HP Omen 14 (2024) - Thin and Light, But at What Cost?

HP are joining the 14 inch gaming laptop club in 2024 with their new Omen Transcend 14 - but they’ve made some big compromises to make this thin and light device. I’ll show you how it compares against the other 14 inch competition in this review!

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HP Omen 14 (2024) Review Timestamps:
0:00 A Thin, Light, Quiet 14” Gaming Laptop?
0:19 Design & Build Quality
1:06 Size & Weight
1:40 Laptop Specs
1:56 Unique Keyboard & Bundled Headset
2:38 RGB Lighting & Touchpad
3:17 Ports & Display Output Connection
4:24 Getting Inside & Internals
4:49 SSD & Wi-Fi Speed Problem
5:26 Upgrade Options
5:48 Speakers & Latencymon
6:02 Battery Size & Power Saving Features
6:32 Battery Life Comparison
6:58 Cooling Design & Performance Modes
7:51 Thermal Testing - Temperatures / Clock Speed / TDP
8:42 Game Performance in Different Modes
8:56 Boosting Game FPS with DLSS & Lower Resolution
9:07 CPU Performance vs Others (On & Off Battery) in Cinebench
10:03 Does it Feel Hot - Keyboard Temperatures
10:38 Is it Loud - Fan Noise
11:06 Is it Actually Cooler Than Other 14” Laptops?
11:30 Is it Actually Quieter Than Other 14” Laptops?
12:04 OLED Screen (Color, Brightness, Contrast & Bleed)
12:48 Screen Response Time & Latency
13:25 No MUX Switch! Is it a Problem?
13:41 Camera & Microphone Test
13:52 3x Game Comparison (1080p & 1440p)
15:34 FPS Can Be Improved
15:46 Big Problems with Game Testing
17:18 3DMark & Content Creation
17:34 BIOS
17:43 Linux Support
17:59 Pricing, Availability & Laptop Deals
18:55 HP Omen 14’s Biggest Positives & Negatives
21:00 Get This 14” Gaming Laptop Instead

Disclosure: Purchases made through store links above may provide some compensation to Jarrod'sTech.

[CycleDoc]

I have the lower spec HP Omen 14 with 4060, 16gb ram, a 1 tb ssd. In all, I have been happy with it. Like you said, Eco mode is slow but if you are doing productivity work with documents and web browsing, it is worth the trade off for more battery. I actually only use balanced mode (limiting gpu to 50watts) for gaming. I choose to lower the resolution to 1920x1200 and use Reshade with Pascal's Launchpad and Clarity for upscaling and sharpening. Even in games with relatively poor performance like Helldivers 2, it still works quite well with a very rare stutter here and there. Now if Best Buy had the Zephyrus G14 2024 at the time, I would have bought that, but I haven't found this laptop disappointing and I've enjoyed away-from-home work and gaming on it.

[JustJoshTech]

This is a masterclass of laptop reviewing! Fantastic job. We learnt things :)

One little add: The G14 has a slight high pitched sound to its fan noise. I believe this is to do with airflow to the 3rd internal fan. So even though the G14's fan noise volume can be made simliar to Transcend, folks who are super sensitive to fan noise may find the Transcend's fan noise better due to that.

[nessmm]

HP means son of a bitch in Spain, that must give you an idea about this brand of printers.

[thethfox]

Hmmm, they managed to make an rtx 4050 with their rtx 4070

[mihirojha]

In my country this costs almost the same as G14 RTX 4060 2024. I have no doubt the G14 is the superior machine.

[GaganV]

4:45 note, the wifi *is* upgradable, you just have to get under the heatsink to do that.

[stevewoesthoff]

I have this laptop and I love it. I was actually able to swap out the wifi card for a new wifi 7 card though, not sure why mine was removable.

[thefriendlycarnist]

I don't really understand why the screen wobble couldn't be fixed, especially considering the fact that the Legion Slim 5 (14"), although a bit bigger, has GREAT hinges

[agnt_ornge]

I love how you let us show the smudges underneath the laptop to show how smudgy the texture of it.

[mcslender]

In the US its the same price as the g14 when not on sale, but its pretty decent imo when on sale especially if you want full USB c charging. Hope next year they can push to 180w total as it seems like the laptop is limited by the usb c power delivery instead of temperature

[Legend_God]

In my country, the Omen costs 2000 dollars, the g14 3000 dollars and the Razer blade 18 with 4090 costs 2800 dollars

[Hubwood]

Uuuuhhh i DO like the Keyboard and the integrated Cloud III :)
Such a shame they messed up with that power management 😥

[FoxxFire]

Wow, this review was so eye opening. No other review of this laptop puts it up against so many others in this many gaming benchmarks. So, a lot of those other reviews say that despite the lower power to the gpu, this device performs nearly as well as a full powered 4070, due to how efficient the 4070 is. clearly is not the case. Maybe those other reviews are comparing against 4070 machines running in a lower performance profile, or the results were just cherry picked so that this laptop reflected better performance than it actually gets (specifically the gpu; the cpu seems completely fine of course). Thanks for making this video, JT. Have a great weekend man.

[ambusticheats]

That keyboard is so much nicer than the 4 zone one I have. Such a shame they dont sell that one.

[rion]

That wobbly screen would be a great case for Hinge Problem

[moonlightcayenne]

Great video Jarrod! Seeing the price of this, I’d spend a little more and purchase the Zephryus G14 2024 instead. That OLED screen is too hard to resist, along with amazing sounding speakers and the higher TGP of the RTX 4070 gives a better gaming experience. Plus with a laptop that is extremely well built (MacBook level) feels like you’re getting more for your money

[warrenmcclure]

So these lower TDP 4070 GPUs would be like a 4050se GPU if that was a thing. TBH I don't think that's too bad since it is having to fit in a small chasse. I had this laptop and loved it but ended up switching to a ROG flow x13 and happy I did. Yea it has the same lower watt GPU but I love the 2 in 1 form factor and the keyboard/touchpad are just as good, if not better. Also it was cheaper at $1800.00 since it was open box. My config is the 4070 GPU/32GB ram/2TB SSD/Ryzen 9 7940HS

[Pablososki]

This laptop seems perfect for non-gamers.

I've been looking for a lightweight laptop with a nice screen and powerful cpu

[AllInone-xhwg]

Hi, what do you think between HP Omen 14 vs asus zephyrus g16 what will be a good for the gaming and Workstation?

[rowell]

If you see the ceramic white version of this, it's just wow!