2024-05-05 12:00:00
As much as I like our editors’ favorite test laptop, the Lenovo Legion 5, and as much as I like the performance of the MSI Titan 18HX, I don’t like their looks. The designs are mostly ugly. The exhaust pipes on the back look like Transformers details, while the keycaps are decorated with letters in a Terminator 2 font. It’s fierce, that’s it. For me, as an almost 100-year-old gamer with a certain sense of design and a penchant for fashion, taking these computers out in public is downright embarrassing. This is where HP comes in again. Having cleaned up their design department following the release of the superb 45L, they have now taken another big step forward in terms of design for gaming laptops. Transcend is a new line of computers that goes beyond and surpasses anything they’ve done before in terms of clean, sleek and successful minimalism. All categories combined, this is quite simply the most beautiful gaming laptop in the world.
Inspired by the Mac Book Pro and it’s easy to see why. Apple’s Cupertino-based Jony Ive designs stand out across the segment, and it’s these lines, shapes, proportions and even details that HP’s design arm has attempted to emulate. Transcend 14 is ultra-thin and neat, with elegant rounded edges and perfect proportions. The aluminum casing is finished in a sleek dark gray metallic color and the bezel itself around the screen is very thin.
Inside the computer we’ve been testing for the past five weeks is an Intel Core Extreme 9 185H processor, 32GB of RAM, a 2TB SSD, and an RTX4070. The 14-inch wide screen is OLED, with a 120 Hz panel (2880 x 1800). , and response times are 0.2 milliseconds. In other words, lightning fast. Based on our five rounds running a variety of games from 100 to 1 percent, the battery lasted about four hours per charge (HP claims 8 hours and 33 minutes, but that may only apply to games or less demanding text editing), and the screen itself is an Imax Ready screen, thanks to its 16:10 ratio. HyperX (which HP now owns) takes care of the sound, delivered in the DTS X Ultra or Hyper X Ultra via two stereo speakers. This computer weighs 1.63 kilograms, which is very light, and the folded height is only 1.69 centimeters. It’s very thin but stays cool during tough gaming sessions.
Performance-wise, it’s not bad either. It will get spanked by the Razer Blade 14 and others in some games, but in our experience it will reappear in other games as well, allowing them to display an equal number of frames per second to the screen. For example, in Cyberpunk 2077, the Transcend 14 can achieve 40-42fps at 1080p, while the Razer Blade 14 can only achieve 34-38fps. The same goes for Call of Duty: Warzone 3.0, where Omen beats Razer, while the opposite is true in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Overall, the Transcend 14 performed very well in all the games we tested, remaining relatively cool and, importantly, quiet even under maximum load.
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The keyboard is another really nice aspect of this computer. I like the feel of the keys, and like I said, I also like that it doesn’t feel like an RGB fountain with the “hard” ending font and all that other gorm. The best thing about the Transcend 14, however, is the screen. I’ve never seen such a good OLED display on a laptop, especially when it comes to HDR hardware, and it manages to look this convincing. There’s no doubt in my mind that HP has done a great job with the first computer in its new product line, and I’d love to keep this slim, powerful, beautiful case and mesmerize the HP press department. May they never forget that we have it here.
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