HP Unveils AI-Powered OmniBook 5 Series with Snapdragon X Processors and Impressive Battery Life

HP is bringing high-quality Snapdragon-powered OmniBooks for a very agreeable price to Computex

The Surface Laptop 13-inch is fine, but it's a Laptop Go by any other name Summary HP unveils OmniBook 5 14 and 16 laptops powered by Snapdragon X processors for AI on the go Copilot+ PCs offer AI-powered features like Recall, Click-to-Do, Windows Search, and 2K OLED display OmniBook laptops promise 34-hour battery life, fast charging, and reasonable prices starting at $799.99 Happy Computex week! If this is your first rodeo, Computex is a huge trade show where companies from around the world come together to show off all the cool stuff they've been cooking up since the previous year. If you want to know what to expect from 2025 on the tech front, Computex is the way to go. If you're not on the event floor this year, don't sweat. The companies have been kind enough to let us folk at home know what's going on under the hallowed roof of Computex's trade show, and HP is no different. The company gave us a scoop on what it's cooking, and it's good news for someone who wants to pick up a Snapdragon X laptop at a good price. Related Review: Acer Predator X34 X5 - don't let this one curve you Third-gen QD-OLED is majestic. Posts HP reveals the OmniBook 5 14 and 16 for people who want AI on the go Close In an emailed press release, HP broke down the OmniBook 5 14 and 16 models. They're both powered by Snapdragon X processors, which are an excellent way to give Windows on Arm a shot. Here's how HP describes them: Future-proof performance that flows. HP's newest OmniBook 5 14- and 16-inch models are designed with Qualcomm to deliver incredible AI performance in a thin and light device -- powered by a 45 TOPS Neural Processing Unit (NPU) in the Snapdragon X and X Plus processors. The two new Copilot+ PCs include exclusive AI-powered experiences such as Recall (preview), Click-to-Do (preview), improved Windows Search, Cocreator in Paint, and more. And the built-in HP AI Companion unleashes on-device tools including document analysis and PC performance optimization. Even if you're not a huge fan of AI tools, there are plenty of reasons to buy a Copilot+ device, even if you never plan on using Copilot+. Plus, the laptops sport a 2K OLED display, up to 34 hours of battery life, and HP Fast Charge compatibility that can add 50% of a charge in 30 minutes, making it an excellent productivity suite even if you never touch the AI tools. HP says it plans to launch the HP OmniBook 5 14 with Snapdragon and the HP OmniBook 5 16 with Snapdragon in a few months. The 14-inch model will cost $799.99, and the 16-inch model will cost $849.99. They should appear on Amazon and Micro Center in June before reaching the HP website, Best Buy, and Costco in July.

HP OmniBook 5 series laptops promise unbelievable battery life at a $799 starting price

The new HP OmniBook 5 series might be the best value laptops of the year. Unveiled during Computex 2025, these Snapdragon X machines promise unbelievable battery life, strong performance, and AI features. Best of all, the OmniBook 5 series laptops start at $799. Getting into specifics, HP announced the OmniBook 5 14 and OmniBook 5 16, which are 14- and 16-inch laptops, respectively. Available configurations will utilize the entry-level Snapdragon X and Snapdragon X Plus 8-core processors, making them AI laptops capable of running AI tasks on-device. And like last year's OmniBooks, these laptops will be thin and light devices tailor-made to take around your home or across the world. The big story here is HP's claim of 34-hour battery life. The longest-lasting laptop we've tested is the Dell XPS 13 with Snapdragon X Elite, which lasted for an incredible 19 hours and 41 minutes in our battery test. We'll have to test one of the new OmniBooks to see if they can hit 34 hours, but even if they fall short of that, they might still endure more than 20 hours. Despite the promised long battery life, HP OmniBook 5 laptops boast impressive specs. This includes a 2K OLED display, which you don't usually see on laptops in this price range. These notebooks also have a 1080p webcam and can support a single 5K external or dual 4K display. Its dual speakers, two discrete amplifiers and AI-powered noise cancelling should let you sound nice and clear during video calls. As always, we'll need to get these HP OmniBook 5 series laptops in for testing to see their capabilities. Based on what HP has announced, they could be fantastic laptops for folks who need a reliable machine to get work done on. And if we see anything close to 34-hour battery life, we might have a new reigning champ in that category. The HP OmniBook 5 14 with Snapdragon will arrive sometime in June at Amazon and Micro Center. In July, you can also get a unit at HP's website and Costco. The HP OmniBook 5 16 should arrive in July with a starting price of $849.

Unveiled at Computex, HP's new OmniBook 5 could be the next battery life champ

HP claims up to 34 hours of battery life on the new Snapdragon laptops. It is definitely a contender as one of the best AI PCs. HP's OmniBook 5 14- and 16-inch models were announced earlier this year at HP Amplify as budget-friendly AI PCs, with Intel and AMD chipsets powering the OmniBook 5 lineup. But that wasn't all: HP is adding more chipsets to the OmniBook 5 family. During the Computex technology conference on Monday in Taipei, HP unveiled the OmniBook 5's Snapdragon X and Snapdragon X Plus 8-core versions. Latop Mag was able to go hands-on with an early production version of the 14-inch Snapdragon X Plus 8-core clamshell model. This incredibly lightweight, portable, and affordable laptop boasts a quality display, a sleek design, and can get up to 34 hours of video playback battery life. While we're definitely interested to see how long the OmniBook lasts on our battery test once we have a true production model ready for testing, based on our early look at the OmniBook 5, it is definitely a contender as one of the best AI PCs. But don't just take my word for it. Let's break down what we know about the OmniBook 5 14 (Snapdragon X Plus) so far. HP's OmniBook 5 has a chassis similar to that of the other OmniBook models, like the OmniBook X, and a minimalist, rounded aesthetic and streamlined keyboard deck. This time, however, the shiny embossed HP logo on the top panel has a retro feel. The chrome inlay surrounds the "HP" lettering, letting the aluminum chassis fill in the letters themselves. This adds dimension to the OmniBook 5 and helps set it apart from the other OmniBooks. The OmniBook 5's bezels are near edge-to-edge on the sides, with a thicker bezel at the top to house the webcam. HP's OmniBook 5 14 doesn't quite hit the same degree of light and thin design as the Asus Zenbook A14, but it is still incredibly portable. The OmniBook 5 14 measures 12.29 x 8.56 x 0.5 inches, and weighs just 2.84 pounds. This is well in line with other 14-inch AI laptops like: The HP OmniBook 5 14 is a laptop designed for portability, so it has a smaller set of ports designed to connect you to your essentials, without adding extra thickness to the laptop. The OmniBook 5's port offerings include: While this should work for the average commuter or student, if you need SD card slots or an HDMI connection to hook your laptop up to a monitor in your office, you may want to snag one of the best laptop docking stations or USB-C hubs to get the most out of the OmniBook 5. With a Snapdragon X Plus 8-core chipset, the OmniBook 5 boasts all-day battery life. HP reports that the OmniBook 5 has up to 34 hours of battery life for video playback. Now, video playback is not something most people will do for over a day, but that is an impressively long amount of battery life. Since our OmniBook 5 14 is an early production model, I wasn't able to run it through our usual Laptop Mag battery life testing process, but I did use the OmniBook 5 for a full day of work and still had about 50% battery life after a day of web surfing, email and spreadsheet management, and light photo editing. You're pretty much guaranteed to have enough battery to get you through even a day of grueling overtime. The OmniBook 5 14 has a 14-inch, 1920 x 1200, glossy OLED display, so you know it will have some decent vibrancy and contrast. I queued up the trailer for Disney+'s IronHeart. Though the trailer is a bit on the dark side, I could still catch all the details of the deserted pizza shop and elevator trap Riri Williams enters as part of a hero "interview." OLED displays tend to boast near-infinite contrast ratios, making it easier to catch details that would otherwise be too dark to spot on an LCD panel. And the OmniBook 5's OLED is no exception. The OmniBook's max brightness was enough to cut through the glare from the Laptop Mag office's pendant lighting, but it is only rated to 300 nits. While that should be enough for video streaming at home, you might run into some glare if you use the OmniBook in direct sunlight. Qualcomm's Snapdragon X series is known for high performance and great battery life, but those high-performance numbers are often based on the high-end Snapdragon X Elite processors, while the OmniBook 5 opts for the mid-range, Snapdragon X Plus 8-core. While this chip is incredibly power efficient, its performance isn't going to be blowing Intel or AMD out of the water any time soon. In fact, the most recent chips from Intel and AMD will both outperform the Snapdragon X Plus 8-core chipset, though they don't have the same level of battery life. HP's marketing materials for the OmniBook 5 heavily leverage Qualcomm's "no performance drop when unplugged" statistic, but based on my own testing, that's not quite true. The Snapdragon X series processors do take a bit of a dip on battery power, particularly with very CPU-heavy multicore workloads, while single-core performance stays about the same. Qualcomm's Snapdragon X series also does still have some app support issues where programs you might love and rely on have to run through emulation on the Arm-based Snapdragon X CPU. While not always bad, some applications running emulated on Snapdragon are sluggish to respond. Other apps, particularly games, just don't run at all on Snapdragon X PCs. In fact, the core hamstring of the Snapdragon X processor line so far has been gaming. At the same time, we did see some impressive gaming performance on the Snapdragon X Elite before its launch, which was based on a custom, in-house laptop design that was never sold. All commercial laptops with the Snapdragon X series and integrated Adreno graphics tile have performed poorly in gaming compared to the latest Intel and AMD chips. Since it has a Qualcomm Snapdragon X series processor, the OmniBook 5 meets the Copilot+ 40 TOPS NPU requirement, giving you access to the enhanced Copilot+ exclusive features like Live Captions, CoCreate, and Recall. HP has also included some additional AI features on the OmniBook like HP AI Companion and AI-powered temporal noise reduction. Snapdragon X series laptops have incredible battery life. A Snapdragon X Plus laptop is currently our reigning champion for laptop with the best battery life. If you just need to use some web-based applications, handle your emails, and stream video, the OmniBook 5 will be a fantastic choice. It's got enough power to handle all of those tasks for a full day and more. And it won't be so expensive it breaks your budget. While Chromebooks used to be our best choice for budget, web-surfing machines with good battery life, the Snapdragon X series is far more efficient than any Chromebook we've seen in a while. But if you want to do some casual gaming or use applications that aren't native on Snapdragon X series processors, it's difficult to recommend a Snapdragon laptop over an x86 Intel or AMD system. HP isn't marketing the OmniBook 5 for power users, but if you were tempted by that $699 price tag, it may be worth reconsidering your options if you know you're going to be doing any gaming or using any AutoDesk software.

HP Launches OmniBook 5 Series AI PCs With Snapdragon X Series Chipsets

HP claims fast charging up to 50 percent with 30 minutes of charging HP OmniBook 5 series artificial intelligence (AI) PCs were launched at Computex 2025 on Monday. The latest AI-powered PCs are powered by Snapdragon X and Snapdragon X Plus processors, coupled with a dedicated neural processing unit (NPU) that is claimed to deliver up to 45 tera operations per second (TOPS) of computational power. Available in 14-inch and 16-inch OLED screen sizes, the HP OmniBook 5 series AI PCs come with support for single 5K external or dual 4K displays, 1080p infrared (IR) camera, and HP Fast Charge technology. HP OmniBook 5 series comprises two models. The HP OmniBook 5 14 price starts at $799 (roughly Rs. 68,000) for the base variant with Snapdragon X chipset. Meanwhile, the HP OmniBook 5 16 with the same specifications has a starting price of $849 (roughly Rs. 72,500). Both AI PCs will be available for purchase starting July at HP.com, Best Buy, and Costco. Early adopters can also get the HP OmniBook 5 14 model via Amazon and Micro Center in June. The HP OmniBook 5 series is introduced in a single Glacier Silver colourway. The HP OmniBook 5 series has been unveiled in two display size options -- 14-inch (OmniBook 5 14) and 16-inch (OmniBook 5 16). Both models sport 2K (1,920 x 1,200) OLED screens with 300nits peak brightness and 95 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 colour gamut. The AI PCs are claimed to have low blue-light emissions with TUV+Eyesafe Display certification and a 0.02ms response time. Buyers can purchase the laptop with up to eight-core Snapdragon X Plus X1P-42-100 CPUs having a 3.4GHz peak clock speed, along with an Qualcomm Adreno GPU, up to 32GB of LPDDR5x RAM, and up to 1TB of PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD storage. The processor is paired with a Qualcomm Hexagon NPU which is claimed to deliver up to 45 TOPS of computational performance. The company also provides Trusted Platform Module (Firmware TPM) support with its laptops. Dubbed AI PCs, the HP OmniBook 5 models come with Copilot+ capabilities and a dedicated Copilot+ key. They benefit from AI-powered features like Recall and Click-to-Do, although both of them are currently in the preview phase. Improvements have also been made to features like Windows Search and Cocreator in Paint. HP says it provides a built-in HP AI Companion which offers on-device AI tools for document analysis, performance optimisation, and more. The HP OmniBook 5 14 and 16-inch models are equipped with a 1080p full HD IR camera with Windows Hello support and a privacy shutter. Connectivity options on the AI PCs include Bluetooth 5.3 and Wi-Fi 6E -- both powered by a Qualcomm FastConnect 6900 modem. In terms of I/O ports, they feature two USB Type-C ports with DisplayPort 1.4a support, one USB Type-A port, and a 3.5mm headphone and microphone combo jack. As per the company, the HP OmniBook 5 series AI PCs are capable of supporting single 5K external or dual 4K external displays. Meanwhile, the HP Audio Boost 2.0 feature, along with dual speakers and two amplifiers, delivers improved audio clarity and leverages AI to automatically suppress background noise during video calls. Both laptops pack a 59Wh triple-cell Lithium-ion polymer battery. HP claims they can get charged up to 50 percent in 30 minutes using the supplied 65W power adapter.