HP OMEN Transcend 16 inch Laptop Bundle, WQXGA 240Hz Display, 7ms Response Time, 13th Generation Intel Core i7-13700HX, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GPU (8 GB), 16-u0020nr (2023)

I bought my unit from Micro Center a few months ago, the only differences being mine came with a 1 TB M.2 and 32 GB of ram. Pros: Per-Key RGB keyboard Typing experience is excellent. It's the best keyboard on a gaming laptop I've ever used, and I've owned laptops from a handful of different manufacturers, including Razer, Lenovo, Alienware, and MSI. Not the most tactile but the layout and travel are great. Quiet. Fans rarely get loud enough that noise is a problem. Granted, I only play MMOs so I'm really not pushing the components too hard. Trackpad is very accurate, clicks anywhere, and has excellent palm rejection. Best trackpad on a gaming laptop I have ever used. The screen gets nice and bright (500ish nits) and is relatively color accurate. This is NOT the Mini-LED panel, but still looks good. USB-C ports are on the left-hand side so cables don't get in the way of your mouse (for us righties). There are additional ports on the back. You can undervolt the CPU through Omen software. Cons: This is a bad one - you can't charge the laptop with USB-C, despite the ports having a power delivery icon. The included power brick is massive and you can only get 5-7 hours of battery with light usage - not enough for a full day at work if you were planning on taking this thing on the go. For how sleek and portable this device is, not being able to charge with USB-C is massively annoying. HP Omen software is clunky. Simple things, like changing keyboard brightness, is a nightmare. Fans are almost always on. There's a setting in the BIOS to disable the fans always being on, but if this thing is above 40 degrees C (so, always), the fans are on. HP pushed out a bios update in early 2025 that improved the fan behavior so it doesn't constantly turn off and then ramp up when idle. Screen wobble. After all, HP does stand for "hinge problem". I can't wait for the hinges to go on this thing after another year. There is only ONE M.2 slot. The speakers are all upper mids and don't get very loud. There is no way to change performance modes, fan speed, etc. with a keyboard shortcut like on other laptops. They force you to use the Omen software. 16:10 display but there's a massive bottom bezel. This applies to all gaming laptops with HX series processors: there simply isn't enough thermal headroom with how thin the device is to keep this CPU from throttling depending on the workload. Having the laptop in clamshell mode and vertical (running external displays only) can mitigate the thermal issues; fans have much more room to breathe.