Omen Transcend Gaming Laptop 14: small, light and not just for real gamers

The Omen Transcend Gaming Laptop 14 is a gaming notebook unlike any other. Don't be fooled by the name, which could well be that of a successful perfume, it is a matte black, light and compact machine. When you look at it when closed, it doesn't look like a classic gamesrs laptop. When you open it, however, the Rgb effect of the keyboard and the machine's technical features convince you that this device is for gaming. Not only that. We tested it for a few weeks and realised that it is at its best on the content creation side, i.e. in the production of graphics-related content.

HP's notebook integrates the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H processor and a GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop, along with 16 GB of LPDDR5-7467 memory and a 1 TB SK hynix PC801 SSD with PCIe Gen 4 x4 interface. So to be powerful it is powerful, the compromises are there but the price tag of around EUR 2099 is more affordable than other heavier, bulkier and higher performing machines.

That is why we did not limit ourselves to gaming. Instead, we focused on portability and functions for content creators. That is, we asked ourselves whether this machine could also have a vocation outside the classic PC gamer's desk. And the answer was positive with one caveat. If you stream - it is trivial - the computer must still be connected to the battery. The mobile influencer works best with a smartphone with a body. As for streaming and video editing, Nvidia has also introduced a new version of the Nvidia NVENC encoder. This is a hardware component dedicated to video encoding and located inside the GPU. It enables enhanced game streaming, voice chat and video conferencing without having dedicated hardware. In the suite you find microphone-related tools to reduce background noise, virtual backgrounds, automatic camera framing. It all works very well and having a computer like Omen Transcend helps a lot. We tried for example the free Nvidia Broadcast tool that has been updated to version 1.4 with a function that can maintain eye contact in a video conference, even if the person being filmed is looking away. The function is called Eye Contact and is vaguely creepy, but it works: you can read things giving the impression that you are staring into the camera. Like reciting a poem from memory. Your pupils are basically always facing the lens. Also very funny is the free, beta version tool Canvas. Like Microsoft's Paint but enhanced with Copilot Ai. It can basically turn simple brush strokes into exceptional works of photorealism. It's not without its flaws, let's just say we're all good at it.