HP Omen Transcend 16
Specifications
Primary Camera: 2.1 MPix
Price comparison
Average of 4 scores (from 8 reviews)
Reviews for the HP Omen Transcend 16
Not to be confused with the regular Omen 16, the Omen Transcend 16 is the next step up for the series complete with newer features and options that future Omen models will likely draw from. Know all the differences and changes before pulling the trigger.
Source: Hot Hardware
The HP Omen Transcend 16 is an absolutely gorgeous and fast laptop for gamers and creators alike. It has a large touchpad, zoned RGB lighting (on this SKU), high-end hardware, and excellent cooling. It's also easy to perform certain DIY upgrades and repairs. The only real knock with this particular SKU is the price. At $2,199.99, it really needs to offer the mini LED display option for a no-brainer recommendation. Otherwise, see if you can catch it on sale—at $1,899.99, it's just $200 more than the baseline config on HP's website (with a slower Core i7-13700HX CPU and GeForce R TX 4060 GPU).
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 12/12/2023
Source: PC Mag
No one doubts that HP makes a sincere effort with its gaming laptops, a category it has played in for less than a decade, and the back-to-back improvements made this year to the Omen 16 line have all been worthwhile. The mini LED screen in particular upgrades the visuals considerably, and the sleeker body design undoubtedly gives the Transcend a style edge—but neither of these things improves performance. And, as you'd expect, the mini LED option is only available in the highest-end configurations. Altogether, the Omen Transcend 16 trailed in performance versus similarly priced laptops that were a bit thicker, not to mention one crucial even-thinner model. With that, we gave the HP Omen Transcend 16 the same score we gave its predecessor, and suggest the Alienware x16 R1 for a thin-and-light gaming laptop, or the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 8 for the best performance at 16 inches.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 09/02/2023
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: Matthew Moniz
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/01/2023
Source: Jarrod'sTech
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/28/2023
Foreign Reviews
Source: PC Guia
PT→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 12/02/2023
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Techprincess IT
IT→ENPositive: Powerful hardware; great dedicated graphics card; high gaming performance.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/26/2023
Source: Techprincess IT
IT→ENPositive: Nice mini LED display; high gaming performance; great built quality; elegant design; rich set of ports.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/24/2023
Source: Clubic
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 09/29/2023
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 70% performance: 80% display: 90% mobility: 50% workmanship: 80%
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NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU: High-end graphics card for laptops based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. Offers 8 GB GDDR6 (128 Bit) and is configurable with a TGP of 35 - 115W (+ Dynamic Boost).
These graphics cards are able to play the latest and most demanding games in high resolutions and full detail settings with enabled Anti-Aliasing.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
i9-13900HX: Mobile CPU based on the Raptor Lake series that offers 24 cores (8 performance, 16 efficiency cores) with a Boost core of up to 5.8 GHz for the P-cores. Similar to the Desktop i9-13900K but with reduced clock speeds and TDP.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
16.00":
15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.HP: Founded in 1939, the US company is a major server and printer manufacturer and one of the leading IT companies in the world. Until 2015, the company was called Hewlett-Packard Company. After a split, the computer division was renamed HP Inc.
In 2023, HP had an approximate market share of 22% of global PC sales, making it number 2 after Lenovo.
76.98%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
