Hp’s Omen Max 16 Is Its Most Powerful Gaming Laptop Yet

HP is announcing an updated lineup of notebooks astatine CES that includes caller EliteBooks, a caller Ryzen AI-powered ZBook workstation, and a caller 16-inch Omen Max gaming laptop that tin rotation its instrumentality successful reverse to thief clear retired particulate from its vents.

The Omen Max 16 could surely usage from a cooling strategy that doesn’t get mucked up excessively quickly, considering it will recreation pinch next-gen Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics and a premier of Intel Core Ultra 9 aliases Ryzen AI 9 HX processors. A leak successful December suggested nan Omen will beryllium 1 of nan first devices to characteristic nan RTX 5080 mobile GPU . HP too says nan laptop is nan first to usage a “hybrid cryo compound” and a vapor enclosure to amended thermals.

The laptop has Omen AI package that automatically adjusts strategy and crippled settings for nan champion capacity and tin brace instantly pinch HP’s HyperX gaming peripherals. HP’s Omen has too earned Microsoft Copilot Plus PC designation.

Of course, nary gaming laptop is complete without RGB and accessories. The Omen Max 16 has a ray barroom connected nan beforehand of its metallic assemblage (black aliases white) that tin bespeak disconnected your desk, and you tin powerfulness nan colors utilizing Omen Light Studio software. HP’s HyperX marque is too launching an incredibly modular Pulsefire Saga Pro gaming rodent that lets you move retired buttons and assemblage components to your liking.

HP streamlined its instrumentality lineup successful May 2024, letting spell of nan Pavilions and nan Envys successful favour of Omni and Elite laptop and desktop lines that correspond to personification and business devices, respectively. Today, nan institution announced nan EliteBook Ultra G1i, nan Intel type of nan laptop that launched successful 2024 pinch Qualcomm chips. And nan EliteBook X and convertible X Flip, which launched pinch AMD chips past year, now personification Intel G1i versions arsenic well.

You tin configure EliteBooks pinch privateness screens, which makes it harder for onlookers to spot what you’re doing while you activity successful public.

Finally, HP updated its 14-inch workstation laptop pinch nan caller ZBook Ultra 14 G1a, this clip pinch a thinner level scheme and without nan Firefly name. This ZBook ships pinch Ryzen AI Max Pro bid chips designed to tear done Solidworks, 3DS Max, and AutoCAD activity pinch up to 96GB shared graphics practice and up to 128GB of RAM. HP calls it nan “world’s astir powerful 14-inch mobile workstation.”