14 inches of GREATNESS - HP OMEN Transcend 14

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Published 2024-05-02
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HP is back with another 14" OMEN laptop, and this one looks pretty fricken good on paper... but can it dethrone the G14? Alex is here to try it out and, with help from LABS, see if this is worth your hard-earned money.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 14-inch laptops. So hot right now
0:13 Unboxing
0:55 Design and build quality impressions
3:06 Sponsor - Manscaped
3:48 Specs
4:49 Display impressions and LABS test results
6:04 Keyboard and trackpad impressions
7:39 LABS performance test results
8:17 Speaker and webcam impressions
10:00 Teardown and LABS battery test results
11:45 Pricing and overall thoughts
12:21 Outro

All Comments (21)
  • @CallMeTheWaffle
    They're charging a $209 premium for a pair of $115 headphones? Dafuq?
  • @ubacow7109
    That flex next to the trackpad is wild.... that looks like major deflection....
  • @Yvario
    “Run your finger across it . . . Just like your balls!” 😂
  • @kyoshimtl
    I'm starting to think he likes HP laptops.
  • @joanna_189
    I have this laptop with the Ultra 9, the 4070 and 32GB RAM. I am really enjoying it so far. Many complain that it is not as fast as other machines, which is certainly true, but as someone who is constantly on the go and taking this laptop everywhere, it's a very small compromise. I have encountered absolutely no problems whatsoever and all the games I've been playing run super smooth, again, with very little compromise. Also the keyboard does look like jelly beans. I love it. My 15yo students do too, they think it's *k00l*.
  • @godlyiwnl
    Not a big fan of soldered RAM trending for these high end laptops.
  • @_evildoer
    Anyone else read "pretty fricken good" in Alex's voice?
  • @elu9780
    No RAM slots again. Hard pass. No wifi upgrades possible? Another downside. Laptops of the same size used to be upgradable.
  • @JambaYCS
    I believe Drake also has 14 inches of greatness
  • @nikm5628
    Does anybody else remember the era of HP graveyards? For a good while many technicians wouldn't bother trying to fix HP computers because they just had too many problems with base components, especially capacitors. The computers were just too costly to repair, so many technicians just wouldn't bother. Computer repair shops in the mid 2000s and early 2010s almost all had giant piles of dead HP laptops
  • @devonward6784
    I’ve seen and felt this laptop and for build quality it’s definitely more flimsy than he lets on the screen is WAY more wobbly than showed and twisting on it again flexes way more than showed, the new g14 was next to it and that one is built significantly better
  • @rollandc.1368
    I have yet to own an hp product that doesn't arrive defective or fail within 3 months. I've had a printer (died) , a desktop (fried multiple monitors) and a monitor (as compensation for frying monitors, arrived with dead pixels) No ram slots ain't gonna make me start trying again
  • @goufr3540
    Just recently upgrade myself from a PS4 to an HP Omen 16 a few months ago. Has been fun to play and has no trouble no matter what I play on it. Granted, has taken a while to get use to as I have not pc gamed since the late 90s.
  • @Lord_zeel
    Really wish you guys would list some key specs in the description, sometimes I'll miss something in the video and scrubbing through it to find something like the price can be a pain.
  • @0xTJ
    That was a pretty smooth sponsor transition.
  • Omen! Thank you for a film recommendation, I was literally searching for an hour!
  • @lonergothonline
    Thank you guys for doing the double sided m.2 nvme drive test. its a no brainer to just do that if you have on hanging around on set specifically for that purpose and you already had the back off anyway. seems like the future will be littered with tiny issues like this and just having a definitive yes/no seems like a no brainer for the upcoming ltt-labs-review-comparison website.
  • @Dimondminer11
    0:21 actually though out of all the headphones that could be included with a laptop they really did choose the best sounding gaming headset for the money there good job!
  • @TrioLOLGamers
    8:00 LMG please also measure frequency response because lots of HP fans are not THAT loud, but are really peaky in one frequency, making them loud as f**ck.