so i finally got into the studio the hp
omen 16 the 2022 model the last time i
reviewed a nomen product was two years
ago okay and the 16-inch version is
literally a replica of the 15-inch model
except a bit bigger they did change some
of the things like the location of the
ports but unfortunately some of the
things i didn't like about the 15 are
still present on the 16. for example
when you press down on this lid it's
still very soft it literally feels like
you're pressing on a wet diaper it's not
made out of metal there's a little bit
of metal bits around the sides but at
the end of the day this is a mostly
plastic laptop it's using a brushed
plastic when you press down you can see
it moving down but you're also going to
get fingerprints which is standard with
any black laptop it's 5.16 pounds so
it's not super light but it's light
enough that it's easy to carry and most
of the ports have been moved to the back
so that you can keep your table clean if
you connect cables to this you have two
type c ports which are not thunderbolts
these go up to 10 gigabits per second
but they also support display 1.4 you
have an hdmi port which supports 2.1
your power connector which is a 240 watt
power brick and then on the left hand
side you have a usb a port rj45 audio
jack sd card slot and then on the right
hand side you have two more usb a ports
which go up to five gigabits per second
now a lot of you complained about this
little gap between the display and the
bottom with the omen 15 review i did and
i said it's not a big deal and today i
still think it's not a big deal they
have rubber stoppers at the bottom so it
doesn't crack and the screen is plastic
so i don't think it will and even the
front of it is completely closed this
has a couple of advantages being the
fact that if you use this laptop closed
connected to a display this gap just
provides better airflow now the second
flaw they kept with this laptop is the
display it is super duper wobbly like
you can place it all the way back this
is the furthest it goes which is fine
it's pretty standard but like it just
it just flops everywhere and because
this is a 16 inch display
it flops a bit more than the old 15-inch
version all they had to do was put
slightly better hinges on this and it
would stay in place a bit easier the
keyboard doesn't have rgb but there
might be versions that do support it
it's a white backlight with different
levels to choose from it has a massive
and i mean massive touchpad which feels
pretty good to use you know it's not
going to beat out a macbook pro 13 but
pretty good for a gaming laptop the
actual typing experience is fine but the
keys are very mushy like when you press
down on this keyboard deck it kind of
just sinks in and that's not something
you want on a gaming laptop now the
bottom bezel is quite chunky but the
sides are thin it does have a 720p
webcam and it's not that great there is
no windows hello to log you in with your
face and there is no fingerprint scanner
either the display is pretty good you
know it has good color gamut it has good
color accuracy and the screen brightness
is more than acceptable and because it's
144 hertz i think that's a good place to
be for a rtx 3060 which is what they're
using inside of here in fact the color
accuracy is more than capable if you
plan on doing any sort of design work
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on the bottom of the laptop and they
don't sound that great even though
there's a bang olufsen label slapped
onto the deck of the keyboard now this
is also the very first ryzen 7 6800 h
processor i've tested this year and they
paired it with 16 gigabytes of ram rtx
3060 that can boost up to 140 watts
that's with dynamic boost and a one
terabyte nvme ssd the cpu performance is
very similar to the ryzen 9 6900 hs this
is a full h processor so there's more
power being pushed to the cpu it's not
as fast as an i7 12700h but it's in line
for the 6000 series of amd processors if
you're running creative applications on
this thing it performs very well but if
you want the best experience you're
still better off going with intel if
you're buying this for gaming the best
way to describe the performance is much
better than the zephyrus g15 but not as
fast as the legion 5i pro even with the
1920 by 1200 display which is pushing
more pixels you still get a tiny bit
more performance on the legion 5i pro
compared to the omen 16. fan noise was a
bit disappointing it does get to 55
decibels which is not the bad part
that's pretty standard for a gaming
laptop but i actually heard some coil
whine and it was very present when the
fans kick in that's something i don't
like to hear on most laptops heat
management is good the deck of the
keyboard never got too hot and the cpu
temps never stayed in the high 90s which
i find to be the case on other amd
laptops released this year this one did
a better job with the thermals but the
one thing that truly impressed me was
the battery life like this has an 83
watt hour battery so it's not the
biggest i've seen in the laptop but i've
got 9 hours and 30 minutes before
needing to charge which is really good
for a gaming laptop this size you can
upgrade the drive on the right hand side
but there's also an extra slot on the
left you have two slots for ram it's
using rank 16 which is kind of
unfortunate but you can always swap it
out for something better it is ddr5 you
have two fans lots of copper running
across the middle the only downfall is
they're using a wi-fi six card instead
of wi-fi 6e so here's the thing
performance battery life is all
fantastic on this laptop even
upgradability the only thing i wish they
fixed were all the little things that i
had complaints about with the previous
omen 15. we're just gonna have to wait
for a body redesign for hp to go in and
actually do that now do i think this is
the worst gaming laptop on the market no
it's solid it performs very well there's
just a lot of little things that might
irk you if you purchase this it is 1550
which is not a bad price but i just
checked best buy and there's the i7
intel version of this on sale right now
for 13.50 instead so if you're
interested in checking that out i'll
place a link to it down below but yeah
that wraps up my review of the hp omen
16 let me know you guys think in the
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