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BrothaSunshine

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I had this laptop for 2 weeks. It's a great system for what it it but i opted to go with a similarly spec'd HP Omen 16 slim instead. The screen is gorgeous. The trackpad is like glass and buttery smooth. I didn't like the keyboard at all. It ran a bit slower on some benchmarking software like 3Dmark not incredibly slower but The Omen pulled out ahead and has a superior keyboard and a number pad, which everyone may not like, but I find indispensable. The Hp's screen is no where near the the beauty of the Aero but when push came to shove I decided to return this and keep the Omen instead. But again, for this price, It's def a winner in my book and i think 90% of people would be more than happy with it.

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SociableHaddock3665

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I had this laptop for 2 weeks. It's a great system for what it it but i opted to go with a similarly spec'd HP Omen 16 slim instead. The screen is gorgeous. The trackpad is like glass and buttery smooth. I didn't like the keyboard at all. It ran a bit slowing on some benchmarking software like 3Dmark not incredibly slower but The Omen pulled out ahead and has a superior keyboard and I number pad which everyone may not like but I find indispensable, personally. The Hp's screen is no where near the the beauty of the Aero but when push came to shove I decided to return this and keep the Omen instead. But again, for this price, It's def a winner in my book and i think 90% of people would be more than happy with it.

i have an older gen with 3070ti, the keyboard layout is weird, the keycap is smaller than usual. The trackpad is large, but hard to navigate.

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I had this laptop for 2 weeks. It's a great system for what it it but i opted to go with a similarly spec'd HP Omen 16 slim instead. The screen is gorgeous. The trackpad is like glass and buttery smooth. I didn't like the keyboard at all. It ran a bit slowing on some benchmarking software like 3Dmark not incredibly slower but The Omen pulled out ahead and has a superior keyboard and I number pad which everyone may not like but I find indispensable, personally. The Hp's screen is no where near the the beauty of the Aero but when push came to shove I decided to return this and keep the Omen instead. But again, for this price, It's def a winner in my book and i think 90% of people would be more than happy with it.

What you're describing is a very obvious fact. HP Omen 16 Slim, despite the "Slim" name, neither Slim nor light and is a full blown Gaming Laptop, weighting at 5.4 lbs, more than one lbs. Heavier than this. It's CPU and GPU, both offers higher Power envelop than this one. This is a Thin & Light Gaming laptop, like Asus G16, a bit less premium though, and they always have lower thermal and power envelop than full blown Gaming laptops.

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BrothaSunshine

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What you're describing is a very obvious fact. HP Omen 16 Slim, despite the "Slim" name, neither Slim nor light and is a full blown Gaming Laptop, weighting at 5.4 lbs, more than one lbs. Heavier than this. It's CPU and GPU, both offers higher Power envelop than this one. This is a Thin & Light Gaming laptop, like Asus G16, a bit less premium though, and they always have lower thermal and power envelop than full blown Gaming laptops.

Hmm. Well, that's an interesting take. I literally bought one on a Saturday and the other one on a Monday and had a solid 2 weeks with both. I just returned the Aero to Bestbuy 3 days ago. The Hp 16 slim is very much LIGHT and SLIM...no clue where you're getting your info from...probably the shipping weight? But I can tell you, personally that holding them both up in each hand I could literally feel no perceptible weight difference between them. NONE. Let me repeat that. Holding one in my left hand and the other in my right hand, I could not feel a perceptible weight difference between them. Even if the HP is on paper marginally heavier, I couldn't detect it. - I'm 99% sure you have zero hands on experience with either of them other than some spec sheets to make any claims, or even the fact that I bought them within two days of each other to actually do a head to head comparison, so I'm unclear how you're qualified to rebuke my opinions or offer much in the way of an insightful or knowledgeable perspective other than a slickdeal alert. Which hey, thanks by the way, but I think the comments are better suited to offering some actual first hand experience (which I have) as opposed to griping and griefing.

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FantasticHill381

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I had this laptop for 2 weeks. It's a great system for what it it but i opted to go with a similarly spec'd HP Omen 16 slim instead. The screen is gorgeous. The trackpad is like glass and buttery smooth. I didn't like the keyboard at all. It ran a bit slower on some benchmarking software like 3Dmark not incredibly slower but The Omen pulled out ahead and has a superior keyboard and a number pad, which everyone may not like, but I find indispensable. The Hp's screen is no where near the the beauty of the Aero but when push came to shove I decided to return this and keep the Omen instead. But again, for this price, It's def a winner in my book and i think 90% of people would be more than happy with it.

At this price point I believe it is the cheapest 5070 laptop on the market. Also comes with 32GB DDR5 and 1TB SSD so you don't have to put extra effort into upgrading too.

samueljchen

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I had this laptop for 2 weeks. It's a great system for what it it but i opted to go with a similarly spec'd HP Omen 16 slim instead. The screen is gorgeous. The trackpad is like glass and buttery smooth. I didn't like the keyboard at all. It ran a bit slower on some benchmarking software like 3Dmark not incredibly slower but The Omen pulled out ahead and has a superior keyboard and a number pad, which everyone may not like, but I find indispensable. The Hp's screen is no where near the the beauty of the Aero but when push came to shove I decided to return this and keep the Omen instead. But again, for this price, It's def a winner in my book and i think 90% of people would be more than happy with it.

How much did you pay for the HP Omen 16 slim?

Gigabyte AERO X16:16" QHD+ 165Hz IPS, Ryzen AI 7 350, RTX 5070, 32GB DDR5, 1TB Gen4 SSD, Win11H @ $1200 + F/S

$1,200

$1,650

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