HP introduces new OMEN 16 laptop

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On top of introducing the new OMEN Transcend 16, HP also updates its OMEN 16 laptop to cater to more hardcore gamers. The company boasts this is the "most powerful" OMEN 16 laptop yet. It gets a 119% gen-over-gen improvement for FPS in Cyberpunk 2077. The OMEN 16 runs on up to a 13th-gen Intel Core i9-13900HX processor or up to an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS processor paired with up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 GPU. 

This new OMEN laptop supports up to 32GB DDR5-5600MHz RAM and 2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe TLC M.2 SSD. HP also packs in a new FHD camera with a manual shutter door for extra security. And that same camera can be used for Windows Hello Facial recognition. The HP OMEN 16 gets a starting price of USD 1,299.99 (roughly CAD 1,758).

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HP's Omen 16 gaming laptop gets improved cooling

HP has just refreshed the Omen 16 almost a year after it was introduced. Now, it gets thermal upgrades. It adds a fifth heat pipe and a fourth outflow vent. Adding these can reduce GPU hinge and bottom SSD temperatures by 3% and 14%, respectively, while making the laptop 5% quieter. HP claims GPU and CPU performance has been boosted, too.

There's also now a Dynamic Power feature in the Omen Gaming Hub. The company uses a built-in IR thermopile sensor to monitor CPU and GPU capacity in real-time and allocate power when needed. This should optimize in-game framerates and boost CPU performance by up to 36% compared to the 2021 model. 

The Omen 16 can house up to an Intel Core i9-12900H series processor or AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX mobile processor. As for graphics, it can support up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti or AND Ryzen RX 6650M. You can max out RAM up to 32GB (DDR5) and storage up to 2TB SSD.

For the display, you can top it up at a 1440p 165Hz IPS display with a 3ms response time and 100% sRGB colour gamut. Its keyboard gets a per-key RGB lighting and a white colour option for the shell. Pricing starts at US$1,200 (around CA$1,540).

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