HP has been well-known in the PC gaming space for its Omen brand, but the company hasn’t had a flagship gaming laptop that felt like it could keep up with the Razers and Alienwares of the world. But the newly announced Omen Transcend 16 is just that.
Related Videos Mini-LED allows for much brighter panels than what has been possible with LED or even OLED, meaning in theory, it can produce some spectacular HDR gaming. HP didn’t include the number of dimming zones but says the panel goes up to 1,180 nits of peak HDR brightness. This particular screen also has a 240Hz refresh rate and a resolution of 2560 x 1600 resolution.
Really, the only thing missing here is options for the highest graphics cards. For whatever reason, HP has decided to cap it at the RTX 4070 with a TGP of 130 watts. The specific GPU names don’t always correlate directly with performance, though, so we’ll have to test the thermal capabilities out for ourselves once we get it in for review.