing that get annoying is when resolution is set to highest to play games and then you stop and exit game the screen flickers a lot. Only fix I am able to do is reset resolution in safe mode and that fixes it till the next time.

I love how this laptop looks and feels! And the fan is very quiet/optimized, especially for lower end tasks. I have witnessed many gaming laptops in the past that just go full airplane engine when opening Chrome or something. Another thing I love about this laptop is the fact that the important ports are in the back. It really helps with cable management on a bed, where I use this laptop the most, because I don't have to face a certain direction for it to charge and be comfortable to use. However, the ports themselves felt a little misaligned??? They weren't broken, but I certainly had to wiggle my USBs to get them in and out. The charging cable also hangs fairly loose in the back port and sometimes falls out if I move a little. The battery life is just about what you'd expect from a gaming laptop: not great, but again, that's just something you have to accept if you're looking for a gaming laptop. The charging brick it comes with is also massive, making it a little hard to transport, but again, a small price to pay to have a laptop that can smoothly run bg3. Visible hardware aside, the specs of this thing are great. Everything I use runs very well on Windows. I would not recommend this laptop if you plan on changing your OS though, as it is definitely built for Windows. I tried using Linux on this laptop when I first got it and had some trouble with graphics because of the Nvidia card. I also had trouble changing the keyboard backlight color, because the only program available to change it is tied to the Microsoft store (and I am not well-versed enough to build hardware compatibility in OpenRGB). I never open Omen Gaming Hub. When I do it's almost always messy or laggy, even on an almost empty drive. I'm not that picky when it comes to gameplay specs and the computer's background processes already do their job well to make everything smooth, so to have the built-in keyboard tied to this app that is otherwise useless to me felt unneeded. Another very small issue I have is the screen. The colors seem very muted overall. That's about it with my complaints though.

Would be great but HP likes taking bribes from Microsoft and has gone full in, replacing the right control key with a Copilot key that no one wants. So, if you are left handed, like me. Get ready for the most insufferable experience ever while you have to re-learn how to type.