HP OmniBook X is a new laptop that the American giant introduced under the new Copilot+ PC platform. As we will see below, the laptop is very similar in its features and capabilities to those presented by ASUS, Lenovo, Acer or Microsoft’s own Surface. However, HP used the launch to revive the “Omni” branding it used two decades ago and by the way reorganize your entire catalog under it.

HP OmniBook 14-inch IPS multi-touch display diagonal, with a native resolution of 2240 x 1400 pixels and Corning Gorilla Glass NBT protection. It is the size that most manufacturers use for this platform. It enables the production of light and thin devices with great mobility and a reasonable degree of visualization.

Under the hood, the laptop is equipped with a processor Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-78-100) with 12 CPU cores capable of reaching speeds of up to 3.4 GHz, 3.8 TFLOPS Adreno GPU and the well-known 45 TOPS NPU, as it is common to all ARM processors developed by Qualcomm. The computer comes with 16GB or 32GB of LPDDR5x-8448 integrated memory and supports 512GB, 1TB or 2TB SSDs under the PCIe Gen 4 NVMe interface.

Another feature we see in all Copilot+ PC notebooks is a powered webcam with better sensors to improve video conferencing and the almost mandatory addition of an infrared port to support Windows Hello and thus take advantage of its biometric security capabilities.

In terms of connectivity, HP will offer two wireless card options: the Qualcomm FastConnect 7800 system with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 support, or the FastConnect 6900 system with WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 support. As for ports, USB4 debuts (Type-C with 40 Gbps DisplayPort 1.4aa USB-PD), in addition to additional USB 3.2 Type-C and Type-A, HDMI output and audio jack. The notebook has a 59 Wh battery, which – according to the manufacturer – offers a autonomy of up to 22 hours when playing video and up to 12 hours of video calls. We don’t know if it will achieve that much, but it is much higher than the x86 equivalents (Intel or AMD).

HP OmniBook X, like the rest of the new Snapdragon notebooks starting June 18 and priced at $1,200 in a configuration with 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage capacity.

HP ‘Omni’, new brand

We mentioned above that the name chosen by HP for its first notebook under the Copilot+ PC revives the mythical brand that the company used on its mobile professional equipment 20 years ago. More important: HP will use this brand for all of its consumer equipment as “brand transformation into a unified vision of the future”.

In this way, HP will end production of the rest of the series in its catalog, from the Specter to the FireFly, through the Pavilion. The range will include OmniBook notebooks, OmniDesk desktops and OmniStudio all-in-one PCs, and these will be marketed in product segments depending on their features, with numbers/letters indicating where they are.

If – like us – you like organization and know what you’re buying at a glance, HP must be given a big round of applause for this exercise in sanity. which should be extended to all manufacturers who maintain millions of product lines that only confuse consumers.