HP’s Pavilion series has maintained a good balance between price and features over the years. The company has rebranded the series as OmniBook and this year the company has launched a new HP OmniBook 5 laptop for you in the Indian market. This laptop has a high resolution display and good battery backup, how to use this laptop? To find out, we have used it for several days, what did we see while using this model, i.e. what advantages and disadvantages did we see in it? Tell us.

Display and audio details

This HP laptop has a 14-inch display, this model comes with a 60 Hz refresh rate, peak brightness of up to 300 nits. The company could have used a higher refresh rate instead of 60. The brightness is sufficient for indoor use, but you may get a little less visibility outdoors. This laptop comes with an OLED panel due to which you will see vibrant colors on the screen. Anti-glare coating reduces reflection indoors. Talking about the speakers, they produce decent sound. Due to the DTS:X Ultra support provided in this laptop, one gets the best audio experience.

performance

For speed and multitasking, this HP laptop uses an Intel Core Ultra 7 355 processor with 16 GB LPDDR5x RAM and 1 TB SSD storage. The laptop also has integrated Intel Graphics for graphics responsibilities with Intel AI Boost that handles NPU related tasks.

Intel Core Ultra 7 355 processor is designed for mid-range thin and light segment processors. The laptop has 4 performance cores that provide turbo speeds of up to 4.7 GHz and 4 low power efficient cores to handle things running in the background. Overall, this laptop handles everyday tasks like browsing, content streaming and all your other work with ease. This laptop also handles tasks like photo editing and light video editing very well but the processor struggles a bit during heavy tasks as expected from a laptop in this segment. This includes tasks such as 3D modeling, heavy video editing and code compilation.

Connectivity and ports

On the left side are two Thunderbolt 4 Type C ports and both support USB Power Delivery 3.1 and DisplayPort 2.1. Apart from this, there is an HDMI 2.1 port and a USB Type-A port which is rated at 10 Gbps. There is another USB-A port on the right side, apart from a 3.5mm headphone and microphone combo jack.

It’s great to see so many ports in a laptop, with two USB Type-A ports and especially an HDMI port. Since charging is via USB-C, plugging in the charger fills up one of the two Thunderbolt 4 ports, giving you one less port to charge your laptop.

For wireless connectivity, the laptop uses Realtek’s Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.0 chips. It’s a bit surprising why the Intel Wi-Fi chip was not used in the ultra processor laptop, but still overall the current chip in the laptop works well and didn’t face any issues during connectivity but the lack of fingerprint might be missed.

Battery

The company claims that the laptop’s battery provides up to 21.5 hours of video playback backup on a single charge. The laptop has a 3 cell 59Wh Li-ion polymer battery which is charged by a 65W GaN charger. This laptop supports quick charging, the company claims that it takes 30 minutes to charge the laptop battery from zero to 50 percent but during testing we found that the battery takes about 40 minutes to charge and about an hour and 45 minutes to fully charge.

What to buy or not to buy?

The design of this laptop gives a premium feel and this laptop maintains a good balance between features, performance and build quality. The OLED display looks great indoors, the ports also meet most requirements but the fingerprint sensor is missing. Apart from this, the 60 Hz refresh rate seems too low when the company could use a higher refresh rate.

The processor handles everyday tasks well but loses a bit in heavy tasks. This laptop won’t let you down in terms of battery life either. Its model with 16 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD is priced at around Rs 1,45,999, price variation is possible due to lack of RAM.