The Next Gen Gaming Laptop - HP Omen Transcend 14

**Device like this, there's always a little bit of compromise involved, but that's a good thing.**

Yes, I could get a larger, thicker, heavier laptop that would give me a little bit more performance, but I'm sacrificing all of the usability, all of the portability that I love about this 14-inch form factor.

**CS2 and Cloud III Wireless Headset**

Next up, we've got CS2, and I'm using the Cloud III wireless headset that can come bundled with the laptop. The main reason why you want to use this HyperX headset with the Omen is it actually doesn't need a dongle. You literally pull it out of the box, hit the power button, and it is immediately paired.

This is a great game to show this off because while a lot of games I'm probably gonna play like 60 FPS if I'm honest, but the fact that you've got more eSports titles that you can easily saturate the 120 hertz refresh rate of this beautiful OLED, and you can even run some of these games at the full resolution too, which you normally shouldn't. You should pretty much always be running them a little bit lower than 2.8K on a 14-inch display, but it's nice.

Fortnite, another game that I always like to test is also very playable here, so we're getting 80 to 90 FPS again, running it full resolution with DLSS enabled on high settings.

**What I Like About This Laptop**

So what I like about this laptop, and one of the things I think is really interesting about it is the fact that yes, it's got the 14-inch display OLED; it looks terrific; it's got a good amount of performance, but it's also good for more than just gaming.

If I wanna say, oh, I don't know, make a sick amount of, did I die? One thing it definitely has going for is speed. So it does have Windows Hello on board. So it unlocks and gets going very quickly, and the inputs are fairly solid.

I think this keyboard looks really nice; it maybe could use a little bit more of a click, but it's very standard for gaming laptop keyboards.

**Speakers and Keyboard**

Something I will say that I'm not a huge fan of are the speakers. So if we listen to 'em a little bit here, they're fine, but they lack a little bit of low end, and that's a consequence of their bottom firing somewhere.

I actually don't know; oh yeah, yeah, they're bottom firing right here, which is not ideal.

Now the reason why I bring this up is because I always think that especially with an all-new design, there's room for improvement. The speakers are fine, but could be better, and same thing goes with the keyboard.

If it had a little bit more of a click, I think they would actually go a long way toward giving you a little bit more of a better gaming experience and typing experience.

That being said, these are all minor nits that I think could be improved in the future, but none of it really detracts from the overall package here, which I will just say is quite strong.

**Is The Omen Transcend 14 Worth It?**

I don't want a couple of little complaints to sort of overshadow what they've done here because HP and the Omen team have done something that's quite special. Like this is something that is far better than it really needed to be.

So is the Omen Transcend 14 worth it? Maybe I'm a little biased since it's my favorite form factor, but I'm honestly pretty impressed with Omen.

HP could have absolutely just phoned it in and shipped a shrunken version of their larger Omen laptops and just called it a day. But it's clear that they put real effort in here between the excellent display, eye-catching design, and respectable performance.

To get a foothold in the market, though, the Omen team have to be aggressive on price, and I'll give them props for that. While the laptop starts at $1,600 MSRP and can reach over $2,000 when you fully spec it out, they've got some good deals on hp.com; they bring that base model down to just $1,200, which is super aggressive.

The RTX 4060 configuration, at just under $1,300 in white will be my pick, since you're always going to find diminishing returns when you max out a thin and light laptop purely from a thermal perspective.

But at the end of the day, the Omen Transcend 14 is an incredibly solid pick. If you wanna check it out, of course, I'll have a link in the description. And thank you very much to Omen and Intel for sponsoring this video. Good job, y'all!

This thin and light gaming laptop space is absolutely on fire right now, and this is one of the best ones out there.