HP OmniBook X 16" Meteor Silver 2026 Review

The HP OmniBook X has a powerful CPU (83rd percentile) and 32GB of RAM, but its integrated graphics are a major bottleneck (62nd percentile GPU). It's a productivity machine that fails at gaming and has a low reliability score. At $1900, it's a niche pick.

The HP OmniBook X is a $1900 laptop built around Intel's new Core Ultra X7 358H processor, promising a 19.5-hour battery life and AI muscle with a 50 TOPS NPU. On paper, it's a creator-focused machine with 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD, wrapped in a 16-inch OLED touchscreen. But our data shows a split personality: it scores a solid 83rd percentile for CPU and RAM, making it a strong multitasker, yet it's a terrible gaming machine, landing in the 19th percentile for that use case.

The Intel Core Ultra X7 358H is the star here, landing in the 83rd percentile for CPU performance. That means it's significantly faster than most laptops for general computing and multitasking. Paired with 32GB of LPDDR5X RAM, also in the 83rd percentile, you've got a setup that won't choke on heavy workloads. The integrated Intel Arc B390 graphics, however, tell a different story. At the 62nd percentile for GPU, it's fine for video playback and light photo editing, but it's not built for serious 3D work or gaming. That 120Hz OLED screen is beautiful, but the GPU can't really push it in games.

At $1900, the OmniBook X is asking a lot. You're paying a premium for that next-gen Intel CPU, the large OLED touchscreen, and the copious RAM. The value proposition hinges entirely on how much you need that specific CPU and battery life combo. If you don't, there are more balanced—and often cheaper—machines with similar core specs but better graphics or build quality.

Stacked against its Copilot+ PC rival, the ASUS ProArt PX13 with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and an RTX 4050, the OmniBook's weaknesses are glaring. The ASUS will run circles around it in any creative app that uses the GPU, though you trade screen size. Compared to a Lenovo Legion Pro 7i at a similar price, you're getting a dedicated gaming GPU that's in another league, but you'll sacrifice battery life and portability. Even against Apple's MacBook Pro, the OmniBook's integrated graphics and middling reliability score make it a hard sell unless you're locked into Windows.

Gamers and creative pros should skip this immediately. With a GPU in the 62nd percentile and a gaming score of 19.1/100, it's not built for that. Also, if reliability is a top concern, our data places it in the 26th percentile, which is a red flag. Anyone who needs a portable machine should look elsewhere too, as it scores in the 18th percentile for compactness.

We can only recommend the HP OmniBook X to a very specific user: someone who needs maximum CPU and RAM for data analysis, coding, or heavy multitasking, values a large OLED touchscreen, and absolutely requires all-day battery life—all while having zero interest in gaming or GPU-intensive tasks. For everyone else, the poor graphics performance and questionable reliability make it a tough buy at $1900.