At a glanceExpert’s Ranking
Execs
Nice show
First rate connectivity
Pleasing construct
Cons
Leaves efficiency on the desk
Doesn’t take nice benefit of dimension
Massive for pill mode
Our Verdict
The HP OmniBook X Flip 16 is a big and considerably expensive 2-in-1 that has lots to love, however makes a number of too many missteps to show actually favorable, particularly when there are many good options.
Worth When Reviewed
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Worth When Reviewed$1,659
Greatest Costs As we speak: HP Omnibook X Flip 16
$1049.99
The HP OmniBook X Flip 16 follows up on the model’s 2024 re-launch of the OmniBook household, which coincided with the introduction of Home windows Co-Pilot+ AI PCs. This new mannequin comes alongside a 14-inch model as effectively, and each are supplied in Intel and AMD flavors.
The Omnibook X Flip 16 sits close to the excessive finish of the stack, although it isn’t fairly the highest of the road. That’s left to the OmniBook Extremely. Nonetheless, the OmniBook X Flip 16 comes with a metallic construct, the most recent processors, sufficient RAM for on a regular basis use, and lots extra. This 2-in-1 has lots to get enthusiastic about on paper, however as we’ll see, it will probably fail to ship on expectations. It’s not a foul PC, but it surely doesn’t fairly sustain with the Samsung Galaxy Book5 Professional 360.
HP OmniBook X Flip 16: Specs and options
CPU: Intel Core Extremely 7 258V
Reminiscence: 32GB LPDDR5X
Graphics/GPU: Intel Arc 140V
Show: 16-inch 2880×1800 OLED Touchscreen, Shiny
Storage: 1TB PCIe Gen4 SSD
Webcam: 5MP
Connectivity: 1x Thunderbolt 4 with Energy Supply and DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB-C 10Gbps with Energy Supply and DisplayPort 1.4, 2x USB-A 10Gbps, 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x 3.5mm combo audio
Networking: WiFi 7, Bluetooth 5.4
Biometrics: Home windows Howdy facial recognition
Battery capability: 68 watt-hours
Dimensions: 14.02 x 9.67 x 0.61 inches
Weight: 4.17 kilos
MSRP: $1,659 as-tested ($1,099 base)
The HP OmniBook X Flip 16 is available in a wide range of configurations, together with each Intel- and AMD-powered setups. It has a base value of $899 for an AMD configuration with an AMD Ryzen AI 5 340, 16GB of reminiscence, 512GB of storage, and a 1920×1200 IPS show. Improve choices embody an AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 CPU, 24 or 32GB of reminiscence, 1 or 2TB of storage, and the 2880×1800 OLED show examined right here.
We examined an Intel configuration, and whereas it must be broadly just like the AMD fashions, there are sufficient variations underneath the hood that you just shouldn’t count on the identical efficiency or battery life. The Intel configurations begin at $1,099 and embody an Intel Core Extremely 5 226V with 16GB of reminiscence, 512GB of storage, and a 1920×1200 IPS show. The Intel fashions provide the identical improve choices because the AMD fashions, besides they’ve a Core Extremely 7 256V with 16GB of reminiscence or a 258V with 32GB of reminiscence as choices. Our take a look at configuration consists of the highest CPU and reminiscence specs, 1TB of storage, and the upgraded show. The MSRP is $1,659 as configured.
The HP OmniBook X Flip 16 has a fantastic show — a brilliant OLED panel with good blacks, full DCI-P3 coloration protection, and easy variable refresh charges as much as 120Hz.
HP OmniBook X Flip 16: Design and construct high quality
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HP doesn’t look like going for fashion factors right here. Whereas my first encounter with an OmniBook final yr got here with a splash of coloration within the type of a cool keyboard, the OmniBook X Flip 16 is a colorless affair. It has clear traces and a delightful construct, but it surely’s a bit lifeless.
The OmniBook X Flip 16 is a giant laptop computer. It doesn’t fairly push the boundaries that gaming laptops do, however to be able to accommodate a 16-inch show and the hinge design obligatory for pill mode, it finally ends up fairly sizable and a bit heavy at 4.17 kilos. Fortunately, it’s nonetheless pretty slim.
HP’s design makes for a modern laptop computer with a number of subtly rounded edges and corners. This combines with the surprisingly mild really feel of the sandblasted, anodized aluminum chassis for a machine that feels prefer it thought of person consolation some.
The underside of the system is curious. Somewhat than have massive, apparent rubber ft, the OmniBook X Flip 16 sits on lengthy skinny strips that you may virtually barely inform protrude from the underside as a result of the underside has a mild curve to it. This creates a really slim channel for air to drag in on the sides of the OmniBook X Flip 16 and make it to the consumption fan. Although the bottom of the laptop computer has an enormous grille stretching throughout it, most of that’s plugged up. Solely two small areas across the fan truly function air intakes.
The system’s warmth is then exhausted via a vent tucked alongside the again of the bottom, slightly below the show. It’s doable HP has some air exhausting out the “speaker” grilles on the highest deck, however I discover that uncertain.
Somewhat than situate audio system behind these huge grilles on the highest deck, HP has positioned two audio system in little slots alongside the entrance lip of the laptop computer. This is probably not supreme for audio within the laptop computer place, but it surely helps make sure the audio system are constant in tent and pill positions as effectively.
The show lid comes fairly near flush with the decrease deck, which might make it difficult to discover a good grip for opening the lid, particularly since HP eliminated the small cutaway seen on the final era of OmniBook laptops to assist open the show. Fortunately, the bottom of the laptop computer is heavy sufficient to remain put, making the OmniBook X Flip 16 a lot simpler to get open than its equally designed, smaller sibling, the OmniBook X Flip 14. The show hinge is a bit wiggly after any actions, however stays put effectively sufficient as soon as it involves relaxation. It additionally holds open within the pill place with the assistance of some magnets, so it doesn’t flop round.
Above the show, the OmniBook X Flip 16 squeezes in a small webcam and a bodily privateness shutter. Sadly, HP has continued to make use of a zebra-stripe sample on the shutter, which has constantly confirmed onerous to discern from a spot of glare.
HP OmniBook X Flip 16: Keyboard, trackpad
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The HP OmniBook X Flip 16’s keyboard could possibly be significantly better. On the one hand, the keys have a bit little bit of journey that makes for fast resetting, and so they’re surprisingly effectively stabilized for a way massive they’re. However the factor is, they’re very massive and really flat, borrowing the regrettable design of Dell’s current XPS laptops. This leaves little room between one key and its neighbors, and doesn’t present a lot in the best way of tactile steerage. I discover my fingers are ceaselessly roaming away from the middle of keys, hitting edges (and neighbors), and ending up with typos I’d have far more simply averted with smaller keycaps and a little bit of contour to the keys.
Whereas I’m not stunned to see no quantity pad on this fashion of laptop computer, it’s nonetheless disappointing to see no efforts to make use of all the additional house obtainable to this dimension of laptop computer. It nonetheless has cramped arrow keys. It nonetheless crams the Delete key proper subsequent to the facility button — a nuisance for writers — although not less than the white backlighting clearly illuminates the keycap legends.
The trackpad on the OmniBook X Flip 16 stretches a great way. It’s not practically as massive because it could possibly be with the house obtainable to it, but it surely supplies a large, central house to mouse round and carry out multi-finger gestures with ease. It has a shallow bodily click on with a mild tactility that’s good to make use of.
HP OmniBook X Flip 16: Show, audio
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The HP OmniBook X Flip 16 has a fantastic show. It incorporates a brilliant OLED panel that may attain 406.9 nits proper subsequent to good black pixels, and it covers 100% of the DCI-P3 coloration house. The show even had a coloration correct most dE1976 of two.37. Prime all that off with help for variable refresh charges from 48Hz to 120Hz, and also you’ve acquired a strong display. It’s shiny, although, so it will probably battle with glare in sure situations.
The show additionally works as a touchscreen for straightforward management and pill use. On high of that, the OmniBook X Flip 16 comes with a stylus for advantageous, pressure-sensitive management that proves responsive and correct. Due to the scale of the show, doodling on sure areas with out additionally getting your hand on the display will be difficult, and I’ve discovered contact rejection a bit troublesome. When not in use, the stylus can magnetically latch onto the fitting aspect of the laptop computer, although it’s not a agency sufficient connection that I’d depend on it whereas storing and transporting the laptop computer.
The audio system on the OmniBook X Flip 16 pack a punch, pumping out loads of quantity for a small room. They get a bit harsh within the mids at max quantity, although. Regardless of the laptop computer’s dimension, it doesn’t profit from any extra-bassy speaker drivers, and subsequently comes up missing in that space. The bass isn’t utterly absent, but it surely’s mellow sufficient that music doesn’t fairly really feel full and essentially the most explosive moments of films will most likely fall flat. There’s an honest little bit of stereo, although due to the broader spacing of the audio system. It’s a bit awkward that HP has two big grilles on both aspect of the keyboard that seem like they’d home audio system, however they don’t.
HP OmniBook X Flip 16: Webcam, microphone, biometrics
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The webcam on the HP OmniBook X Flip 16 captures a pleasant and sharp image whereas additionally providing help for facial recognition. It will probably get a bit awkward because the digital camera shifts publicity and white stability ranges whereas recording, seeing massive shifts within the coloration and brightness of components of the shot, but it surely nonetheless is fairly good for a built-in digital camera.
The mics paired with the digital camera additionally do their job effectively. They cancelled out the sound of a close-by fan operating loudly, and managed to seize my voice loud and clear within the course of. They struggled a bit extra to cancel out clapping successfully. Whereas they did erase the sound of the claps, in addition they erased a little bit of my voice and made it sound compressed within the course of. This was shocking after the laptop computer’s smaller sibling, the HP OmniBook X Flip 14, carried out virtually flawlessly in the identical take a look at.
The OmniBook X Flip 16 additionally helps facial recognition for fast and straightforward sign-in, although Microsoft lately restricted this technique’s capability to carry out at the hours of darkness, and the OmniBook X Flip 16 was affected. Fortunately it nonetheless works in dim environments.
HP OmniBook X Flip 16: Connectivity
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You’ll get respectable connectivity from the HP OmniBook X Flip 16 , however like lots of its contemporaries, it fails to take full benefit of its dimension. The left aspect homes a USB-A port, two USB-C ports, an HDMI 2.1 port. The precise aspect, regardless of having a great deal of house, solely features a 3.5mm audio jack and a USB-A port. Each USB-A ports provide 10Gbps speeds, which is sweet to see. However solely one of many USB-C ports will get the Thunderbolt 4 therapy. The opposite is simply one other 10Gbps port, although fortunately each USB-C ports help DisplayPort output and charging.
For wi-fi connections, you get Wi-Fi 7 via an Intel wi-fi adapter and Bluetooth 5.4. In my testing, each have confirmed secure and fast to attach.
HP OmniBook X Flip 16: Efficiency
The HP OmniBook X Flip 16 isn’t kitted out to be a efficiency monster, but it surely nonetheless affords some robust elements. At $1,659, its priced like loads of different machines that additionally provide robust elements, although, and the premium value of at 2-in-1 truly makes it look a bit worse.
The Acer Swift Go 16 brings alongside a extra highly effective processor and an equal quantity of storage and RAM for a lot much less at $1,149, but it surely’s not a 2-in-1. The Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1 16ILL10 has a barely weaker processor and half the RAM however prices a lot much less at $1,199. In the meantime, Samsung affords each a 2-in-1 and a conventional model of its Galaxy Book5 Professional. The traditional one prices $1,649 and has that very same weaker processor discovered within the Lenovo system alongside simply 16GB of reminiscence. In the meantime, the 2-in-1 model we examined consists of the identical CPU as and as a lot reminiscence and RAM because the OmniBook X Flip 16.
To make issues a bit difficult, the Galaxy Book5 Professional 360 we examined isn’t one Samsung truly sells — relatively it has a $1,699 mannequin (at the moment $1,449) with the identical internals as its regular Galaxy Book5 Professional. Nearly all of those methods even have a 2880×1800 OLED show besides Lenovo’s.
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Although the OmniBook X Flip 16 is sitting close to the highest of this group price-wise, it sits on the backside of the pack within the holistic efficiency take a look at, PCMark 10. This exams a spread of actions, together with shopping, opening apps, enhancing spreadsheets, manipulating picture and video, and having video calls. The entire methods carry out nice, readily maintaining with these sorts of widespread duties, however HP simply doesn’t fairly do as a lot. Typically, it will probably simply be a barely slower SSD that can maintain a system again in opposition to rivals with related specs, however the OmniBook X Flip 16 lagged behind throughout most of the sub-tests.
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Cinebench helps us see one of many culprits of the OmniBook X Flip 16 ’s decrease efficiency in PCMark. Cinebench pushes targeted on the CPU particularly. Unsurprisingly, the Acer Swift Go 16 has a robust lead throughout these exams due to its stronger CPU. However the OmniBook X Flip 16 usually confirmed weaker single-core efficiency than its different rivals throughout Cinebench R15, R20, R23, and R24. For multi-core efficiency, it had a greater time main the Lenovo system and its weaker CPU, but it surely constantly tailed the 2 Samsung machines regardless that one in every of them additionally had the identical weaker CPU because the Lenovo. That remained constant even in Cinebench R24, which runs the take a look at longer to point out the impacts of thermal throttling extra.
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Our Handbrake take a look at additionally pushes the CPU onerous and can present how effectively the system can deal with warmth to carry out the duty shortly. After seeing the Cinebench outcomes, it’s clear the OmniBook X Flip 16 can not less than make higher use of its CPU in longer duties than the Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1—seemingly due to its stronger CPU and higher cooling. However once more, each Samsung methods carry out noticeably higher, suggesting that both their energy modes ship extra juice or their cooling permits for greater sustained speeds.
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Since all 5 methods are operating on some type of Intel built-in graphics, it’s not shocking to see all of them providing largely related efficiency. However but once more, the OmniBook X Flip 16 lags behind. Lenovo has roughly 5 p.c higher efficiency within the 3DMark gaming benchmark Time Spy, and the Samsung methods step it up with roughly 10 p.c higher efficiency. It’s an analogous story for 3DMark’s Night time Raid, besides the variations are even additional in favor of the opposite methods.
This all places the OmniBook X Flip 16 into a foul spot. HP merely doesn’t appear to have achieved sufficient to ensure its system is operating in addition to it might. Warmth could possibly be higher managed, and a customized efficiency profile may need let the CPU run higher than it’s right here. Contemplating how typically the OmniBook X Flip 16 is getting proven up by a machine with a lower-tier CPU (the Intel Core Extremely 7 256V), it’s clear optimization and settings can matter as a lot or greater than system specs.
HP OmniBook X Flip 16: Battery life
The HP OmniBook X Flip 16 takes some benefit of its dimension to squeeze in a large battery with a 68 watt-hour pack, although it might have gone larger nonetheless. It manages to make use of that battery comparatively effectively. In our 4K native video playback take a look at, which runs the laptop computer in airplane mode with the display at 250-260 nits, the OmniBook X Flip 16 managed to run for nearly 18 hours. That’s pretty spectacular for a giant, sharp show.
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That battery longevity, whereas good, nonetheless isn’t thoughts blowing. It is much better than some, just like the Acer Swift Go 16 2025. However Lenovo’s competing mannequin went even additional, and each have been leagues behind both of Samsung’s Galaxy Book5 Professional fashions. Each Samsung laptops topped 23 hours of battery life, regardless of that includes {hardware} fairly just like the OmniBook X Flip 16. These are important leads that may’t be chalked as much as barely bigger batteries alone. What’s extra shocking is that each Samsung methods managed this whereas additionally outperforming the OmniBook X Flip 16 in practically each efficiency take a look at.
In on a regular basis use, the OmniBook X Flip 16 additionally lasts fairly some time, usually making it via my workdays with out difficulty.
HP OmniBook X Flip 16: Conclusion
The HP OmniBook X Flip 16 is a bit hit and a bit miss, virtually in equal measure. On the one hand, it feels effectively constructed and has a pleasant, albeit plain look to it. It has a giant, beautiful show as effectively. However it additionally makes complicated selections like having big grilles that do virtually nothing. Its keyboard prioritizes type over operate. And a 16-inch pill over 4 kilos most likely received’t be sensible for most individuals, particularly with out dependable palm rejection.
Then there’s the efficiency. It merely doesn’t take full benefit of the {hardware}, in lots of circumstances getting outperformed by lower-tier {hardware}. Maybe it will have labored higher had HP used all of its grilles to get extra airflow and warmth dissipation. However it didn’t. And regardless of that, the OmniBook X Flip 16 is on the costly aspect. Apart from the truth that Samsung’s Galaxy Book5 Professional 360 doesn’t truly come within the configuration we examined, I can see little cause to decide on the OmniBook X Flip 16 over it. Although the Samsung has much less reminiscence and a lower-tier processor, I’d count on it to carry out near its non-flipping sibling, which as we noticed in our benchmarks additionally completely beat up on the OmniBook X Flip 16.
