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 appreciate the looks. The designs are mostly ugly. The exhaust pipes on the back look like Transformers details, while the keys are decorated with letters in the Terminator 2 font. It’s fierce, that’s what it is. For me, as a nearly 100-year-old gamer with a special sense of design and a penchant for fashion, taking these computers out in public is a real shame. This is where HP comes in again. After cleaning up their design department after releasing the amazing 45L, they have now taken another big step forward in terms of design thinking for gaming laptops. Transcend is a new line of computers that goes further and surpasses everything they’ve done before in terms of clean, uncluttered, successful minimalism. Across categories, it’s simply the best gaming laptop in the world.
Inspired by the Mac Book Pro and it’s easy to see why. Cupertino-based Apple’s iconic Jony Ive designs stand out across the board, and it’s the lines, shapes, proportions and even details that HP’s design arm has tried to emulate. Transcend 14 is ultra-thin and sleek, with elegant rounded edges and perfect proportions. The aluminum casing is finished in an elegant dark gray metallic color, and the frame itself around the screen is very thin.
Inside the computer that we have been testing for the past five weeks is an Intel Core Extreme 9 185H processor, 32GB of RAM, 2TB SSD, and RTX4070 The wide screen is 14-inch OLED, with a 120Hz 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 not be the case). only apply to games or less demanding text editing), and the screen itself is an Imax Ready display, thanks to its 16:10 ratio. HyperX (now owned by HP) takes care of the sound, delivered in the DTS X Ultra or Hyper X Ultra through dual stereo speakers. This computer weighs 1.63 kilograms, which is very light, and the folded height is only 1.69 centimeters. It is very thin but will stay cool during hard gaming sessions.
Performance wise, it’s not bad either. It will be outclassed by the Razer Blade 14 and others in some games, but in our experience it will bounce back in other games as well, causing them to draw the same number of frames per second on the screen. For example, in Cyberpunk 2077, the Transcend 14 can achieve 40-42 frames per second in 1080p, while the Razer Blade 14 can only achieve up to 34-38 frames per second. The same goes for Call of Duty: Warzone 3.0, where Omen defeats 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, staying relatively cool and, more importantly, quiet even under the heaviest load.
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The keyboard is another very nice part of this computer. I like the feel of the keys, and like I said, I also like that it doesn’t look like an RGB fountain with the “tough” terminator font and all that other blue. 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 content, and it manages to be so convincing. There is no doubt in my mind that HP has done a great job with the first computer in its new product line, and I would like to hold this thin, powerful, elegant box and hypnotize the HP press department, May they never forget that we have. it here.
