The HP Omen Transcend 14 is part of a growing breed of Trojan Horse gaming laptops. On the surface, they look professional; the main giveaway comes when you start playing a game and the keyboard lights up in all its RGB glory.
HP sent us the black version of the Transcend 14 for testing, but you can buy it in white. I prefer dark colouring for laptops as they tend to age better, and this classy, anodised aluminium chassis will turn heads for years.
The main body is jet black, with the stiff lid in dark, corporate grey. A slender 17.9mm height coupled with a small footprint give it an ultraportable feel, although at 1.6kg you’ll notice it in a bag. As with many modern gaming laptops, the rear juts out, but only by around 5mm. Enough for HP to squeeze in the legend “Designed and built
