HP Omen Transcend 14 Review: HP added a new and powerful gaming laptop to its list of gaming laptops a few weeks ago, named HP Omen Transcend 14. The company has designed this thin and light laptop for gaming and heavy tasking. Many great features have been included in it, which make it a great option.
Apart from this, this laptop also includes the most trending technology of today i.e. AI features, due to which the importance of this gaming laptop increases a lot. We have used this gaming laptop of HP and have brought its review for you. In this review article, we will mention both the good and bad things of HP Omen Transcend 14.
Specifications of this laptop
Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor has been given. It has 16 cores 22 threads. It has 16GB of high frequency 7467MHZ clocked LPDDRS RAM, which you cannot upgrade. Apart from this, it has 1TB Gen 4 NVME SSD, 6 cell 71WHR battery, 8GB RAM Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card. Apart from this, Bluetooth 5.3, WiFi 6E support has been given for connectivity in this laptop.
There is an audio jack on the left side of this laptop, Thunderbolt 4.0 Type-C port, two USB 3.2 Gen Type A ports on the right side. Its rear side has an exhaust vent, an HDMI 2.1 port and a charging port supporting 140W Type C charger. Let us now tell you the review of all the things of this gaming laptop one by one and we will start with the display, design and build quality. Its price starts from Rs 1,74,999. It has been made available at HP’s World Stores and online stores.
Display, Design and Build Quality Review
Talking about the display of HP Omen Transcend 14, it has a 14-inch 2.8K OLED display, which comes with 2880*1800 pixel resolution. This display supports a maximum refresh rate of 120Hz, due to which the gaming and video viewing experience is quite smooth and interactive. This display has an OLED screen, due to which the colors of the content displayed in it look very bright and detailed. However, some people may find this display quite reflective, especially in bright light. It has a webcam on the front, the quality of which we found quite average.
Its design is quite premium and attractive. The company has described it as a thin and light gaming laptop. It has been launched in Ceramic White and Shadow Black color options. We have reviewed the Shadow Black color variant. We liked the design of this laptop very much. I especially like thin, light and small laptops, so I liked it a lot, but it is possible that some people may not like its small size. The weight of this laptop is 1.63 kg, which also makes it a portable laptop.
The OMEN logo and RGB backlit keyboard are given on the lid of this laptop, which makes it even more stylish. In Hindi, I especially liked the colorful lights burning in the keyboard of this laptop. As soon as you see its keyboard, you will start getting the feel of a gaming laptop. You will not have any problem typing in the dark on its keyboard. The typing quality of the keyboard is very smooth, due to which there is no problem even in typing for a long time. Being lightweight, it is easy to carry and bring it anywhere. The speakers in this gaming laptop are installed at the bottom. The sound quality of the speakers was okay, but we would not call it very good.
Talking about its build quality, the aluminum chassis of this gaming laptop makes it quite strong and durable. However, we found some flexibility in the display and keyboard. Overall, HP has worked a lot on the build quality of this gaming laptop and it is designed to last for a long time.
performance review
As we told you above while giving information about the specifications of this laptop, HP has used Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor in this gaming laptop, which comes with Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card i.e. GPU for graphics. Due to this, it becomes very easy to do gaming and heavy graphics tasks on this laptop. We played many great and amazing graphics games on this laptop, from battle royale games to cricket league games, but we did not see any lagging issue even once.
We found playing games on this laptop quite smooth. Apart from this, we also used many editing software like Premiere Pro, Adobe etc. and while using all these things, the processor of this laptop remained quite fast and smooth. Apart from this, we also worked by opening about 25-30 tabs at a time in this laptop, but there was no problem of lagging even once. However, we saw heating issue in it. We noticed many times that after using the laptop for a while or playing games, the laptop gets a little heated.
Battery and Connectivity Review
This laptop has a 6 cell 71WHR battery, which comes with 140W Type-C fast charging support. We really liked the fast charging support available in this laptop and hope that many users will like it. Actually, nowadays while using fast charging smartphones, we now find it very difficult to work on a slow charging laptop.
For this reason, you may like the fast charging HP Omen Transcend 14 in this case. Talking about its battery backup, after using it for about 15 days, we saw that it can be used for about 7-8 hours on a full charge and normal use. However, if you play games continuously, its battery backup may be less.
Many connectivity options are provided in this laptop. It includes USB Type-C 3.2 port, HDMI 2.1 port, and dual speakers etc. Apart from this, exhaust ports are also provided at the back, which help in reducing the heating problem. Overall, this laptop is good in terms of connectivity and ports.
Some good things (Pros) of HP Omen Transcend 14
- Portability: The light weight and compact design of this laptop makes it easy to carry.
- Great Display: It has a 2.8K OLED display with 120Hz refresh rate. This laptop is great for gaming and watching videos.
- Powerful Performance: It is equipped with Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card, which helps it to play games for a long time, run heavy software and perform other heavy tasks.
- RGB Backlit Keyboard: Its colorful keyboard is quite stylish and smooth.
- Fast Charging: The 140-watt fast charger helps charge this laptop quickly, which is a very good thing.
Some Cons of HP Omen Transcend 14
- Heating issue: The biggest problem with this laptop is the heating issue. This laptop gets heated up very quickly even when doing normal work along with gaming.
- Small display: Although this isn’t a problem for me personally, some users may not like the smaller display size.
- battery life: The battery life on this laptop is around 7-8 hours for normal work, but if you play games for around 2 hours, then the battery life reduces to only 4-5 hours.
conclusion
After so much discussion, overall, we have come to the conclusion that HP Omen Transcend 14 is an excellent gaming laptop, which is perfect for gaming and heavy tasking. If you like small size displays, then you will find this laptop to be a great option with a very premium, great display and powerful performance. Even if you are not fond of gaming, this laptop can be a great option for heavy and multitasking, but let us remind you once again that its biggest problem is heating. However, if you are looking for a portable and powerful gaming laptop by ignoring the heating issue, then HP Omen Transcend 14 can be a great option for you.
