Save nearly 50% on this awesome 16-inch OLED laptop with a Ryzen AI 5 430 CPU & 16GB RAM — HP's MacBook Neo-beating OmniBook X Flip is down to just $699
Possibly the best budget laptop.
With the entire PC hardware industry in shambles right now, laptops represent some of the best deals to be had. The integrated nature of these devices often results in unexpected savings compared to their desktop counterparts. As such, we've found a great offer on an HP OmniBook Flip X 2-in-1 for just $699, down 47% from its list price of $1,329 on Best Buy. It's a 16-inch OLED laptop with solid performance for everyday tasks, and then some.
A sleek machine with strong internals for everyday usage and an exceptional OLED display for its class — the HP OmniBook X Flip 2-in-1 is the perfect choice for computing on a budget. Did we say the screen flips around, too?
This specific variant of the OmniBook X Flip 2-in-1 being at $699 puts it directly in MacBook Neo territory, which also starts at $699 now. But for that money, you're getting a whole lot more computer. The main selling point here is the gorgeous 16-inch OLED display carrying a 1920x1200 resolution. It's touchscreen and, owing to its name, flips around 180 degrees to form a tablet. The laptop is built well so turning it around doesn't feel flimsy, either.
Inside the heart of the laptop sits a Ryzen AI 5 340 processor. It's a Gorgon Point chip, so basically a Strix Point refresh, but it's capable of churning through daily tasks like butter. It has four Zen 5 cores (two of which are Zen 5c) and four RDNA 3.5 Compute Units, which are enough for very lightweight 1080p gaming. This laptop doesn't have a dedicated GPU so the integrated Radeon 840M serves as your main GPU, but that just makes the 76Wh battery last even longer.
The rest of the laptop features strong specs for its class as well, staring with 16GB of LPDDRX5 memory, which is double what you get on the MacBook Neo. There's also a 512GB SSD inside and you get a 65W GaN charger in the box. In terms of I/O, there are 2x Thunderbolt (USB-C 40 Gbps) ports, 2x USB-A 10 Gbps ports, 1x HDMI 2.1 and a 3.5mm audio jack onboard. You even get Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.0 for wireless connectivity.
All in all, this is one impressive budget laptop that's not trying to deceive you into thinking it can do more than what it can. It's meant for regular, everyday work like browsing the web and media consumption, especially with that beautiful OLED display, and it excels at that. It only weighs 4 lbs. and for just $699 on Best Buy, you genuinely cannot find a better laptop without significant compromises elsewhere.
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PEnns "HP's MacBook Neo-beating OmniBook X Flip"Reply
Hilarious, LOL!!
One does need a good joke sometimes. -
adamXpeter Reply
Much better than 16:9 for computer things. Well, maybe except Excel.habermas said:WUXGA is a joke. -
psyconz Reply
From a quick look at comparison sites between the two, the Neo beats the OmniBook in single core, but has less multicore performance by about the same degree. And, similarly, the Neo wins in GPU performance to about the same degree as the OmniBook wins in percetange terms with the NPU. Also, the OmniBook has twice the ram. "Beating" is maybe a bit of hyperbole, overall, but it's certainly at the very least competitive in terms of hardware capabilities. I would go on about Windows being Windows, and all the negative things that implies; but anyone who knows enough to actually really care about that would probably put Linux right onto either of them, anyway.PEnns said:
"HP's MacBook Neo-beating OmniBook X Flip"
Hilarious, LOL!!
One does need a good joke sometimes. -
Findecanor Reply
My last work laptop with Windows had a "4K" 15-inch screen, but I had to set it down to 1920×1200, first because a lot of Windows software don't supporting scaling correctly, second because I had to connect/disconnect and drag windows to/from external screens that were not "retina" -- and that was a mess with the higher resolution.habermas said:WUXGA is a joke.
The extra resolution had no benefit for me. Also, with downscaling, subpixel text rendering was disabled. So, native 1920×1200 would have been preferable. -
psyconz Reply
Yeah, I'm showing my age here, but I can't even bear to use anything higher resolution than 1440P on a 32" these days. The way people have 27" UHD screens or smaller, and seem to be happy, even young people with good eyesight, blows my mind. Not to mention the improved gaming performance at standard resolutions that are a fair number lower in the pixel count than UHD/4K.Findecanor said:My last work laptop with Windows had a "4K" 15-inch screen, but I had to set it down to 1920×1200, first because a lot of Windows software don't supporting scaling correctly, second because I had to connect/disconnect and drag windows to/from external screens that were not "retina" -- and that was a mess with the higher resolution.
The extra resolution had no benefit for me. Also, with downscaling, subpixel text rendering was disabled. So, native 1920×1200 would have been preferable.
Mind you, I do think the eye (I guess obviously) can take in far more information than any screen can currently display. I for one am extremely sensitive to Hz/FPS - I blame the two decades of FPS gaming. The difference between 120Hz and 240Hz is still obvious to my ailing eyes. But yeah, in a nutshell, for me, for the past many years, 1440P has been my personal "sweet spot" for gaming rigs. And even I find 1080P far too pixellated on any decently sized display.
For an office or browsing laptop, it's a different situation. I can definitely see the benefit of a small enough dot pitch in those cases. However, as you say, Windows isn't the best at automating scaling, especially with all the "legacy" applications it has, and how Windows doesn't seem to be able to consistently handle them. And laptop screens are never very large.
On a 15" screen, I would have definitely done the same thing as you, and quartered the 4K resolution - even back when I had 20/15 vision (that's better than 20/20, mind you! 💪). -
PEnns Replypsyconz said:From a quick look at comparison sites between the two, the Neo beats the OmniBook in single core, but has less multicore performance by about the same degree. And, similarly, the Neo wins in GPU performance to about the same degree as the OmniBook wins in percetange terms with the NPU. Also, the OmniBook has twice the ram. "Beating" is maybe a bit of hyperbole, overall, but it's certainly at the very least competitive in terms of hardware capabilities. I would go on about Windows being Windows, and all the negative things that implies; but anyone who knows enough to actually really care about that would probably put Linux right onto either of them, anyway.
What was that saying, apples and some other fruit.....I forgot.
Let this HP have the same configuration as the Neo then tell me if it's still "superior" to anything! -
alan.campbell99 "The laptop is built well so turning it around doesn't feel flimsy, either."Reply
I'd challenge this, I've been dealing with current HPs Elitebooks and MacBook Airs, I can tell you the MBAs are a lot more durable. HP frames buckle, particularly at the rear port surrounds. Neo's have a similar if not same unibody build quality to the MBAs. Imho at least for that reason I'd still go with a Neo. -
habermas Reply
You are comparing apples and oranges here. One thing is resolution and the other is aspect ratio.adamXpeter said:Much better than 16:9 for computer things. Well, maybe except Excel.
WUXGA is so low-res that it is a cheap joke on a 16 inch laptop.
Let me remind you that on similarly priced standard phones these days you get 6 inch screens with resolutions of 2424x1080, which is great for media consumption.
A higher resolution panel gives you a choice to downscale or not if you have any of the weird circumstances described by other posters in this thread. A cheap WUXGA screen gives you no choice but to watch everything in Minecraft-style resolution. -
adamXpeter Reply
WUXGA is a resolution AND an aspect ratio so saying "WUXGA is a joke" was not too specific.habermas said:You are comparing apples and oranges here. One thing is resolution and the other is aspect ratio.
WUXGA is so low-res that it is a cheap joke on a 16 inch laptop.
Let me remind you that on similarly priced standard phones these days you get 6 inch screens with resolutions of 2424x1080, which is great for media consumption.
A higher resolution panel gives you a choice to downscale or not if you have any of the weird circumstances described by other posters in this thread. A cheap WUXGA screen gives you no choice but to watch everything in Minecraft-style resolution.
Regarding the resolution, I look at my laptop at least the four times the distance I watch my phone so it newer was a problem for me. I feel so sorry for people whose eyes bleed from 320 X 200 to 1920 X 1080 to whatever. Especially if they upscale FHD to full screen on these devices.