HP Omen 16 Review - Amazing Battery Life, But...

Review of the 2023 HP Omen 16 with an I7-13620H and a RTX 4060. Its a clean good looking laptop for a great price but it's not perfect.

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[MatthewMoniz]

What do you guys think of the Omen 16? Also, if you enjoyed the video feel free to subscribe and hit the like button!

[anenglishmanplusamerican]

I purchased my laptop, and I’m not disappointed at all, enjoying the gaming and I’ll keep sticking with HP.

[yehuang]

This Omen 16 actually uses Victus 16's motherboard. All the HX variants have a different chassis with I/Os on the back etc.

[joelconolly]

Sounds like a few downgrades here and there. But I guess it's at least a bit more sleeker than previous gen. Maybe they should move the hinge slightly forward to hide shortened the bottom bezels and improve thermals a tad. Still another decent one from Omen.

[Funkenflug]

Thank you so very much. I'm still in love with my 2021 OMEN 16-c0095ng (5900HX, 3070, 64 GB DDR4) that has two slots for NVMe drives and a better 165 Hz display.

[pacoz]

I've had HP laptops for at least 10 years, they've always done the job, so I trust HP, once I tried a Lenovo laptop, it was really beautiful but it had a weird noisy fan so I ended up returning it, also I've heard complaints on other brands such as Dell, Asus, etc... so I prefer HP, and today I bought an Omen16 here in Mexico, it is just like yours, i7(13), rtx4060, 1TB Nvme SSD, etc, it is called WD0002LA version. I was relieved to find your review because most of the other reviews are from a different laptop version, and I am glad to hear that this one has a good battery and good thermal control, I will use it for work and gaming, so the design is perfect for me. My last laptop is an HP Pavilion GTX1050, I am not an usual gamer so I only play 1 or 2 games, 3-4 hours a week, it has a bad performance at videogames (anyway I know it is not a gaming laptop) but it is really quick and reliable, that is why I stick with HP, but now I decided to move to a higher gaming laptop, so I hope I have fun with this one :D

[dremorama]

What's wrong with the display in that specific model? BTW wich is it? In my country I found one OMEN with same specs than yours.

[nightowl]

I like the look of the Omens. Not crazy about the overdone look of the Alienwares.

[jaredvaldez]

Just recently got this. I like it haven't been in the laptop game in over a decade +. But I'm excited to see how things changed but damn are laptops expensive

[baileyrainey]

Good review man I’m thinking of getting this laptop, but damn seeing you play left handed messes with my head, never thought about the fact left handed people have to change the keys around for gaming.

[eternalwings]

03:20 The sticker guy doesn't take the job seriously. He should learn the optimal sticker placement because bad sticker placement will affect CPU/GPU performance and operating temperature!

[mathewthomas]

That's the sleekest omen I've seen in a while

[meshalalajmi]

I just bought it. It’s a beast! The brightness is great, awesome colors. Light weight and simple but good look. The only thing I didn’t like the regular browsing and opening and closing windows seem slow to me. I don’t know if that’s a laptop thing! Because on my gtx 1060 pc is faster.
2k display
240hz
RTX 4070
i7 13gen
32g ram
8 cores

[jaegerists]

good to see you review newer models now like laptops that released at the same yr you review them

[bryans]

Thanks for another objective review Matt. I haven't had good experiences with HP products in the past so I'm gun shy with the brand (the ASUS you compared it to would be my preferred choice).

[AbdulRehman-jnwe]

I think it’s done deliberately. It’s a tactic to make ppl buy the costlier variant with better display

[CptColtAnimation]

I appreciate the video. On paper this laptop looks exactly like what I need for various different things, but I’m apprehensive to purchase HP products after I had one that caught fire 3 times due to faulty wiring (they fixed twice for free and it kept catching fire) and then a pavilion that I used that the hard drive gave out within a few weeks. They gave me 10% off my next purchase as a “sorry” after I brought it to their attention. It never felt like they cared, it was more of “protect our selves” thing where the process was hard and they just felt like they got sick of me needing the faulty laptops they sold me fixed.

[silversurfer]

I was considering buying a version of this in a Swedish store - but the peculiar thing is that it doesn't have any fan exhausts on the sides. And they don't offer any pictures from the back on their site - its called "HP Omen 16-wd0828no". Anyone knows what kind of cooling it has?

[JoseLgamer]

I have an omen 16 (2021 model) and although the lid is made out of plastic, the palmrest seems to be made out of a magnesium alloy of some kind, because when scratched it shows the silver material underneath. And I don't see a reason for them to use silver plastic and paint it black instead of making the plastic black from the get go.

[strawberrysoda]

I got it after watching it the display is really good. (That’s just me cause my old laptops display had that horrible gray and white overlay for the brightness) I got this for 800 and it was really worth it